Visibly confused, Al Pacino presented the Oscar for Best Picture to “Oppenheimer” without emphasis or ceremony.
But what happened to Al Pacino ? The 83-year-old actor made a notable appearance at the Oscars on the night of Sunday to Monday to present the biggest prize of the evening: the Best Picture statuette. But if the presence of the hero of Godfather had something to arouse enthusiasm, his intervention on the stage of the Dolby Theater did not go as planned.
Al Pacino made an express appearance at the Oscars, visibly slightly confused. As is usually the custom, the awarders recall the names of all those nominated before prolonging the suspense a little and presenting the prize. The 83-year-old actor did not bother with conventions and simply forgot to list the list of nominated films, moving directly to the winner.
After opening the envelope, a slightly confused Al Pacino then announced the Oscar winner without any enthusiasm and in the most anti-climactic way possible: “Best Picture… uh. I have to open the envelope for that. And that’s what I’m going to do. That’s it. And my eyes see Oppenheimer ?After the fiasco of 2017, where Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced the victory of La La Land following an envelope problem, Al Pacino’s reaction left a moment of hesitation between laughter and applause, the room wondering if it was good Oppenheimer who won the Oscar for Best Picture or not. What the actor of Scarface.
On social networks, Internet users did not fail to have fun at this confusing sequence: “it could not have been more chaotic”, laughs one of them on X, when another writes : “Al Pacino got out of bed, walked to the stage, opened the envelope and gave the name of the winner. He’s the ideal presenter.” “They spent 20 minutes announcing the nominees for each acting category, and then Al Pacino shows up, says five words, and opens the envelope like: ‘Here you go!'”