It seemed like they have a back up card per category and the PR firm forgot to discard it and gave that card to Beatty/Dunaway. I still have no clue how no one stopped it before it got that far or why Beatty/Dunaway read La La Land out when it was for the wrong category!

 

Or instead can we have neither of those pics winning and Emma Stone winning Best Picture like the card said *.* <3

An article I read (published pre-Oscars), talking with the two people in charge of the vote counting and envelopes, says that they're the only two people who know the winners until each envelope gets opened and announced on the night, so I assume that it wasn't stopped earlier because the producers of the show didn't actually know it was wrong? Until one of the two in charge of the envelopes let them in on it :unsure:

I don't think it was a fix, because the Oscars take themselves very seriously and pride themselves on their reputation. I think they would want to stay far away from anything that made them look like fools.

I love the way Warren Beatty looks at it, realises it is clearly wrong, searches the envelope for any other card to see if he's missed it - then shrugs and hands it to Faye Dunaway to pass the buck. *.*

I love the way Warren Beatty looks at it, realises it is clearly wrong, searches the envelope for any other card to see if he's missed it - then shrugs and hands it to Faye Dunaway to pass the buck. *.*

 

I see it as him trying to subtly be like "ermmm look at this what do we do?" and her just being like "LALALAND!!!"