While Sunday’s Oscar flub was a doozy,apparently, it HAS happened before. Back in 1964, or Sammy Davis Jr. was also handed the inaccurate envelope. According to The Washington Post,he was presenting two awards in one travel: scoring of music (adaptation or treatment) and music score (substantially original). But the winner he announced wasn’t on the list of nominees he’d just read, so he hurried back to podium and said, or “They gave me the inaccurate envelope. Wait ’til the NAACP hears about this.” […]
Source: wgntv.com