Oscars 2017: Best Film Award Mistake Leads To Seriously Good Twitter Reactions

'La La Land win! #FakeNews.'
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So… where do we even start with this?

Sunday (26 February) night’s Oscars ended in an unusual fashion, when the Best Film award was handed to the wrong film.

And we don’t mean this in the sense of “oh, ‘Moonlight’ deserved to win”, we mean: Warren Beatty was given the wrong envelope, and the ‘La, La Land’ team were halfway through their speeches when the error was revealed.

Yup. This. Happened.
Yup. This. Happened.
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Quite frankly, it was a bit of a shock. This is the actual Oscars, after all.

Warren quickly made his excuses - which were a bit of a blur, it was all a lot to take in - and in the meantime, Twitter got to work digesting it all.

Responses at the start were mainly filled with disbelief:

i'm cry-laughing and yelling out of the window

— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) February 27, 2017

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?! #Oscars2017

— Francesca Syrett (@FrancescaSyrett) February 27, 2017

OH MY FUCKING GOD

— Jamie Feldman (@RealGirlProject) February 27, 2017

Then there was “brb, checking if everybody actually saw that, DID IT REALLY HAPPEN??”:

Worth staying up til 5am for. OH MY GOD.

— Sophie Heawood (@heawood) February 27, 2017

What the actual?????

— Caroline MT (@CaroMT) February 27, 2017

What on earth

— Stacey (@sommerstace) February 27, 2017

And then finally, the jokes rolled in…

OMG! A huge fuck-up in who won! HILLARY CLINTON IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) February 27, 2017

La La Land win! #FakeNews

— Kevin Mullaney (@ircmullaney) February 27, 2017

YOOOOO THE SEASON FINALE OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS SO LIT

— Tyler R. Tynes (@TylerRickyTynes) February 27, 2017

If @Specsavers globally don't get Warren Beatty in an advert now they are FOOLS. #Oscars

— Rae Earl (@RaeEarl) February 27, 2017

I'm guessing the accountant responsible for the Best Picture envelope fuck-up is now a member of Trump's cabinet #oscars

— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) February 27, 2017

We need a lay down.

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