«Breaking News» Oscars 2019 viewers are left baffled by empty seats

Cameras are never meant to find an empty seat at the Oscars, with a troop of seat-fillers ready to occupy any chair vacated by a bathroom- or bar-bound celebrity.  

The specially employed team of 300 extras in tuxedoes and gowns arrive hours before the show begins and are ready to swoop in and sit down once the cameras start rolling. 

But last night, the apparent absence of these seat-fillers during key moments caused quite a stir as the camera was seen panning over swathes of empty seats. 

Ramin Setoodeh uploaded a photograph to Twitter showing a row of empty seats at the Academy Awards last night in Hollywood

The embarrassing gaffe on the live broadcast did not go unnoticed by viewers, many of whom pointed it out on social media.

One Twitter user wrote: 'In what can only be described as a massive failure, the seat fillers are missing from the orchestra left and we see empty seats.'

Others questioned whether the extras had even shown up last night, and offered their services for next year.  

But getting the gig, like so much in Hollywood, depends on who you know: Seat-fillers at the Oscars are unpaid, and must be family or friends with an employee of the Academy or accounting firm. 

They must also pass a background check and are not supposed to speak unless they are spoken to.

Footage from last night's event shows two front row seats and four second row seats were empty when Black Panther triumphed in the original score category. 

The seats had been occupied earlier, when Ruth E. Carter won the film's first award of the night for Costume Design.  

But in the hours between the two awards, it appears the guests decided to head for the bar, and their designated seat-fillers were too slow off the mark to prevent the embarrassing mishap. 

Lady Gaga, who won the award for Best Song, reportedly required two seat-fillers to tag-team to take her place when she left her chair and during her performance of 'Shallow' with Bradley Cooper.  

The seat-fillers were blamed for an awkward moment at the Oscars last night where the camera panned over empty seats on the front row

Viewers pointed out the failure of the seat-fillers last night and many offered their services at the ceremony next year

WINNERS FOR THE 91ST ACADEMY AWARDS

BEST PICTURE 

Roma

A Star Is Born

BlacKkKlansman

Green Book - WINNER

Vice

Black Panther 

The Favourite 

Bohemian Rhapsody  

Happy times: Green Book won top honor Best Picture

BEST ACTOR

Christian Bale (Vice)

Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) - WINNER

Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)

Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)

Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate)

BEST ACTRESS

Olivia Colman (The Favourite) - WINNER

Glenn Close (The Wife)

Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)

Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)

Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)  

Sweet: Olivia Colman tasted first Oscar gold with Best Actress win for The Favourite

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 

Mahershala Ali (Green Book) - WINNER

Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)

Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)

Sam Rockwell (Vice)

Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) - WINNER

Amy Adams (Vice)

Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)

Emma Stone (The Favourite) 

Marina de Tavira (Roma) 

BEST DIRECTOR

Alfonso Cuaron (Roma) - WINNER

Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman) 

Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)

Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)

Adam McKay (Vice)

Double trouble: Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director and Cinematography for Roma

DOCUMENTARY

Free Solo - WINNER

Hale County This Morning, This Evening 

Minding the Gap 

Of Fathers and Sons

RBG

COSTUME DESIGN

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Black Panther - WINNER

Mary Poppins Returns

The Favourite

Mary Queen of Scots

FILM EDITING

BlacKkklansman

Bohemian Rhapsody - WINNER

The Favourite

Green BooK

Vice

We Are The Champions: Bohemian Rhapsody won four including Film Editing

ORIGINAL SCORE 

Black Panther - Ludwig Goransson - WINNER

BlacKkKlansman

If Beale Street Could Talk

Isle of Dogs

Mary Poppins Returns 

SOUND EDITING

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody - WINNER

First Man

A Quiet Place

Roma 

 SOUND MIXING 

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody - WINNER

First Man

Roma

A Star Is Born

PRODUCTION DESIGN 

Black Panther - WINNER

First Man

The Favourite

Mary Poppins Returns

Roma 

Wakanda forever! Black Panther won Best  Production and Costume Design

DOCUMENTARY SHORT 

Black Sheep

End Game

A Night At The Garden

Period. End Of Sentence. - WINNER

Lifeboat 

ANIMATED SHORT

Animal Behaviour

Bao - WINNER

Late Afternoon

One Small Step

Weekends

LIVE ACTION SHORT 

Detainment

Fauve

Marguerite

Mother

Skin - WINNER 

Golden: Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman accepted Best Live Action Short for Skin

ANIMATED FEATURE 

Incredibles 2

Isle of Dogs

Mirai

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - WINNER  

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 

Capernaum (Lebanon)

Cold War (Poland)

Never Look Away (Germany)

Roma (Mexico) - WINNER

Shoplifters (Japan)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

BlacKkKlansman - Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee - WINNER

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

If Beale Street Could Talk

A Star Is Born  

Purple reign: Spike Lee earned his first ever Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for BlacKkKlansman

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

The Favourite 

First Reformed

Green Book -Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly - WINNER

Roma

Vice 

MAKEUP AND HAIR

Border

Mary Queen of Scots

Vice - WINNER

VISUAL EFFECTS 

Avengers: Infinity War

Christopher Robin

First Man - WINNER

Ready Player One

Solo: A Star Wars Story

 ORIGINAL SONG

All The Stars (Black Panther)

I’ll Fight (RBG)

The Place Where Lost Things Go (Mary Poppins Returns)

Shallow (A Star Is Born) - Lady Gaga - WINNER

When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)

Touching: Lady Gaga won Best Original Song for A Star Is Born hit Shallow

CINEMATOGRAPHY  

Cold War

The Favourite

Never Look Away

Roma - Alfonso Cuarón - WINNER

A Star Is Born

 

 

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Main photo article Cameras are never meant to find an empty seat at the Oscars, with a troop of seat-fillers ready to occupy any chair vacated by a bathroom- or bar-bound celebrity.  
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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