The 2023 BAFTAs Saw The Latest Awkward Awards Show Mix-Up
And the award Really goes to… Six years after the stunning 2017 Oscars mix-up for best picture, the 2023 BAFTAs included the latest awkward awards show, snafu. While KODA‘s Troy Kotsur presented the Best Supporting Actress award at London’s Royal Festival Hall on February 19, the in-house sign language voiceover interpreter incorrectly announced she said‘s Carey Mulligan as the winner. Realizing the mistake, he quickly corrected himself and invited Kerry Condon to accept the BAFTA for her performance in The Banshees by Inisherininstead of this.
Unlike the Oscars, BBC One broadcast the UK awards with a time delay and the error was edited out of the final broadcast. “Carey was a really good sport and laughed at the mix-up. She looked visibly shocked when her name was revealed,” an unnamed viewer told MailOnline. Noticing an audible gasp in the hall, the website reported that the interpreter said, “This is a bad moment.” Later, host Richard E. Grant also reportedly joked that “a defibrillator [was] needed for Carey Mulligan” after the slip.
During a backstage press conference, Condon described her “surreal” win without explicitly naming the mistake. “The whole thing was just like this weird black out moment,” the actor said, according to reporters diversity. “All I remember is looking and seeing all the guys [from the film] looked at me like ‘get up!’ It was really surreal.”
However, when something similar happened at the 2017 Academy Awards in the US, the correction didn’t come so quickly. After Bonnie and Clyde Co-stars Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty – who were presented with the wrong envelope by a PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) accountant responsible for counting the votes – falsely disclosed la la country As the year’s winner for Best Picture, the film’s producers were already giving their acceptance speech when they were informed of the mistake. The real winner was Barry Jenkins’ moonlightbut few could understand the chaos at the moment.
“I’ve never been as desperate as I was then vanity fair Party after the Oscars,” Jenkins said The Hollywood Reporter in February 2018. “I mean, have you seen the show? It’s not like running away with pompoms. Something had changed. I wasn’t sure what that thing was. I wasn’t sure if the thing was mine or who owned it because that’s how it all happened. And it made 2017 a very long year.”
To avoid repeating the envelope snafu, PwC passed new Oscar rules the following year. Among the changes were that accountants would begin to certify for each celebrity presenter that they were holding the correct envelope. Meanwhile, another PwC employee is also sitting in the show’s control room with the full list of winners. However, as the BAFTAs have clearly proven, mistakes still happen.