Never mind all those Oscar predictions posts out there. If you really want to make some money in the office pool, look no further than a random blog created specifically to leak the winners of this year’s Academy Awards. Think it’s a hoax? I guess we just won’t know until Sunday, will we? And by then you’ll be out hundreds of dollars because you didn’t bet on The Reader for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Okay, so who cares if it’s real or not, particularly in this predictable a year, anyway? The real betting should be on who the telecast producers have wrangled to be those “top secret” presenters. Oh wait, it seems the big names, those that obviously should be revealed in order to attract their audiences, have also come out.

Ah, but what are they saying about either leak on the interweb, you ask? As usual, check out the quotes/links after the jump.

• Since I found out about the Oscar winners leak first from Cinematical, here’s an argument in favor of its legitimacy from Erik Davis, aided by Kevin at Moviefone: “Of course there’s a very good chance it’s a fake, but as Kevin noted in our AIM conversation: ‘I mean, it looks right… the fact that Best Supporting Actress is outta nowhere somehow lends it credibility.’”
• Brad Brevet at RopeofSilicon.com argues in favor of it being a hoax, yet forwards the list along anyway: “Ballots for the 2009 Oscar Awards were due by 5 PM last night and so the idea this site is claiming to have the list of winners already is just stupid, but it doesn’t mean the list doesn’t have that odd sense of it could happen with a few “surprise” choices (Amy Adams).”
• Nikki Finke refers to the mysterious posting as “annoying Oscar bullshit” and writes, “At this point, with so many of the categories locked as far back as December, I’m sure a chimpanzee could have come up with the same names.”
• Word that Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson will be a presenter this year has been out since last week, but Vulture had the best reaction yesterday: “The plan to keep the names of this year’s Oscar presenters a secret suddenly makes sense … producers were probably just trying to prevent vampire riots at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday night.”
• E! Online has now leaked some more presenters/performers: High School Musical’s Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, Beyonce, Dominic Cooper and Amanda Seyfried. And somehow, Tom O’Neil at The Envelope has added Miley Cyrus to that list.
• Pete Hammond at The Envelope writes what everyone else is sure of regarding the Pattinson and Efron leaks: “I would be willing to bet the producers leaked that one themselves to entice potential younger viewers turned off by the absence of movies such as “Dark Knight” in marquee categories.”
• STV at Defamer, in a roundup that also references word that Jennifer Aniston is presenting, writes what everyone is wishing for regarding the shitty Efron and Hudgens leak: “[They] will be among the performers to help nurture this year’s Oscar renaissance, hopefully teaming for a Best Picture reenactment of Slumdog Millionaire’s romantic latrine-escape sequence.
• This about a week old, but according to AJ Schnack at All these wonderful things, Albert Maysles has directed a short film introducing this year’s documentary nominees.
• Anybody interested in knowing beforehand what some of the ads during the Oscars will be? Here’s a post at The Big Picture about the telecast’s difficulty attracting sponsors, with a reveal of an ad from Culver Restaurants. Previously announced movie ads to be shown include Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Sherlock Holmes and Terminator Salvation.
• And now, keeping with the idea of Oscars spoilers, also via Cinematical, a video that spoils all the endings to all the Best Picture winners: