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In the wake of the spectacular Best Picture snafu at Sunday’s night Oscars, the fallout has begun.

The two PwC accountants involved in the envelope mix-up that saw the producers from La La Land accepting the Best Picture award before everyone realized it belonged to Moonlight will not be working at the Oscars again, according to a spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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One of the accountants, Brian Cullinan, a partner at PwC, had handed Warren Beatty the incorrect envelope moments before the actor went onstage with Faye Dunaway to present the best picture Oscar. Martha L. Ruiz, the other PwC accountant who worked the awards with Cullinan, will also not be returning, the Academy said.

Cullinan had mistakenly given Beatty a duplicate envelope for best actress, which had just gone to Emma Stone for La La Land. After Beatty read that envelope’s contents, he showed it in confusion to Dunaway, who saw the words La La Land and triumphantly announced it the winner, creating what has been widely described as the most outrageous mistake in modern Oscars history.