Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty are returning to the Oscars, despite last year's Best Picture mix-up
After the envelopes for Best Actress and Best
Picture got mixed up at the crucial moment during last year's Academy Awards,
and caused
one of the biggest gaffes in Oscars history, Faye
Dunaway and Warren Beatty were thrown into the spotlight for all the wrong
reasons.
They will, however, be returning to Hollywood's Dolby
Theatre to make amends at the 2018 awards on Sunday, when they will be
presenting the winner of the Best Picture category once again.
Website TMZ reports that the Bonnie and Clyde
stars were rehearsing the reveal this week, and went through their lines twice.
Reports suggest the pair are folding last year's snafu into their script, with
Dunaway starting: "Presenting is better the second time around,"
before Beatty followed up with, "The winner is 'Gone with the Wind.'"
The Academy has been less forgiving, however,
of Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz, the PriceWaterhouseCoopers partners who
have counted the votes and managed the envelopes containing the winners' names
for years.
Both have been replaced ahead of this year's role, and
the accountancy company has also installed a third balloting partner to sit
with Oscar producers in the show's control room. Furthermore, Tim Ryan, the
company's US chairman, said he would be personally involved with the Oscars
this year.
Envelopegate, one year on: who was to blame
for the biggest catastrophe in Oscars history?
