Warren Beatty Calls Oscars Mix-Up ‘Chaos’

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by Edwina Langley |
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How could we forget this year's Oscars closing moments?

The truth is, we can't. Couldn't. Won't ever...

The commotion onstage after it was uncovered Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had been given the wrong envelope and subsequently announced La La Land as the winner of Best Film – when actually it was Moonlight – was something for the Oscars history books... (Relive the moment here.)

Little wonder, then, that in an interview with 'The Graham Norton Show' – aired last night – Warren described the furore as 'chaos'.

'I thought, 'Well, maybe this is a misprint and then, I shouldn't foul up the show just because someone made a little error',' he said about opening the envelope.

'My instructions were: take the envelope when I walked out. (I couldn't have it before that.) Then I go out, then I say something. And then I open the envelope, then I give it to Faye. And she then says what it says.

'It looked like it said the name of the movie, La La Land.'

Graham then asked whether it was 'bedlam' afterwards, to which Warren responded: 'I guess you could say it [was] chaos'.

However, when put to him that it was 'all anyone could talk about' following the ceremony, Warren quipped: 'No, that's not true, people talk about themselves.'

Warren, 80, is of course no stranger to the Oscars, having been nominated for an Academy Award himself fourteen times, as both an actor and director. In fact, he is the first and only person to have ever been nominated for acting in, directing, writing and producing the same film, TWICE – Heaven Can Wait (1978) and later, Reds (1981). He went on to win Best Director for Reds and in 1999, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, an honorary oscar, largely considered the academy's most prestigious award.

On last night's show, Graham also asked the actor/director to dispel some myths, like whether Carly Simon wrote You're So Vain about him (he didn't know). When quizzed on whether it was true he'd bedded 13,000 women, Warren responded: 'That was a very busy month...'

(Though if that's now got you wondering, let us pointedly confirm, he later added: 'The answer to your question is, no.')

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