Oscar mishap: Moonlight wins best picture moments after La La Land blooper

Moonlight won the best picture award at the Oscars on Monday, but only after another movie, La La Land, was declared as the winner in the same category moments before. 

If you were watching the awards ceremony live and were rooting for La La Land, you would have had reason to cheer, at least for a few moments. Co-presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway took their time to announce the winner for the category, and Dunaway finally announced that La La Land had won. 

However, even as the cast members and team from La La Land got up on stage and began to celebrate, audiences at home, the folks at the Dolby Theatre and everyone else involved got a shocker.    

According to LA Times, La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz caught the mistake and called it out. Horowitz, the report said, showed the winners card, which said that Moonlight had won, to the camera. Subsequently, the cast and crew from Moonlight made their way to the stage.

Of course, given the nature of the mix-up, Twitter had something to say about it all: