Weekly News 52

Fake Oscar Fiasco: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway WRONGLY name La La Land best picture as producers are forced to stop their speech and hand statue BACK to rightful winner Moonlight in extraordinary scenes

This story comes from the Daily Mail and is written by JUSTIN ENRIQUEZ and BAZ BAMIGBOYE. 

This is the recent news of the blunder at Oscars 2017 where La La Land was named Best Picture by accident, instead of the real winner, Moonlight. Warren Beatty was handed the backup envelope for the winner of Best Actress for Emma Stone, La La Land.

This is a significant year as in 2016 many actors boycotted the Oscars due to the 'Oscar So White' campaign, by which the awards ceremony was criticised for not representing a diverse range of ethnicities and races. Whereas now In 2017, Best Picture is awarded to a film of predominantly black casting and production. I think that Moonlight, along with other winning pictures such as Viola Davis winning Best Supporting actress in Fences, shows progress in the right direction for the film industry in terms of equality in representation, not perfect representation but refreshingly more diverse than last year's Oscars. 

The 'accident' could be perceived as a publicity stunt and the expense of both the award announcers, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and of course, La La Land. This stunt I feel detracts some of the praise away from what should be the main focus, Moonlight. Even in the above headline La La Land is mentioned before Moonlight giving it precedence of the focal point. 

Personally, I think La La Land is very overrated and seems to have some advantage for being a film about the industry, in which it was being awarded, and that despite the blunder, Moonlight is very worthy winner.