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Last Night’s Oscars Mix-Up May Have Been Caused by a Tweet
A.V. Club ^ | 2/27 | Katie Rife

Posted on 02/27/2017 9:49:31 PM PST by nickcarraway

Warren Beatty was quick to let everyone watching last night’s Oscars telecast know that the unprecedented oopsie of announcing the wrong Best Picture winner wasn’t his fault. But whose fault was it? All eyes have now turned to accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, which for 83 years has been in charge of keeping the names of Academy Award winners secret until the night of the big ceremony. That’s accomplished with two identical briefcases containing two identical sets of envelopes, one of which accidentally made its way into the wrong hands at the end of last night’s telecast. Today, the firm issued a statement about the snafu:

We sincerely apologize to Moonlight, La La Land, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for best picture. The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected. We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and deeply regret that this occurred. We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the Academy, ABC, and Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation.

In short, it was a mistake, caused by simple human error. And The Wall Street Journal thinks it might know which human in particular that might be. In a tweet that has since been deleted, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Brian Cullinan tweeted out a picture of Best Actress winner Emma Stone with the caption, “Best Actress Emma Stone backstage! #PWC” three minutes before Beatty and Faye Dunaway took the stage to present Best Picture.

Screencap: The Wall Street Journal Immediately after posting the picture—and, if he’s like most Twitter users, while he was checking his notifications—Cullinan grabbed the fateful wrong envelope from the backup pile and handed it to Beatty, and the rest is now Oscars history.

In open defiance of our Commander-In-Chief, PricewaterhouseCoopers has owned up to Cullinan’s mistake, saying he “feels very, very terrible and horrible. He is very upset about this mistake. And it is also my mistake, our mistake, and we all feel very bad,” in a statement to Variety. It has yet to address the Twitter element of the story, but by Monday morning, the tweet was scrubbed from Cullinan’s account, along with a series of other pictures implying that maybe he was distracted from the task at hand by all the good-looking people in expensive shiny clothes.

So, assuming this story has a moral, the moral of the story is: Don’t tweet and hand out Oscars like Brian Cullinan did, or YouTube videos like the one below will gain a new, painfully ironic resonance. Still, compared to the abject humiliation of participating in Neil Patrick Harris’ onstage magic trick a couple of years back, this should be a breeze.


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1 posted on 02/27/2017 9:49:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Nah, had to be the Russians.............


2 posted on 02/27/2017 10:02:17 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: nickcarraway

don’t know if u saw this lunacy from PwC in Australia in Nov. worth reading it all and the comments of Aussies who mostly think it’s crazy:

19 Nov 2016: The Australian: PwC’s Australian staff worried by US poll offered Trump therapy
by Cameron Stewart
Corporate giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has offered to counsel its staff in Australia who are worried by Donald Trump’s US election win.
In an extraordinary move, ridiculed by many on social media, PwC implied that Mr Trump held values contrary to the company’s and that all staff should take solace in PwC’s culture of “care” in the wake of the election result.
In a letter to PwC’s 7000 Australian staff, Australian chief executive Luke Sayers said the company’s values “will be vital” in the wake of the US election. “I did want to call out the value of care today,” he writes. “Partners and staff have reached out to me already concerned by reports of women being denigrated on the streets in the US, or Muslims being told to go home.
“My deepest commitment is to the diversity and inclusion of our people, and the communities we live in. If you don’t see this happening in our firm, or PwC can help in anyway, please let me or a member of my executive board know immediately.”...
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/pwcs-australian-staff-worried-by-us-poll-offered-trump-therapy/news-story/f7d3db88edbd33a37206be749787dae6

anyway, hope the blame lands on PwC at the Oscars - Trump’s revenge.


3 posted on 02/27/2017 10:05:10 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: nickcarraway

It was an envelope malfunction.


4 posted on 02/27/2017 10:06:09 PM PST by xp38
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To: nickcarraway

“In open defiance of our Commander in Chief....”

Where the hell did that come from?


5 posted on 02/27/2017 10:06:56 PM PST by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: nickcarraway

The guy is a PWC partner, cripes! Someone check him for Anthony Weiner problems, probably he was sexting some underage girl or boy when he should have been focused upon giving Warren Beatty the correct envelope!


6 posted on 02/27/2017 10:13:23 PM PST by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: nickcarraway

Nope. It was the Rooskis.


7 posted on 02/27/2017 10:15:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: nickcarraway

if they had written first in big print on each card what category the award was for and then to whom it was being awarded there would have been no problem

nobody reading a card with big print across the top of the card saying BEST ACTRESS AWARD wouldn’t have immediately known it wasn’t for best picture.. pretty damn simple


8 posted on 02/27/2017 10:31:53 PM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Could this whole thing have been staged? Interest in the Hollywood elite is waning. They have to do something to get on the front page. Wardrobe malfunctions are getting old.


9 posted on 02/27/2017 10:33:34 PM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: doorgunner69

>>>Nah, had to be the Russians<<<

PricewaterhouseCooperski...


10 posted on 02/27/2017 10:37:33 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: nickcarraway
Who cares?

Eugene is Negan.

:D

11 posted on 02/27/2017 11:02:33 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Vehmgericht

I was wondering the same thing.


12 posted on 02/27/2017 11:06:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Vehmgericht

“Best Actress” was printed both on the outside of the envelope, and across the bottom of the card. Liberals just choke under pressure.


13 posted on 02/28/2017 1:00:47 AM PST by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop

That’s what I wondered. Don’t they print what the awards are supposed to be for on the envelopes and cards?


14 posted on 02/28/2017 2:07:21 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS
Yes, there are close up photos of the envelope, and you can see "Actress in a Leading Role" on it. No one bothered to look. whoops..

You can read it in this photo:

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170227031114-03-oscar-best-picture-winner-mistake-0227-restricted-super-169.jpg

15 posted on 02/28/2017 3:10:31 AM PST by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop

Giant Freudian slip. La La land was the real winner but PC had to be honored.


16 posted on 02/28/2017 4:23:30 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: nickcarraway

Mark the outside of the envelope with the words: Best actor or actress or movie etc. Have the performers read the envelope!
Make sure they are not drug addled... I know not possible.


17 posted on 02/28/2017 2:01:50 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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