Possible Oscar Winners Leaked
 

Anybody has seen this yet? I couldnt find out for sure if it is a fake or not... i dont think there was ever a leak, was there?

Either way, here it is... Slumdog and Benjamin button will take the night, apparently.

It is fake. The way I understand it works is that the votes are taken to the accounting firm, counted and they make the envelopes right there...two for each. and they are delivered to the oscars and not turned over until right before each award. the second man in the audience opens the duplicate envelopes at the same time, so there cant be any cheating, but those two are the only people that know until those envelopes are opened.

"Treat this information with extreme care."

lolz

Yeah seems fake. "Here, let's just trust the important information that we're setting up the entire night for on a big list in a letter we're going to pass between hands. Let's keep it Super Duper Maximum Extreme Ultra Secret - shhh!"

Still, I think it would be fun to take that list and compare it to the real winners, just to see what they got right.

Well some of them are kind of 'everyone expects it anyway', like Heath Ledger or Visual Effects. That's exactly what they're playing on.

I especially like how it's all folded and beat up cause clearly they couldn't afford good paper and correct sized envelopes.

Well that's only 'cause the only way they could get this was if an unwary intern was kidnapped in the dark of a cold winter night and given the choice of making a copy of the Oscar List or they kill his mail order bride (who is also unknowingly his long lost sister) and he leaves it in the alley behind a theater.

Unfortunately, this list was grabbed by a wino - who, after a long night of drinking and forlornly mourning his lost love who ran off with her Argentinian lover, went completely insane and used the Oscar List as a paper pirate hat, and cried out "Damned be the cur who take me hat!"

Fortunately for the intern, the blackmailers learned of the hobo, released his wife/sister and sent a team of mechanical robot ninjas after the hungover insane pirate hobo with the Paper Pirate Oscar List Hat. The hobo tried to defend himself with his garbage can cannons and his trusty hobo stick sabre, but he was quickly overpowered by the mechanical robot ninjas and they returned to their masters with the list - slightly bloody and worn at this point.

To contain complete secrecy, the mechanical robot ninja committed mechanical robot hara kiri, leaving the blackmailers to unfold the Paper Pirate Oscar Hat List and clean off the blood. Luckily, the blackmailer's day job was working at a laundromat, so he quickly put the unfolded Oscar List into the steam press, and waited for it to dry, before scanning it for the internets.

Or it could just be a fake.

This would be incredibly easy to fake. If I had to find out, I'd see if that is the logo the Academy actually uses, if the name is correct, if it's his signature, etc. (Of course, if no one has the means to compare this signature to Mr. Ganis', any bozo could sign this and people would take it for granted.) Then of course there's the question if letters like this would be written, and whether they would be written like this.

Really, all anyone needs to do to fake this is get a picture of an Award and the director's name from the internet, pick one of the nominees from every category (maybe make the effort to pick the ones that generate the greatest buzz on messageboards and push people's buttons), print out a Word document, fold and smudge it a bit (maybe actually mail it to themselves), scan, register on Ain't It Cool news, post, done. That's already more than a good reason for me to lean towards "fake" for now.

You see I'd be tempted to say this was a leak by the Oscar people themselves to create buzz if it couldn't be faked so simply.

Well, 8949 Wilshire is the actual address of the Academy, they are located in Beverley Hills, 90211 is their actual zip code, (310) 247-3000 is their actual phone number, and Sid Ganis is indeed the actual president of the Academy.

But still, I figured all of that out in about a minute of Googling, so yeah.

Pretty obviously a fake, though.