This piece was great, but the famous Steadicam shot in "Goodfellas" was not the opening shot. The movie begins with the 3 stars in the car, with a body in the trunk. The steadicam shot is about 1/3 of the way through, touring the bar and introducing all the gangsters. Also, almost all of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" was shot with Steadicam.

What a great article dedicated to the nerds and geeks who work behind the scenes to make our films better and more efficent. Eventhough their work isn't particularly credited in regards to the press, at least the Academy awards these wonderful people who do and create the technology that we don't always see on screen. As as a movie phile I would like to thank you all as well.

Congradulations to all the winners of the 2006 techies awards (as part of the

Academy Awards of course)!

These people - especially those who created CGI and the Steadicam - revolutionized filmmaking. They deserve better; in fact, they deserved better than this snarky article.

This is something worth watching -- unlike the Oscars. I really could care less about who won what there. But a show like this would actually be educational, as you could learn about emerging technologies, and watch some sorely-unappreciated individuals get some much-overdue credit.

So who REALLY should have gotten an Oscar for The Matrix? I'd say these guys.

So an interviewee has but a single request: "Don't call it the nerd Oscars", and rather than comply with this simple request, rather than be polite to these innovators and all around nice mean and women, Kirsner or his editors decide to give the article this very title. This ensurs that every viewer to the Salon website, whether or not they read the article, views the very insult he had hoped to squelch.

A really classless thing to do, Salon.