After backstage photos revealed that accountant Brian Cullinan of PWC was too busy posting photos of Oscar winners to hand the right envelope to Warren Beatty, the company announced today that it had fired him.
Cullinan was even unaware of the confusion that ensued on stage, since he was buried in his phone. Here’s the text he was busy sending below.
The mystery over who was responsible for last nights Best Picture fiasco at the Oscars has been solved. TMZ and the Wall Street Journal report the culprit is PriceWaterhouseCoopers managing partner Brian Cullinan, who made the error just minutes after taking and tweeting a photo of Emma Stone clutching her Best Actress statue.
The tweet has since been deleted, but a screenshot of it is below. The Journal reports Cullinan tweeted it at 9:05 p.m. Pacific time, three minutes before Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway took the stage to present the award for Best Picture.
Academy president Cheryl Boone Issacs on Wednesday said that Cullinan and his co-worker Martha Ruiz had been fired from their posts and ‘barred from working any future Oscar ceremonies.’
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