W4F Tweets the Oscars!
March 9, 2010 by S David Acuff
Filed under Around the Web, Editorials, Headlines
Didn’t get a chance to see the Oscars this year? Or maybe you watched the Oscars but missed our Wired4Film Oscar Twitter Feed? Or maybe you TiVo’d the Oscars while at the same time wishing there were some sort of Director’s commentary to go along with the show! Well, Filmmakers, your wish is our command!
We Tweet’d the Academy Awards this year and re-assembled all that hard work and colorful commentary in all of its raw and undigested fervor right here for your viewing pleasure! A minute-by-minute, play-by-play for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards…
The W4F Oscar Tweet-fest
Tweeting the Oscars….but from the couch…not the Kodak theater…Boo! 18 mins to go.
8:11 PM Mar 7th
Clooney needs a haircut….or some hair gel that holds up under rainy/humid conditions. Gyllenhall bro&sis look great! #Red Carpet
8:14 PM Mar 7th
No old blue jeans for Miley…no botox either….good for u! Bucking the system!
8:23 PM Mar 7th
Tina Fey & Steve Carr need to be a real life couple…too cute! They could have a whole batch of little NBC kids and sitcoms!
8:25 PM Mar 7th
The Streep v The Bullock….it’s goin down tonight…the chanel’s gonna hit the fan! #RedCarpet
8:26 PM Mar 7th
Red carpet over…on to the show…still miss Billy Crystal’s opens….and the oscar goes to… #RedCarpet
8:30 PM Mar 7th
“The moment you’ve all been waiting for…?” Being spoonfed a Chargrill shake by Kate Beckinsale? Oh…the opening #…I see…#oscar
8:34 PM Mar 7th
So Doogie is the new Jackman who was the new Billy Crystal. Got it #Oscars
8:34 PM Mar 7th
Coming soon to ElectronicArts: “Precious: The Video Game” RT: Steve Martin #Oscars
8:40 PM Mar 7th
RT@boxofficemojo: Alec Baldwin has only starred in one $100M movie prior to ‘It’s Complicated:’ ‘The Hunt for Red October’ in 1990: http://bit.ly/cfplH8
8:43 PM Mar 7th
Reeeeeally need to see “Invictus”…and “Up In the Air”….and “Hot Tub Time Machine”…but “Invictus” first. #Oscars
8:46 PM Mar 7th
Actor in a supporting role: Kristoff Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)
8:48 PM Mar 7th
RT @boxofficemojo: ‘The Blind Side’ crossed the $250 million mark yesterday, its 107th day of release…http://bit.ly/ctvCpN
8:51 PM Mar 7th
Best Animated Feature film: Up….Pixar…who knew? #Oscars
8:59 PM Mar 7th
One guy on stage for ‘Up’? Shouldn’t there be like 800 people up there? #Oscars
8:59 PM Mar 7th
For those keeping score…that’s Shiney Silver Dresses: 6 #Oscars
9:01 PM Mar 7th
My facebook peeps that are getting auto-updated each tweet think I’ve gone CRAZY with the typing and the updating and the sending…
9:03 PM Mar 7th
Best Song: Ryan Bigham and T-Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)…over Randy Newman? The world has gone mad? #Oscars
9:05 PM Mar 7th
Shout out to District 9…awesome pic…amazing effects….lot of secrets in District 9 #Oscars
9:06 PM Mar 7th
Robert Downey Jr and Tina Fey…I totally wanna write that movie too!!! #Oscars
9:12 PM Mar 7th
Best Original Screenplay: Mark Bowl (Hurt Locker)…right on! #Oscars
9:15 PM Mar 7th
RT @boxofficemojo: Original Screenplay nominated movies had an average gross of $87.7M. http://bit.ly/9Usltr
9:15 PM Mar 7th
My doppelganger has for the longest time been “Ferris Beuhler’s Friend”…Cameron…
9:19 PM Mar 7th
Oscars 80s flashback! Ack! I don’t want my member’s only jacket anymore! #Oscars
9:21 PM Mar 7th
RT @KatzMoney: Hurt Locker screenplay win suggests Best Picture as well.
9:19 PM Mar 7th
W4F Oscar Tweet Feed will be cut reeeeeeal short if person I’m borrowing wireless from shuts off their ‘puter. #Oscar
9:27 PM Mar 7th
Best Animated Short: Nicolas Schmerkin…3000 unofficial sponsors! Funneh. #Oscars
9:32 PM Mar 7th
Best Documentary Short: Music By Prudence #Oscars
9:34 PM Mar 7th
RT@jonmckee: “The tools never make a great film, Its what you do with the tools. Telling a great story, entertaining the audience. ” – John Lasseter
9:33 PM Mar 7th
Live Action Short: The New Tenants #Oscars
9:36 PM Mar 7th
Hahahahaha…Ben Stiller…dressed like an Avatar! #Oscars
9:38 PM Mar 7th
Best Makeup: Star Trek! Spock’s ears get an Oscar. #Oscars
9:42 PM Mar 7th
RT@bittespuhlen: “When you’re a man sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room…just for fun.” – Nacho
9:42 PM Mar 7th
RT@THR: Up next — Best Adapted Screenplay – An Education, In the Loop, Precious, Up In the Air or District 9?
9:45 PM Mar 7th
Who is your “Hollywood Spouse?”….mine is most definitely Rachel McAdams. Lurv her.
9:49 PM Mar 7th
Best Adapted Screenplay: Jeffrey Fletcher for Precious! #Oscars
9:50 PM Mar 7th
…only they should announce it like Gollum…like, my “preciousssssssss” #Oscars
9:51 PM Mar 7th
RT@boxofficemojo: Precious has grossed $47.4 million, middle of the pack among Adapted Screenplay noms. http://bit.ly/cNUYlI
9:51 PM Mar 7th
Lauren Bacall…you know how to whistle don’t you? #Oscars
9:55 PM Mar 7th
Roger Corman is credited with launching sooooo many Hollywood director careers! #Oscars
9:55 PM Mar 7th
Robin Williams is my co-Star from “Patch Adams”…well co-star is a strong word…I definitely graduated two peeps behind him in the film
9:57 PM Mar 7th
Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo’Nique (Precious) ….2nd Precious Win…or “my precioussssssss”…. #Oscars
9:59 PM Mar 7th
Mo’Nique gives a shout-out to Tyler Perry…this is as close as a faith-based film as we’ve got at the Oscars, peeps. #Oscars
10:01 PM Mar 7th
Director John Hughes has quite an impressive resume on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/
10:05 PM Mar 7th
RT@terracecrawford: “It can be about the performance and not the politics.” – Monique Rocks! (via @nealcampbell) // i agree. that was a great performance.
10:04 PM Mar 7th
Art Direction: Avatar…given by Sigourney Na’vi Weaver #Oscars
10:07 PM Mar 7th
Hope my film students are watching this to see all the OTHER PEOPLE needed to make a film. 10% inspiration….90% perspiration. #Oscars
10:08 PM Mar 7th
Costume Design: The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell…also for Shakespeare in Love and The Aviator….oh she’s gooooooood! #Oscars
10:11 PM Mar 7th
RunPee.Com says best time to go to bathroom is NOW!! During commercial!! #Oscars
10:14 PM Mar 7th
Needs a whiplash warning before we go from National TV to a local car commercial….uuuuurch! My neck! Blah!
10:16 PM Mar 7th
Emo Twilight Kids….so somber…. #Oscars
10:19 PM Mar 7th
RT@kemmeyer: Ima gonna sleep with the lights on after horror tribute @ the #oscars
10:21 PM Mar 7th
Horror montage keeps going and going and going……. #oscars
10:22 PM Mar 7th
Excellent…an education in sound editing…wake up film students…work, I tell ya…movies = work! #Oscars
10:23 PM Mar 7th
Best Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson (sp?) Hurt Locker #Oscars
10:26 PM Mar 7th
Best Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker…Cameron’s ex-wife scores another statue #Oscars
10:27 PM Mar 7th
Early odds are that Hurt Locker is winning best picture #Oscars
10:28 PM Mar 7th
And the technical awards for a bunch of people we lumped into a giant category for super grain nano technology #Oscars
10:29 PM Mar 7th
Recap: 8 Silver dresses, 5 cutaways to unsmiling Clooney, 3 Hurt Locker Awards, 2 for my Preciousssssss… #Oscars
10:31 PM Mar 7th
Best Cinematography: Mauro Fiore for Avatar…2nd tonite #Oscars
10:36 PM Mar 7th
Demi looked fabu…not like Madonna with her “gollum arms” #Oscars
10:39 PM Mar 7th
Apparently Brittany Murphy died of ‘natural causes’ on Dec 20, 2009…did not know that… #Oscars
10:44 PM Mar 7th
Totally don’t remember that dance scene in “Hurt Locker”…. #Oscars
10:48 PM Mar 7th
RT@human3rror: “The people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.” – Malcom Gladwell
10:47 PM Mar 7th
Best Original Score: Michael Giachinno (sp?) “Up” #oscars
10:52 PM Mar 7th
“If you wanna be creative, go do it…it’s not a waste of time” Michael Giachinno #Oscars
10:54 PM Mar 7th
Best Visual Effects: Avatar!! $300M here, $300M there, pretty soon you can buy yourself some decent effects! #Oscars
10:55 PM Mar 7th
RT@THR: Avatar 3, The Hurt Locker 3, Precious 2
10:56 PM Mar 7th
Best Documentary Feature Presenter: Matt Damon….he just rocks okay! It’s not a man-crush. He’s just cool! #Oscar
11:02 PM Mar 7th
Best Documentary Feature: The Cove #Oscars
11:04 PM Mar 7th
Best Film Editing: The Hurt Locker ? Hmmm. Not seeing it. #Oscars
11:08 PM Mar 7th
Editors is crazier than writers and composers. #Oscars
11:08 PM Mar 7th
RT@druckenmiller: http://twitpic.com/17aqep – Winners “bag” at Oscar party, those BNC cables? Ehh bunch a production folk..
11:12 PM Mar 7th
Best Foreign Language Film: uhhhh…the secret du rosas…or sus ojos…errrr something foreign….so glad Na’vi doesn’t count #Oscars
11:18 PM Mar 7th
RT@THR: Next up Best Actor– Firth, Bridges, Freeman, Renner or Clooney?
11:18 PM Mar 7th
Not worried about Avatar…Cameron’s crying all the way to the bank. #Oscar
11:24 PM Mar 7th
What’s with the Best Actor campaign speeches? They’ve already voted…let’s see who’s got it… #Oscars
11:28 PM Mar 7th
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges “Crazy Heart” 1st Acad Award, 5th Nom #Oscar
11:33 PM Mar 7th
RT@DaveGrumme: Congratulations Jeff Bridges – 75 films and counting.
11:34 PM Mar 7th
RT @timastevens: I respect celebrities who have stayed married. Way to go Jeff Bridges for your Oscar–but more for 33 yrs of marriage.
11:39 PM Mar 7th
boxofficemojo The Best Actress category had a better box office showing than Best Actor: $408.8M vs. $173.1M http://bit.ly/9Usltr
11:45 PM Mar 7th
Best Actress: Wow! Sandy B! Blindside! #Oscars
11:49 PM Mar 7th
RT@boxofficemojo: Blind Side is Sandra Bullock’s highest-grossing movie at over $250M, folloed by another 2009 release, The Proposal: http://bit.ly/a4r2An
11:50 PM Mar 7th
Best Director: Katherine Bigelow “Hurt Locker” – first female academy award ever in this category #Oscar
11:55 PM Mar 7th
Oscar Subtext = Suck it Tarantino! #Oscars
11:58 PM Mar 7th
Best Motion Picture: The HURT LOCKERRRRRRRRRR…with little fanfare and buildup by Tom Hanks #Oscars
11:59 PM Mar 7th
Alrighty then….go back to work tomorrow….finish those films, people! Got some work to do!
12:03 AM Mar 8th
For Official Oscar Night Winner Info and to View Acceptance Speeches click here.
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