Beatty urges academy president to clarify Oscar fiasco

Warren Beatty says Academy of Motion Pictures President Cheryl Boone Isaacs need to "publicly clarify" what happened for the duration of Sunday night's ideal picture presentation "as soon as attainable." Beatty released a statement Tuesday to The Related...

Beatty urges academy president to clarify Oscar fiasco

Warren Beatty says Academy of Motion Pictures President Cheryl Boone Isaacs need to "publicly clarify" what happened for the duration of Sunday night's ideal picture presentation "as soon as attainable."

Beatty released a statement Tuesday to The Related Press in which he declined to comment further on the debacle that led to him and co-presenter Faye Dunaway mistakenly reading "La La Land" as most effective picture winner rather than "Moonlight." As an alternative, he urged the academy to answer questions.

"I feel it would be far more proper for the president of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, to publicly clarify what occurred as quickly as achievable," mentioned Beatty.

Representatives for the academy did not immediately comment Tuesday.

Because Sunday's broadcast, the academy has largely left the explaining to PwC, the accounting firm that has taken the blame for the "La La Land" mistakenly getting read as the best picture winner by Beatty and Faye Dunaway. PwC, which is in charge of tabulating the winners, has mentioned companion Brian Cullinan mistakenly handed them the incorrect envelope.

The film academy did not release a statement of its own till late Monday.

"We deeply regret the blunders that have been produced throughout the presentation of the very best image category in the course of last night's Oscar ceremony," it read. "We apologize to the whole cast and crew of 'La La Land' and 'Moonlight' whose encounter was profoundly altered by this error. We salute the tremendous grace they displayed beneath the situations. To all involved? — ?including our presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, the filmmakers, and our fans watching worldwide? — ?we apologize."

On Monday, the academy stated it has spent Sunday night and the following day "investigating the situations" and "will figure out what actions are acceptable going forward."

Other individuals were coming to Beatty's defense, like his older sister, Shirley MacLaine.

"They have to get their act together," MacLaine stated in the course of an interview with the AP for her upcoming film, "The Last Word." ''I thought it was just truly, definitely terrible. I could not envision what he should have been feeling. I'm nevertheless basically processing it because it was in front of so quite a few folks."

Neither PwC or the academy has commented on regardless of whether Cullinan's use of social media was a factor in the error. The PwC companion tweeted a behind-the-scenes photo of best-actress winner Emma Stone moments ahead of the best picture announcement. The tweet was later deleted.

As per protocol, Cullinan and PwC colleague Martha Ruiz toted briefcases to the awards through the red carpet, every holding an identical set of envelopes for the show's 24 categories. In the course of the telecast, the accountants have been stationed in the Dolby Theatre wings, a single stage left and a single stage ideal, to give presenters their category's envelope prior to they went on stage.

Most presenters entered stage right, where Cullinan was posted and exactly where he handed Beatty and Dunaway the errant envelope. Yet the preceding award, ideal actress, had been presented by Leonardo DiCaprio, who entered stage left and received the envelope from Ruiz. That left a duplicate, unopened envelope for greatest actress at stage right.

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AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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