Welcome to the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The night we all have been waiting for.
The red carpet began like always with all its glory and glamour.
As the celebrities drove in, the background simmered with the glitz with scores of fans screaming out their names, the red carpet flew into the majestic cinematic magical wonder that it is.
The stage was set as Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin introduced the lighter moments and yes, the nominees too. Most of their introduction was revolving around the ravishingly gorgeous Meryl Streep, who was attending her 16th Oscar nomination.
Then began the magic of the amazing golden statuette, the night of the 82nd Oscar.
Penelope cruz looking stunning as usual, gave the Oscar for the best actor in a supporting role – Won by Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds) – This is his first nomination and Oscar. Wow! Congratulations.
Pete D won the Oscar for UP (Animated Feature) who quoted, “I never thought, my high school flip book story will lead me here…..” Well, it did. It must have been an amazing flip book because it was a wonderful animated feature.
The Oscar for the best Musical score was won for Crazy Heart.
The night had just begun.
Tina fey and Robert Downey Jr. gave the Oscar for best Original screenplay. The nominations were simply splendid and the winner was Mark Boal for Hurt locker.
John Hughes was honored for his contributions over so many decades and the legacy that he had left behind.
Best animated short was won by Nicolas Schmerkin for Logorama. You should really watch this movie. It’s simply brilliant.
Music by Prudence won for Best Documentary short by Roger Ross Williams.
The New Tenants won by Joachim and Tivi for Best Documentary.
Ben Stiller made a superb entry in the form of Avatar character and gave the Oscar for what else, for best make up. The winner was none other than the galactic wonder, the ‘Star Trek’ – Barney, Mindy and Joel took the Oscar.
Best adapted screenplay was won for Precious by Geoffrey who gave an emotionally charged acceptance speech just like the marvelously heavy hitting brilliant movie.
Queen Latifah introduced the Governors awards for 2010.
And, yes, then came the man himself, Robin Williams, who presented the award for best actress in a supporting role. The Oscar went for the brilliant performance by Mo’nique in Precious. You have got to see the movie! It’s precious. No pun intended.
The Oscar for best Art direction was won by Avatar, no guesses here (The team – Rick, Robert and Kim)
The Oscar for best costume design went to, The Young Victoria, costume by Sandy Powell who won her 3rd Academy award.
Best sound editing was won by Paul Ottosson for The Hurt Locker.
Best Sound mixing went yet again to Paul Ottosson and Ray Beckett for the Hurt Locker.
Outstanding achievement in Cinematography went to Mauro for ‘The Avatar’.
The Oscar for the best visual effects went to none other than Avatar. There was no doubt here. (The Team – Joe, Stephen, Richard and Andrew)
The Cove by Louie won the best documentary.
Best film editing went to, yet again The Hurt Locker won by Bob and Chris.
The Best Actor Male went to the legendary Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart and the best Actor female, went to gorgeous Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side.
The surprise of the red carpet’s evening was when both the Best Picture and Best Director went to Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker.
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How to do the Buzz? – Google Buzz
They have the web at their disposal.
They have the technology and the thinking.
They have the cast, crew and their ever loyal followers.
No wonder they have all the buzz too.
The google wave caught one and all with it’s amazingly equipped features (Click to read – ‘Google Wave – Part1 & Part2’).
Now the new buzz has plenty of features integrated too. The likes of Twitter applications and the many core features of today’s social messiah, Facebook too are integrated into the buzz.
To start with, the millions of existing gmail users are already a part of the buzz. The idea as quoted by the Vice President of Google for product management Mr.Bradley Horowitz behind the buzz was to blend the two core of any social connect today, sharing and that too in real time. The features allow you as an individual and as an entrepreneur to use the buzz of social media to the core to connect with your peers and friends in real time.
Core features:
Auto Following – Connect with the existing millions of your friends and connections from GMAIL
Integrate with your Inbox and share pictures and videos and receive real time comments
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Connect with your sites too.
Twitter like comments and feeds are posted and also one can send messages by sending a “@individual” accounts too. Biggie here being no 140 character limit and one can post feeds or messages including images etc. and tag it as part of the gmail reply feature too to connect and reply in real time.
Flickr, Picasa, Youtube Videos share and other pictures are shared easily.
Create a group of your own set of contacts and post updates, your own content, news and messages to them. Respond, interact and get responses like “Likes / Comments” instantaneously. Gather your feedback and respond on the go.
One can integrate it with your phone through ‘Google Mobile’s Website’ – use “buzz.google.com”. Once done, users can post through voice recognition, place pages can be integrated with geo tags and all in real time. With this Google has added another catchy feature of knowing what those “geotagged” nearby people are talking about by using the nearby feature on your phone.
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So, now we know what all the buzz is really about.
Not really.There’s lot more to come……
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Ananth V
Product Consultant
TECHDIVINE Creative Services
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