World News Headlines July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 Witness Spike Lee’s epic goof at Cannes as he reveals the top winner too early 0 0000 0 0 more now viewing Witness Spike Lee’s epic goof at Cannes as he reveals the top winner too early July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found July 18, 2021 Under One Ceiling Witness Spike Lee’s epic goof at Cannes as he reveals the top winner too early Imagine if the annual Academy Awards show opened with the host accidentally revealing the evening’s Best Picture winner right at the start. That’s basically what happened at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Spike Lee, the festival’s jury president for 2021, read from a card that revealed Titane as the winner of the Palme d’Or, the top prize at Cannes, before any of the other winners had been announced. Canal+, one of the winning film’s participating production companies, quickly capitalized on the error with a tweet sharing the clipped moment. Lee’s exclamation of “English!” at the end of the clip suggests that language challenges may have played a role here. (Cannes, of course, is a French film festival.) Tweet may have been deleted The clip is a study in unintentional comedy, with the rest of the jury’s slightly delayed reaction and subsequent mix of shoulder-shrugging, face-palming, open-mouthed shock, and unrestrained laughter putting out strong chaos energy. Lee’s own reaction is (unfortunately) a mystery, as he quickly turns around to hear an explanation on exactly what just happened. This is Lee’s first time serving in the jury president role, and also the first time that role has been filled by someone, as Lee put it when the news was originally announced, “of the African diaspora.” Accidents happen, of course. The early reveal of Titane‘s win hardly detracts from Lee’s historic role at the 2021 festival. It also hardly hurts Titane itself. The French production from filmmaker Julia Ducournau is a surreal horror story that, as one review describes it, is “the sweetest movie ever made about a serial killer who has sex with a car, poses as the adult version of a local boy who went missing a decade earlier, and then promptly moves in with the kid’s still-grieving father.” SEE ALSO: Twitter is memeing ‘The French Dispatch’ stars’ wildly contrasting Cannes fashion So yeah, Spike’s gaffe was maybe not the strangest thing to occur at Cannes 2021 after all. The whole thing is of course immediately reminiscent of that time at the 2017 Academy Awards show when Warren Beatty mistakenly announced that the year’s Best Picture winner was La La Land. Chaos briefly ensued as a La La Land producer halted the proceedings to clear up the error, and then clear out as the crew behind Moonlight — the actual Best Picture winner — took the stage. This Cannes mix-up is admittedly a bit “worse” in one sense, since the early reveal of Titane‘s win messed with the normal flow of an awards show that would build up to the big Palme d’Or reveal. But it’s also extremely funny and exactly the kind of thing that goes viral, which is only good for Cannes, Ducournau, and Titane. Related Related posts: Dozens dead from Tropical Storm Ana in southern Africa How Russia hooked Europe on its oil and gas – and overcame US efforts to prevent energy dependence on Moscow Ukraine war: BBC News journalists resume broadcasts from Russia South Korea’s economy slows in Q1 on COVID curbs, inflation tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous How to hide your likes on TikTok videos next First case of coronavirus infection inside Olympic Village confirmed six days before Opening Ceremony
