Congratulations to “La La Land” on winning the coveted… wait no, we were given some fake news. “Moonlight” has actually won Best Picture, but the real winner was the audience for getting to experience the best blunder in recent Oscar history.

On Sunday February 26, the 89th Academy Awards were held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California. Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the first time, not leaving a huge impression, but not having the audience wish for someone better.

Every year at the Oscars, the host has to have some kind of entertaining gag to keep the viewer’s attention, so Jimmy Kimmel decided to up the ante to two and a half gags. The first: unleashing popular movie theater snacks – Red Vines and Junior Mints – from the rafters and onto the audience of stars, slowed by parachutes. The second: bringing a busload of unsuspecting patrons from a tour of Hollywood into the Dolby Theater under the guise of an exhibit about the Oscars.

Among that busload was an instant crowd favorite: Gary from Chicago. The world loved him. He was the kind of person that normal people wish they could be when they meet stars: not awkward, charming, and funny. However, he was not everything that he appeared to be. Gary from Chicago was also a recently released felon and a registered sex offender.

The most memorable part of the evening was when the biggest award of the night – Best Picture – was being announced. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were the presenters of the award. Beatty opened the envelope, stared at it for a moment, looked at Dunaway, then Dunaway quickly said, “La La Land”. The theater erupted. Cast, crew, and producers of the film ran to the stage and began giving speeches, until a stage hand began whispering in people’s ears and calming taking Oscars out of people’s hands. That is when Beatty reappeared and told the crowd that the wrong envelope was given to him and the real winner was in fact “Moonlight”. Once again, the crowd erupted and everyone involved in the production of “Moonlight” walked on stage.

After a standard Academy Award ceremony, everyone was talking about that final moment. Nothing could have prepared anyone involved in either of those two films for the roller coaster of emotions that happened that evening.