How the Least Disliked Movie Wins the Best Picture Oscar
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In recent years, when the winner of Best Picture at the Academy Awards ceremony has been announced there has been, at times, some mild, if not ground-shaking, surprise. I hear a lot of comments like, “that wasn’t the winner I’d expected, but I guess it was a pretty good choice.”share
Moonlight’s victory over massive favorite LaLa Land in 2017 is notorious for the envelope mix-up that saw the favorite mistakenly announced first. It’s not like Moonlight wasn’t largely considered one of the top competitors in the category going in, though. The previous year there was a little surprise when the journalist drama Spotlight won the biggest award of the night. The Revenant, which had just won the Best Director Oscar for Alejandro Iñárritu, had been the agreed-upon favorite. In 2014 and 2013, there had been still more splits between the Best Director and Best Picture winners. This was relatively rare over the course of most of Oscars history.