Predict the 2016 Oscars (February 2017)

[C DM]

According to this article, stage manager Gary Natoli said something similar about the typography:

"There was the new design of the envelope, which we had complained about to the Academy a week earlier. The stage crew's complaints had led to a change in the inserts that went inside the envelopes, which originally had print that was far too small. But they couldn't do anything about the envelopes themselves, on which the name of the category was not nearly as legible as it had been in previous years. I had to look closely to see the category names. All they were thinking about was design, not function."​

I guess they made the print larger, but didn't really think about what parts to emphasize correctly so that all the text seemed equally important and the category still appeared too small and out of the way even after the change. Sounds like they just sort of rushed a fix almost with blinders on simply making things larger without truly addressing the underlying issue of properly displaying the more important text against the less important text.

 

[Doctor Q]

Interesting. I haven't really looked into it, but from what I recall I believe for the most part it's often the director...

Yes, 64 out of 89 times.

and/or screenplay

Not so much. 11 out of 89 times.

that usually match up to the best picture.

 

[C DM]

Yes, 64 out of 89 times.

Not so much. 11 out of 89 times.

Interesting how the story and the dialog that make up a movie seem to correspond less with how good the movie is considered to be (as far as being the best picture) when compared to the style and feel of the movie.