You know, this is actually a good object lesson for me and others whose jobs have them deal with situations like this on an exponentially smaller scale: the Academy's instinct was to find out what happened first, when it would have been better to make things right and then figure out what went wrong.

I'm becoming a broken record here, but I'm appalled at how chaotic the reveal was and how it was left to this poor guy to announce his own film had lost.

He was included in the montage but I continue to be a bit shocked that a bigger deal wasn't made about Abbas Kiarostami's death last year. That feels like much bigger loss than the "that's so sad" reaction it got.

Was Bowie in it? I remember Prince, but not him.

Thank you for posting that. Below, I asked why it was so chaotic. Surely they had a well-rehearsed contingency plan for something like this?

I'm still surprised at how chaotic that was, even with it being an unprecedented event and all. You would think they would've had a slightly better Worst Case Scenario procedure in place. At the very least, there should have been some way of resolving it that didn't involve a producer of the losing film announcing it.

"Stop…TheLastMariachi had the better joke. I'm not kidding, this is true. Fleshlight is funnier than Bumfight."

2016: Spotlight
2017: Moonlight
2018: Bumfight

"Hey, I just got here, has anyone mentioned the Marissa Tomei thing? They have? Okay, but when you say 'everyone,' do you mean…oh, okay, literally everyone. Cool."

I think there was probably some combo of nerves / pressure / confusion to blame as well. Beatty's an old-hand, but opening up the most important envelope of the night in front of 100+ million people is still stressful, and then to find the Best Actress card? I'd start fumbling around too.

I still don't understand why the LLL guy had to announce it…? An official ran out with the right envelope but didn't just take over the mic?

And why did the LLL producer have to break the news? Wouldn't an Academy or PW person just interrupt?

I can't WAIT to read the post-mortem on the logistical failures that just happened. (No snark, it's gonna be fascinating.)

Yeah, I'm curious about that, too. How many people in the auditorium knew the winners in advance and were able to catch the gaffe?

People are saying they feel bad for the La La Land folks, and I definitely understand that, but i actually feel worse for the Moonlight crew. Way to get your big moment stolen…

Imagine how pissed people would be if it had happened the other away around…

Eh, they'll live.

Ha ha, yes! As I was typing the above I did a total "well, actually…" to myself.

For months, between first seeing the promo image up above and finally seeing the movie, I just assumed that this was 1) the last scene in the movie, and 2) a magical-realist sequence where his older self and younger self meet in the ocean.

I understand there are probably lots of PR / news cycle reasons for doing it otherwise, but the Razzies ceremony should really take place at the exact same time as the Oscars. It would be more, uh, ideologically elegant.