{"id":51658,"date":"2017-02-27T03:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=51658"},"modified":"2017-02-27T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:29:00","slug":"51658","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=51658","title":{"rendered":"89th Oscars Event Peppered With Barbs Against Donald Trump but “Bonie and Clyde”Lead Pair Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty Feature in Finale Fiasco."},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/p>\n

Rory Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moonlight has won the best picture Oscar in a chaotic awards ceremony climax which mistakenly awarded the top honour to La La Land, a fiasco which stunned Hollywood and viewers around the world.<\/p>\n

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Jimmy Kimmel<\/p><\/div>\n

Faye Dunaway named La La Land as the year\u2019s best picture at the end of Sunday night\u2019s ABC broadcast only to be corrected a few minutes later as the musical\u2019s makers celebrated on stage, a tableaux likely to be immortalised in Hollywood annals.<\/p>\n

Audible gasps were heard in the Dolby theatre when La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz declared the real winner was Moonlight, a coming-of-age drama revered by critics.<\/p>\n

It appeared Dunaway and Warren Beatty had an envelope containing a card naming a previous award won by La La Land, prompting visible hesitation between the two veteran actors before Dunaway went ahead and named La La Land.<\/p>\n

Two minutes later Horowitz, as celebrations on stage turned into commotion, bewildered millions by saying a mistake had been made and that it was not a joke. He held up a card showing Moonlight was the winner.<\/p>\n

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The host Jimmy Kimmel tried to make light of the extraordinary bungle: \u201cI knew I would screw this show up. I really did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking backstage minutes later, Moonlight\u2019s director Barry Jenkins said the error had left him speechless. \u201cI\u2019d never seen that happen before. It made a special feeling more special but not in the way I expected. The last 20 minutes of my life have been insane \u2026 beyond life changing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he did not know how the error occurred. \u201cThings just happen. The folks from La La Land were so gracious. I can\u2019t imagine being in their position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jenkins said he hoped the film, which tells the story of a gay African American boy growing up in poverty in Miami, would open doors for members of the LGBT community.<\/p>\n

He shrugged off the award bungle. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate the way things happened \u2026 but hot damn, we won best picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

The debacle capped an eventful night which doubled up as a politically charged Hollywood rally against Donald Trump, with the host, Jimmy Kimmel, and multiple presenters and winners making coded and not-so coded denunciations of the White House.<\/p>\n

La La Land appeared on track for coronation, winning six Oscars, including best actress for Emma Stone and best director for Damien Chazelle, 32, the youngest person to receive the honour.<\/p>\n

Arrival, Moonlight, Fences and Hacksaw Ridge scooped acting and technical awards, denying La La Land, which had 14 nominations, a record-setting haul.<\/p>\n

Casey Affleck won best actor for his portray of a grieving handyman in Manchester by the Sea, seeing off Denzel Washington, who had been tipped for a third Oscar for Fences. Emma Stone won best actress for La La Land.<\/p>\n

Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar, taking best supporting actor for Moonlight. Viola Davis won best supporting actress for Fences \u2013 it was the first time African Americans simultaneously won in both categories.<\/p>\n

In contrast to La La Land\u2019s romantic score, which suffused the ceremony, speaker after speaker took swipes at Trump\u2019s crackdown on refugees and immigrants, making it one of the most politically tinged Oscars in memory.<\/p>\n

The president has paid close attention to previous Oscars but indicated he would be too busy hosting governors in Washington to tune into this one.<\/p>\n

Kimmel opened proceedings with a plea for unity, urging Americans to reach out across the political divide, before making multiple jokes at the president\u2019s expense. \u201cI want to say thank you to President Trump. I mean, remember this time last year when it seemed that the Oscars were racist?\u201d said Kimmel, referring to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.<\/p>\n

He said the broadcast was being shown in more than 225 countries \u201cthat now hate us\u201d, and gave the audience a chance to vent anti-Trump sentiment with a tribute to Meryl Streep, a totem of Hollywood hostility to the White House. Kimmel also trolled the president on Twitter with the hashtag #Merylsayshi.<\/p>\n

Thinly veiled criticism of Trump\u2019s policies peppered the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI come from Italy. This is for all the immigrants,\u201d said Alessandro Bertolazzi, who won for makeup for Suicide Squad. \u201cArt has no borders,\u201d said academy president Cheryl Boone-Isaacs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Mexican, as a Latin American, as a migrant worker \u2013 as a human being \u2013 I\u2019m against any form of wall that wants to separate us,\u201d said Gael Garcia-Bernal.<\/p>\n

Rich Howard, co-director of Disney\u2019s Zootopia, said the animated film espoused \u201ctolerance being more powerful than fear of the other\u201d. Disney\u2019s chief, Bob Iger, sits on Trump\u2019s policy forum.<\/p>\n

Several nominees, including Ruth Negga and Lin Manuel-Miranda, sported blue ribbons symbolising the American Civil Liberties Union, which has challenged several presidential executive orders.<\/p>\n

The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who boycotted the event in protest at Trump\u2019s travel bans, won best foreign language film for The Salesman in what was widely seen as a rebuke to the White House. In a statement, he called the ban \u201cinhumane\u201d, earning prolonged applause.<\/p>\n

Hours earlier, in a videolink from Tehran, he urged 10,000 people gathered for a screening of his film in London\u2019s Trafalgar Square to \u201cstand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism\u201d.<\/p>\n

The White Helmets, about a Syrian civil defence group, won best documentary short, arguably another poke at Trump, since its cinematographer, Khaled Khateeb, was denied entry to the US. The award also marked Netflix\u2019s first Oscar.<\/p>\n

Made in America won best documentary. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them won for best costume design \u2013 the Harry Potter franchise\u2019s first Oscar win.<\/p>\n

Kimmel provoked ire on social media when he joked about the ethnic names of some tourists who were led into the ceremony from their tour bus, apparently thinking they were entering Madame Tussaud\u2019s wax museum.<\/p>\n

Courtesy:The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Rory Carroll Moonlight has won the best picture Oscar in a chaotic awards ceremony climax which mistakenly awarded the top honour to La La Land, a fiasco which stunned Hollywood and viewers around the world. Faye Dunaway named La La Land as the year\u2019s best picture at the end of Sunday night\u2019s ABC broadcast …<\/p>\n

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