Oscars 2014: Academy Mistakens Penélope Cruz For Salma Hayek In Official Instagram Pic

We’re guessing last night someone who manages the official Instagram account of The Academy got fired after uploading a picture of Penélope Cruz and Robert DeNiro backstage at the Oscars and captioning it “Hayek and DeNiro prepping backstage,” confusing Cruz with Salma Hayek. The post was up for at least a couple of hours before The Academy finally realized it and deleted the photo. However, everyone was quick enough to screengrab-it and now it will remain as a major Oscar fail for the rest of the awards history.

Penélope and DeNiro were just about to go on stage to present the Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay when they were snapped rehearsing their lines one last time. We understand that in the midst of the Oscar frenzy, whoever was in charge of uploading the picture might have gotten a little bit confused, after all, we’re human. But come on! There are not so many Hispanic actresses in Hollywood anyways, so it shouldn’t be too hard to identify the few that are out there.

Penélope is 39 and Salma is 47. One is Spanish and the other one is Mexican. Penélope is 5’6 and Salma is a bit more petite at 5’2. One is married to actor Javier Bardem, the other one is married to fashion entrepreneur François-Henri Pinault. However, both actresses are not unknown to the Oscars with Penélope winning “Best Supporting Actress” in 2009 for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and Salma being nominated in 2006 for her role as Frida Kahlo in her biopic.

Scroll down to see the now infamous post confusing Penélope Cruz with Salma Hayek that was deleted by The Academy.