Cheryl Boone Isaacs said that the relationship with the accountancy firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) was also under review.

Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz were responsible for Sunday’s mishap.

La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner of the best picture award.

The team behind the film were in the middle of their speeches before it was revealed the accolade should have gone to Moonlight.

It has been described as the biggest mistake in 89 years of Academy Awards history.

Mr Cullinan mistakenly handed the wrong envelope to the two presenters.

He gave Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the back-up envelope for best actress in a leading role – rather than the envelope which contained the name of the winner for the best film.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, which counts the votes and organises the envelopes, has apologised for the mix-up.

Mr Cullinan tweeted a picture of best actress winner Emma Stone minutes before handing the presenters the wrong envelope, and Ms Boone Isaacs blamed “distraction” for the error.

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The coming-of-age drama about a gay black man growing up in Miami became the first film with an all-black cast to win the Academy Award for best picture.

The movie, whose cast includes best supporting actor winner Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes and Janelle Monáe, has been a critical darling during awards season.

With the win, it shattered a glass ceiling for black films.

“Very clearly, even in my dreams this could not be true,” director Barry Jenkins said in amazement when it was announced that “Moonlight,” not “La La Land,” had won. “But to hell with dreams, I’m done with it, ’cause this is true. Oh my goodness.”

In 2014, “12 Years a Slave” won best picture, but its cast was not all black.

Both “Moonlight” and “12 Years” were produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B company.

“Moonlight” made Oscar history in other ways.
Ali, who played a sympathetic drug dealer who mentors a bullied young man, is the first Muslim actor to win best supporting actor.

Jenkins became the first African American to score nominations for best director, best picture and best adapted screenplay in the same year. The film’s co-editor, Joi McMillon, became the first African American to earn a nomination for achievement in film editing.

The “Moonlight” win came in a year in which the Academy has been hailed for more diversity.
White actors had especially dominated the major acting categories for two years, giving rise to the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag. This year, seven of the 20 nominees were people of color.

Viola Davis, who won best supporting actress, became only the second black woman to win an Emmy, an Oscar and a Tony for acting. Whoopi Goldberg is the other, and the only black actor to have a so-called EGOT — an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Oscar.

April Reign, who created the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag, tweeted Sunday night about the importance of the evening.

“Viola, Mahershala, and the wins for Moonlight happened because they were DESERVED,” she wrote. “Not because of #OscarsSoWhite. I want that very clear.”

Earlier in the evening, Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, who wrote the play that became “Moonlight” and co-wrote the screenplay, won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. The pair paid homage to the disenfranchised in their acceptance speech for that award.

Jenkins said: “All you people out there who feel like there’s no mirror for you, that your life is not reflected, the Academy has your back, the ACLU has your back, we have your back and for the next four years we will not leave you alone, we will not forget you.”

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Dunaway’s co-presenter Warren Beatty said “Emma Stone, La La Land” had been written in the envelope he was given.

The team from La La Land were in the middle of their acceptance speeches when the mistake was discovered.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins said: “I don’t think my life could be changed any more dramatically than it has in the last 20 or 30 minutes.”

His coming-of-age film about a young gay black man also won adapted screenplay and best supporting actor.

La La Land won six Oscars including best actress for Emma Stone. Damien Chazelle, director of La La Land, became the youngest filmmaker to win a best director Oscar, at the age of 32.

Bonnie and Clyde stars Beatty and Dunaway announced La La Land had taken the best picture prize – but then the musical’s producer Jordan Horowitz announced there had been a mistake.

He said: “This is not a joke. Moonlight is best picture,” and showed the camera the card that revealed the winner.

Two La La Land producers had already given their acceptance speeches before the mistake was revealed.

Host Jimmy Kimmel joked that he knew he would he would mess up compering the ceremony, and added: “Personally I blame Steve Harvey for this,” referring to Harvey’s mistake in announcing the Miss Universe winner in 2015.

‘In my dreams’

Beatty had opened the envelope but hesitated to read out what it said inside, leaving it to Dunaway to announce La La Land.

He returned to the microphone to say: “I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said ‘Emma Stone, La La Land’, and that is why I took such a long look at Faye and at you.

“I wasn’t trying to be funny. This is Moonlight for best picture.”

The film’s director Jenkins said: “Very clearly even in my dreams this can’t be true. But to hell with it because this is true. It’s true, its not fake.”

Paying tribute to the team behind La La Land for the way they handled the mistake, he said: “We have been on the road with these guys and it was so gracious and so generous of them.”

Emma Stone, who won the coveted best actress prize, said backstage.

“I’m so excited for Moonlight. Of course it was an amazing thing to hear La La Land and I would love to win best picture. But we are so excited for Moonlight. I think it is one of the best films of all time.

“Is that the craziest Oscar moment of all time? Cool! It’s going to be history.”

Emma Stone won the coveted best actress prize, while La La Land also picked up best cinematography, best score and best original song for City of Stars.

It also won best production design.

Casey Affleck won best actor for Manchester by the Sea, while the drama also won best original screenplay.

Mahershala Ali won best supporting actor, for Moonlight.

He thanked his wife in his acceptance speech, telling the audience she gave birth to their daughter four days ago. It also picked up best original screenplay.

‘Celebrating living a life’

Best supporting actress went to Viola Davis for Fences, directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

The film is an adaptation of August Wilson’s play of the same name.

“There’s one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered – and that’s the graveyard,” she said as she collected her award.

“We are the only artists who celebrates what it means to live a life. Here’s to August Wilson who exhumed and exhalted the ordinary people.”

Davis, who had been nominated twice previously for Doubt and The Help, also thanked her “captain”, Washington.

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The Salesman, up for the best foreign language film award, will be screened in Trafalgar Square on 26 February.

Its director has said he will not go to the Oscars due to President Trump’s attempts to bar people from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.

It is not yet known if Asghar Farhadi will attend the event in London.

The director – whose earlier work A Separation won the foreign film Oscar in 2012 – said the free screening had “a great symbolic value”.

“The gathering of the audience around The Salesman in this famous London square is a symbol of unity against the division and separation of people,” he said.

The afternoon event will include a programme of readings and speeches from actors and directors, including Mike Leigh.

The Salesman, which opens in the UK on 17 March, tells of a couple whose relationship suffers as they rehearse an amateur production Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

Last month the organisers of the Oscars said they found it “extremely troubling” that Farhadi could be barred from entering the US.

In a statement, the director said he would not attend the Academy Awards even if he were offered dispensation by the US government.

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