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Al Pacino’s Best Picture Presentation Was ‘Peak Performance’ and You Can’t Convince Us Otherwise

Al Pacino caused some confusion when awarding Best Picture at the Oscars last night, a moment some saw as awkward, but others thought was perfect.

The actor was tapped to announce the night’s biggest prize, Best Picture, and did so with such anticlimactic energy it seemed to confuse not only everyone watching, but the people running the Academy Awards telecast. By way of confirmation, Pacino took a careful look at the card and declared, “Yes, yes.” Only then was there enough confidence for the orchestra to start to swell and the cameras to cut to the Oppenheimer cast and crew. This was described by manymediaoutlets and individuals as awkward, while the Daily Mail even went so far as to declare it a “blunder.” Others were dismayed at Pacino’s apparent failure to inject a bit of verve and suspense into the proceedings (as if everyone in the world didn’t know Oppenheimer was about to win, anyway).

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