Film and TV actress Angel Locsin and veteran broadcast journalist Daniel Razon made it to the official lists of the Shorty Awards, a competition for real-time, short-form content.

Shorty Awards, considered the Oscars for Twitter writers, announced the list of finalists, including the names of Locsin under the Best Twitter Celebrity category and Razon in the Best Journalist in Twitter, two official categories. Awarding is set on March 3 at the Times Center in The New York Times Building, thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

According to the press release from Shorty, over 250,000 nominations have been tweeted for The Shorty Awards to determine the six finalists in each of the 26 official categories.

The Shorty Awards has partnered with sponsors including PepsiCo for the Innovation category, Marketwire for the Journalist category and Porter Novelli for the Advertising category.

Some notable finalists include Haiti resident and TV presenter Carel Pedre @carelpedre, actor Steven Fry @stevenfry, Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo @ivetesangalo, personal finance TV host and author Suze Orman @SuzeOrmanShow, actor and comedian Marlon Waynes @marlonwayans and MythBuster co-host Adam Savage @donttrythis. Notable organizations that are finalists include NASA @NASA, Whole Foods @WholeFoods and Sesame Street @sesamestreet.

?This year?s diverse group of finalists shows the global impact Twitter users are having across all topics of media,? said Gregory Galant, the CEO of Sawhorse Media, which created the Shorty Awards.

The Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences is comprised of leaders in technology, journalism, business and culture. Story contributed by Ryan Borja

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