Loving The Wolf: Oscar Tweeting

Even though I work in the film industry, there are years when I don't watch the Oscars, but this was not one of them.

Danny Boyle is an old friend of mine - we worked together for eighteen months on an adaptation of my novel, The War Zone, before Tim Roth took over as director - and Danny's amazing Slumdog Millionaire was produced by Film4, the company for whom I am currently adapting Toby Barlow's remarkable book, Sharp Teeth.

So all in all there was good reason to watch this year's telecast and I thought it might be fun to "tweet" it on Twitter as well. Here is my record of the night - a great one for Danny, Film4 and Slumdog - including the epic struggle with our four year old son, Hudson, to watch it at all. Hudson is being raised in the Waldorf/Steiner philosophy and does not watch TV, with the notable exception of Wall-E on DVD - so a night with the TV on was unusual for all of us.

Because of the nature of the Twitter feed, you have to read these entries from the bottom up! (The times of the postings are a little random as they reflect when they were saved as PDF pages.)

YESSSSSSSS! Slumdog and Danny and Film4 and everyone

else. What an amazing night!

about 2 hours ago from TwitterFon

Fabulous for Danny...and love the Tigger jumping:-)

about 2 hours ago from TwitterFon

Slumdog's music ROCKS...but I love the Peter Gabriel song

from Wall-E, too (we have watched Wall-E 50 times). Go

Slumdog, to the biggies!!!

about 3 hours ago from TwitterFon

Another win for Slumdog, amazing. They should use Segways

for everyone to reach the stage at the Oscars!

about 3 hours ago from TwitterFon

You can't fail with Grease...or All That Jazz...or Lady

Marmalade. But where's the Slumdog closing number?

about 4 hours ago from TwitterFon

Another win for Slumdog, fantastic...the cinematography and

editing were outstanding.

about 4 hours ago from TwitterFon

That was Joaquin, iPhone keys close together:-)

about 4 hours ago from TwitterFon

Had a DVR freeze for dinner, catching up now. LOVE Ben

Stiller as Joaquim Phoenix...I thought Joaquim was really

funny on Letterman.

about 4 hours ago from TwitterFon

YAYYYYY...great win for Wall-E, it really deserves it.

about 4 hours ago from TwitterFon

Love the Wall-E Oscar animation.