Oscars Debut New Rules To Avoid Another Envelope Mix-Up
Last year's historic Best Picture debacle prompted the accounting firm responsible for the security of envelopes to come up with new fail-safes. Most important: Stop tweeting and put away that phone.
Because there are no second takes, re-shoots or do-overs at the Oscars, PwC, the accounting firm that tabulates votes for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has devised new rules for how winners are announced at this year's awards.
The Associated PressMonday that the firm is making a series of moves that organizers hope will forever prevent the colossal that happened last year, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly delivered the night's biggest award — Best Picture — to over .
