Ultra-Secretive Oscar Ballot Count At PricewaterhouseCoopers For 76 Continuous Years

We blog about the Oscars and PricewaterhouseCoopers each year, check out our previous blog posts below:

The 2009 Oscars

The 2007 Oscars

This year, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be given out Sunday evening, March 7, 2010, just a few weeks away, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP counts ballots again for the 76th consecutive year for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The two audit partners, Brad Oltmanns and Rick Rosas will again lead the process, and you will note these two gentleman generally carrying a black briefcase on the red carpet (we’ve seen them occasionally) just before all the awards are given They have the distinction of being the only two people in the world to know the true identity of winners before the envelopes are opened...

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Ernst and Young: Glamour and Secrecy in Upcoming 2009 Emmy Awards

We have blogged earlier about PricewaterhouseCoopers’ auditing of the Oscar Movie Academy Awards, which the firm has been solely handling for 75 years in complete secrecy with undisclosed locations, strict controls and tight personnel regulations.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers Delivers the News:Less Welcome Than Usual

The PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors (green-shades, according to popular press) did show up at the Oscars yesterday with their sealed envelopes and armed guards following 70 years of tradition in sending, receiving, counting, auditing and determining the winners...

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