 A year after the ceremony, a reporter from the New York Post began a  rumor that eventually became one of the Academy Awards most infamous  urban legends. The theory was that an inebriated Jack Palace read  the wrong name when presenting the Oscar for Best Supporting  Actress, that he read Marisa Tomeis name off the teleprompter but  that the name on the envelope was actually Miranda Richardson. The  rumor circulated and eventually got back to the academy which  conducted its own investigation. Price Waterhouse (the firm that  tabulates the results) confirmed that Tomei actually did have more  votes than the other nominees and the academy, looking at the tape  of the show, confirmed that Palace was clearly reading the name from  the envelope and not the teleprompter.