Oscar Winners List; Leak or Fake?

Leaked List:

Actor in a leading role: Mickey Rourke

Actor in a supporting role: Heath Ledger

Actress in a leading role: Kate Winslet

Actress in a supporting role: Amy Adams

Animated Feature Film: Wall-E

Art Direction: The Dark Knight

Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire

Costume Design: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Directing: Slumdog Millionaire

Documentary feature: Man on Wire

Documentary short: The Conscience of Nhem En

Film editing: Milk

Foreign language film: Departures

Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Music (Score): Defiance

Music (Song): Down to Earth (Wall-E)

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

Short film (animated): Presto

Short film (live action): Auf Der Strecke (On The Line)

Sound editing: Wall-E

Sound mixing: The Dark Knight

Visual effects: Iron Man

Writing (Adapted screenplay): The Reader

Writing (Original screenplay): In Bruges

Interesting Q mork.

I wonder if the list was leaked by the Academy, with intentional errors, to create a massive publicity stunt. We all know that audience viewing numbers in the past several years have been dropping. Someone may have felt this would be a neat way to gain a larger rating. I sense a conspiracy here.

Hey folks... get over your fairyland ending of the Oscars... LOTS of people know the answers.... There is, no doubt, a list already of winners and losers...

I've worked on lots of different events like this and there is far, far, far too much prep work that has to be done based on who the winners are, so trust me... the list is most likely real.

@jltnol
Well if you plunk that $1,000 you've got on "100% Accurate" right now you'll jump up to $8664. Let's see you do it....."so trust me," you said.

But, if this list actually is genuine, then there is no doubt that the Academy will have changed its winners just so that it doesn't match this list.

What I am saying is that the false list was altered from the get go. Or like jonnyboy says, it was changed after the fact. Hmmmm.

Actually I believe it is a fair list pick like it has always been . The winners will emerge as favorites and winning longshots.....................................Like always.

Loving the pic for this question!

thing is, even if it is a fake i reckon most of them on there will be right..

Slight interesting tweek- What is the difference between "100%" and "more than 20 of 24 correct" if all 24 are, indeed, correct? I've alerted the bosses to ask this.. But the whole thing is really fascinating!

@ladylara - I'd like to think its apparent that the two options should be read as mutually exclusive, but I have added a note to make that clear. Thanks for the flag.

Academy statement denying it, it's probably real.

Well what are they going to say? " Oops, ya got us, but hey, watch anyhow..".

It sorta looks like it's the Under 21 option

Yeah - just off the top of my head i can pick loads that were wrong.

I count 9 of 15 right, or 37.5%. I could have done better throwing a dart... ;)

Actor in a leading role: Mickey Rourke ----- WRONG
Actor in a supporting role: Heath Ledger ----- CORRECT
Actress in a leading role: Kate Winslet ----- CORRECT
Actress in a supporting role: Amy Adams ----- WRONG
Animated Feature Film: Wall-E ----- CORRECT
Art Direction: The Dark Knight ----- WRONG
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire ----- CORRECT
Costume Design: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ----- WRONG
Directing: Slumdog Millionaire ----- CORRECT
Documentary feature: Man on Wire ----- CORRECT
Documentary short: The Conscience of Nhem En ----- WRONG
Film editing: Milk ----- WRONG
Foreign language film: Departures ----- CORRECT
Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ----- CORRECT
Music (Score): Defiance ----- WRONG
Music (Song): Down to Earth (Wall-E) ----- WRONG
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire ----- CORRECT
Short film (animated): Presto ----- WRONG
Short film (live action): Auf Der Strecke (On The Line) ----- WRONG
Sound editing: Wall-E ----- WRONG
Sound mixing: The Dark Knight ----- WRONG
Visual effects: Iron Man ----- WRONG
Writing (Adapted screenplay): The Reader ----- WRONG
Writing (Original screenplay): In Bruges ----- WRONG

Grr. Sure wish I had noticed sqlman's helpful list here before looking up all the other answers myself! Yeah, that was a pretty inaccurate list!