Is last night's Oscars flub a sign of the times?

[Hrvoje Simic]

The more effort is invested by mass media's explaining and dragging the blunder, the less likely I'm going to buy the coincidence, happening at exactly the last and main award of the most viewed film ceremony on the planet, in an OS functioning on staged stuff for the masses, and smack in the middle of industry specializing in it.

 

[Mark Phelan]

The more effort is invested by mass media's explaining and dragging the blunder, the less likely I'm going to buy the coincidence, happening at exactly the last and main award of the most viewed film ceremony on the planet, in an OS functioning on staged stuff for the masses, and smack in the middle of industry specializing in it.

I disagree. Man is a flawed creature who thinks very highly of himself and his abilities, i.e. Atlas Shrugged, Apollo 13, etc. We can assign the finest scientists, engineers in the world to a problem and yet problems crop up in spite of our best efforts. I think better designed presenter cards and not having two of each of them would go a long way to avoiding the gaff. But it was the first time in what, 88 years? It's only an awards show, nobody died. Heck, even some of the folks pictured during the "In Memoriam" segment are still alive and kicking. What's even funnier is comedian Billy Eichner had a prescient moment prior to it airing.

 

[Bill Stengel]

This story says that Brian Cullinan was Tweeting a photo of Emma Stone 3 minutes before the best picture award was announced. He was definitely more than 30% distracted when he handed off the wrong envelope.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-the-pwc-employee-responsible-for-the-best-picture-mishap_us_58b497d2e4b060480e0b0df1?utm_hp_ref=the-oscars

 

[Steve Sherrick]

This is kind of what I assumed happened and hence the distractions connection. Everyone has a camera (phone) on them at all times and the urge to take photos and tweet is common. On movie sets we are constantly reminded about not taking photos and especially not publishing them to social media yet people do it anyway. If the protocol states that PWC employees in charge of those envelopes are not allowed to take photos then it's possible that one or both of them broke the protocol and perhaps that led to this. Again, the Oscars are not life and death but as a general observation, is it only a matter of time where these types of distractions lead to bad consequences?

Humans make errors, but we are probably even more prone to them with all of the distractions we are faced with in 2017. And to prove that I would point to a few years ago when RED did the big leadup to announcing Epic. How many of us were distracted from the task at hand constantly hitting refresh on our browser? I would guess quite a few since if I remember correctly the traffic on the site was insane.

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

I disagree. Man is a flawed creature who thinks very highly of himself and his abilities,

I agree.
Currrent state of society greatly displays that.

Did you count in errors in reasoning by dismissing probability and a lot of repeatedly manifested premises, just to conform to what the box says ?

 

[Ulf Krentz]

Looks like you´re dead on

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/oscar-best-picture-gaffe-brian-cullinan-envelope-1201999283/

 

[Bill Sepaniak]

While the bean-counters ... Cullinan and Ruiz ... have now been banned by the Academy from ever working on or participating in any future awards show, it will be interesting to see if they keep their (high paid) jobs at PwC, where they are both partners. Can you spell:

E A R L Y *** R E T I R E M E N T

 

[Marc Wielage]

This is kind of what I assumed happened and hence the distractions connection. Everyone has a camera (phone) on them at all times and the urge to take photos and tweet is common. On movie sets we are constantly reminded about not taking photos and especially not publishing them to social media yet people do it anyway.

I've often been horrified by crewmembers working on a film or TV show where half of them are tweeting and texting and emailing and eBaying and Facebooking while the actors are actually in the middle of a scene. It's very rude and distracting. If I were the AD (or UPM or producer), I'd forbid anybody doing that on the stage. I have no problem if they're on a break or in a hallway or at lunch and doing it. When you're paid to work, you gotta work. That does not mean taking pictures and tweeting, especially on a mission-critical live TV show.

HE HAD ONE JOB.

 

[Corey_O]

So close to a perfect storm......

If only it had been Casey Afflecks best actor award card....Matt Damon Executive Producer on the picture .

Jimmy Kimmel would have to take the Oscar away from Matt Damon.

No one would hav believed Kimmel