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Academy Awards: The accountants behind the closely-guarded Oscar vote

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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Academy Awards: The accountants behind the closely-guarded Oscar vote

The Oscars are just around the corner and nothing captures the intrigue and the suspense of the night like the small rectangle of paper clutched in presenters' hands: Yes, the envelope.

Behind the winners and losers of Oscar night is a closely-guarded voting process shrouded in mystery. Today, we hear from the people who tally those votes and keep the results secret.

Price Waterhouse Coopers, or PWC, has been playing that role for 80 years and the two men who head up that effort could be known as the men behind the envelopes.

A Martinez sits down with Rick Rosas and Brian Cullinan to talk about the accounting process.