The Academy Tweets Then Deletes Their Oscar ‘Predictions’
The Academy just made a huge blunder leading up to Sunday’s Academy Awards. As explained in the New York Post, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled a tool where fans could tweet their predictions called the “Oscars Prediction Experience” tool. Unfortunately, the Academy accidentally tweeted out their own “predictions” for the upcoming show.
In the now-deleted tweet, the academy predicts Parasite to win Best Picture, Laura Dern to with Actress In A Supporting Role, and Joaquin Phoenix to win Actor In A Leading Role. One Twitter user was quick enough to get a screenshot of the tweet before it was deleted.
not the academy tweeting their own "predictions" for the oscars... pic.twitter.com/y63acMGQvk
— alina 寧 (@lambfigurines) February 4, 2020
Of course, Twitter is going crazy as these “predictions” could most likely be Sunday’s winners.
Its worse than announcing wrong winner 😖
— ریجکٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور (@rshani21) February 5, 2020
i KNOW the voting academy's made of industry people & the votes prob aren't counted yet but it's still a bad move to post this lol
— alina 寧 (@lambfigurines) February 5, 2020
People bet on this stuff...if these are really the results I'm headed to the pay window lol
— Teddy KGB (@KGBeeez) February 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/LuizDacunha70/status/1225089637242281985
😳😳😳🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
— Ultraviolet 👻 (@mimi_it123) February 5, 2020
Since the snafu, The Academy as released a statement saying, “We invited fans on Twitter to make and share your #Oscars predictions. A ton of you already have. A brief issue on Twitter made some of yours look like they came from our account. They didn’t. This error is now resolved. And we’ll reveal our picks on Sunday.”
We invited fans on Twitter to make and share your #Oscars predictions.
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 4, 2020
A ton of you already have! 😀
A brief issue on Twitter made some of yours look like they came from our account.😳
They didn’t. This error is now resolved.
And we’ll reveal our picks on Sunday.
