Here's what the inside of an Oscar envelope looks like
Three sets of 24 envelopes and 121 nominee cards have been made for this year’s Academy Awards.
Here's how we'll see the envelope Oscar night.
And here are what this year's award envelopes will look like from presenters' points-of-view:
The old Oscar envelopes were a bland off-white as seen in this image from the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010.
Marc Friedland has been designing the Oscar stationery for the last five years to give the envelopes a more glamorous look to match that of the stars.
Since 2011, they've been packaged in a golden envelope.
Friedland tells us it takes 110 man hours to create all 72 envelopes and 363 nominee cards.
One entire set is made in case of an emergency at the ceremony.
Here's a closer look at the finished product.
Little Oscar trophies line the inside!
And, the card tucked inside doesn't just say the winner's name. It gives the presenter their entire script.
The "pwc" seal on the envelope are the initials of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting company that tallies the votes.
Here are both together as they'll be seen on stage:
What happens to the winning envelopes and cards? They’re kept by the winners.
Friedland tells us nominee cards that aren’t selected as winners get destroyed so they don’t turn up on auction sites like eBay.
Hear more about the envelopes from the designer himself:
You've seen inside the envelope ...
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