There was a monumental screw up and a grave injustice done Sunday night at the Oscars on February 26th, 2017. Okay there were at least two.
First, there was the total inept screw up at announcing Best Picture.
This was a ceremony of historic insults to black artists. Last year they were ignored by the Oscars. It became a real touchstone topic, so this year the the Academy changed the rules to further disrespect and discredit black folks. Let me just clear this up you racist ignorant Academy. There were more nominations of black artists this year because the product got much greater. Not because you lowered the bar somehow. You don't need to lower the bar for black artists. That is an insult. Just recognize the work they do. And when it rises above the fray, acknowledge that.
One way to easily avoid this dilemma is to simply fill all ten Best Picture categories. Fill all 10 and it would easily give a better cross section of the films, and they will undoubtedly get a better cross section of the best films.
So back to the screw ups. Price Waterhouse, the acclaimed accounting firm who gets all the Academy votes, controls the envelopes. So out of the two folks they sent to hand out the envelopes, one of the people to hand the envelopes to the presenters was so preoccupied sending out Tweets that he handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope. Instead of getting Best Picture, he got Best Actress. When he opened the envelope, and it read Emma Stone for La La Land, he got confused and read her movie La La Land. The entire cast and crew of La La Land make their way onstage before the people come running out shouting there has been a mistake!
One of the folks from La La Land calls out to the Moonlight people, "hey Moonlight you won best picture. This isn't a joke. You are best movie." And then he held up the card for the camera to see.
That was one monumental screw up. The other was that Price Waterhouse has announced that neither of those two envelope presenters will ever be back there. That seems to be totally unfair to the woman who did nothing wrong in the execution of her duties. So this would be the second screw up. Punishing one for what the other did.
Anyway, in a year of historic happenings, Moonlight won Best Picture.
