Oscars: How an Accountant’s Tweet Turned into the Biggest Mistake in Academy History

Chaos erupted both onstage and behind the scenes after a starstruck accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope for best picture.
Oscar night’s best picture fiasco — in which the top award was mistakingly given to La La Land before it was taken back and handed to the actual victor, Moonlight — continues to be a car wreck that keeps replaying in slow motion. And as it does, more details are emerging about how the unprecedented gaffe affected those at the center of the pile-up.

VIA: Hollywood Reporter,  by Rebecca Ford , Pamela McClintock  Image: Eddy Chen/ABC

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