BlogWorks: Techy notes from the Academy Awards

February 25, 2008

By Alicia Dorset

I couldn't help but notice last night the amount of "techy goodness" sprinkled in during the 80th Academy Awards ceremony. Here's what I caught:

After a retrospective on some of cinema's greatest hits during the past 80 years, host Jon Stewart is seen watching Lawrence of Arabia on his iPhone. He remarks that this is how movies were always meant to be watched, then flips the iPhone horizontally and says, "Oh, that's better. Widescreen!"
Coming back from a break, Stewart and 11-year-old Jamia Simone Nash (who performed earlier in the night for Best Original Song, Raise it Up, from August Rush), are found playing Wii tennis on the main stage's projection screen.
Making a reference to Nicole Kidman's upcoming movie roles, Stewart uses the Internet Movie Database as his source for her "upcoming unnamed project."
And of course, let's not forget about blogger-turned-screenwriter Diablo Cody taking home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Juno.

I'm not the only one noticed some prime tech product placement. Check out ZDNet and Engadget for Oscar tech coverage, too.

Posted by Alicia Dorset at February 25, 2008 11:53 AM