Oscars Disaster Averted? Don’t Worry, Envelopes Are Labeled With Huge Font This Year (Photo)
Presenters couldn’t mess up if they tried: The text is enormous
Brian Welk | March 4, 2018 @ 7:26 PM
Last Updated: March 4, 2018 @ 7:39 PM
Viola Davis holds an envelope for Best Supporting Actor during the 2018 Oscar show on Sunday (Getty Images)
How are the Oscars preventing another “Moonlight” debacle this year? As the show has rolled on, we’ve gotten a peek at the envelopes distributed to each of the presenters. Each one is very clearly labeled in massive text. Hopefully no one will be confused as to which envelope they’ve been handed.
You can compare how large the text is in the image above with last year’s envelopes, and the difference is huge — literally. The text should be big enough that even Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway can read it without any difficulty.
This is just one of several measures the Academy has taken to prevent another mistake. As you’ll recall, Beatty and Dunaway incorrectly announced “La La Land” as the Best Picture at the end of the 2017 awards show. The producers of “La La Land” had to hand over the Best Picture Oscar to the team behind “Moonlight” — the film that truly won Best Picture.
It turned out that Beatty and Dunaway had been given an envelope containing the name of “La La Land” star Emma Stone, the winner for Best Actress.
They misunderstood it to mean “La La Land” had won. But it was unclear why they would have been given the wrong envelope — until it came to light that the chaos stemmed from a rep for the Oscars’ accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Among the other measures taken, The PwC accountants have also committed all the nominees to memory, and they’ll be positioned to immediately inform the producers in the event that someone still can’t read the text on the envelope. This time it should say in big letters — BEST PICTURE.
10 Best Oscars Accessories, From Bloody Antlers to Timothée Chalamet's Face (Photos)
Forget clip-on ties and tasteful brooches -- these guests at the 90th Academy Awards brought extravagant fanfare to their red carpet accessories, and we love them for it.
Adam Rippon upgraded his black tux with a leather harness and shoulder cutouts.
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Straight from her role as Okoye in "Black Panther," Danai Gurira flashed some beautiful hair art on the red carpet.
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Jordan Peele donned an antlers pin covered in blood -- a reference to one of the gruesome deaths in his nominated film "Get Out."
The pin was a custom Jason of Beverly Hills lapel pin, designed by Peele's stylists, Sydney Lopez and Chris Horan, and Jason Arasheben, CEO of Jason of Beverly Hills.
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Rita Moreno took part of the dress she wore to the 1962 Oscars, where she won for her role in "West Side Story," and matched it with a major statement necklace and a head wrap. Brilliant.
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Look closer at James Ivory's tux: He's wearing Timothée Chalamet's face.
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Tiffany Haddish told red carpet hosts that she wanted to honor her late father and her fellow Eritreans by wearing an authentic princess dress from the country.
"Call Me by Your Name" director Luca Guadagnino wore a spider brooch on the red carpet.
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The "Loving Vincent" filmmakers wore hand-painted shoes from the Van Gogh Museum on the red carpet.
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Common sported a tuxedo with velvet lapel and a pin in the shape of a key.
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Singer/songwriter Andra Day stuck multiple flower bobby pins, which went AWOL at on point, in her updo on the red carpet.
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Filmmakers and actors took their Academy Award outfits to the next level at the 90th annual ceremony in Los Angeles
Forget clip-on ties and tasteful brooches -- these guests at the 90th Academy Awards brought extravagant fanfare to their red carpet accessories, and we love them for it.