Controversy at the Academy Awards

Did the organisers of the 89th Academy Awards blunder when they handed Warren Beatty the envelope for best actress instead of best picture, or was the fix in and someone gave Beatty the wrong envelope as a kind of heads up, the winner wasn't really the winner.

This kind of error rarely happens, especially at the level of the Oscars, so you have to at least ask the question. People get caught cheating in sports all the time, so why not awards like these.

One way to settle things would be to open up the voting records to independent third party scrutiny, and then sample those voters to ensure their vote was properly recorded - a two step vote verification system. Call it an audit if you like, an audit of PwC who counted the votes in the first instance.

Until that is done, I lifted the following from Twitter...