6. "Yeah, there's two sets of envelopes" In response to Reply # 3
One for each side of the stage. The person on Warren's side of the stage must have mistakenly discarded the Best Picture one or was too dumb to realize that she shouldn't have an envelope left over. Either way she handed the Best Actress card to him and, well, the rest is history.
10. "Emma Stone says THAT'S a lie too." In response to Reply # 6
>One for each side of the stage. The person on Warren's side >of the stage must have mistakenly discarded the Best Picture >one or was too dumb to realize that she shouldn't have an >envelope left over. Either way she handed the Best Actress >card to him and, well, the rest is history.
She says when the announcement was made, she was actually holding her "Best Actress" card. So yeah. There's some shit in the game.
12. "Huh? What I posted explains how that could be." In response to Reply # 10
There are two sets of envelopes. One for each side of the stage. Therefore, she could be holding her envelope and there could still be one handed to Warren.
11. "that's what I don't get." In response to Reply # 7
>Warren showed her the envelope to check on it and instead she >pulled a Ron Burgundy and just read what was on the card.
Why would the non-winner's name be written on ANYTHING? Let alone something that makes it's way into a presenter's hand?
read the nominees from a teleprompter, then open the envelope. Even if it's the 'wrong' envelope, it'd be from a completely different category. Why was "La La Land" written on ANYTHING she could've mistakenly read aloud?
13. "They don't put it on prompter to avoid leaks" In response to Reply # 11
In the 30's, the LA Times posted all of the winners the night before the ceremony. Since then, only two people from the accounting firm that count the ballots know the winners.
I think the premise of the Oscars is silly but sucks that Moonlight's moment was ruined. Everyone involved should thank Jordan Horowitz for his producer instincts taking over and righting the ship when everyone producing the show was spinning their wheels. I love that he ripped the envelope from Warren's hand and then deep-sixed Kimmel's joke about giving everyone an Oscar (undercutting Moonlight's win more than it already had been.)
16. "RE: Very much alive producer's photo in In Memorium" In response to Reply # 14
>I think the premise of the Oscars is silly
that's what i remembered yesterday afternoon and decided not to watch. i saved myself at least 4 1/2 hours. i'm not sure what's worse, being made to envy and feel inferior to the attractive celebrities on tv or feel like my taste is somehow lesser for not matching up with the academy voters. i didn't even see several of the major nominees so it would have been a waste of my time even more than usual.
i still put more value in it than the grammys, which are almost completely meaningless to me.
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