PwC in crisis meetings with Academy over 83-year contract following amazing Oscars blunder
PwCは、アカデミー賞の投票の監査を83年間やってきましたが、今回の発表ミスで、それが継続できるかあやしくなったという記事。
The PriceWaterhouseCoopers auditors responsible for the biggest fiasco in Oscars history had previously boasted that their 83-year-old contract had never come up for tender because they "always" do a good job, it has emerged.
Brian Cullinan, one of the only two people in the world supposed to know the Oscar winners before the ceremony, had said: “It’s such a long-term relationship that we know intricately how everything works, the timing of it, the process that we use, and they have absolute trust in us and what we do.”
But
that relationship could be in doubt for the first time today, after executives were seen in crisis meetings following an on-stage catastrophe in which La La Land was mistakenly announced as best picture.
PwCは受賞者名を書いた封筒を保管し、発表者がステージに上がる直前にそれを手渡す役割を負っていました。PwCは、プレスリリースで、発表者に別の賞の封筒を誤って渡してしまったといって、ミスを謝罪しているそうです。
PwC is charged with guarding the envelopes that reveal the winners, and handing them to the presenters just before they go on stage.
Within hours of the mix-up, the company released a statement saying it "deeply regretted" the mistake, saying "the presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope".
PwCのプレスリリースが引用されています。
In its statement, the firm said: "
We sincerely apologise... for the error that was made during the award announcement for Best Picture.
"The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected.
"We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and
deeply regret that this occurred."
80年もやっていれば、こういうこともあるのでしょう。
アカデミー作品賞は「ムーンライト」、前代未聞の誤発表も(ロイター)
「プレゼンターを務めたベテラン俳優のウォーレン・ベイティは、自分とフェイ・ダナウェイが間違った作品名を発表したのは、渡された封筒に主演女優賞を受賞したエマ・ストーンの名前と彼女が主演する作品名「ラ・ラ・ランド」が書かれていたからだと釈明した。」
「米映画芸術科学アカデミーや、投票を監督したプライス・ウォーターハウス・クーパーからはコメントを得られていない。」
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