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La La Land - er, Moonlight

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"This is not a joke."

Those were the words to the audience as awkward confusion simmered on stage at Sunday night's Oscars after "La La Land" was named Best Picture – only for the realization to surface that, in fact, "Moonlight" was the winner.

Cheers could be heard here and there, but it was clear nobody could tell what was happening until proof came in the form of a card, held up for the cameras to see, naming Moonlight as the winner.

You might call it a Steve Harvey moment, after the time he called the wrong winner of the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant. 

"Personally, I blame Steve Harvey for this," host Jimmy Kimmel said of the gaffe. "This is very unfortunate, what happened."

After the realization came that Moonlight had, in fact, won the Oscar for Best Picture, it was an outpouring of support, both from the audience and from the stage.

It appears the presenter of the award Warren Beatty was given the wrong card for the wrong award, leading to the wrong call.

"I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone, La La Land," Warren Beatty said. "That's why I took such a long look at Faye (Dunaway), and at you. I wasn't trying to be funny."

The gaffe has brought some ridicule and wonderment on social media, with some Photoshopping other film titles on the winners card.

"By the way, I'm never getting over this. I'll be 100 years old and telling my grandkids, "Let me tell you children about the 89th #Oscars .."" wrote Twitter user @MrFilmkritik.

Others made note of the gracious handling of the incident from the La La Land crowd, while others, still, invoked Harvey's 2015 gaffe.

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