More than 43.000 visitors watched Oscar nominaions 2001 announcement online

Oscar nominations 2011 has been outlined. And it has attracted tens of thousands of people online for the live coverage of the event which took place at 8:39 am EST. Since there'll be zillions of sites listing and talking about the oscar 2011 nominations, I decided to stick to some online live viewers stats. Here's my findings:


As it was stated earlier, the live event would start at 08:30 AM EST so I started my findings as of this exact time frame. Official site for live streaming of Oscar nominations for 2011 was http://oscar.go.com. They had built their streaming structure over http://www.livestream.com

As the time was ticking 08:30 AM EST, there were 25.516 online viewers standing by waiting to see the nominations of Oscar 2011. And the rest of my 25 minutes long statistic hunt is as follows

25.516 viewers @ 08:30 intro began
26.460 viewers @ 08:31
27.611 viewers @ 08:33
29.186 viewers @ 08:34
31.343 viewers @ 08:35
32.586 viewers @ 08:36
33.977 viewers @ 08:37
35.332 viewers @ 08:38
36.832 viewers @ 08:39 live coverage began
37.974 viewers @ 08:40
39.401 viewers @ 08:41
41.017 viewers @ 08:42
41.394 viewers @ 08:43
42.931 viewers @ 08:43 peak # of visitors
41.080 viewers @ 08:44 live announcement ended
33.866 viewers @ 08.45
32.268 viewers @ 08:46
32.959 viewers @ 08:47
33.658 viewers @ 08:48
33.887 viewers @ 08:49
34.253 viewers @ 08:50
28.191 viewers @ 08:51
27.561 viewers @ 08:52
26.783 viewers @ 08:53 replay began
24.921 viewers @ 08:54

During 25 minutes of online viewing, number of online viewers started with 25.516 and began increasing. Peak point was 42.931. The same number of online viewers showed up after 24 minutes of the introduction of Oscar nominations 2001 live coverage.

However these stats do not imply the exact number of visitors who were watching the announcement live. There were several comers and leavers. And the peak numbers seem to be restricted by time frame. It was only 08:30 am in the morning EST, hence earlier through out to the west. Anyway, Oscar Academy Award winners of 2011 will be announced on 27th of February 2011.

And just for the record, here are the nominations.

Best Picture
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter”
“Inception”
“The Kids Are All Right”
“The King’s Speech”
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”
“Toy Story 3”
“True Grit”
“Winter’s Bone”

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, “Black Swan”
David O. Russell, “The Fighter”
Tom Hooper, “The King's Speech”
David Fincher, “The Social Network”
Joel and Ethan Coen, “True Grit”

Best Actor
Javier Bardem, “Biutiful”
Jeff Bridges, “True Grit”
Jesse Eisenberg, “The Social Network”
Colin Firth, “The King's Speech”
James Franco, “127 Hours”

Best Actress
Annette Bening, “The Kids Are All Right”
Nicole Kidman, “Rabbit Hole”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter's Bone”
Natalie Portman, “Black Swan”
Michelle Williams, “Blue Valentine”

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, “The Fighter”
John Hawkes, “Winter's Bone”
Jeremy Renner, “The Town”
Mark Ruffalo, “The Kids Are All Right”
Geoffrey Rush, “The King's Speech”

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, “The Fighter”
Helena Bonham Carter, “The King's Speech”
Melissa Leo, “The Fighter”
Hailee Steinfeld, “True Grit”
Jacki Weaver, “Animal Kingdom”

Best Animated Feature Film
“How to Train Your Dragon”
“Illusionist”
“Toy Story 3”

Best Foreign Film
Mexico - “Biutiful”
Greece - “Dogtooth”
Denmark - “In a Better World”
Canada - “Incendies”
Algeria - “Outside the law”

Best Original Screenplay
“Another Year”
“The Fighter”
“Inception”
“The Kids Are All Right”
“The King's Speech”

Best Adapted Screenplay
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”
“Toy Story 3”
“True Grit”
“Winter's Bone”

Best Art Direction
“Alice in Wonderland”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I”
“Inception”
“The King's Speech”
“True Grit”

Best Costume Design
“Alice in Wonderland”
“I Am Love”
“The King's Speech”
“The Tempest”
“True Grit”

Best Original Song
Coming Home - “Country Strong”
I See the Light - “Tangled”
If I Rise - “127 Hours”
We Belong Together - “Toy Story 3”

Best Original Score
"How to Train Your Dragon" John Powell
"Inception" Hans Zimmer
"The King's Speech" Alexandre Desplat
"127 Hours" A.R. Rahman
"The Social Network" Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Best Documentary
"Exit Through the Gift Shop"
"Gasland"
"Inside Job"
"Restrepo"
"Waste Land"

Best Film Editing
"Black Swan"
"The Fighter"
"The Kings Speech"
"127 Hours"
"The Social Network"

Best Makeup
"Barney's Version"
"The Way Back"
"The Wolfman"

Best Sound Editing
"Inception"
"Toy Story 3"
"TRON: Legacy"
"True Grit"
"Unstoppable"

Best Sound Mixing
"Inception"
"The King's Speech"
"Salt"
"The Social Network"
"True Grit"

Best Visual Effects
"Alice in Wonderland"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1"
"Hereafter"
"Inception'
'Iron Man 2"

Best Documentary (Short Subject)
"Killing in the Name"
"Poster Girl"
"Strangers No More"
"Sun Comes Up"
"The Warriors of Qiugang"

Best Visual Short Film (Animated)
"Day & Night"
"The Gruffalo"
"Let's Pollute"
"The Lost Thing"
"Madagascar, carnet de voyage"

Best Short Film (Live Action)
"The Confession"
"The Crush"
"God of Love"
"Na Wewe"
"Wish 143"