Academy Crap

Last year, the Motion Picture Academy caught a lot of flack for its near black-out of black film makers and artists. I noticed this year that they made up for it in spades. (Sorry for the puns, they just seem to flow.) Lots of black actors/movies were paraded through this time. And, you may have heard that the final moment when Best Picture was awarded got flubbed. La La Land was announced winner, and after three acceptance speeches, it was then confusingly announced (by the La La Land filmmaker who was holding an Oscar statue) that in fact, Moonlight (a black cast movie) was the actual winner.

Here's the explanation and resolution that is as equally offensive as the over-the-top correction for last year's slight to black actors. (Please note, I am not dissing the black actors/movies this year - I haven't seen any of them. I'm just saying that it all seems bogus and driven by something other than performance. Of course, that's a given, isn't it?)

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.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs said Wednesday that Brian Cullinan, the PwC representative responsible for handing over the errant envelope that led to La La Land mistakenly being announced as best picture rather than Moonlight, was distracted backstage. He tweeted (and later deleted) a photo of Emma Stone in the wings with her new Oscar minutes before giving presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope for best picture.

Cullinan and his colleague, Martha Ruiz, have been permanently removed from all film academy dealings, Boone Isaacs said.

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PwC released a statement late Sunday and another Monday taking “full responsibility for the series of mistakes and breaches of established protocols” during the Oscar show.

  Guardian

Who cares other than Hollywood movie makers, but the reason I'm posting this is: why in Hell is Martha Ruiz being punished from Brian Cullinan's failure?  She was on the opposite side of the stage when he messed himself.

Apparently, this is the answer:

PwC had taken full responsibility for the fiasco. "Once the error occurred, protocols for correcting it were not followed through quickly enough by Mr. Cullinan or his partner," the firm said in a statement.

  RT

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.