The president of the film academy says the two accountants responsible for the Best Picture flub at Sunday’s Academy Awards will never work the Oscars again.
She also laments that the error overshadowed a show that celebrated a rich diversity of talent and storytelling.
Breaking her silence four days after the biggest blunder in the 89-year history of the Academy Awards, Cheryl Boone Isaacs said:
‘Then, of course, there was the last 90 seconds – and what angered me, I would say, in these last couple days is (the focus on) this 90 seconds and moving to the side the brilliance of the day.’
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The academy president told AP that Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz, the PwC accountants who handled the winners’ envelopes at Sunday’s show, have been permanently removed from all film academy dealings.
While Cullinan was responsible for handing over the errant envelope that led to ‘La La Land’ mistakenly being announced as Best Picture rather than ‘Moonlight,’ PwC said both partners failed to follow protocols and did not act quickly enough to catch the error.
‘They have one job to do. One job to do!’ Boone Isaacs said. ‘Obviously there was a distraction.’
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