By Max Covill
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty likely won’t be embarrassed again.
One of the biggest stories that came from the Academy Awards last year wasn’t what film eventually won Best Picture (sorry Moonlight), but how it was actually announced. There was a monumental snafu regarding the announcement of the final award recipient of the night, which led to lots of confusion and finger pointing. La La Land was named as the Best Picture of 2016, but the actual winner was Moonlight.
The ordeal almost led to to the termination of an 83-year partnership between the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Almost. So what is the Academy going to do instead to make sure another error of that magnitude never happens again? There’s an “intense” six-step plan now in place, and Vanity Fair has all the details.
First, Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz, the culprits responsible for mishandling the envelope and failing to correct the error, are not invited back to the Oscars this year. The Academy has also made a strict rule of no phones or social media backstage during the show. You may remember that Cullinan took a picture with Best Actress winner Emma Stone right before giving out the wrong envelope. That was a big oops moment.
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