A mini-flood in the Dolby Theatre's women's restroom less than 45 minutes before the Oscar telecast began prompted at least a half-dozen workers to soak up the water while guests arrived Sunday evening.
The second floor of the theater was temporarily blocked as workers, wearing black pants and suit jackets, cleaned up the water from the green-and-tan patterned carpets with wet-vacs and squeeguees, The Los Angeles Times reported.
The employees used what witnesses described as two home-sized wet-vacs and a larger machine, the size of a lawn mower, to clean up the mess.
Meanwhile, Oscar attendees around the second-floor bar were shuttled down to the first floor to finish their drinks at the lobby refreshment counter while staff cleaned the mess.
But that wasn't the only inconvenience the flood caused. Two prop men wearing white gloves pushed a cart full of Oscars to stage right to polish them and mark them with white tags bearing their serial numbers, when they realized the stage door was open. "The guys who lock that door are involved in a flood in the bathroom," a woman on the crew told the prop men, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Entertainment Weekly TV writer Lynette Rice witnessed the leak, posting a photo to Twitter captioned, "Flood at the Oscars! Great day to be a star, The New York Post reported.
The L.A. City Fire department could not confirm the cause of the leak, according to the Post.
The Independent described the Oscars' bathroom flood this way: "The 85th Academy Awards went off otherwise without a hitch. Although actress Jennifer Lawrence tripped and fell up the stairs on her way to collect her Best Actress gong."
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