Entertainment

Oscars Causes Two-Million Movie Netflix Rental Craze

According to Netflix, during the Oscars their subscribers added two million movies to their queues. Two million in just three hours. In the meantime, I was looking for more clips of Kate Winslet naked. [HackingNetflix]


February 23, 2009
Entertainment

Wall-E Wins Oscar For Best Animated Feature

A great day for the longtime Gizmodo love target. Andrew Stanton accepted, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping for a prerecorded, one-word speech by the character himself. Or by this.


February 21, 2009

Which Movie Should Win the Oscar For Best Visual Effects?

There are only three movies in the category, but the competition should be fierce. Should the Oscar go to the Dark Knight, Iron Man or the Curious Case of Benjamin Button?


Entertainment

A Peek at the Oscar Animated Shorts Nominees

With the Oscars this weekend and all of their red carpet pageantry, it’s always easy to forget that some of the most innovative art and storytelling is found in the animated shorts.


January 24, 2009

The Wall-E Cheese Sandwich

What better way than to celebrate the Oscar nominees than with a complete Wall-E meal?


February 25, 2008
Mobile

Jon Stewart, Bored With Oscars, Pulls Out iPhone

newVideoPlayer("iphone_oscars_gizmodo.flv", 463, 387,"");Never before has the futility of watching films on such a tiny screen been so well encapsulated as when Jon Stewart enjoyed Lawrence of Arabia on the Oscar stage last night. If you missed it, we won’t spoil the joke for you. But even after Stewart’s cultural nod/low blow to the iPhone, Jobs got the last laugh as he was thanked later during Pixar’s Best Animated Film acceptance speech.


February 7, 2008
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Motorola Gifts Personalised Copies of Its ROKR E8 to Oscar Nominees

Just like they did at last year’s ceremony, Motorola is gifting 2008′s Oscar nominees with personalised versions of its as-yet-unreleased ROKR E8. Yeah, yeah, you probably think we are turning into a celebrity website, but, given the past few weeks of will they, won’t they? speculation as to whether they are getting out of the handset market, this announcement means, IMO, one thing.