The accountants at the centre of last Sunday’s Oscars screw-up have been forced to hire bodyguards after reportedly receiving death threats.
Cullinan was photographed using his mobile phone around the time he was handing the Best Picture envelope to Beatty.
The evening’s host Jimmy Kimmel provided his own account of the blunder – deemed the biggest mistake in Oscars history – describing it as “the weirdest finale since Lost.”
TMZ reports that Cullinan and his fellow employee Martha Ruiz are “in such fear for their lives, their bosses have hired security to protect them.”