As the cast, crew and producers from the film “La La Land” took the stage at the 89th Academy Awards to accept their statues for Best Picture, it seemed like the prototypical Best Picture piece that viewers had seen in the previous 88 installments of the famed awards show.

Then producer Jordan Horowitz took the microphone.

“I’m sorry, no there’s been a mistake,” Horowitz said. “’Moonlight,’ you guys won best picture.”

In a twist that even M. Night Shyamalan did not see coming, an ending to the Academy Awards unlike the previous 88 broadcasts had. The award for the night’s biggest prize had been given to the wrong film. In 89 broadcasts, there was bound to be one instance of a mix-up.

“Moonlight,” an independent film that rode a wave of momentum throughout award season into the big night, took home the Best Picture award. The first film with an all-black cast and LGBTQ-centric themes to win the award.

For how chaotic the moment was, and how wrongfully presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway have been ridiculed for a blunder they are not responsible for, there is much beauty to be found in this rare snafu. Through the botched presentation, it is plausible that it provided the ceremony’s strongest, and most accidental, political statement.

Horowitz proclaimed that he would happily present the statue for Best Picture to his “friends from ‘Moonlight.’”

This was a great demonstration of respect and professionalism by the members from “La La Land,” a predominantly white film, toward the members from “Moonlight,” a predominantly black film. It was brief and completely unintentional, but was a moment that should be recognized by the film industry as highly significant as it showed two races finding unity under one common passion.

It is almost fitting the ceremony ended in that manner, given the scrutiny the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) had been under after failing to recognize actors of color in the previous two years. In response to this backlash, the AMPAS had nominated a record-tying seven actors of color, six of them black. Two of them, Viola Davis (“Fences”) and Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”) would both walk out with statues for Best Actress and Best Actor in a Supporting Role, respectively.

Both Davis and Ali delivered some memorable speeches, with Ali, a man of the Islam religion, revealing that earlier in the week his wife had given birth to their daughter.

As for Davis, her emotional speech centered on her determination to tell stories on behalf of those who are unable to through her performances, as well as living life to the fullest, for she understood that there are people who cannot or were not able to do so.

Despite the cringe-worthy Best Picture loss, “La La Land” managed to be the night’s biggest winner, taking home six awards, including Emma Stone winning Best Actress in a Leading Role and Damien Chazelle becoming the youngest person in history to win Best Director at 32 years old.

As for Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” the film saw its share of success, walking out with two statues, one for Best Original Screenplay and another for Best Actor in a Leading Role, which was won by Casey Affleck.

The host of the event, Jimmy Kimmel, provided his share of laughs, including a pair of entertaining segments with his “rival” Matt Damon.

One of the better segments involved Kimmel surprising random tour bus passengers by adding the Dolby Theatre to their stop, allowing them to enter and meet some of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Aniston. The bit itself did run a little long, but still provided one of the more entertaining highlights of the night, aside from the controversial ending.

Unlike the Grammys or Golden Globe ceremonies, the Academy Awards ceremony did not possess as strong political statements against President Donald Trump and his polarizing administration.

Outside of the sporadic jabs from Kimmel, the only true political statement made by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi who did not show up to the ceremony in protest of Trump’s travel bans. After his film “The Salesman” won the award for Best Foreign Language Film, Farhadi had prepared a statement which was read by Anousheh Ansari.

“My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of the other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the U.S. Dividing the world into the us and our enemies categories creates fear, a deceitful justification for aggression and war,” Farhadi’s statement said.

While the Academy Awards had made the correct strides in addressing their failure to recognize nonwhite actors, this ceremony does not complete exonerate them, as this should result in more consistency in acknowledging actors of ethnic backgrounds.

There is some solace to be taken in the bizarre conclusion to the show as demonstrated by the cast and crew of both “Moonlight” and “La La Land.”

Sometimes there are endings that not even Hollywood could script out.