{"id":169953,"date":"2025-05-22T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/busy-philipps-urged-batman-ben-affleck-to-save-oscars-during-best-picture-mishap\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:02:29","slug":"busy-philipps-urged-batman-ben-affleck-to-save-oscars-during-best-picture-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/busy-philipps-urged-batman-ben-affleck-to-save-oscars-during-best-picture-mishap\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Philipps urged Batman Ben Affleck to ‘save’ Oscars during Best Picture mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Busy Philipps urged Ben Affleck<\/a> to “save” the night during the Oscars Best Picture mix-up in 2017 “because he was Batman”.<\/p>\n

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Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps wanted Ben Affleck to save the Oscars<\/p>\n

The ‘Girls5Eva’ actress had been seated next to the 52-year-old star – who portrayed the Caped Crusader in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’, ‘Justice League’, ‘Suicide Squad’, and ‘The Flash’ – at the Academy Awards when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway accidentally announced ‘La La Land’ had won the night’s biggest honour, instead of correctly presenting it to ‘Moonlight’.<\/p>\n

And Busy and best friend Michelle Williams<\/a> recalled the confusion that occurred immediately afterwards and how they put their faith in Ben.<\/p>\n

Speaking on her show ‘Busy This Week’, Busy said: “We knew, cause we were right there in the front row.<\/p>\n

“We knew something weird was happening. Ben Affleck<\/a> was next to me. You reminded me just earlier of what I said to him, which I totally forgot.”<\/p>\n

\nMichelle explained: “You turned to him, and said, ‘Do something! Do something!’ Because he was Batman, and he was going to save the rest of us.<\/p>\n

\n“He was just as shocked as the rest of us.”<\/p>\n

\nBusy added: “He was literally looking back at Matt Damon, who was sitting right behind his brother [Casey Affleck], who was, like, two doors down from you. And I don’t know Ben Affleck. I just was like, ‘He’s Batman. He’s a movie star. He can go onstage and handle it.’ He could not. It turns out, it was very difficult to handle.”<\/p>\n

\nA photo of the stars looking confused went viral at the time but Busy joked her show couldn’t afford to use the image, so she and Michelle simply crossed their legs and dropped their mouths open to recreate it.<\/p>\n

\nShe noted: “It\u2019s iconic.”<\/p>\n

\nShortly after the mishap took place, Busy, 46, described the confusion and how she and Michelle were among the first to realise what had happened.<\/p>\n

\nShe explained on her Instagram Story at the time: \u201c’La La Land’ got up there, all of a sudden this stage manager or somebody who worked there with a microphone crouched in front of Casey [Affleck] and started whispering into his microphone really urgently and saying, \u2018It\u2019s a mistake! Moonlight is supposed to be Best Picture. It\u2019s a mistake! It\u2019s a mistake! Moonlight is Best Picture!\u2019 <\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe all heard it right there \u2014 like right in the front. Nobody else heard it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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