Warren Beatty Asks Academy President to ‘Personally Clarify’ He Isn’t to Blame for Envelope Mess

Warren Beatty, who found himself at the center of Sunday night’s Best Picture mix-up at the Academy Awards, released a statement on Tuesday asking Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs to personally explain what happened at the end of Sunday night’s show.

On Monday evening, the Academy released a statement apologizing to Beatty, the viewers, and the casts and crews of “La La Land” and “Moonlight” for the envelope error that led to “La La Land” accidentally and mistakenly being announced by Beatty and Faye Dunaway as Best Picture, only for the producers of the musical to discover when they got on stage that “Moonlight” was the actual winner.

“We deeply regret the mistakes that were made during the presentation of the best picture category during last night’s Oscar ceremony,” the Academy’s statement read.

PwC, the accounting firm responsible for the balloting process and delivering the winners’ envelopes during the show, also released a statement on Monday with a more in-depth explanation of what went wrong.