Each of the morning shows opened their respective broadcasts with the envelope snafu at last night’s Academy Awards.
Good Morning America: “The biggest blunder in Oscars history…”
Today: “Good morning. Oscars so wrong. A stunning moment of confusion during the announcement for Best Picture…”
CBS This Morning: “In a shocking Oscars finale, Moonlight is named Best Picture but only after they gave the award to La La Land…”
CNN New Day: “A wrong envelope brings the Academy Awards to a halt…”
MSNBC’s Morning Joe: “Awkward. That happened, actually.”
HLN’s Morning Express with Robin Meade: “So no joke, we’re going to see how an epic flub on a big Oscars night got the wrong movie named Best Picture for a few moments…”
Fox News’s Fox & Friends went political: “The Oscars as we knew were trying to make it the most politically anti-Trump telecast in history. Yet, this morning what are we going to talk about? How the award for biggest mistake in the history of the Oscars goes to the Academy Awards.”
The tired producers of La La Land and Moonlight called into Good Morning America and CBS This Morning.
La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz called into GMA during the 8 a.m. ET hour. He said there was “a lot of confusion and chaos” onstage before it became clear that Moonlight had in fact won the honor. He himself announced the correction to the audience, saying: “Moonlight is the winner…this is not a joke.”
“There was a lot of confusion on stage, and at a certain point it was clear that the wrong envelope had been given,” Horowitz told GMA. “Then they kind of showed us the best picture envelope, and it said ‘Moonlight,’ and that’s when I sort of jumped to the mic and made sure everybody knew what was going on.”
“I wanted to make sure they had their moment.” – @jehorowitz on @BandryBarry and @moonlightmov. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/0SahcLZJOM
— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 27, 2017
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins and writer Tarell Alvin McCraney appeared remotely on CBS This Morning at around the same time. “They say the truth is stranger than fiction…” remarked Jenkins. McCraney said that the mistake “‘made it more difficult,’ but that it ended up being ‘a great way to show camaraderie & love we have for both films.'”
“I never dreamed I’d be on a stage like that.” @moonlightmov‘s @BandryBarry & Tarell Alvin McCraney address the massive #Oscars mix-up: pic.twitter.com/gr1R3HNfpO
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) February 27, 2017