Here it is, Oscar buffs: the leak you’ve been waiting for! Various entertainment news sources have reported seeing a leaked version of the fabled Mispronunciation Guide for the 2015 Oscars, and we got our hands on a copy.
After last year’s infamous Adele Dazeem incident, mispronunciation enthusiasts have been eagerly awaiting this year’s telecast. We got a little taste at the nomination press conference when Dick Poop was announced, but gaffe fans have been predicting that the best is yet to come. And boy were they right!
Here are some key take-aways from the guide:
- “Marion Cotillard – simply make the sound of coughing up a fur ball.”
- “Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura – imagine you’re spitting sunflower seeds.”
- “Alejandro G. Iñárritu – mumble the last name so audiences can’t hear it.”
- “Leviathan – this one is from the Bible, so you’d be stupid not to know it.”
- “Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo are barred from winning any prizes because their names are pronunciation nightmares.”
- “Mispronounce at least one non-ethnic name in order to be ‘inclusive’.”
- “Next year, let’s nominate more white men so we don’t have to worry about all this nonsense.”
Jonathan Blaine of South Philly was particularly excited by the leak. “As a mispronunciation connoisseur myself, I can’t help but speculate that this will be the most memorable night in goof-up history,” he said. “Too bad no one watches the Oscars anymore.”
The Academy Awards are known for their secrecy, mostly thanks to PricewaterhouseCoopers, an outside company hired to tabulate the ballots for the ceremony. This is only the second leak in Oscar history, the first being in 1974 when a leaked draft of the script referred to a man running on stage naked.
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