It seems the Oscars had a bunch of screw ups this year. First it was Brad Renfro who they forgot in their memorium segment, then they rushed off Oscar winner for Best Song (but brought her back later to re-do her speech), then they forgot Legendary Whoopi Goldberg who was NOT only ONE of the first black women to win an oscar, but the first black woman HOST of the show. Whoopi and her View castmates shared their disbelief on Monday's show (see previous POST), and now the oscars have issued a statement: "It was "an absolute oversight," the award show's producer tells PEOPLE.
"No harm was intended, and I feel very, very badly that she was left out," Gil Cates said Tuesday. "I'm going to call her and tell her that." Although described as a montage of hosts, the piece shown at Sunday night's telecast on ABC was actually "supposed to be a montage of 80 exciting moments of the Academy Awards" culled from hundreds of hours of footage, says Cates. "Basically, that was not a montage about hosts."
"I asked her to be on the show. She did it twice," he said. "She is a formidable talent."
We say, hire better research people for next year for ALL aspects of the show!
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