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posted by takyon on Monday February 27 2017, @06:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-steve-harvey-moment dept.

Think YOUR job is difficult? Hey, there's a guy in Hollywood who has to hand the right envelope to the right person at the right time.

Oh, wait. That sounds really easy—yet it got screwed up.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are about to announce best picture, the culmination of entertainment's biggest awards show. Beatty opens a red envelope and looks at the card inside, giving a double-take. He looks inside the envelope to see if there's anything else there.

BEATTY: "The Academy Award..."

He pauses, looks at the envelope again.

BEATTY: "For best picture..."

He pauses again and looks offstage, then hands the envelope to Dunaway, who gives it a quick glance.

DUNAWAY: "La La Land."

The audience applauds, as the cast, crew, and producers of "La La Land" take the stage to accept what many had anticipated, the coveted honor of best picture. Producers Jason Horowitz and Marc Platt give speeches, but something seems amiss as Platt speaks. There's commotion among the people standing behind him as a man wearing headphones appears and checks red envelopes being held by producers.

[...] HOROWITZ: "There's a mistake. 'Moonlight', you guys won best picture. This is not a joke."

PLATT: "This is not a joke. I'm afraid they read the wrong thing."

[...] [Oscars host Jimmy] KIMMEL: "Guys. This is very unfortunate what happened. Personally, I blame Steve Harvey for this."

[...] KIMMEL: "Warren, what did you do?"

BEATTY: "I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said 'Emma Stone, La La Land'. That's why I took such a long look at Faye and you. I wasn't trying to be funny."

takyon: 89th Academy Awards


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @08:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @08:47PM (#472516)

    I'm not saying it was planned, but it sure did generate a lot of buzz.

    Wake up sheeple!

    Everybody involved in this crisis are actors.

    It was obviously a planned stunt in order to take power from Price Waterhouse Coopers.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @11:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @11:30PM (#472575)

    Remember Carnac? [wikipedia.org]

    Longtime sidekick Ed McMahon ritualistically and bombastically introduced the Carnac routines. The announcement implied Carnac was responsible for some scandal or disaster currently in the news, as "And now, the great seer, soothsayer, and sage, Carnac the Magnificent". After Carnac entered and stumbled, Ed would continue as follows:

    "I hold in my hand the envelopes. As a child of four can plainly see, these envelopes have been hermetically sealed. They've been kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls' porch since noon today. No one knows the contents of these envelopes--but you, in your mystical and borderline divine way, will ascertain the answers having never before heard the questions."

    Apparently, that was a better system of custody than what happened last night.

    The balloting, counting, and the envelopes are the exclusive responsibility of PricewaterhouseCoopers right up to the moment the envelope is handed to the presenter.

    As Snotnose noted above, there are duplicate envelopes.

    AC #472491 notes more specifically that it's for convenience.

    The logical way to handle this would be to have a rack/bin for each envelope custodian.
    When an award has been given out, the duplicate envelope for that is binned.
    Have the guys assigned to the task have dry-run practices.
    I mean, how hard can it be to get this right?

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]