89th Academy Awards Exploration at NASA – accepted Asghar Farhadi's Oscar on his behalf at the ceremony. Congratulations which had initially been tweeted to the Iranian people from the US State Department's official Persian-language Twitter account were deleted following the acceptance speech given by Firouz Naderi in which President Trump's travel ban was described as "inhumane". Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway came onstage to present the award for Best Picture, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of "Bonnie and Clyde". After opening the envelope, Beatty hesitated to announce the winner, eventually showing it to Dunaway, who glanced at it and declared the favorite
Moonlight (2016 film) and Best Adapted Screenplay. At the ceremony, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read "La La Land" as the winner of Best Picture. Beatty later stated that he had mistakenly been given the duplicate Best Actress envelope, for which Emma Stone had won for her role in "La La Land" several minutes prior. When the mistake was realized, "La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz came forward to announce "Moonlight" as the correct winner. Because the film's screenplay was based on a play that had not previously been produced or published, different awards have had different rules about whether it qualified