- MoviesAssociated Press
Oscars: Two Accountants Involved in Best Picture Mistake Won't Work on Show Again, Academy President Says
The president of the film academy says the two accountants responsible for the best-picture flub at Sunday’s Academy Awards will never return to the Oscar show. Cheryl Boone Isaacs tells The Associated Press that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ relationship with PwC, the accounting firm responsible for the integrity of the awards, remains under review. Boone Isaacs broke her silence Wednesday following the biggest blunder in the 89-year history of the Academy Awards.
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Warren Beatty Calls on Motion Picture Academy to Clarify Oscar Fiasco
Beatty released a statement Tuesday to The Associated Press in which he declined to comment further on the debacle that led to him and co-presenter Faye Dunaway mistakenly reading La La Land as best picture winner rather than Moonlight. “I feel it would be more appropriate for the president of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, to publicly clarify what happened as soon as possible,” said Beatty. Since Sunday’s broadcast, the academy has largely left the explaining to PwC, the accounting firm that has taken the blame for the “La La Land” mistakenly being read as the best picture winner by Beatty and Faye Dunaway.
- MoviesThe Hollywood Reporter
Academy, Oscar Accountants Offer More Apologies; Investigation Launched
It’s been less than 24 hours since the most notorious fubar in Oscar history — the mistaken announcement that La La Land had won best picture, when in fact the award was meant for Moonlight — and accounting firm PricewaterhouseCooper has now issued an unusual second apology, while the Academy is announcing that it will conduct an investigation of the way the tell-tale envelopes are handled at the Oscar ceremony while offering an apology of its own. Going beyond the first statement of apology that was issued Sunday night, three hours after the Oscar broadcast ended, PwC on Monday sent out what it called a “revised statement” in which it squarely shoulders the blame for the incident, cites PwC partner Brian Cullinan for the mistake and offers another apology to all involved in the embarrassing drama that played out on national television.
- MoviesYahoo Movies UK
The greatest reactions to the La La Land/Moonlight Oscar gaffe
While the Oscars of 2017 will be remembered for, quite literally, one thing, the ‘Moonlight’/’La La Land’ debacle can also perhaps be summed up in a single image. And it’s of Ryan Gosling’s face. Holding his hand to his mouth to try and keep from bursting out laughing, the ‘La La Land’ star looked very much how everyone was feeling. It seemed to say ‘someone’s going to get fired’, after ‘La La Land’ was mistakenly named Best Picture by Warren Beatty, when the winner was actually ‘Moonlight’. Of course, it’s been hailed on Twitter as being perhaps the quintessential image of the evening. ...
- MoviesTom Butler
Oscars 2017: Was Leonardo DiCaprio to blame for Warren Beatty's epic fail?
DiCaprio to blame? The biggest moment of the 2017 Oscars came when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced ‘La La Land’ as the Best Picture winner when the actual winner was ‘Moonlight’. It’s since emerged that Beatty was actually holding the envelope for Best Actress which announced ‘La La Land’s Emma Stone as the winner, so you can understand the confusion from the presenters. Some people on Twitter are suggesting that it’s all Leonardo DiCaprio’s fault.
- MoviesBen Arnold
Warren Beatty's new movie FLOPS with 'one of the worst debuts of all time'
Warren Beatty’s first movie in 15 years, ‘Rules Don’t Apply’, in which he plays eccentric businessman Howard Hughes, has bombed at the box office. The $25 million (£20 million), star-laden movie also stars Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Steve Coogan, Ed Harris, Martin Sheen and Beatty’s wife Annette Bening, in a story about the relationship between a young actress and her driver, a relationship forbidden by their employer Howard Hughes.
