There was a lot of speculation about what went wrong during the announcement but now it’s clear that there was a mix-up of envelopes. And instead of the best picture, the presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway received an envelope with the best actress category winner Emma Stone from ‘La La Land.’

Now to make things even worse, the announcers had little-to-no indication that they received the wrong envelope because of the lousy typography used on the card. Even though it said Emma Stone on top, it clearly said ‘La La Land’ below, with only the small indication at the very bottom that it’s the best actress award.

Original shot of ‘La La Land’ director Kenneth Lonergan holding the Best Picture card

‘Based on that card design, I’ve reconstructed the card Warren and Faye would’ve seen, the one they received’

‘That’s horrible typography. I will emphasize horrible again. Horrible. Or to be nicer, not good. Look at it again. Of course, anyone could’ve made the same honest error.’

‘Now, let’s imagine an alternate timeline where the presenters were given this modified version of the wrong card, using the same elements of the original card’

‘It may not seem like much to a regular person, but changing the sizing, positioning, and weight of the text makes a big difference. A big enough difference that this embarrassing mistake could’ve been prevented.’

Now compare these two side-by-side to see what difference a good typography can make

So here’s a suggestion for the next year:

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Jack Nicholson and Nicolas Cage, 2003

Charlize Theron, 2004

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, 2003

Tom Cruise and his daughter Suri, 2007

Woody Allen, 2002

Bill Murray, 2004

Robin Williams, 2004

Chris Rock, 2005

Jennifer Aniston, 2006

Tom Hanks, 2008

Miley Cyrus, 2008

Tom Cruise, 2012

Meryl Streep and Octavia Spencer, 2012

Jennifer Lawrence, 2013

Penelope Cruz and Robert De Niro, 2014

Brad Pitt, 2014

Meryl Streep, 2015

Eddie Redmayne, 2015

Lupita Nyong’o, 2015

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Oscar nominated actors look very similar to the real life characters they played.

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This lady’s face has range!

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Heidi Klum wears a very nice dress at Elton Johns Oscar-Charity-Event. The hottest mom ever?

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Short answer: everybody.

1. “Argo”

• Ken Taylor. The Canadian ambassador who hid the “houseguests” said the film implied that Canada unjustly got all the credit for the rescue.
• New Zealand, for the film’s suggestion that their embassy had turned the Americans away.
• The U.K. The British Embassy actually did help the Americans , but the film suggests otherwise.
• Iran. The country is planning its own anti-Argo film project to counter the “ahistoric film.”
• Members of the Latino acting community. Some objected to Affleck’s casting himself in the role of the Latino CIA operative Tony Mendez.

2. “Amour”

• Austria. Although director Michael Haneke is the country’s highest-profile filmmaker in years, the nation is piqued that his new highly celebrated work was filmed in French, declaring it ineligible for the top prize at Austria’s own film awards. In response, the director withdrew the film from the event entirely.

3. “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

Advocates for the poor. Some of whom have written that Zeitlin’s journey to the Bayou represents social injustice tourism and a “romanticized, mythologized” vision of poverty.

4. “Django Unchained”

• Spike Lee, who announced before the film was even released that he would not see it, calling the work “disrespectful to my ancestors.”
• Some other African-American writers, who protested the copious use of the “n” word and director Tarantino’s “fetish for the broken bodies of slaves.”

5. “Les Miserables”

• Feminists, who decried the “familiar gender stereotypes” (while asking “why we love” the film).

6. “Life of Pi”

• Carnatic musicians, or one in particular named Irayimman Thampi, who accused the film’s composer of stealing his song. The composer has denied the charge.
• Indian school principals. In particular the head of New Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College, who publicly dressed down his most famous pupil, Pi star Suraj Sharma, for missing class while promoting the film. The 19-year-old actor narrowly avoided expulsion but was sentenced “a series of lectures on the character-building nature of hard work.”

7. “Lincoln”

• Historians, who have challenged the film’s accuracy.
• African-Americans, some of whom have taken umbrage at the film’s passive African-American characters.

8. “Silver Linings Playbook”

• Gen Y. Many of whom reacted in disgust to the depiction of the creepy, angry Gen X character played by Bradley Cooper’s relationship with millennial It girl Jennifer Lawrence.
• The NFL, which pulled an interview with Cooper and costar Chris Tucker from one of its game broadcasts because the film “included content related to gambling on NFL games.”
• Mental health advocates, some of whom felt the film contained a romanticized or inaccurate depiction of mental illness.

9. “Zero Dark Thirty”

• Republicans, who feared in advance the film would feature an Obama-centric story line.
• Congress, members of which protested in advance that the film might leak classified information, and after the film’s release that it gave an inaccurate portrayal of the value of the torture in the hunt for bin Laden.
• Anti-torture crusaders, who thought the film glamorized the practice.
• Indians, who protested the country being used as a stand-in for Pakistan when portions were filmed there.
• CIA operatives, who claimed no one at The Company would ever talk back to their bosses as Chastain’s character did.

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