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Oscar Worthy Gadgets: Microphones in Dreamgirls
One of my favorite things about historical dramas is that there are often a handful of bloopers that only the discerning (or really geeky) eye can catch. Considering the other techie mistakes in the film - the lip-syncing is off during some verses of "It's All Over" and "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" - I thought someone in the tech department might have been asleep at the wheel when it came to using the right microphones for the time period. My sources tell me this is not the case.
Geeky Gadgets Oscar Style - What Did You Miss?
- Fab may have been checking out the hot messenger bag by La Rue that Andy carries in The Devil Wears Prada, but my eyes were locked on the Sidekicks that seemed to sneak into every single street scene in the movie.
- Helen Mirren is on everyone's list as a top contender for best actress - her old school phone is pretty snazzy too.
- My first celebrity crush and Oscar nominee Leo DiCaprio will be rocking the trendy Samsung Black Carbon Phone this Sunday. Swoon.
- The Departed is not only an Oscar nominated action-packed film with some of the greatest actors of our time, but it is also a gadget-packed movie featuring some of the most advanced technology of our time.
- The ladies of Dreamgirls busted out their tunes on an Electro-Voice from the '50s and early '60s and an old Neumann mic, which among others was perfectly accurate for the time.
- I'll never forget the scene where Little Miss Sunshine's Olive unleashes a scream more intense than a stampede of hundreds of people getting their hands on a Wii when she finds out she was accepted to the "Little Miss Sunshine" beauty and talent competition. Of course, the answering machine she yells at is Oscar worthy itself.
- Blood Diamond is set in 1990's Sierra Leone and filled with civil war and conflict, which Jennifer Connelly's character captures on a fancy Leica camera.
- Nominated for an Academy Award for cinematography Children of Men features some of my favorite things: Clive Owen, Sci-Fi and awesome gadgets.
- According to Borat, iPod minis are for girls.
Oscar Worthy Gadgets - iPod Mini in Borat
In the hilarious Oscar nominated movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Borat (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) is a TV personality from Kazakhstani TV who is sent to the United States to report on all aspects of American life. At the very end of the movie he says this funny quote about the iPod: "My neighbor Nushuktan Tulyiagby is still assholes. I get iPod, he only get iPod mini.
Oscar Worthy Gadgets - Watch in Children of Men
Nominated for an Academy Award for cinematography Children of Men features some of my favorite things: Clive Owen, Sci-Fi and awesome gadgets. The movie takes place in 2027, as humankind faces extinction and a government agent agrees to help transport and protect a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary of scientists.
My Buzzsugar spy tells me that in this scene a tech wiz teenager is zoned out and playing with this wild futuristic toy of some sort by just staring at it and flickering his fingers.
Oscar Worthy Gadgets: Cameras in Blood Diamond
In Blood Diamond Academy Award-winner Jennifer Connelly plays Maddy Bowen, an American journalist who gets caught up in the story of two men, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou, in search of a rare pink diamond. The film is set in 1990's Sierra Leone and filled with civil war and conflict, which Connelly's character captures on a fancy Leica camera.
According to camera fans, Connelly's character uses an M6 Classic and a 35mm Summicron.
Oscar Worthy Gadgets - Remote in Click
Nominated for achievement in makeup, Click was the one movie in 2006 with a plot revolving around a geeky gadget. While the idea of an all-powerful, time controlling universal remote is far-fetched; it did provide some lighthearted laughs and drama. Whether you call your remote by its real name, "clicker" or "twanger," remotes play a daily part in our tech lives and it's easy to wonder what you would have done were you in Adam Sandler's shoes in the movie.
Oscar Worthy Gadgets: Technology in The Departed
The Departed is not only an Oscar nominated action-packed film with some of the greatest actors of our time, but it is also a gadget-packed movie featuring some of the most advanced technology of our time! Here is a shot from a sting set up, where the police are equipped with high-tech laptops and headphones to help them combat Jack Nicholson's organized crime ring. Some interesting techie tidbits: When Colin Sullivan, played by Matt Damon, is switching Sim cards in the phone booth, he is using a Sprint RL7400 cell phone, which doesn't actually use Sim cards in real life.
Oscar Worthy Gadgets: Little Miss Sunshine's Answering Machine
There are a few reasons why I love Little Miss Sunshine. No. 1: Steve Carell.
Oscar Worthy-Gadgets: The Queen's Phone
Everyone is buzzing about The Queen, which happens to be nominated for six Academy Award nominations, including best director, actress and screenplay. The film, which details the death of Lady Diana Spencer and the public relations fiasco that followed, has gotten a great deal of press concerning its costumes -it's also nominated for best costumes - and set. I couldn't help but be captivated by the old fashioned phone the queen, played by Helen Mirren, uses.
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