Faye Dunaway had proved to be difficult and many actresses had been considered for the role, including Jane Fonda, Tuesday Weld, Ann-Margret, Carol Lynley, Leslie Caron, and Natalie Wood. Penn loved Dunaway and managed to convince actor and producer, Warren Beatty, who played Clyde Barrow in the film, that she was right for the part. Besides her relative anonymity, Beatty's concern was her "extraordinary bone structure", which he thought might be inappropriate for Bonnie Parker, a local girl trying to look innocent while she held up smalltown Texas banks. However, he changed his mind after seeing some photographs of Dunaway taken by
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