Top Ten Viral Videos in Oscar History + Oscars 2014 Contenders

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Ahead of tonight’s big awards bash, video analytics specialists Visible Measures have researched the most viral videos throughout Oscar history, drawing up the final top 10!

Matt Fiorentino

Matt Fiorentino, Visible Measures’ Director of Marketing said: “With the biggest stars and the biggest movies, the Oscars creates iconic moments every year, and, as we know, some moments are more viral than others. But by how much? And who has the most viral Oscars moment ever? Now, for the first time, we can quantify and rank the most viral Oscars moments ever with the The Top 10 Oscars Moments of All Time chart, from Jennifer Lawrence’s drunken press conference after winning best actress for Silver Linings Playbook, to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey’s mesmerizing duet in 1999, to Roberto Benigni’s euphoric acceptance speech for winning best actor for La vita é bella in 1997. We look forward to the new viral moments created at the 2014 Academy Awards this Sunday.”

Meanwhile, the Oscars 2014 contenders have been racking up the viral hits. Visible Measures have totted up the numbers, and here’s a graph which shows the Gravity is definitely the film everyone has been talking about this year:

Read on for some of the most memorable Oscar moments – lots of recent stuff, but hey, this is the YouTube generation…

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Thanks to Visible Measures for doing all the counting – taking one for the team!

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About Stuart Wilson

I am Joint Editor at To Do List. I like: nice pubs, film marathons, not doing real marathons, bad comedy, plays/musicals with shorter second halves, and the Oxford comma.