Author: Bryan Alexander / Source: USA TODAY
We may wish we could forget last year’s painful best-picture flub, but these Oscars moments will be burned in our memories. USA TODAY
America loves a second chance story.
And we’re in store for the ultimate redemption story on Sunday’s Oscars with the news, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter and TMZ, that Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway will present the final Academy Award.
The happy drama will finally close the circle of last year’s still-unbelievable Oscar disaster in which Beatty received the wrong envelope to present the final best picture award with Dunaway.
What followed was unprecedented live TV chaos as La La Land was proclaimed the winner before the mistake was corrected on stage and the Oscar given to the rightful winner, Moonlight. Black-tie bedlam played out in front of the world’s viewing population.
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Bringing back the Bonnie and Clyde stars for a presenting redux will give this episode the kind of fantastic Hollywood ending no one could have ever imagined following the hair-pulling that took place a year ago.
During that time the Academy has taken steps to ensure that this very avoidable mistake will never happen again — by replacing the two accountants responsible for handing Beatty the wrong envelope and adding a third set of eyes to fully prevent…
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