Oscars - Massive Blunder !

Thanks for pointing this out leopard...finger on the pulse mate

PricewaterhouseCoopers have just had maybe $100 million dollars of bad publicity from that mistake

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accountancy firm that has overseen the counting of the Oscars ballots for 83 years, has apologised for the most spectacular blunder in the history of the starry ceremony – when the award for best film was mistakenly presented to La La Land instead of actual winner Moonlight.

The company promised to investigate the error after Warren Beatty, who was presenting the Best Picture award with Faye Dunaway, ended up with the wrong envelope. “We sincerely apologise to Moonlight, La La Land, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for Best Picture,” a PwC statement said.

Attention will focus on a provision intended to make the system failsafe: there are duplicate envelopes of the complete set of results, held in the wings in case anything should go wrong with a presenter or an envelope. The key question will be whether the duplicate of the best actress award, which had just been announced, was handed to Beatty in the wings as he walked out to announce the best picture winner.

PwC, one of the best known accountancy firms in the world, has supervised counting the ballots, and the announcements, for the majority of Academy Awards. Its employees wait in the wings during the ceremony, passing the results to the presenters. The humiliating failure of a system that was supposed to be fool proof, checked and counterchecked repeatedly, could not have been more public – watched by hundreds of Hollywood stars and millions of people across the world on television.

Twister.... It is not for your information…… it is to get a thread discussion going on it.....durrrr !

wit-ham    27 Feb 17 09:17 
See what happens when you let luvvies vote on something
you have to change the result as the winners ain't the winners

And there we have it folks..brilliant wit-ham

Spotty..have a look..Oscar thread already up..try joining in to that one..HTH

This thread is about the massive mistake made by Price Waterhouse Coopers

It is not about the talent contest known as the Oscars

In which case perhaps you should have titled the thread "Price Waterhouse Coopers"..Massive Blunder
Not being pedantic...just saying

Old married couple alert!

^ you going out ?, what car are you driving

Twister you wrecked that !

It's taken the media coverage away from all the anti Trump nonsense. I wonder if it was not such a 'blunder' after all....

All these people that demand equality have no problem giving awards.

Despite their collective abhorrence of walls they will all return home to mansions surrounded by bloody huge walls.
Despite their collective abhorrence of extreme vetting they will have muckle big bouncers checking guests going into parties,there will be no appeal just a severe beating if you protest too much.

Leftist luvvie idiot awards...Trump wins again

That capitalist media and security companies control all that

Warren and Faye made to look like bumbling old fools when it was not their fault. And how much were PricewaterhouseCoopers getting paid for this ?? A well worded apology from them, but failure of simple controls led to a spectacular failure...... just had to hand the right envelope over.

bonnie and clyde not bright enough to spot the deliberate mistake

Why did Warren Beatty seem to think there was a mistake..... Aren't all the awards supposed to be top secret  known only by two people ?

The name of the tart who won the LA LA film award was on the card..he smelt a rat

Yes, At the bottom it said  Best Actress in small writing...... If he had had his glasses on he may have clocked it

Vanity Vanity..not much of that around last night

Fair

Ground attraction

if he had a brain he would have known it was the wrong card in envelope

but he didnt get where he is today by using his brain !

"Yes, At the bottom it said  Best Actress in small writing...... If he had had his glasses on he may have clocked it"

But also the award category is on the front of the envelope, any normal person would have seen that 'Best Picture' was not on the envelope if they bothered to actually look at the envelope before they opened it. But obviously more to blame was the stupid person who gave him the envelope !

In the photo with the guy in the headphones who came rushing on to the stage with the right envelope, you can clearly see on the front of the red envelope it had 'Best Picture' And on the front of the envelope Warren Beauty had it clearly said 'Actress In A Leading Role'

The whole gig should have been stopped immediately..was a fair few minutes before the best film award was terminated...very slow reactions by the yanks

The main culprit was the person who handed the envelope to Warren Beatty. But I can't believe that he failed to notice he had been given the wrong envelope. It was clearly written on the outside that it was best actress.

But on opening it and seeing Emma Stone's name, he realised straightaway that something was wrong so why on earth didn't he say that he may have the wrong envelope? He would have saved everyone an awful lot of embarrassment. And shame on him for allowing Faye Dunaway to unwittingly read it out.

Silly old duffer

He used to be so handsome as well

Dementia…… a Terrible curse !

that bald director of LA LA land, was a pratt?
he snatched a card out of a pensioners hand with such a snap...
that Warren's eyes blinked a few times.
bad manners.

warren will get the mob to rub him out.

This thread early 2017 contender for forum Man on Moon Award

What do you mean?

Yes, explain yourself, Tobermory

It happened hours earlier and there was a thread with dozens of posts on the subject already

i was awake at 5.30... sky news reader said - La La Land won best picture, two minutes later she came back on saying it was a ballz up.
Did anyone lay the moonlight film? 1000/1 ?

Well yes, but Leopard thought this Oscar blunder warranted a thread of its own. Which it did.

The other thread from the 1st reply was exclusively discussing this issue , so it did have a thread of it's own imo

Though you could argue it required a thread with the blunder in the title i guess

I can't stand Warren Beatty but i do think he was blameless.

It was this Cullinan guy who handed him the wrong envelope .The guy was spending the night tweeting photos of himself with stars and was not concentrating on his simple job.

People say Beatty should have read the envelope with 'Best actress' on the front but you naturally just assume you have been given the correct one and don't look at that .

When he opened it he realized straight away there was a fk up and he showed it to Dunaway just so she could see for herself they had the wrong one , but she thought he was inviting her to read out the movie

Yes, he will be kicking himself that he didn't do things differently and just said that he had been given the wrong envelope and asked for the correct one.

Massive mistake my erse ,attention seeking spam imo

noone watches these freak shows

bucket of show biz sick

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/27/the-other-oscars-gaffe-dead-woman-janet-patterson-jan-chapman-from-in-memoriam-montage-is-still-alive

The other Oscars gaffe: 'dead' woman from In Memoriam montage is still alive

hmmm just a set up, need the publicity. poor Warren no one told him and then they were very rude to him. that must explain it why didn't I think of that.

Still, on the plus side, at least the La La Land guys didn't make too much of a song and dance about it...

gambeano - groan!!

"The guy was spending the night tweeting photos of himself with stars and was not concentrating on his simple job."

After the wrong Best Picture winner was announced, he deleted all the tweets from his Twitter account. Maybe he should have worried less about taking sneaky pics of celebs and selfies and focused more on the job in hand. But seems he was too busy goofing around. And now Front page news worldwide ! He ruined the moment for the winners and now everyone will remember La La Land more than Moonlight. You had one job Brian. One job! Just hand Warren the envelope marked 'Best Picture' ooooooops !!!

It won't matter when the civil war starts in USA

"When the most anticipated award for Best Picture was announced to close the Academy Awards ceremony, Trump got the last laugh, once again.

In the same way that the media trashed Trump about his Sweden comment, only to have migrant violence strike Sweden the very next day,
the Oscars fell victim to the “curse of  The Don”, and looked thoroughly stupid and incompetent when they announced the wrong Best Picture winner.
Kimmel spent the entire night insulting President Trump, which should come as no surprise, as Jimmy Kimmel is a Hillary Clinton faithful disciple."


Trump 2 - Media 0

The shocking disgusting racism of these awards given on the basis of someone's colour.!!

pricecooper waterhouse,you cant trust the experts,

head of the oscars has stated both accountants will not be back....

lucky them! they should be given a bonus for having to spend a day with a room full of utter absolute and total self serving w*nkers

When you think of the real problems in the world, the talk of 2 people losing their lively hoods over basic human error is disgusting.

actually when I think of it both accountants look right w*nkers too....hope he gets sacked

They have both been sacked. He tried to hand in his notice before that to try and save face. Unfortunately he left a cheque for his gas bill on the bosses desk.

^ Link ?

I'm not linking you