The Academy Awards this year will be forever remembered for one thing.

But I’ll get to that later.

Most of the Oscar ceremony went as expected, with awards being won by actors, actresses, producers and others involved in the movie making process. I noted several things as being impressive or noteworthy:

“Zootopia” winning Best Animated Picture surprised me a little bit. I thought the Academy would go in for “Moana” as it was more recent, more Disney and more musical, but the Academy voters proved me wrong on that one.

Another small surprise for me was “City of Stars” winning Best Original Song over “Audition – the Fools Who Dream.” I expected one of the two to win, given they were both from “La La Land” and that movie had all the hype riding into the Oscars, but I felt that “Audition” was a much more powerful song than “City of Stars,” given its place near the end of the film.

I was thrilled that Damien Chazelle won Best Director. I loved his first film, “Whiplash”, and “La La Land” was just as good as (if not better than) the prior movie. With his being so young (he’s the youngest director to ever win the award) he has a lot of years ahead of him to make movies, and I’m excited to see what the future holds for him.

“La La Land” did win some minor awards like cinematography and production design, but not nearly as many as I expected it to. I felt that “La La Land” would clean up on minor awards and then win one or two of the bigger ones, but it didn’t win to the extent that I expected given the hype.

“Suicide Squad” won an Oscar. Think about that.

Finally, there was the winner of Best Picture – “Moonlight”. Although I have not seen the film, I understand that it is supposedly incredible, and deserving of the award. However, it didn’t get its big Oscar moment – due to a screw-up backstage that will go down in infamy.

Backstage at the Academy Awards, there are two envelopes for every award – an official and a backup in case one gets misplaced or destroyed. The announcers for Best Picture – Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway – were handed the backup envelope for Best Actress instead of the envelope for Best Picture. Dunaway read that “La La Land” won the award when “Moonlight” had won the honor.

Although “Moonlight” did get its Oscars, the mistake is still unacceptable. To give anyone an award of that caliber and then take it away onstage is crushing, and although the cast and crew of “La La Land” handled the mistake well, it still should never have happened.

Those are my Oscar takeaways, and now there’s nothing left to do but wait until the Oscars next year – where hopefully the envelopes will be correct.