Probably one of the most interesting moments of last night’s Oscar Awards Ceremony is when director Roger Ross Williams accepted the award for the documentary “Music By Prudence”. Not more than 20 seconds into his speech, he was Kanye’d by producer Elinor Burkett. It’s two sides to every story, and here’s both accounts of what happened:

Elinor Burkett on why she jumped on the stage
What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn’t invited to any of them. And he’s not speaking to me. So we weren’t even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I’m sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn’t get up there very fast.

The movie was my idea. I live in Zimbabwe. Roger had never even heard of Zimbabwe before I told him about this. And you know, I felt my role in this has been denigrated again and again, and it wasn’t going to happen this time.

Director Roger Ross Williams side of the story
Only one person is allowed to accept the award. I was the director, and she was removed from the project nearly a year ago, but she was able to still qualify as a producer on the project, and be an official nominee. But she was very angry — she actually removed herself from the project – because she wanted more creative control.

She pulled a Kanye. And it’s a shame, because this is such positive, happy film.-

I don’t know what’s more sad, these two fighting over this award, or the fact that this type of incident will always be known as a “Kanye moment”. Poor guy. Watch the video below: