He confused the envelope

All about the employee PriceWaterhouseCoopers, who made the main mistake in the history of Oscar

On the evening of February 26, in Los Angeles, due to the fault of the employee of the audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers, envelopes with the name of the best film of the year according to the American film academy were confused. His name is named: this is Brian Kallinen, who worked at Oscar for the fourth time. Medusa says what is known about a person who made the main mistake in the history of the Oscar.

The audit company Pricewaterhousecoopers has been working at Oscars for more than 80 years and provides a secret of voting. Thanks to this company, no one until the last moment knows who exactly the film academics will be awarded, and the process of announcing the nominees is as smooth as possible and in compliance with all formalities.

The 89th Academy of Sciences of Oscars went as usual as usual-the problems arose when it came to announce the winner in the “Best Film of the Year” nomination: actress Fei Danai and actor Warren Bitty received the wrong envelope from the hands of an employee. It lay a card named Emma Stone, who received an Oscar for his role in La La Lada; The presenters decided that the film of the year, obviously, was also recognized as La La Land, although in reality movie academics voted for the “moonlight”. After an awkward hitch, the La La Lada producers managed to rise on stage and began to make thanksgiving speeches-justice was restored, and after the end of the ceremony it pleaded guilty and apologized.

On February 27, the PWC named the name of the employee who gave Warren Bitty the wrong envelope. Moreover, they note in the PWC, he not only mixed up the envelopes, but also did not follow all the protocols of behavior in case of such an error - and could not eliminate the consequences in time. The employee made a mistake-57-year-old Brian Kallinen, one of the two representatives of PWC at the ceremony. Kallinen - PwC managing partner and company's face on Oscar; He is engaged in the counting of votes and transfers envelopes with the names of the winners for the fourth year in a row.

Kallinen is a little like Matt Damon and loves to take pictures with celebrities, on his Twitter (a little less than four thousand subscribers) you can find many pictures from past ceremonies surrounded by movie stars. The leading Oscar, Jimmy Kimmel, scurried about his resemblance to Damon (over the entire ceremony, the leading Oscar was joking), even the PWC Twitter account joked.

Kallinen earns well in PWC. He lives with his family in the mansion on the coast in Malibu. According to The Daily Mail, Callinen sincerely enjoyed his work on Oscars and boasted that he could spread a word with the most famous actors and actresses in the world.

At the 89th ceremony, Kallinen worked with the PWC employee Marta Ruz. Before the ceremony, both starred in a video where they were told in detail about their work. On the eve of the awards, Kallinen in an interview with The Huffington Post assured that there could be no mistakes at the ceremony, and if someone suddenly calls the winner, then he or his partner would definitely warn about it-and the ceremony will be stopped. Until the announcement of the laureates, no one except Kallinan and Ruiz knows the names of the winners. There are no winners: all the Oscar laureates Kallinen and Ruiz should remember.

Kallinen and his partner Ruza stood during the ceremony on different sides of the scene and gave out envelopes to actors who were to declare the winner. According to the protocol, each of them had the same set of envelopes, and in them - cards with the names of the winners. First, Kallinen handed over an envelope with the name of the Oscar owner for the best male role of actress Brig Larson; Then he missed one nomination (Ruiz, standing at the opposite end of the stage, gave an envelope with the name of the best actress Leonardo DiCaprio), and he simply handed the next envelope to Warren Bitty - that is, again with the nomination for the best female role.

According to The Wall Street Journal, just before Bitty and Danai presented the best picture of the year, Kallinen published on Twitter a photograph of Emma Stone with an Oscar in a backstage room. At the same time, on the PWC he was forbidden to tweet during the ceremony.

In the entire history of Oscar, something similar happened only once. In 1964, envelopes with the nominations "Best Original Script" and "Best Adapted Scenario" were confused. Then the host called the winner the wrong film, but quite quickly realized that there was an error, took the right envelope and declared the correct owner of the Oscar. Unlike the situation with the “Moon Light” and “La La Land”, then the error was seen and corrected quite quickly, and no one had time to rise for the reward.

Pavel Borisov