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Happy Oscars Sunday!
 
Happy Oscars Sunday! Watch on ABC or via the Watch ABC app livestreamed first time, 5p. Plus check our our Awards Tracker of winners at awards shows we've attended this season to help with your Oscar predictions.
 
TODAY:  Got Oscars plans? Watch the Oscars with us at our Digital LA - Oscar Viewing Party and Film Startup Pitch at Cross Campus in Silicon Beach style in Santa Monica.  First, six film startups will pitch from 2-4p, the first time all-film startups have pitched on stage together in Silicon Beach: 

- MediaHound: find your fave films online
- FilmBreak: filmmakers platform with marketing, crowdfunding tools
- Filmzu: online filmmaker crew-up
- Dealflicks: fans get movie discounts, theaters sell unsold seats
- Laudville: find/share content with friends
- Snoovie: short films distributed via app.
 
After pitches, we will watch the Oscars 5-8p on the 18' big screen at Cross Campus, with winner prediction game for your chance to win prizes. REGISTER to attend!
 

 

Film Startups Pitch, 2-4p
 
- FilmBreak, Darren Marble, Co-Founder. FilmBreak is a marketing platform that helps filmmakers build, engage and identify the taste profiles of their online audience while simultaneously giving fans access to exclusive film content. FilmBreak also organizers LA-based entertainment mixers to promote its platform's film releases, and has started to run crowdfunding consulting services for clients including actor Sean Astin. @FilmBreak_

- MediaHound, Addison McCaleb, CEO Founder. MediaHound simplifies the way people discover, share, and consumer entertainment - movies, TV, music, books and games, all in one place. USC Viterbi accelerator alum. @MediaHound. 

- DealFlicks, Sean Wyclife. Dealflicks is Priceline for movie tickets. $40 billion dollars are spent every year on movie tickets, popcorn, and soda, but 88% of movie theater seats are empty. Dealflicks partners with theaters to fill these empty seats. Dealflicks graduated Warner Bros Media Camp accelerator and 500 Startups accelerator. @dealflicks

- Laudville, Phoebe B. Scott, CEO Founder. Laudville connects users to entertainment they will love. Laudville connects a user's activity on other social and entertainment sites. @laudville
 
- Snoovies, Roger Carvalho, CEO/Founder  is a mobile iPhone and iPad magazine app which digital distributes mini-movies, aka snoovies.  Movie fans can discover new actors and directors. Currently available in the app store @snooviesapps

- Filmzu, Nick Ghirardelli, CEO/Founder. Filmzu is a marketplace that lets aspring or professional filmmakers source, shop and securely pay for video production services. @filmzu
 
REGISTER to attend the film startup pitch 2-4p, then watch the Oscars on the 18' big screen at Cross Campus 5-8p and play our Oscar prediction game for prizes
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#Oscars Sunday 
Follow @TheAcademy #Oscars as you second-screen and triple-screen watch the Oscars show and red carpet today.

 

Digital LA - Digital @ Awards Tracker: To help with your Oscar ballot predictions, we've listed winners from the major awards shows we've attended leading up to the Oscars this season, which can provide a clue, including the PGA Awards, Writers Guild Awards, ACE Editors Awards, MPSE Golden Reel Awards and more.

 

Also: Here are some digital related #Oscars news and promotions.

  

- Disney ABC TV and the Academy launched the Watch ABC app, which for the first time lets you livestream the Oscar broadcast to your online / mobile device, via select carriers. Details. @DisneyABCTV

  

- The Academy is launching a #MyOscarPhoto promotion which lets fans tweet a photo of themselves looking Oscar ready on the red carpet.  Select fans' images will be added next to celebrities on-air during the oscars show. Details. @theAcademy

  

- Fandango has hired Vine Star comedian 20-yr old Marcus Johns to be its social media correspondent on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday.  Marcus, who is the #5 most-followed on Vine with more than 4M followers, will be taking over Fandango's Instagram to post pics and video live from the red carpet on Sunday. @Fandango

 

- The Hollywood Reporter promo lets you fill out and tweet your Oscar winner prediction ballot for a chance to win a Microsoft Surface tablet. Details. @THR

  

We've been attending Oscars related events in LA all week at the Academy of Motion Pictures HQ in Beverly Hills and around town, including tonight's Animated Feature panel at the Academy with the filmmakers of Frozen, Despicable Me 2, etc. Follow @DigitalLA for our live-tweets form the panel.

  

- We attended the first-ever Oscars Concert at UCLA Royce Hall, with Common as the host.  John Williams received two standing ovations, and conducted the Academy orchestra in a medley of songs from his Oscar-nomianted score for The Book Thief. Digital related films represented in full force:  Her is the only film with nominations for both song and score, with musical performances of both.  Disney Frozen songwriters Bobby Lopez and his wife performed the Oscar-nomianted Let It Go song.  Happy from Despicable Me 2 was also performed.  Thomas Newman conducted the orchestra with a moving medley of songs from Saving Mr. Banks. 

  

- ICG Publicists Awards recognized film and TV publicists who use tools from telephone calls to social media to promote film and TV, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills at the annual lunch.  Gravity won excellent publicity for Film.

 

  Other winners included: Carol Burnett presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Jerry Lewis.  We attended and live-tweeted from the lunch. Josh Gad, the voice of Olaf in Frozen, presented a plaque commemorating the 90th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios to the studio's executive vice president Andrew Millstein (photo right). 

 

Lionsgate co-chairs Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger received Motion Picture Showmen of the Year, presented by Shailene Woodley and Theo James (photo right) who star in the film Divergent, which got several shoutouts during the awards show (that's what publicists do best!).  Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy) received the TV Showman of the Year, thanking her publicist to make sure that she gets out more.  See our PICS. 

- Oscar-nom Documentary panel: The filmmakers of the Square described how their documentary shows how social media helped with the Egyptian revolution,at the Academy HQ last night.  The Square is distributed on Netflix, and has been internationally streamed as well, including 300,000 downloads in Kiev.  After viewers in Kiev and Moscow watch the film, they are motivated go online and Skype to connect with others.  Very digital story!

  

- Oscar-nominated Short Film panelists described how they use digital techniques to create animation like the Disney animated short Get A Horse, which uses 2D and 3D techniques, on Tuesday night at the Academy HQ. 

 

- The Oscar nominated Art Directors and Costume Designers panel is on Saturday. We'll be live tweeting from it, follow @ADG800 #ADGpanel @DigitalLA

 

- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences HQ on in Beverly Hills has a poster exhibit with images of characters from popular movies. There are several digital movies and VFX heavy movies represented including The Incredibles, Transformers, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and more. 

 

  

- Our founder Kevin Winston moderated the Entrepreneur panel on Wed at the Vanity Fair Social Club at WeWork in Hollywood.  The panel featured several WeWork startups and illustrator / Instagram talent Rachel Ryle discussing how they build their brands online via social media.   The #VFSocialClub is hosting influential fashion, style and entertainment bloggers with invites to its start-studded night pre-Oscar parties. Follow @VFagenda #VFSC.

  

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Digital LA - The Digerati List of 2014 


Awardees included individuals from movie studios Warner Bros, Disney Animation (Steve Goldberg photo right) and DreamWorks, digital content creators including Fullscreen, as well as Silicon Beach companies including SHIFT, Snapchat, and Docstoc, which had a $50M exit last year. Check the Digerati List of 2014.

"This is LA's first awards show recognizing digital leaders across industry, who both exemplified excellence in digital over the past year, and support LA's tech community," said Digital LA founder Kevin Winston. 

Check out our awards dinner PICS.

The Digearti Awards dinner recognized several leaders on the Digital LA - Digerati List of 2014, recognizing 30 outstanding companies and individuals in digital over the past year.

 

Digerati LA - Digerati List of 2014  

Awards Dinner Attendees
- Clark Landry, SHIFT, CEO
- Drew Baldwin, Tubefilter, Co-Founder
- Ethan Applen, Warner Bros. Media Camp
- Ezra Cooperstein, Fullscreen, COO
- Jason Nazar, Docstoc, CEO
- Jenni Powell and Bernie Su, Lizzie Bennet Diaries
- Juan David Barrero accepting on behalf of Snapchat
- Lissy L'Amoreaux, Ignition
- Maria Pacheco, DreamWorks Animation
- Patrick O'neill, olloclip, CEO Founder
- Steve Goldberg, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Frozen VFX Supervisor 

Additional Digerati List
- Adam Miller, Cornerstone OnDemand, CEO
- Alex Kazerani, Edgecast, CEO and Chairman
- Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity, Producer / Director / Writer
- Beyonce, Artist, digitally distributed album
- Brandon Beck, Riot Games, CEO
- Brian Robbins, Awesomeness TV, CEO Founder
- Jessica Alba, Honest Company, Founder
- Julie Uhrman, Ouya, CEO Founder
- Mahbod Moghadam, Rap Genius, Co-Founder
- Mike Hopkins, Hulu, CEO
- Reed Hastings, Netflix, CEO
- Sam Friedman, ParkMe, CEO, Founder
- Sarah Penna, Big Frame, Co-Founder
- Sean Rad and Justin Mateen, Tinder, Co-Founders
- Sophia Amoruso, Nasty Gal, CEO Founder
- Walter Driver, Scopely, CEO Co-Founder
- Demand Media
- Naughty Dog, creator of Last of Us game
- Minions, Despicable Me 2 (digital character)

 Startups to Watch category includes:
- Allison Beal, Style Saint, CEO Founder
- Brandon Werber, Lootsie, President, Co-Founder
- Jason Crilly and Holden Steinberg, Nearwoo, Co-Founders
- Jilliene Helman, Realty Mogul, CEO 
- Nick Smoot, Here On Biz, CEo

Winston hosted the awards shows, with presenters including award-winning Shira Lazar of What's Trending, and David Carter, co-founder of Amplify LA accelerator and investor in several Silicon Beach startups.   
Several attendees said they were honored to be recognized and be part of the first Digerati Awards.

"You used to always have to go to San Francisco for tech events, now we have them here," said Digerati Award winner Maria Pacheco of DreamWorks Animation, mobile games.

"I didn't know I was an 'entrepreneur.' I was just someone who gets things done," said Digerati Award winner Patrick O'Neill, CEO of olloclip.
 
Jenni Powell of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries prepared a nice speech thanking everyone for helping support digital content.  Bernie Su and Jay Bushman also helped create the award winning show. 
 
  
  

   

     

  

Thanks to our attendees, volunteers, the Beverly Hilton for hosting us, and partners PulsoViral social media wall, and photographer Fabio Tovar.  

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OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

  

- Digital LA - Cross Campus Oscars Viewing Party and Film Startup Showcase, Mar 2.  Hear film and entertainment startups pitch, then watch the Oscars on the big screen! Startups FilmBreak, Filmzu and more will pitch their startups from 2:30-3:30p, followed by a short panel with startup founders 3:30p-4p. Then then we'll watch the Oscars red carpet pre show, watch the Oscars on the big screen 5-8p, and play the Oscar prediction game on the big screen. Register.  http://dlacco.eventbrite.com 
 

- Digital LA @ SXSW. LA Tech Connect brings together some of LA's hottest tech companies to Austin during SXSW. The third year of this unofficial SXSW event has introduced crowds of people from the U.S. and abroad to the LA tech scene. This year, we're featuring dozens of companies, OPEN BAR, lounge, and charging stations under the oak tree at Tequila 508 and Pelon's at 8th and Red River (across from Stubb's)

FREE RSVP: http://ctt.ec/6D5uc

VOLUNTEERS needed to help with check in and helping out with booths, setup, take down. Great way to meet tech leaders, and add event production help to your resume: Volunteer Register http://latcv.eventbrite.com/

  



Stuff you get for FREE (subject to availability) 
- OPEN BAR all day! 
- Interactive exhibits with established and emerging LA-based companies 
- Hangover Kits, Charging stations, Chair massages 
- Office hours with free legal and design advice  
- Food: Stubbs BBQ, Tacos, Cupcakes & Coffee, O.N.E. Coconut, Margarita

Lounge area to kick back, charge yourself and your phone, and relax under the oak tree, and a bumping DJ line-up assembled by DJ Digg

The event is FREE and open to the public. No SXSW badge required.  
 
At SXSW, our founder Kevin Winston is moderating an official SXSW panel '5 Lessons on Marketing Movies' on March 9 with heads of digital from Universal Pictures, Fox International, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks. 

  

- Digital LA - Fashion Week Panel. March 13 @ Ignited Spaces. Mark your calendar for our fashion panel during LA Fashion Week. Details soon!

  

- Digital LA - GDC Party @ San Francisco, March. Details Soon!
 

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OUR RECENT EVENTS 
 
Digital LA - African American Digital Leaders. Keep up to date and proficient with new digital tools, and follow your passion, said speakers at our Digital LA - African-American Digital Leaders Summit at WeWork in Hollywood. This is LA's first panel highlighting successful African-American digital leaders, during Black History Month. 

Speakers Bettina Sherick of Fox VP Digital Marketing International, Beverly Jackson of Yahoo! Social Media Director, and Sheila Marmon, CEO founder of Mirror Digital, shared their career stories, advice and tips to succeed in digital.

HIGHLIGHTS
- Storytelling is key to social. Understand the story you're trying to tell, listen to your audiences to find what resonates, and then tell the story across multiple digital and social media platforms that are specific to the strength of the platform. 

- In board rooms and meetings, be the expert on and use the newest digital tools, which you'll find can help advance your career. Use Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, YouTube, etc. so you're not just talking about it, you use it.

- Trends: microvideo social platforms like 6-second Vine and 15-second Instagram are increasing use, as young demos spend more time on mobile. Fox and other studios are starting to promote their films with 6-second Vine and 15-second Instagram trailers to reach mobile. 

- Traditional marketing is about casting a wide net via TV and newspaper. Today's social media marketing focuses on "micronets"- reaching out to influencers with followings, and online communities who'd be interested in your content or product. Celebrity endorsements are OK, but can be inauthentic and expensive. 

- Follow your passion in digital. If you like photos, events, writing, acting, producing etc. there are digital platforms and tools you can delve into to be the expert and perfect your craft. 

Thanks to WeWork for hosting, and great tweet notes from the audience:

RT @crescentspeak "Technology is enabling storytelling in new and different ways" #DigitalLALeaders

RT @jenniferwinberg "Social media is enabling storytelling in new or interesting ways" #DigitalLALeaders @DigitalLA @WayToBlueUS #digital #LA #socialmedia

RT @crescentspeak "Social is for sharing stories" #DigitalLALeaders

RT @paladoga Heard some amazing women speak today. Wise peeps. @bettina @lalasheila @bevjack #DigitalLAleaders

RT @crescentspeak "Always be the one in the room who knows what is going on" #DigitalLALeaders 
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Digital LA - Vine Stars panel.  Five top Viners reaching a combined 10M followers shared their experiences and insights on developing their brand and careers in 6-second videos at our Digital LA - Vine Stars panel at WeWork Hollywood.

The Viner influencers discussed how they got started on Vine, get ideas for content, and collab with other Viners. Most of the panelists found out about Vine from a friend, and started to post funny comedy videos. The short 6-second format is perfect for a situational humor joke, comment on daily life, or physical humor. Pranks used to be popular but are declining. Stop-motion animation is used, but comedy Vines build bigger audiences, and are more shared. 

Viners said that once they hit 500,000 to 1M followers, they started to get calls from brands. Viners on our panel have worked big brands including Pepsi, Wendy's and the NFL, startups like apps Hot or Not or the Hunt, and movie studios who invite Viners to movie premieres and other events to reach a broader audience.

"We are our own TV networks,' said Brittany Furlan, the #3 most-followed on Vine with 5M followers. 
 
See our PICS and more summary highlights.

Thanks to WeWork for hosting, and thanks to our panelists! Follow them!

- Brittany Furlan is the top female Viner and #3 overall. With her comedic Vines, she has developed a loyal following, and worked with Wendy's, Trident, and other brands. @BrittanyFurlan. 5M followers

- Ry Doon. Ry is a Boston based comedian known for his outrageous Vine videos featuring segments like "unnecessary swearing." @RyDoon. 1.9M followers

- Klarity. With his unique sense of humor, Klarity collabs with other Viners on a regular basis and has worked with brands such as Snippit, Oral B and the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer. @Klarity_ 1M followers

- Manon Mathews started on Vine with her impression of Kristen Stewart. Her Vines have led to work with brands such as The Hunt app and will star in feature film, Holiday Breakup. @ManonMathews. 1M followers.

- Ramona Michelle. Beauty YouTuber Ramona started doing Vines to express her fun side, and has worked with Guthy-Renker, Guess and The Hunt. @RamonaMichelle.

Thanks to our Audience for great tweets via #VineStars
- RT @Nicktweetedthis Awesome @DigitalLA event with top #vinestars.

- RT @jasonokuma "To be popular on #Vine you MUST be funny!" @BrittanyFurlan #VineStars pic.twitter.com/9Ah0ARjhHm

- RT @JATIbuzz: Trends change every week. But when there's a trend, everyone really partakes. @DigitalLA @WeWork #vinestars @vineapp


- Harvard Hollywood Panel.  Harvard alum speakers from both big studios Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount and Fox, and Silicon Beach startups with experience at Hulu, and  Maker Studios, BeachMint, Mirror Digital discussed how they do digital at our panel team-up with Harvardwood and the Harvard Business School Association of Southern California.  Studio panelists discussed how they use digital tools for content distribution, marketing and social media, and shrinking windows. Startups discussed how they create new companies via digital, approach traditional companies for partnerships, and contact celebs to gain market share.  Panelists also gave advice to those considering getting into digital entertainment and startups.  See PICS.  
 
On the question of whether HBS students should work for a big studio or startup after graduating, panelist Diego Beradkin, founder of BeachMint, said "The question should be, should you drop out to start your startup."  Good point: dropping out of Harvard to do a startup has worked out pretty well for Bill Gates and Marc Zuckerberg.  (Photo right crowdsourced by attendee @BradTurner.)
 
- San Francisco Brunch. We rallied a Digital LA brunch in San Francisco at the Grove in SoMa (photo right) on Sunday to discuss more Digital LA events in LA, and more.  Attendees from: design agencies, digital agencies, and local city tech.  Our next Digital LA event in San Francisco will be next month during GDC. 
 
- Sports Startup Showcase @ Cross Campus. During the Olympics, and right after the Superbowl, we hosted LA's first sports focused startup pitch with startups in sports-related games, crowdfunding, livestreaming, and social networks at our Digital LA - Sports Startups Showcase at Cross Campus on Monday. Startup pitches included: Rivalry Games: (Justin Bauer) fantasy sports app - play for real money; FieldLevel (Kai Sato):  social network for coaches to recruit the best athletes; Tricky App (geotagged skateboading trick videos), NLAB Sports (crowdfunding charitable sports causes), EverSprt TV (Hulu for worldwide  sports) and Simplynew (Marc Scarpa): integrated social media with Mobovivo - Time Warner livestream broadcast of Lakers game,
 
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SILICON BEACH NEWS
 
- Disney launches Disney Accelerator.  Add investing in startups to Mickey's kingdom.  The Disney Accelerator will partner with TechStars accelerator to invest $120,000 in startups that improve the consumer experience, with access to mentors across Disney, Marvel, etc.  Applications opened today.  Apply: http://disneyaccelerator.com. The Warner Bros Media Camp accelerator graduated its first class of five startups last year with a Demo Day on the lot, and applications are open for its second class.

- LA wins at Crunchies: Silicon Beach startups won big at the TechCrunch Crunchies awards in San Francisco on Monday. Snapchat won Best Mobile App, Oculus won Best Hardware, Tinder won Best New Startup. Also nominated: Whisper, TaskUs, DogVacay  
 
- Tapiture gets $2.25M funding. The Tapiture social discovery site just announced a $2.25M round of funding, with investors including JUMP Investors, Lightbank, and Hilary Swank.  Marketwatch article. Tapiture hosted our Digital LA - Summer BBQ right at its offices on the Venice strand (photos right, see PICS). 
 
 - Snapchat is hiring, releasing a YouTube video co-starring Venice Beach surf, sand, and life.  Snapchat  is hiring engineers and more. Snapchat recently closed $50M funding. 
 
- Peter Marx is LA's new CITO. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti's office named its first Chief Innovation Technology Officer, Peter Marx this week. Peter is currently VP at Qualcomm, and formerly worked in LA at EA and Mattel. Check out his LinkedIn. Peter will spearhead open data initiatives.  We attended Mayor Garcetti's conference call announcing the news to digital leaders, and contacted Peter to speak at some of our upcoming events. 
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CONFERENCES

The Film Finance Forum is March 4-5 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Join major executives from Lionsgate, Participant Media, Annapurna Pictures, Fox Searchlight, Redbox PLUS active equity and debt financiers totaling over a billion in capital combined at the Film Finance Forum West from Catalina Capital, Union Bank, Vine Alternative Investments, Comerica, Transparent Media, East West Bank, Waterstone Entertainment, First Republic Bank, Doha Film Institute and more!  Digital LA founder Kevin Winston will be moderating the first ever Innovative Immersion Workshop being presented at the forum to explore next generation financing, marketing, and distribution strategies in order for content to standout and succeed in the age of the digital evolution. Register withpromo code DIGITAL30 to save 30% off the standard rate by February 28. Registered participants will have access to the VIP party taking place at Beacher's Madhouse.  

  

NAB Show, April 5-10 in Vegas. NAB Show is in Vegas Apr 5-10. We're pleased to extend to our members a Free Exhibits-only registration to NAB Show. Use code PR09. Or, use code PR39 to receive $100 off the Conference Flex or SMART Pass. Register atwww.nabshow.com. Hurry - offers expire March 21, 2014.

  

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DIGITAL AT AWARDS SEASON 2014
We are tracking digital at all the awards shows this year:
 
SciTech Awards Oscars.  Flying cameras, lighting and explosion software, and a car flipping machine won awards at the annual SciTech Awards Oscars by the Academy at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The Scientific and Technology Awards awarded technical achievements in filmmaking that have been used in films including Gravity, Avatar, The Hobbit, Pacific Rim, Matrix, Armageddon, and dozens more movies.  Hosts Kristen Bell and Michael B Jordan (Fruitvale Station) hosted the show.  Kristen said she liked technology, alluding to the Veronica Mars movie which raised $5.7M on Kickstarter.  See our pics and summary here.
 
MPSE Awards. George  Lucas said "sound is half the movie," presenting at the 61st annual Golden Reel Awards awarding sound editing, foley, and FX in film, TV, and games at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown LA.  Feature Film winners include: Gravity (FX/Foley), Captain Phillips (Dialogue/ADR), Frozen (Musical) and The Great Gatsby (music). Digital content winners include: Epic (Animated Film), Mortal Kombat Legacy Season 2 (Computer Episodic), and Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm cinematic sequences (Computer Interactive) by Irvine-based Blizzard games. See our awards show PICS. 

  

VES Awards. Gravity won 5 of 6 nominated categories, including the top film award, at the VES Awards by the Visual Effects Society, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron won Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature, Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature, Models in a Feature, FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature, Compositing in a Feature. 
Other winners include:
- Frozen swept all four of the categories it was nominated for, winning Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature, Animated Character in Animated Feature (Elsa), Created Environment in an Animated Feature (Elsa's Ice Palace), and FX Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature (Elsa's Blizzard finale). Go Frozen fractals!
- Game of Thrones won two awards: VFX in a Broadcast Program and Created Environment in a Broadcast Program. 
- Activision's Call of Duty Ghosts and ad won three awards: The game won Real Time Visuals in a Video Game. Its trailer Epic Night Out, starring four buddies and Megan Fox in Vegas, won VFX in a Commercial and Compositing.
 

  

 
PGA Awards.
Congrats digital winners and noms at the 25th anniversary Producers Guild Awards, held, at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday with dozens of celebs including Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, Robert Downey Jr, and more. See our PICS. 

- Film: Gravity tied with 12 Years A Slave in the first tie ever for top prize. Gravity is VFX Driven; Alfonso Cuaron accepted the award, presented by Ben Affleck. Brad Pitt (photo) and Steve McQueen accepted for 12 Years A Slave.

- Animation: Disney Frozen won; Nominated: The Croods, Despicable Me 2, Epic, Monsters University

- WETA Digital won the Vanguard Award, for creating special effects in The Hobbit, Iron Man 3, The Wolverine, etc.     
 
  - Digital Series: Wired: What's Inside won; Nominated: Lizzie Bennett Diaries (photo: Bernie Su, Jenni Powell and Jay Bushman of LBD), Epic Rap Battles of History, Burning Love, Video Game High School 
 
Oscars. Congrats digital at #OscarNoms announced including:

- Animation: Frozen, Despicable Me 2, Croods
- Best Pic: Gravity is VFX Driver, Her is techie
- VFX: Iron Man 3, Gravity, Star Trek, Hobbit, Lone Ranger
- Documentary: Netflix's The Square

Follow @TheAcademy, which tweeted out these nice square pics (Photo: Her) of all the #BestPic noms on Thursday morning   
 
 
Golden Globes.  12 Years A Slave won Drama and American Hustle won Comedy at the Golden Globes awards at the Beverly Hilton.  Congrats digital at the Golden Globes:
- Disney Frozen won Best Animated Film, beating Despicable Me 2 and The Croods.
- Netflix House of Cards had several nominations
 - Her by Spike Jonze won Best Screenplay. In Her, Joaquim Phoenix character develops a romantic relationship with Samantha, his OS system.
Check our Globes party PICS.  including celeb spottings: Idris Elba, Kerry Washington, Kelsey Grammer, Rob Lowe, and more. 
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Digital LA - Year in Review 2013
   Thank you for being a part of our 87 events in 2013! That's a Digital LA event every 4-5 days! Here's a summary of our past action-packed year of events. We look forward to seeing you at our events in 2014!"
- Kevin Winston Digital LA founder, Silicon Beach Fest founder.
 
EVENTS (for pics of all events, visit our Facebook albums)
 
Silicon Beach Fest
Our Silicon Beach Fest this past June attracted thousands of attendees, more than 250 speakers, 60 panels in 17 tracks, and four days of panels, parties, hackathon and Startup Showcase at Cross Campus, ROC Santa Monica, and Santa Monica Place.  Thanks to major sponsors Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, Media Temple, MyLife, and community organizers including Kluge Interactive, TechZulu, Radix Collective, PromoJam, and Dynamic Synergy Corporation. Days 1-2, 3-4.  Video by 4WT Media.
 
Our one-day Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood featured 20 entertainment startup pitches, the most at any LA event, with panels held at WeWork and just-launched IgnitedSpaces in Hollywood in November. Thanks to Delta Air Lines, Business Wire, Kluge, WeWork, IgnitedSpaces, Idea to Screen, JNB Events, 131 Consulting, Elance, and more. Thanks to iPrecinct which sponsored the closing reception. Silicon Beach Fest was covered in Forbes, LA Times, and dozens of other press. PICS, Startup Showcase Video
 
Panels:
We hosted panels and Startup Showcases featuring LA's top startups and experts on the following topics:
- Startups Pitch Hollywood @ ROC
- Digital Tools for Actors, YouTubers, Artists
- Meet the Streamys Awards Nominees @ ROC
- Digital Women: VCs and Angels
- Giving Tuesday @ Regus Santa Monica
- Connected Cars @BevHillsPorsche
- LGBT Marketing @ Drais W Hollywood
- Digital Comics @ WeWork Hollywood
- Digital Moms @ ROC Santa Monica
- Fitness Goes Digital @ SoulCycle SaMo
- Beauty Goes Social @ eSalon
- Green Gets Digital @ Santa Monica Place
- Phone Photography @ Wood and Vine
- Real Estate Goes Digital @ ROC SaMo
- EdTech Show-n-Tell @ NextSpace Culver
- Games Marketing Panel @ Orange SF
- Music for Games @ Microsoft Store
- Digitally Find a Job w EDGE @ UCLA
- Coder Cocktails w Yahoo! @ Zengo
- Dating and Social Networks @ ROC
- Apps and Apps @ Santa Monica Place
- Tweetbank for Eric Garcetti @ WeWork
- OC Digital Leaders @ ROC Newport
- Silicon Beach Best of 2013 @ ROC
- Harvard Hollywood Panel @ Busbys
- White House Women Girls App Challenge
 
Social Media Week LA panels
- Startups Go Social
- Movies and Music Go Social 
- Spas Go Social
 
 
Fashion Shows
We organized our spring and fall Startup Fashion Shows with Cross Campus and Santa Monica.  This is LA's only fashion show featuring exclusively the designs of Silicon Beach online and digital retailers.
- Spring Show video: Ellie, Carbon 38, Style Club, Tailored Republic, MeUndies, Magtag, Modern Nerd Apparel,  
- Fall Show pics: MeUndies, Quest Apparel, Shapeshifterz, Style Club, District2.Co, LK3 (which launched its Kickstarter campaign at the fashion show). 
 
PARTIES:
- BBQ @ Tapiture.  We enjoyed sunset views at the Tapiture Beach House on Venice, the after party for the Abbott Kinney Festival. PICS. 
- Digital LA - 5-Year Anniversary. We celebrated our 5-year Anniversary with our friends at TechZulu, also celebrating their five year, at ROC Santa Monica
- Oscars Viewing Party w IVY Entertainment
- VIP Cocktails @ 1801 Club
- Oktoberfest @ Alpine Village
- Anime Cocktails during the Anime Expo
 
- Holiday Party. More than 500 attended our annual Holiday Party at the Station at W Hollywood, with singing performances by Broadway and YouTuber talent. PICS.
- Red Party @ The Redbury 
- PromoJam 2.0 team-up with a bouncy castle!
- Digital Drinks @ Sayers Club
- Marina Del Rey Cocktails @ Glow
- Santa Monica Cocktails @ Wilshire
- Santa Monica Cocktails @ Del Friscos Grille
- Santa Monica Cocktails @ Redwood Grille
- Manhattan Beach Cocktails @ Strand House
 
Pool Parties:
We had a blast networking at two pool parties:
- Summer pool party with the Channel Factory at the Ritz Carlton residences private floor. We enjoyed great views from the Channel Factory cabana reserved for us, and chatted viral videos and digital content in the jacuzzi. PICS.
 
- Halloween Pool Party at a at a Studio City mansion.  When it's 80 during Halloween, that means costume pool party time, with lifeguards and mermaids talking digital in the pool with waterfall and hot tub. PICS.
 
BEYOND LA
National:
We hosted Digital LA events and parties at industry confernences from San Francisco to London including:
 
- Austin: Silicon Beach Sunday Funday in Austin during SXSW, featuring 20 hot LA startups at a packed fun event organized by the Radix Collective, which was covered by PandoDaily, LA Times, and more. Also, we hosted our annual Digital LA- SXSW Party with Planet LA bands on the rooftop of the Sixth Street bar and about 300 attendees.
 
- San Francisco: GDC Cocktails: cocktails and dancing at Vessel in Union Square.
 
- San Diego Comic-Con. Captain American and She-Ra the Princess of Power attended our rooftop cocktails during San Diego Comic-Con. Our founder Kevin Winston moderated an official Comic-Con panel with top digital content creators from LA. 
 
- Miami: Cocktails at Hyde Miami Beach, with digital entertainment attendees from NATPE, etc. 
 
International:
- France: Cannes Film Festival. We hosted our first Digital LA panel at Nikkis Beach at Cannes Beach during the Cannes Film Festival, featuring speakers from LA startup FilmBreak and a documentary about Enplug. 
 
- London: Our founder Kevin Winston presented a Silicon Beach 101 panel at London's Digital Shoreditch conference to a packed audience, followed by a panel featuring Vyclone and other LA startups with offices in London. 
 
Digital LA Influencer Crew
Our social media influencer crew was invited to many events, including Time Warner Cable advance screenings of The Hobbit, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, 42, Fast and Furious 6, Lone Ranger, Game of Thrones Season 3 premiere, and Oz the Great and Powerful.  Thanks to @TWC_SoCal for the invites, and thanks to our social media tweeters including @mayehmstudios @valeriecwang @catmangan @summersmckkay @ryanturnerrt @toddzebert @jasonacharchan and more
 
Social Media:
- We passed 18,000 Twitter followers, and 13,000 LinkedIn members
 
We have more planned for 2014! See you soon!
Digital LA organizes events for professionals in online entertainment, marketing, and advertising. Stop on by for informal casual networking. Join the Digital LA group at http://www.digitalla.net   Attendees work at Sony Pictures, FOX Interactive, MySpace, Google, Yahoo!, Disney, WB, NBC, EA, Vivendi Games, Napster, and other entertainment, studios, ad agencies, and tech companies.