Well yes, this is obviously getting a lot more attention than it deserves, even if you grant the Oscars any significance, which I do. The real story is that film as really fine as Moonlight won the award, against all odds.
But I do think it is worthy of some discussion. The underlying issue for the Academy is the integrity of the process. The integrity is undermined when an award is officially announced, then taken back and given to someone else. Its not a tragedy, but it is the kind of thing that, if your job is organizing the Oscars, you want to be real sure never ever happens again. I am interested in what the procedure was supposed to be. I also read elsewhere that the senior Price Waterhouse guy was supposed to go out on stage, and the mistake was not that he went out, but that he did not go out soon enough (apparently he was the one who gave Warren the wrong envelope). But I am also interested in what is *supposed* to happen to the duplicate envelope. It simply cant be that the one that doesnt get used is kept in the accountants hand all night - if so, this mistake would have happened several times already. Surely there must be a box where they put the unused envelope, and this guy just forgot to do it. On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:32 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > > PwC admitted the same in an apology late Monday via tweet: > https://twitter.com/PwC_LLP/status/836411572591464448 > > The interesting part for me is in this Times article from yesterday, where > the head of PwC said when he saw Culliman and Ruiz from his seat at the > ceremony, he knew something was wrong because "It’s not their job to come > out on stage." This goes against what I was under the impression, which was > that had something like this occurred, the PwC people would, in fact, > literally come on stage to announce the winner. > > The geek in me is now curious what the proper protocol was. > > > I have to vent somewhere so it might as well be here: a mistake was made > and quickly corrected. Nothing bad happened to anybody. There are mistakes > made in every day life like a wrong limb being amputated or a drone strike > that kills civilians and there is no way to take it back or correct it for > the victims or their families. This has nothing in common with those cases > and it bugs the hell out of me that it is considered news after the fact > and worthy of dissection and analysis. > > As for PwC and the proper protocol: from my military experience, in > training we would be taught to do something, including the proper protocol, > early in the morning and spend the rest of the day in the field practicing > it over and over. It was deathly dull, tedious, and soul-draining, and we > would learn this way day after day. It takes being in a real life situation > where everybody knows what to do without thinking to appreciate that > approach to training. Since a situation like this never happened, the PwC > people off stage never actually practiced what to do in a case like this > and froze. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
