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"Is that the craziest Oscar moment of all time?" Emma Stone, winner for best actress, asked backstage. "We made history tonight."

But what exactly happened that led to that now-infamous moment where "La La Land" was mistakenly announced as best picture at the Academy Awards?

Here's how it all went down:

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty -- on hand to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Bonnie and Clyde" -- presented the nominees for best picture. On stage, Beatty was given the task of opening the envelope that was supposed to contain the winner. (Later, Beatty would say it contained the name of a winner, but not the winner.)

On stage, Beatty looked at the card and said, "And the Academy Award..."

The crowd laughed, assuming he was building suspense.

He looked down at the card again and then looked at Dunaway.

Dunaway playfully told Beatty, "You're impossible." She assumed he was joking around.

"Come on," she prompted him.

He showed her the card, and Dunaway read it aloud.

"'La La Land,'" she said.

'La La Land' has a lovely night...briefly

"La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz was the first to speak. Producer Marc Platt followed.

As Platt spoke, viewers at home saw someone run across the stage behind him.

From the crowd, "Moonlight" star Mahershala Ali, a winner for best supporting actor, noticed the activity.

"When I did see security or people coming out on stage, and their moment was being disrupted in some way, I got really worried," he told press backstage.

Jenkins wasn't surprised by the initial result.

"I think all the movies that were nominated were worthy so I took the result," he said backstage. "I applauded like everyone else."

On stage, "La La Land" producers were approached by a man wearing a headset and holding an envelope.

Platt called producer Fred Berger to the mic next. As Berger began speaking, Beatty started heading to the mic, but Berger beat him to the announcement.

"We lost, by the way, but, you know..." he said.

Horowitz clarified: "I'm sorry, there's a mistake. 'Moonlight,' you guys won best picture."

"This is not a joke," he said, gesturing to the "Moonlight" cast and producers and inviting them to stage.

Platt added: "This is not a joke. They read the wrong thing."

Horowitz showed the correct envelope to the crowd.

"I wanted to express to them that they had won," he told CNN later.

'Moonlight' wins

Jimmy Kimmel then hopped on stage and attempted to clear the air.

"I think you all should just keep it anyway," he joked.

Off stage, the "Moonlight" crew celebrated. Director Barry Jenkins covered his mouth in shock.

"It threw me more than a bit," Ali said. "I didn't want to go up there and take anything from somebody. It's very hard to feel joy in a moment like that."

As the "Moonlight" cast and creators headed to the stage, Kimmel said, "This is very unfortunate what happened."

"Personally, I blame Steve Harvey for this," Kimmel said, referring to the TV host's infamous Miss Universe gaffe.

"I'm going to be very proud to hand this to my friends from 'Moonlight,'" Horowitz interjected.

Beatty attempted to explain himself further.

"I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said, 'Emma Stone, La La Land.' That's why I took such a long look at Faye and at [the audience]. I wasn't trying to be funny."

Photos later confirmed that Beatty and Dunaway were accidentally handed the envelop containing the winner for best actress in a leading role.

Stone told press she was confused because she had the card announcing her win with in her possession "the entire time."

Two partners from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) -- the accounting firm responsible for tabulating the results and keeping them confidential -- prepare two briefcases with the envelopes used by presenters.

The pair stand backstage and hand envelopes to award presenters before they walk onstage. It was a breakdown in the final stage of this process that led Dunaway to announce "La La Land" as the winner

Behind Beatty, the two casts traded spots.

"This is 'Moonlight,' the best picture," Beatty said.

Matt Damon whistled from the audience.

Taraji P. Henson was shown with her mouth wide open in the crowd.

"Very clearly, even in my dreams this could not be true," Jenkins said. "But to hell with dreams. I'm done with it because this is true."

Jenkins also offered a thanks to the "La La Land" team.

"I have to say, and it is true, it's not fake: We've been on the road with these guys for so long. And that was so gracious and so generous of them," he said. "My love to 'La La Land.'"

"Moonlight" producer Adele Romanski summed up: "Thank you to the Academy. I don't know what to say. I'm still not sure this is real."

Romanski said she hoped the movie's win was "inspiring to people, little black boys and brown girls, and other folks watching at home who feel marginalized."

She hoped they took "some inspiration from seeing this beautiful group of artists...standing up here on this stage accepting this top honor."

The aftermath

Stone was the first directly involved in the viral moment to address the press backstage.

"I don't even know what to say," she said. "I think it's an incredible outcome, but very -- a very strange happening for Oscar history."

She also expressed her love for "Moonlight."

"God, I love 'Moonlight' so much. I was so excited for 'Moonlight," she said.

Jenkins, meanwhile, said he was given no official explanation for what happened.

"I will say, I saw two cards," he said. "I wanted to see the card...and [Beatty] refused to show the card to anybody before he showed it to me. And so he did. He came up stairs and he walked over to me he showed the card....and I felt better about what happened."

Jenkins thanked the "La La Land" team for being "so gracious" in the moment.

"I can't imagine being in their position and having to do that," he said. "We spent a lot of time together in the last six months and I can't imagine being in their position and having to do that. It's wild."

He added: "I wasn't speechless because we won. I was speechless because it was so gracious for them to do that."

CNN's request for comment from the Academy and was not immediately returned.

PwC said in a statement: "We sincerely apologize to 'Moonlight,' 'La La Land,' Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for Best Picture."

"The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected," the company said. "We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and deeply regret that this occurred."

"We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the Academy, ABC, and Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation," the statement added.

Speaking to CNN's Brian Stelter on Monday morning, Horowitz made light of the mistake.

"Hey, I won the Oscar for best picture. I got to thank my wife and kids. And then I got to present the Oscar for best picture! Not many people can say that," he said.
CNN's Brian Stelter and Stephanie Elam contributed to this report.

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After the results were announced, angry Ellison loyalists rose from their seats in the back of the ballroom at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel and tried to shout down outgoing interim chair Donna Brazile, chanting, "Party for the people, not big money!"

"This shows that the Democratic Party didn't learn their lesson," said Alexa Vaca, an Ellison backer and supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during the party's divisive 2016 primary race. "They are not going to be in touch with the people and they are not ready to move in a new direction despite the rhetoric."

The race for Democratic National Committee chair, normally a quiet affair managed by party insiders, emerged as a roiling public campaign, as progressives loyal to Sen. Bernie Sanders and establishment Democrats jousted for control of a depleted organization increasingly at loose ends after eight years in the White House and then Hillary Clinton's unexpected loss to Donald Trump.

In the run-up to the vote, both candidates had liberal luminaries making calls to members on their behalf. Sanders and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who spent the last two days in Atlanta, actively stumped for Ellison. On Perez's side, former Vice President Joe Biden and longtime Obama confidant and adviser Valerie Jarrett worked the phones.

Perez came up a vote short of a clinching majority on the first ballot, then captured 235 of the 435 votes cast on the second. In between votes, the Ellison camp sent out a text message to DNC members claiming that South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out of the running before a vote was cast, had endorsed him.

But the information was incorrect, and Buttigieg confronted Ellison backstage. A correction was sent out with an apology.

Still, after winning, Perez quickly moved to bring Ellison's supporters into the fold by appointing Ellison as the DNC's deputy chair, saying later that he and his new deputy had discussed giving the loser that spot "for some time."

Still, Ellison supporters questioned a process that put the chair in the hands of only several hundred people.

"The way the rules are set up is a big structural impediment to the DNC being fully in touch with this moment or any other moment," Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told CNN. "The winds of change cannot quickly come through the DNC. Maybe that's intentional."

National Nurses United Co-president Jean Ross, whose organization was the first national union to endorse Sanders in 2015, said she was "bitterly disappointed" by the result and accused Ellison's opponents of running a "smear campaign" against him.

"Those of in labor know power never concedes. Never," she said. "No, you have to take it from them. And they're not ready. They're going to fight us tooth and nail."

Ellison and Perez enjoy a friendly relationship, but their respective supporters clashed throughout the months-long process, which included a series of "future forums" around the country and a national debate on CNN.

Before the Saturday vote, Larry Cohen, the board chair for Our Revolution, a progressive group spawned by Bernie Sanders' primary campaign, railed against a Friday afternoon email from the American Jewish Congress that said the election of Ellison, who is Muslim, could "threaten the relationship between America and our ally Israel."

"That was a disgrace," said a visibly irritated Cohen, who formerly headed the Communications Workers of America. "I would have liked to see Tom Perez repudiate that letter. But he didn't do a thing about it."

More grumbling followed Brazile's announcement that plans to use an electronic voting system would be scrapped in favor of paper ballots because of slow convention center Wi-Fi. Ellison supporters - still suspicious after what many consider a "rigged" presidential primary fight -- fretted that the candidate would not be able to view, in accordance with party bylaws, the names of potentially persuadable members after a first ballot.

After a contest in which the two frontrunners repeatedly sought to downplay divisions within the party, the finale recalled the contentious 2016 primary fight, which saw Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz resign from the chair in late July after hacked emails appeared to show DNC officials favoring eventual nominee Hillary Clinton.

The hard feelings lingered for months, and at least among stalwart Sanders voters and some progressive groups, the DNC race was viewed as a second chance at wresting control of the party from its establishment elders.

"The leaders of the Democratic Party missed an opportunity today," Dan Cantor, national director of the Working Families Party, said in a statement. "This vote may sting for progressives, particularly young people."

Ellison, who agreed to come on as deputy party chair, later asked his backers to stick with party.

"If they trust me, they need to come on and trust Tom Perez too," Ellison said of his vocal supporters.

We Will Replace You, a progressive group dedicated to seeding primary challenges against elected officials who fail to take a hard line against the Trump administration, said Ellison's defeat marked a failure in the party's efforts to coalesce the anti-Trump protest movement into a winning electoral coalition.

"The biggest question facing the Democratic Party establishment now is whether they will join the grassroots resistance against Trump," co-founder Waleed Shahid said. "While we wait for their answer, the American people are going to continue leading the fight in the streets and at the ballot box."

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the American Jewish Congress.

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After the results were announced, angry Ellison loyalists rose from their seats in the back of the ballroom at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel and tried to shout down outgoing interim chair Donna Brazile, chanting, "Party for the people, not big money!"