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And the worst part is, they want me to do it again!" To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bonnie and Clyde, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway came to the stage to announce the winner of the biggest award of the night: Best Picture In what would later be determined as a mix-up with the envelopes, La[...]

We'll be getting back to the regular The Weekly Static grind next week; but this week, we're wrapping up 2017 in a pretty little bow with a look back at the five biggest television screw-ups from the past year.

A portrait of PwC founder William Cooper, circa 1862. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the firm responsible for tallying the Oscar ballots and delivering the envelopes containing the winners, has apologized for providing the wrong envelope to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway at last night's 89th Annual Academy Awards show in the second most embarrassing occurrence of 2017 You can[...]

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announce La La Land for Best Picture — but it's a mistake  The envelope apparently contains the winner for Best Actress (Emma Stone, for La La Land), instead of Best Picture  Watching the video with the benefit of hindsight, it's clear that Beatty and Dunaway are confused about what they see[...]