Emma Stone breaks down in Brie Larson’s arms after Oscar win
Beatty and Dunaway went onstage witha duplicate copy of the best-actress envelope and announced that “La La Land” was the best-picture victor, instead of the rightful victor, “Moonlight”. Farhadi’s opted out of appearing at the show in protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
“The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected”. But let’s set the scene anyway for the Academy Awards drama over what film did, and didn’t, win the Oscar for best picture on Sunday night. Loving actress Ruth Negga – up for Best Actress – is sporting an ACLU ribbon on her dress. “Watching your friends win”, Larson wrote alongside an emotional photo in which she embraced this year’s Best Actress, Emma Stone. That I do know.
Asked – in English – about the pressure of creating characters for a comic book fanbase notoriously picky about how their heroes and villains are portrayed, Bertolazzi said he shut that kind of idea out. In retaliation, a mysterious contingent of CPAs banded together to sabotage the awards, ganging up to derail the Oscars and hurt PwC’s business in the process.
United Kingdom -based accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has handled the Oscars’ ballot-counting for 83 years and manages “all aspects” of the voting process, apologized in a statement, CNN reports. “I had urged her agency to check any photograph which might be used and understand that they were told that the Academy had it covered”, she revealed.
The English songstress is no stranger to award show gold, as she’s captured an eye-popping 15 Grammy Awards over the past five years, including five this month for her efforts for her latest album, 25.
If Beatty and Dunaway’s blooper left the film’s producers redfaced, many among the Academy voters and Hollywood royalty seated in the rows of Dolby Theatre must have been secretly pleased. Awards were returned and fans took to Twitter.
Yet in a live show, with a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions, there is no telling what dozens of stars may say and do on the red carpet or when collecting their Oscar statuettes.
Meanwhile, according to a report in CNN, the “Hamilton” actor Brandon Victor Dixon, who addressed Mike Pence from the stage, shortly after the presidential election, said that he expects politics to play a role in the acceptance speeches of this year’s Oscar winners.
Was Cullinan too distracted by his phone to keep his envelopes straight? The Academy has not issued a statement of its own since the best picture blunder, but it did post PwC’s apology on Monday on its press site.