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Faye Dunaway speaks up about Oscar’s best picture fiasco

NEW YORK — It has been a couple of months since the big Oscar blunder over the best picture winner, and Faye Dunaway is finally opening up about what happened that night.

Faye Dunaway, seen here arriving at the Oscars on. Dunaway says she thought co-presenter Warren Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the envelope with the Oscar’s best picture winner. AP file photo

Faye Dunaway, seen here arriving at the Oscars on. Dunaway says she thought co-presenter Warren Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the envelope with the Oscar’s best picture winner. AP file photo

NEW YORK — It has been a couple of months since the big Oscar blunder over the best picture winner, and Faye Dunaway is finally opening up about what happened that night.

The actress said she thought co-presenter Warren Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the envelope that should have contained the Oscar’s best picture winner.

Dunaway told Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News she thought Beatty was stalling for effect.

“So he took the card out, and he didn’t say anything,” she related. “He paused. He looked over at me, (then) offstage. He looked around. And I finally said, ‘You’re impossible’.

“I thought he was joking. I mean, I thought he was stalling. Warren’s like that. He kind of holds the power and makes people — a dramatic pause. But it’s part of his charm.”

Dunaway read La La Land as best picture winner rather than Moonlight after PwC partner Brian Cullinan mistakenly handed them the back-up envelope for Actress in a Leading Role instead of the envelope for Best Picture.

She said she read the movie’s title on the card but didn’t notice Emma Stone’s name.

Dunaway said she felt “completely stunned” and later felt guilty because she thought she could have done something to prevent the debacle.

“You don’t know what has happened,” she said when she realised what had transpired.

“I (felt) very guilty — I thought I could have done something, surely, why couldn’t I have seen Emma Stone’s name on the card?” AGENCIES

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