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* During the 1934 Academy Awards, both Frank Capra and Frank Lloyd were up for the award for Best Director (Capra for ''Lady for a Day'', Lloyd for ''Calvacade''). When the announcer said "Come up and get it, Frank", both Lloyd and Capra went up to accept the Oscar. Much to Capra's chagrin, ''Lloyd'' was the real winner. (''[[The Oscar (film)|The Oscar]]'', see above, may be a reference to this.)
* The 2006 Country Music Awards saw Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood both nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year. As the nominations were being announced, a camera was trained on all five finalists, including Hill and Underwood. Then, as Underwood was announced the winner, Hill smiled and raised her arms, then apparently screamed "What?" and stormed away. All of this was caught on live television just before the nominee camera shots were pulled away. Faith Hill and her management insisted the act was a joke, but left many unconvinced. Her career nosedived not long after.
* However, the king of all real life examples of this trope came from the 1948 presidential election, when the Chicago Tribune, forced to print earlier due to an ongoing strike against the Taft-Hartley act, used incomplete poll data to generate their headline: "[[Dewey Defeats Truman]]". [[Harry S. Truman]] famously posed with the incorrect newspaper, but we can assume that Thomas E. Dewey was not so enchanted.
** Funny how the lesson wasn't learned in 2000, where networks were prematurely calling the election for Bush and then Gore and then Bush again, and many newspapers had to scramble to reprint the front page headline.
** An earlier example from the 1916 election: Republican challenger Charles Evans Hughes went to bed believing that he had won the election, but late returns from California showed that [[Woodrow Wilson]] had carried the state, and thereby the [[American Political System|Electoral College]]. A reporter who called to ask Hughes for his reaction was told by a servant "The president-elect has retired and does not wish to be disturbed." The reporter [[Crowning Moment of Funny|replied]], "When the president-elect is available, please tell him that he is not the president-elect."
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