Oscars president reveals punishment for accountants to blame for Best Picture disaster

That is why, as host of the Oscars, it cuts short rambling speeches, discourages political grandstanding and entrusts the only really important information in the building to two senior accountants no one would pick out in a crowd.

“So the accountants gave Warren the wrong card, and they apologized for it, so it wasn’t Warren Beatty’s fault”, Kimmel said. At first, people can only gawp or…

“We deeply regret the mistakes that were made during the presentation of the best picture category during last night’s Oscar ceremony”, PwC said.

In a midnight stunner, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (thanks to the wrong category’s envelope being handed to them) mistakenly presented the best picture trophy to “La La Land” instead of actual victor “Moonlight”.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, told the Associated Press today that she’s reviewing the Academy’s relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm responsible for the best picture debacle Sunday night. Actress Faye Dunaway, who was the one who actually announced La La Land as the victor, but left her co-presenter, Beatty, behind to take the heat.

She also praised Beatty for his handling of the situation, saying: “Warren, he took charge there”. breaking celebrity news

The tweet has since been deleted, but has been suggested as evidence that Cullinan was distracted during the ceremony’s biggest moment.

Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz were responsible for handing out the winning envelopes. “In fact, normally in America, they would have had to make a movie about how Moonlight lost the Oscar before they would have acknowledged Moonlight’s Oscar”.

“He’d sought permission to post to social media during the show, but had been turned down”, the Journal said, citing an unnamed source.

We know Ruiz had given Best Actress presenter Leonardo DiCaprio her version of that envelope.

How Cullinan mixed up the envelopes remains unclear, as does why it took more than two minutes for the error to be corrected.

The previous award, best actress, was presented by Leonardo DiCaprio, who entered stage left.

A day after the incident, the Academy apologised to all affected, including presenters Beatty and Dunaway, and said it will “determine what actions are appropriate going forward”.

“Then as I walked upstage people started speculating and asking if I’d pulled a prank. if I’d pulled a prank it wouldn’t just be the wrong winners in the envelope, it would be a Bed, Bath And Beyond coupon in there”.