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The ending was awesome.
Not that I complain that there were suddenly too many people of colors that won - but it makes me wonder if it was set-up to be that way after having been accused of being racist last year.
If the Oscars can be manipulated to hand out trophies for whatever reason they deem worthwhile - it's no stretch to figure that yeah, Meryl Streep is indeed, over-rated!
The ending was awesome.
Karma can be a beautiful bitch, eh? LOL
PWC Envelope Handler Was Tweeting Backstage Minutes Before Oscar Gaffe | VarietyIt turns out that the mistake may have been made because Cullinan, a managing partner at the firm and one of the accountants tasked with making sure the right names get read out on Oscar night, was busy tweeting about the show instead of carefully overseeing the envelopes, according to two knowledgeable insiders. Cullinan had been congratulating winners throughout the evening. After the wrong Best Picture winner was announced, he deleted the tweets from his Twitter account. Screengrabs reveal that Cullinan tweeted four times during the broadcast, at one point talking about the red carpet and the build-up to the broadcast, and in another instance lauding Viola Davis for her Best Supporting Actress victory speech. Three minutes before the fateful hand-off, Cullinan took a photo of Emma Stone clasping the gold statue she picked up for “La La Land.”
It has become clear through several explanations that the accounting firm has TWO sets of envelopes in suitcases at either end of the stage to allow entrances from the wings. So somebody gave the second Best Actress envelope to Beatty by mistake and that is what caused the entire SNAFU.
Bunch of celebrities picking up awards for films they got paid millions for whilst picking up goody bags worth 100k....
But don't worry they have plenty of advice how us normal people around the world should act, behave and vote. I'm no trump fan but getting dictated to by this lot at award shows take so the biscuit.
It has become clear through several explanations that the accounting firm has TWO sets of envelopes in suitcases at either end of the stage to allow entrances from the wings. So somebody gave the second Best Actress envelope to Beatty by mistake :shock: and that is what caused the entire SNAFU.
Oscars 2017: What we learned from Jimmy Kimmel’s toothless opening monologue
This year, the Academy Awards gained some much-needed diversity when it came to its nominees, but lost the incendiary touch that Rock lent to the proceedings. Instead, we got Jimmy Kimmel, America’s obnoxious older brother just home from freshman year, who treated Hollywood and the world to a set of Borscht Belt yuks and de-fanged Trump jokes.
Instead, audiences were treated to about 10 minutes of gentle celebrity ribbing (”Mel, you look great, I think the Scientology is really working”); hammy Hollywood-is-phony standbys (Hollywood “doesn’t discriminate based on what countries people come from, we discriminate based on age and weight”); and the lightest dancing around of Donald Trump since Jimmy Fallon flatlined at the Golden Globes (“I want to say thank you to President Trump. Remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?”).