Warren Beatty, you’re off the hook.
You too, Faye Dunaway. And to La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz: You handled this as well as anyone could have.
The blame for the Best Picture Oscar snafu has finally been owned: PricewaterhouseCoopers, the London-based accounting and “professional services” firm that has handled the Academy Awards winners for years, admitted Sunday night that they messed up.
Beatty was handed the wrong envelope.
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ statement, sent to Mashable later Sunday night, reads:
The key here: There are always two identical winners’ envelopes, kept by PwC officials standing on opposite ends of the stage. Read more…
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