Jimmy Kimmel explains what happened during the giant Oscars mishap
Turns out, Kimmel was sitting in the audience with his 'enemy' Matt Damon when the madness went down.
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In case you somehow missed it, the Oscars dissolved into chaos Sunday night. La La Land was mistakenly announced as the Best Picture winner when, in fact, Moonlight had actually won.
On Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel explained how the insane moment unfolded, revealing what was going through his mind and why he was sitting in the audience with Matt Damon when the shocking mix-up was made.
“Except for the end, [the show] was very fun,” Kimmel said. “It went very well. We were chugging along, and then, all of a sudden out of nowhere, it turned into a Maury Povich paternity test show. It was the weirdest TV finale since Lost.”
During the crazy ending, Kimmel was actually in the audience, sitting next to his “rival” Matt Damon, whom he had mocked all night long.
“The plan is for me to end the show from the audience next to Matt Damon, who, make no mistake, whatever confusion there was about who won, Matt Damon lost. He was a loser. He is a loser,” Kimmel told JKL! viewers. “But we’re sitting there and we notice some commotion going on. And Matt says, ‘I think I heard the stage manager say they got the winner wrong,’ which is unusual, but you figure, well, the host will go onstage and clear this up. And then I remember, ‘Oh I’m the host!’”
Kimmel gamely got up on stage, jokingly blaming Steve Harvey, Warren Beatty, and later himself for the error. Afterward, he met Beatty backstage and saw with his own eyes that PwC, the firm responsible for the award envelopes, had given Beatty the wrong paper.
One person who escaped much of the fallout? Actress Faye Dunaway, who was the one who actually announced La La Land as the winner, but left her co-presenter, Beatty, behind to take the heat.
“So the accountants gave Warren the wrong card, and they apologized for it, so it wasn’t Warren Beatty’s fault,” Kimmel said. “And Faye Dunaway made quite a getaway. She got the hell out of there. She read the wrong name, and she split.”
