The Academy Awards‘ board is set to meet this week to vote on “new protocols” aimed at avoiding last month’s Oscars fiasco.
All 54 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s board of governors — including stars such as Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg — are scheduled to convene behind closed doors in Beverly Hills, according to Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper.
The meeting comes a month after the wrong movie was named Best Picture at the awards.
The academy became an international punchline when an accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers — the firm that counts Oscar votes — handed presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope as they took the stage to name Best Picture.
The pair had been mistakenly given the envelope for Best Actress in a Leading Role, an award won moments earlier by “La La Land” star Emma Stone.
A confused Beatty was at a loss for words when he opened the envelope to see Stone’s name. That’s when his “Bonnie and Clyde” co-star Dunaway blurted out “La La Land” as the winner when really, “Moonlight” had been voted Best Picture.
With the “La La Land” cast on stage accepting the award, it took nearly 3 minutes to untangle the snafu and reveal the true winner.