'La La Land' Producer Talks Oscars Twist on 'Good Morning America'
The 89th Academy Awards will go down in history complete stuff-up in announcing the wrong Best Picture winner, initially giving it to La La Land before producer Jordan Horowitz now famously spoke into the microphone, "This is not a joke. Moonlight won."
"It was a surreal moment for sure," Horowitz said in his first public interview following the chaotic end to film's night of nights. "I wanted to make sure that the right thing was done because, you know, at that point it was not about me. It was about making sure that Moonlight got the recognition it really deserves."
“There was a lot of confusion onstage, and at a certain point it was clear that the wrong envelope had been given,” Horowitz said on ABC’s morning program. “Then they kind of showed us the Best Picture envelope, and it said Moonlight, and that’s when I sort of jumped to the mic and made sure everybody knew what was going on. It was like this slow, steady realization that something wasn’t right. It needed to be corrected so we jumped in and did it.”
“As I said onstage, those guys are my friends,” Horowitz said. “I wanted to make sure they had their moment.”
Source: http://deadline.com/2017/02/oscars-best-picture-la-la-land-producer-jord...
