Shorty Award Winners Unveiled in New York City
On March 3, Shorty Award winners were announced at TheTimesCenter in New York City during an eclectic ceremony hosted by CNN’s Rick Sanchez. The evening was full of surprises, including a video by William Shatner reading some of his favorite tweets from @sh*tmydadsays, and a stage-rush by weird category finalist David McDonald protesting a win by The Llama.
Winners giving 140-character acceptance speeches included Newark mayor Cory Booker, Sesame Street’s Grover, and indie rocker Ted Leo. The night also featured video speeches by Suze Orman, Rachel Maddow, Brazilian pop superstar Ivete Sangalo, and a performance of Othello in under 140 seconds by the Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Haitian TV presenter Carel Pedre, a finalist in the innovation category, received a special humanitarian Shorty Award for tweets that shed light on the devastating earthquake in his country. Janis Krums received a Real-Time Photo Shorty Award for his camera phone shot of U.S. Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River.
Once the ceremony was all over, winners, finalists, and other members of the twitterati gathered for a cocktail reception to meet, greet, and tweet some more. We’ll be posting photos from the night to Flickr and clips to YouTube over the next few days. You can watch the video in its entirety at ShortyAwards.com.
Here are the Shorty Award winners:
Advertising
Frank Adman, @FrankAdman
Application
TweetDeck, @TweetDeck
Art
deviantART, @deviantART
Brand (two-way tie)
Whole Foods Market, @WholeFoods
Sesame Street, @SesameStreet
Celebrity
Nathan Fillion, @NathanFillion
Cultural Institution (three-way tie)
Jonah Holland of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, @lewisginter
Reduced Shakespeare Company, @reduced
Poetry Society of America, @Poetry_Society
Customer Service
Bonnie Smalley, @ComcastBonnie
Design
Smashing Magazine, @smashingmag
Entertainment
TrueBlood HBO, @TrueBloodHBO
Finance
Suze Orman, @SuzeOrmanShow
Food
Foodimentary, @Foodimentary
Government
Cory Booker, @CoryBooker
Health
Rachael Dunlop, @DrRachie
Humor (two-way tie)
David Thorne, @27bslash6
Mrs. Stephen Fry, @MrsStephenFry
Innovation
Helen Klein Ross’s Betty Draper, @BettyDraper
Journalist (two-way tie)
William Bonner, @realwbonner
Rachel Maddow, @maddow
Literature
Arjun Basu, @arjunbasu
Music (two-way tie)
Ivete Sangalo, @ivetesangalo
Ted Leo, @tedleo
News
The Diane Rehm Show, @drshow
Nonprofit
To Write Love On Her Arms, @TWLOHA
Politics
The Nation, @thenation
Science
Jen Scheer, @flyingjenny
Sports
Bill Simmons, @sportsguy33
Tech
Mark Watson, @soldierknowsbest
Travel
Paul Smith, @twitchhiker
Weird
The Llama, @DoWhatITellYou
Special Humanitarian Award
Carel Pedre, @carelpedre
Real-Time Photo
”Plane in the Hudson” by Janis Krums
