The Yeti’s Livetweet Coverage of the Oscars
March 9, 2010
The Oscars were on this Sunday, and just like every single otherwise reputable news organization, The Yeti was there! We were liveblogging it, from the Twitter machine. @theyetiblog was your friendly neighborhood Yetiblog editor (me, Andy) and @FSUYeti was contributing writer and Yetiblogger Ian. Here are the highlights, aka all the tweets, just all of them:
Andy: We’re about to start @theyetiblog’s livetweeting of the Oscars! @FSUYeti will be joining in the tweeting in about a half hour. 7:51 PM Mar 7th
Andy: As for your friendly neighborhood Yetiblogger, we will brb after we RUUUUUUUUNNNN to get a bunch of alcohol, because seriously, necessary. 7:52 PM Mar 7th [Ed. Note: Always drink responsibly.]
Andy: Taylor Lautner is there, wearing a shirt! #weird 8:27 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Here go the Oscars… 8:30 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Is it starting? OK it’s starting. Livetweets, AWAAAYYY!!! 8:31 PM Mar 7th
Ian: NPH’s jacket is going to give me a stroke 8:32 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Is Neil Patrick Harris the only person in Hollywood who’s allowed to sing at awards shows? 8:33 PM Mar 7th
Ian: haha Meryl Streep holds the record for most losses 8:36 PM Mar 7th [Ed. Note: Co-host Steve Martin made a joke about thinking of having the most Oscar nominations as having the most Oscar losses.]
Andy: Is it weird that the title “Dame” always makes me think of Lady Pimps? 8:38 PM Mar 7th
Ian: @Andy no… no it is not 8:39 PM Mar 7th
Ian: George Clooney didn’t want to be mentioned… I can tell 8:41 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Penelope Cruz doesn’t believe in milking humanity’s innate sadism for the sake of comedy. BOO!!! 8:45 PM Mar 7th
Ian: These montages for the nominees seem a bit excessive. 8:45 PM Mar 7th
[Christoph Waltz of the Quentin Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds wins Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.]
Ian: Shocker… Waltz was awesome in “IB”8:48 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Duh times duh divided by duh to the duh power. 8:49 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Christoph Waltz should get another Oscar for fitting an entire Victorian novel into a thirty-second award acceptance speech. 8:50 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Ryan Reynolds at the oscars? Who let him in? 8:50 PM Mar 7th
Andy: No one should ever let Ryan Reynolds speak seriously about anything. 8:51 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Was that [montage] for the blind side or sandra bullock? 8:52 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Hey! It’s Michael Scott! 8:55 PM Mar 7th
[The nominees for Best Animated Feature are announced.]
Ian: WOOOO MR FOX 8:56 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Shocker. Well, George Clooney, you had the most sultry voiceover, if that helps8:59 PM Mar 7th
Andy: (Duh + Durr)/Doi^Nodoi 9:01 PM Mar 7th [Ed. Note: The Yeti believes in recycling, for the environment. Jokes count! (No they don't.)]
[Miley Cyrus and Amanda Seyfried present the nominees for Best Song.]
Andy: Miley Cyrus is TALL! 9:01 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Doesn’t Randy Newman have like, 12 oscars from the Toy Story songs already? 9:02 PM Mar 7th
[T-Bone Burnett wins for "The Weary Kind" from the film Crazy Heart.]
Andy: Does T-Bone Burnett even have eyes behind those sunglasses? 9:04 PM Mar 7th
Ian: These original screenplay clips are awesome 9:14 PM Mar 7th
[Now there's big John Hughes tribute. RIP John Hughes.]
Andy: Did John Hughes ever win any Oscars? 9:18 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Macaulay (sp?) Culkin? Where’s the scream that made you famous!?!? 9:22 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Kristen Stewart was REALLY moved by that John Hughes tribute. Or maybe that’s just her face. 9:24 PM Mar 7th
Andy: I can understand why Zoe Saldana would want to show off her incredible legs, but that dress is DISGUSTING. #didntwatchtheredcarpet 9:29 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Who’s the lady who pulled a Kanye on this guy’s speech? 9:35 PM Mar 7th [This was Elinor Burkett, producer of the Oscar-winning Documentary Short "Music By Prudence". You can read about the incident here.]
[Ben Stiller comes out to present the award for Best Makeup dressed as a Na'vi, from Avatar.]
Ian: hahahahahahaha ben stiller is awesome 9:38 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Blue Steel! 9:38 PM Mar 7th
Andy: I like that Jeff Bridges introduced the Coen Bros movie montage. The Dude abides, after all. 9:44 PM Mar 7th
Ian: @Andy Well they probably paid him with a new rug 9:47 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Are any moviemakers insulted by the commercial about tobacco product placement in movies? 9:47 PM Mar 7th
[Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire wins Best Adapted Screenplay.]
Andy: So Precious gets this one and Mo’Nique’s Best Supporting Actress. That’s ok. Maybe I should see Precious after all. 9:53 PM Mar 7th
Ian: @Andy I didn’t see In the Loop, but I feel like any movie that makes a story based on a person, instead of another story, should win 9:56 PM Mar 7th
[Mo'Nique wins Best Supporting Actress for her role in Precious.]
Ian: Based on that clip alone, yeah, she deserved it 9:59 PM Mar 7th
Andy: What exactly are the politics of the Best Supporting Actress Oscars? It’s not like they nominated Sigourney Weaver. 10:03 PM Mar 7th [Seriously, what decade is it, Mo'Nique?]
[Avatar wins an Oscar, for some technical category or something.]
Andy: And so begins Avatar’s steamrolling of all of the rest of the Oscars. Prepare yourself. 10:07 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Why is Sarah Jessica Parker’s dress trying to strangle her! Someone help Sarah Jessica Parker! #didntwatchtheredcarpet 10:10 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Time for 4 or 5 awards no one cares about… 10:11 PM Mar 7th
[Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart introduce a montage tribute to horror movies.]
Andy: Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart: THE FACES OF FEAR 10:19 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Haha Dusk til Dawn clip in horror movie montage… I’m still angry that they became vampires in what was becoming an awesome movie 10:22 PM Mar 7th
[The awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing are presented.]
Ian: Hurt Locker has to win this… BOOOOOOM! 10:25 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Called it! 10:25 PM Mar 7th
Andy: @Ian Please God let this be foreshadowing of the Best Picture award. 10:26 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Hurt Locker again…. 10:26 PM Mar 7th
Ian: WOO! 2 for 2 10:27 PM Mar 7th
Ian: @Andy I’m rooting for Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds, or for the first time, a movie wins sans-nomination: Fantastic Mr. Fox 10:29 PM Mar 7th
[Avatar wins for Best Cinematography, which was ridiculous considering it was pretty much 100% green screen CGI bells & whistles.]
Andy: Thanking a visionary for his amazing vision, like an asshole. Sorry Mauro Fiore, it’s not really you I’m angry at. 10:37 PM Mar 7th
Andy: James Taylor is not Paul McCartney. #sad 10:39 PM Mar 7th
Ian: James Taylor is still alive? I figured he died of OD back in the day 10:39 PM Mar 7th
Andy: RT @dumase I hate memorial montages, how the applause varies. Yeah some of them were more famous but they’re all DEAD so be respectful. 10:40 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Michael Jackson was in like, 1 1/2 movie, dammit! 10:41 PM Mar 7th
Ian: No disrespect to MJ, but give him his dues at the Grammies. That spot could have gone to someone who was primarily in movies 10:42 PM Mar 7th
Andy: @Ian The video for Thriller is better than 75% of all movies. 10:44 PM Mar 7th
[An interpretive dance troupe interpretively dances to the music from the nominees for Best Score.]
Andy: No, Academy Awards. No. 10:46 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Breakdancing at the oscars? I guess I HAVE seen everything… Except a man eat his own head 10:48 PM Mar 7th
Andy: That’s not how you dance to the Fantastic Mr. Fox music. #urdoinitwrong 10:49 PM Mar 7th
Ian: HAHAHA this guy is awesome at the robot 10:49 PM Mar 7th
Ian: @Andy Know why avatar is going to win this category? Because the song even SOUNDS like victory 10:51 PM Mar 7th
Andy: I AM GLAD AVATAR LOST! #schadenfreude 10:53 PM Mar 7th
[Best Visual Effects Oscar nominees are introduced.]
Ian: I guess whoever was best at making aliens will win this one 10:54 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Avatar wins the one award it actually deserved! Yay Avatar, way to go! 10:56 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Could we talk for a minute about how the premise of Up In the Air is patently ridiculous? 10:57 PM Mar 7th
Ian: While Hurt Locker does deserve every nomination and win, maybe it’s dumb producers shouldn’t have been banned from the show 10:59 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Screenwriter ZING! Courtesy of your host, Alec Baldwin. 11:01 PM Mar 7th
Ian: I heard a lot of good things about the cove. Rootin’ for it11:02 PM Mar 7th
Andy: @Ian It was only the one [producer of The Hurt Locker] that got banned, he talked shit about Avatar in an email to Academy members or something.11:02 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Tonight is a triumph for dolphin murder. #what?#sorryeveryone 11:05 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Booooo Tyler Perryyyyyy. 11:06 PM Mar 7th
Andy: “TEXT DOLPHIN TO 44144 FOR FREE DOLPHIN WALLPAPERS AND RINGTONES” -Bryan, friend of The Yeti 11:07 PM Mar 7th
Ian: When is Inglorious Basterds going to get its recognition?!? It has to win SOMEthing 11:08 PM Mar 7th
Andy: @Ian Best Supporting Actor. That’s all you can expect for a Tarantino film. 11:09 PM Mar 7th
Ian: @Andy Well I’m still angry Brad Pitt didn’t get nominated 11:11 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Finally, it’s time for all the really good awards 11:18 PM Mar 7th
Ian: “Will it be Avatar, Hurt Locker, Blind Side, or is a surprise in store?” I’m not too happy that they made 10 noms and only give 3 credit 11:21 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Let’s go, Jeremy Renner 11:24 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Whenever anyone talks about a guy’s “massive talent” I always and invariably assume they’re talking about his dick. #trufax 11:29 PM Mar 7th
Andy: This is payback for snubbing The Big Lebowski. #thedudeabides 11:33 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Ya know what, I’m okay with this. Jeff Bridges is the coolest (and only) “dude” in the room 11:33 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Sandra Bullock, let’s do this. 11:41 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Would Helen Mirren be the first actor to win twice in a row? 11:43 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Helen Mirren: still a total fox at 64. 11:43 PM Mar 7th
Ian: @Andy Agreed. 11:44 PM Mar 7th
Andy: If Oprah EVER said ANYTHING about me, I would burst into tears. If it was something nice, I’d pee my pants. 11:46 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Seriously Oscars, are there to be ZERO upsets? I mean REALLY! #finallydrunk 11:49 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Anyone else see Meryl Streep like “Go on, git it!” to Sandra Bullock? 11:49 PM Mar 7th
Andy: George Clooney threw Sandra Bullock into a pool? Wish I’d been at that party. 11:51 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Sandra Bullock – will you marry me? Sincerely, IPT 11:51 PM Mar 7th
Andy: Best Actor and Actress winners get too much time to talk. #populism? 11:53 PM Mar 7th
Andy: There’s never been a black Best Director winner? Really? 2010? FAIL. 11:54 PM Mar 7th
Andy: BOOSH! HURT LOCKER FOR THE WIN!!! 11:55 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Katheryn Bigelow, congrats. That movie was the best I’ve seen in ages. 11:55 PM Mar 7th
Andy: James Cameron looks pissed. FUCK YOU, JAMES CAMERON!!! 11:58 PM Mar 7th
Ian: What kind of a title is “Academy Governor?” 11:58 PM Mar 7th
Ian: Woah – Tom Hanks, you came outta nowhere with that! 11:59 PM Mar 7th
Ian: See 3 tweets previous. 12:00 AM Mar 8th
Andy: Hurt Locker won Best Picture YAAAAAYYY! Cheer up James Cameron, you are a multi-millionaire. 12:00 AM Mar 8th
Andy: “THIS WIN MAKES UP FOR THE INTERPRETIVE DANCING (No it doesnt)” -Camille, friend of The Yeti 12:01 AM Mar 8th
Andy: Well that ended extremely abruptly–just the way we like it! If only the rest of the presentations could have followed Tom Hanks’ example. 12:04 AM Mar 8th
Andy: Thank you and good night everyone! The Yeti loves you! 12:04 AM Mar 8th
Ian: Well all, it’s been fun, but here ends my Oscar livetweet coverage. Thanks to Andy for backing me up, and follow me @IanPT89. & thanks to… 12:07 AM Mar 8th
Well that was The Yeti’s coverage of the Oscars! The Hurt Locker beat out Avatar in every category they competed for, I think, which means sexism is over, hooray! nothing, really. Oh well. See you next year, Oscars!
Tags: Dumb, Liveblogging, Oscars, Television
