Cannes: At Festival’s End What Does It All Mean For Oscar? Is There Another ‘Parasite’ Headed The Academy’s Way?
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deadline.comIt just may turn out to be that the one, maybe only, thing the 73rd Annual Cannes Film Festival may have in common with the Oscars is that it is most remembered for screwing up the presentation of the big winner.
As you recall in 2017 Best Picture winners Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong envelope and Dunaway blurted out the name of what turned out to be the wrong winner, La La Land and when a few moments later a frazzled – soon to be fired – accountant corrected that with the actual winner, Moonlight.
Tonight in Cannes, not understanding cues given to him in French by the evening’s host, Jury President Spike Lee really jumped the gun by announcing the Palme d’Or winner, Titane, first rather than last.
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