41st Academy Awards
Controversy was created on Oscar night when Johnny Carson and Buddy Hackett announced in a sketch on the evening's "Tonight Show" , which was recorded three hours before the awards ceremony , that "Oliver ! " would be the winner for Best Picture and that Jack Albertson would win for Best Supporting Actor . Columnist Frances Drake claimed that most observers believed Carson and Hackett "were playing a huge practical joke or happened to make a lucky guess" . 
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