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Know. . >> i'm sorry, there's a mistake. "moonlight." you won best picture. this is not a joke. i'm afraid they read the wrong thing. >> this is not a joke. "moonlight something has won best picture. >> "moonlight", best picture. >> it was a stunning moment. everyone thought it was some sort of twisted joke at first and then realizing that this did really happen. i want you to know that we did zoom in on the envelope that warren beatty was holding, and it did say actress in a lead role. he was handed the wrong card. and to that, adding to the confusion, though, back stage, before this was all...

I think they're going to look at the bottom line and see it's going to hurt their pocket books. >> look at how something like "hamilton" has completely changed broadway. and the casting call, they want diversity. you would never see that, a musical about the founding fathers? >> if all the controversy over the past two academy awards, that oscars are so white, or there were not actors of color nominated for stellar roles, does that impact how people within the academy think about their vote? and i don't want to take anything away from the academy awards that went out tonight, to movies like "m...

Warren beatty said i was not trying to be dramatic. it was not his fault or faye dunaway's fault. barry jenkins did come by and speak to us outside the governor's ball, and i asked him if this sort of snafu that everythi everybody is talking about, does it take away? does it tarnish their win, and this is what he had to say. with this win, despite how it happened. and that was a shock for you in how you even knew how to handle it. what does it mean that you did win, the shock and how does it feel that you have this win? >> it feels good. i'm not an academy voter, so i think the choice was the ...

Transforming the awards. in the future we'll have a more balanced voting bloc and hopefully that will be reflected in the films they choose. >> but it affects hollywood as a whole, it has been a white man's club for a long time. and there's no doubt that there's institutionalized racism and sexism. and hopefully conversations like this will start to help it and wins like "moonlight". >> we were always on your side. >> ali said it best. we're not here to take something that doesn't belong to us. that line enkams late what #oscars so white is about. it's not about you only had five black movies ...

>> they're going ton twitter no. >> the bottom line is, they read out the wrong name. >> what? >> how could they do that? >> what? >> apparently, so it looks as if it was not "la, la land" which won big picture. >> i hope it's "moonlight." >> it was "moonlight." >> it was "moonlight"? >> yes. >> we were all discombobulated, what? >> they are piecing together how this kind of went so wrong. do you think they've now worked out exactly where the problem was and how they can make certain this doesn't happen again? very quickly, 30 seconds. >> reporter: they're probably breaking it down right now a...