Of course he said “The Academy Award” because that’s what he expected to say. He didn’t expect to have to double-check that he was given the correct card.
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Hollywood just needs more people who can do their jobs.
Would that it were so simple.
I thought the most interesting piece I read about this whole fuck up was The typography fix that could have stopped the Oscars Best Picture blunder.
It’s an interesting perspective. Even with my limited experience creating handouts designed to convey information I am amazed that this thinking was obviously not taken into account by the people organizing the sets of cards.
Man is unitary——a simple economic agent. Man’s institutions are split, expressing contradictions that must be worked through. And they are worked through in a causative, predictable way: history is science. This is the essence of the dialectic
They really should hire that guy to do the typography.
Steve Harvey claimed confusion as well when he read the wrong name. His card isn’t as bad as the Oscar one, but he had a terrible time reading it on the spot.
Yeah, that’s not great. And unlike the one for the Oscars, it doesn’t even appear to be attempting anything in the way of aesthetically pleasing typography.
My point is that he already knew he had the wrong card. He’d already seen it and double-checked it (not shown in that video clip). Why move forward with the presentation when there’s nowhere to go with it?
Instead of
- said, “The Academy Award…” (pause)
it should’ve been
- uhh, guys, I was given the wrong envelope. This one’s for Emma Stone, Best Actress. May I have the envelope for Best Picture?
As I’ve said (maybe in the other thread, about the accountants): The video shows that Beatty never looks at the front of the envelope. My interpretation is that he assumed:
a) I have the Best Picture envelope in my hand (a natural assumption), and
b) the person who put the cards in the envelope grabbed the La La Land Best Actress card accidentally when he was reaching for the La La Land Best Picture card.
That would explain why Beatty went along with Dunaway when she read “La La Land.” He assumed the mistake was about the category (Actress versus Picture), not about the movie (*La La Land *versus Moonlight.)