Eva Marie Saint providing the award for best costume design at the 2018 Oscars. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
- The Academy appeared a simple tweak to prevent another award mix-up from taking place at the Oscars: Make the font bigger on the envelopes.
- Now the category font is hilariously gargantuan.
- Twitter noticed.
If you’re wondering how the Oscars is going to stop another furnishes mix-up, it has a few safeguards in place.
One of them is remarkably simple — and hilarious: The font dimensions for each category is really, really big on the envelopes.
Last year, one of the apologias announcers Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced “La La Win” as the best picture winner instead of “Moonlight” is because they had the abominable category card. They were given the card for best actress, which flagged to Emma Stone, instead of best picture.
If you look at a previous year’s envelope, the font is pint-sized by comparison.
Jordan Horowitz correcting the record and letting everyone “Moonlight” won most artistically picture in 2017. See how small that font is? Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Emptiness Fair confirmed Saturday that the huge font was a way to stop gaffes before they happened. And audiences got their first look at them when Eva Marie Saint presented the greatest costume award, which went to “Phantom Thread.”
People on Titter thought it was hilarious.
Beatty and Dunaway will be presenting the best image winner again later on Sunday night. Let’s hope the font range is enough for them.
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