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"After a thorough review, including an extensive presentation of revised protocols and ambitious controls, the board has decided to continue working with PwC," Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy President, wrote
Oscars 2017: Longtime Oscars stage manager Gary Natoli offered new details of how both accountants failed to prevent - and later, halt - the disaster that unfolded after Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced La La Land as the best picture winner
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins described the envelopegate incident as a tragicomic moment
The organisers said that the two accountants found at fault for botching the climactic announcement of the winner for best picture at the Academy Awards have been officially declared unfit for any future Oscar duty
Oscars 2017: The wrong envelope was handed to best picture presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, and for nearly two excruciating minutes, La La Land was celebrated as the winner of cinema's most coveted prize - which rightfully belonged to Moonlight
Oscars 2017: He was supposed to ditch his Best Actress duplicate envelope but mistakenly gave it to Mr Beatty in the place of the Best Picture envelope