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The 7 biggest award-show fails of all time

by Carrie Wittmer on Feb 27, 2017, 1:54 PM

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On Sunday night, perhaps the biggest awards show mistake ever was made at the 89th annual Academy Awards when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced "La La Land" as the best picture winner, when the winner was actually "Moonlight."

Everybody makes mistakes, even celebrities at tightly orchestrated awards shows. But some mistakes are just a little more high-profile than others. 

Quite a few celebrities have announced the wrong winner over the years, or made things a little awkward at various awards shows from the Oscars to the Golden Globes.

Keep reading to see more awards-show mistakes:

SEE ALSO: 'Moonlight' just won best picture in a huge upset — here are all the winners of the 2017 Oscars

"La La Land" wins best picture for 90 seconds

At Sunday's Oscars, presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced "La La Land" as the best picture winner, though Beatty seemed confused about the card he was given. As the speeches were happening, a serious-looking man came onstage and everyone involved with "La La Land" suddenly changed their looks from excited to disappointed: The presenters had the wrong envelope, and the best picture winner was actually "Moonlight."



"Adele Dazeem"

At the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony, John Travolta introduced legendary singer Idina Menzel’s performance of “Let It Go” from "Frozen." For some reason, he called her "Adele Dazeem" with a weird accent.



Steve Harvey crowns wrong Miss Universe

At the 2015 Miss Universe pagaent, in a moment that strongly echoes the Oscar snafu, Steve Harvey announed Miss Colombia as the winner instead of the actual winner, Miss Phillipines. He read the card wrong, and admitted to the mistake live on television. 



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