A Wrong Winner Mixup Has Happened Before at the Oscars!

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People are still freaking about the La La Land/Moonlight “Best Picture” fiasco last night at the Oscars, but apparently this colossal mixup isn’t the first of it’s kind.

In 1964, Sammy Davis Jr. was  presenting the award for “Best Music Score (adaptation or treatment)” when he received the wrong envelope. The singer read the nominees, Irma La Douce, Bye Bye Birdie, A New Kind of Love, Sundays and Cybele, and The Sword in the Stone, and then announced the winner as Tom Jones, who was not even nominated in that category.

After a brief pause filled with confusion all around, Sammy realized what had happened and joked, ““Wait till the NAACP hears about this.” He then put on his glasses and said, “I ain’t gonna make no mistake this time, baby,” and proceeded to announce the real winner, Andre Previn for Irma La Douce. Take a look:

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