Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway WRONGLY name La La Land best picture as producers are forced to stop their speech and hand statue BACK to rightful winner Moonlight in extraordinary scenes

There was disaster at the Oscars on Sunday night when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway wrongly announced La La Land as the winner of Best Picture, rather than the triumphant Moonlight. In a heart-stopping moment, the stars and producers of La La Land were stopped midway through their acceptance speeches and forced to hand their trophies to the stars of Moonlight. Beatty blamed the epic mishap on being given the wrong envelope, saying he had seen the name Emma Stone from La La Land when he opened his envelope. It has since emerged that there are back up envelopes for every category and Beatty was given the Emma Stone back up envelope by mistake. Off stage, they realized that they still had two best picture envelopes. The best picture envelope for Moonlight hadn't yet been opened. Host Jimmy Kimmel came forward to inform the cast that Moonlight had indeed won, showing the inside of the envelope as proof. La La Land producer Jordan Horwitz immediately called up the producers of Moonlight and graciously passed his statue over. Everyone on stage - including Moonlight's Jaden Piner (circled bottom right) - looked shocked following the mix up.