--- title: Internet Obsessed With the Huge Type on New Oscars Envelopes description: The Internet was obsessed with the huge font that clearly labeled the outside of 2018 Oscars envelopes at this year's ceremony. canonical: https://time.com/5186180/oscars-2018-envelope-memes/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-05T19:06:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:07.793Z og:title: People Got Obsessed With Oscars Envelopes For a New Reason og:description: No room for error here og:url: https://time.com/5186180/oscars-2018-envelope-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1339c416d2edf4a/698929a986f68efb256e87d2/oscars-2018-envelopes.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 90th Annual Academy Awards - Backstage og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Got Obsessed With Oscars Envelopes For a New Reason twitter:description: No room for error here twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1339c416d2edf4a/698929a986f68efb256e87d2/oscars-2018-envelopes.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Was Obsessed With Oscars Envelopes for a Different Reason This Year  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 5, 2018 7:06 PM UTC  HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 04: In this handout provided by A.M.P.A.S., award envelopes backstage at the 90th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Matt Sayles/A.M.P.A.S via Getty Images) HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 04: In this handout provided by A.M.P.A.S., award envelopes backstage at the 90th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Matt Sayles/A.M.P.A.S via Getty Images)Handout—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 5, 2018 7:06 PM UTC After last year’s jaw-dropping [Best Picture mix-up](http://time.com/4683818/moonlight-win-celebrity-reactions/) where presenters [Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty](http://time.com/5184975/jimmy-kimmel-oscars-accountants/) mistakenly announced that _La La Land_ had won best picture before discovering that they had been [handed the wrong envelope by a PWC accountant](http://time.com/4684973/oscars-wrong-best-picture-explanation/) and that _Moonlight_ had actually taken the night’s biggest prize, the Academy ensured that there would not be a repeat of last year at the 90th annual Oscars ceremony. Their solution: ensure that this year’s PWC accountants would not use phones or be on social media during the show, but perhaps more notably, have type so large and clearly labeled that it would be impossible to not notice that you have the wrong envelope. This change was apparent when Viola Davis took the stage for the first award of the night, best supporting actor; the _Fences_ actress held a dark envelope boldly emblazoned with huge gold font that read the name of the category, letters so large that viewers at home could read it on their television screens. Needless to say, the Internet had plenty of thoughts about this new practice and took to the web to sound off about the changes. > [](https://twitter.com/Travon/status/970471737010806784) > [](https://twitter.com/GraceRandolph/status/970519042363715584) > [](https://twitter.com/madelineab/status/970673048935419905) > [](https://twitter.com/loveandthelike/status/970518676658106368) Even with the clearly labeled envelopes, however, some people, like Guillermo Del Toro, still needed to check the contents of the envelope to ensure that it was correct. > [](https://twitter.com/daisyrdley/status/970560143762042880) Better safe than sorry! ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5186180/oscars-2018-envelope-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5186180/oscars-2018-envelope-memes/"},"headline":"The Internet Was Obsessed With Oscars Envelopes for a Different Reason This Year","datePublished":"2018-03-05T19:06:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:07.793Z","description":"No room for error here","url":"https://time.com/5186180/oscars-2018-envelope-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1339c416d2edf4a/698929a986f68efb256e87d2/oscars-2018-envelopes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1339c416d2edf4a/698929a986f68efb256e87d2/oscars-2018-envelopes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"90th Annual Academy Awards - Backstage","caption":"90th Annual Academy Awards - Backstage","creditText":"Handout—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5186180/oscars-2018-envelope-memes/","name":"The Internet Was Obsessed With Oscars Envelopes for a Different Reason This Year"}}]}] ```