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'Moonlight' Wins Best Picture Oscar After 'La La Land' Flub

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After Warren Beatty accidentally gives award to 'La La Land.'

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Moonlight won Best Picture at Sunday's Academy Awards after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway first accidentally announced La La Land as the winner. The end of the Oscar telecast was engulfed in confusion for several minutes before Beatty explained that he had been given the wrong envelope for Emma Stone's Best Actress win."This is not a joke," La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz said, holding up the card to the camera after delivering his acceptance speech. "Moonlight has won Best Picture."