" unbelievable how famous actors keep finding new shipway to make reading the contents of an envelope seem so hard . "
Al Pacino’s “chaotic” announcement of Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars is going viral.
Al, who won Best Actor in 1993 forScent of a Woman, took to the stage to announce the biggest award of the night, which had a total of 10 nominees.
His appearance onstage was met with a standing ovation, and the actor began by saying, “Some Shakespeare is in order. ‘To be’…I’m not going to do it.”
“Well, this is the time for the last award of the evening. It’s my honor to present it. Ten wonderful films were nominated, but only one will take the award for Best Picture,” he continued.
Normal enough, right? Well, Al then said, “I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will. Here it comes. My eyes seeOppenheimer.”
This led to an awkward pause and confused gasp from the crowd, due to the way Al just went ahead and said it:
It’s safe to say thatOppenheimerproducer Emma Thomas looked fairly surprised, and not because of the win:
The music did eventually start as planned as the film’s team made their way to the stage, albeit without any customary reaction shots from the other nominees:
Twitter quickly went abuzz with the awkward moment:
“ my centre see Oppenheimer ” is the disturbed agency to announce the bountiful award of the Nox LMFAOOOOOO
incredible how famous actors keep finding new ways to make reading the contents of an envelope seem so hard
why do they have the most confused person interpret the good picture award
“Incredible how famous actors keep finding new ways to make reading the contents of an envelope seem so hard."
Al Pacino stumbled out of bed , walk onstage , opened an envelope , and say the name of the winner . This is the ideal award presenter . You may not like it , but this is what peak operation reckon like .
Al Pacino just going “ uh yeah Oppenheimer ” lmaooo sodding end no note
Al Pacino did not give a fuck and did n’t read the nominee that ’s a true 83 year old homo
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On Monday, Al released astatementsaying that the decision not to name all the nominees was intentional. “I just want to be clear it was not my intention to omit them, rather a choice by the producers not to have them said again since they were highlighted individually throughout the ceremony,” he said. “I was honored to be a part of the evening and chose to follow the way they wished for this award to be presented.”
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UPDATE This post has been updated to reflect Al Pacino’s statement.
