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As a result, presenter Warren Beatty carried the wrong envelope to center
stage Sunday night, meaning that his on-stage partner, Faye Dunaway,
announced “La La Land” was the winner of the night’s top prize. “
Moonlight” was actually the best picture winner.
Tim Ryan, the accounting firm’s U.S. chairman and senior partner, offered
an explanation Monday of the unprecedented miscue, along with his profuse
apologies to the Motion Picture Academy and to the filmmakers behind the two
movies.
“We clearly made a mistake and once the mistake was made we corrected it
and owned up to it,” said Ryan, attributing the foul-up to “human error.”
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Ryan said he had spoken to Cullinan about the episode at length. “He feels
very, very terrible and horrible. He is very upset about this mistake. And
as a firm, given that he is a partner of our firm, it is also my mistake and
our mistake and we all feel very bad.”
Cullinan was positioned stage left during the evening. His colleague, Martha
Ruiz, stood in the wings, stage right, Ryan said. Each had a pile of
envelopes for presenters entering from their side of the stage and then a
pile of “backup” envelopes for the presenters entering from the other side
of the stage at the Dolby Theatre.
Cullinan pulled the lead actress envelope that was in the “backup” pile
and handed it to Beatty. “There’s a stack for the backups and the ones
that are not the backups and he took from the wrong stack,” Ryan explained.
Beatty hesitated twice after opening the envelope, apparently confused when
he saw both the name of lead actress winner Emma Stone and “La La Land.”
Not understanding Beatty’s hesitation, Dunaway said: “You’re impossible.
C’mon.” Beatty then showed her the card and Dunaway announced: “La La
Land.”
Asked if Beatty and Dunaway could have recognized the error, Ryan said: “No
, look, it’s our job, not theirs.”
The PwC chairman said that both Cullinan and Ruiz, who had memorized all of
the winners, as per company procedure, realized instantly that an error had
been made. “Martha … immediately recognized that was not who won,” Ryan
said. “She opened up her backup envelope to confirm her memory.” Cullinan
immediately told members of the production team of the error, Ryan said. |
