5 words award speeches
By Shalini Singh

The Webbys are the best known awards on the internet. Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising & media, online film & video, and mobile & apps. Established in 1996, the 15th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries worldwide

One of the cleverest features of this year’s awards was the speeches which were limited to five words. An ironic moment was IBM’s super computer Watson being given the award for ‘Person of the Year. Highlighting a star-studded evening of Webby friendly five-word speeches, Dan Savage struck back at Tracy Morgan's recent controversial remarks in his acceptance speech of a Special Recognition Award at the 15th Annual Webbys tonight at The Hammerstein Ballroom. Savage, accepting his award for founding the groundbreaking It Gets Better Project, used his short speech to deliver a pointed message to the outspoken comic.

"Tracy Morgan can suck my…," said Savage in his scathing critique of the star of NBC's 30 Rock.

In another notable five-word speech, Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour delivered remarks clearly aimed at her audience: "Sometimes geek can be chic," the legendary editor said.

In accepting its award for Person of the Year, IBM supercomputer Watson pointedly addressed the controversy of a computer walking away with an award clearly aimed at humans. "Person of the year. Ironic."

And, ignoring the famous Webby Award five-word speech protocol, funny man Will Ferrell accepted Funny or Die's award via video alongside site co-founders Adam McKay and Chris Henchy with a haiku. "Thanks for this award. I will put it in my house next to my instructional poetry textbooks. Thank you."

Other speech highlights included:

•James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem for Artist of the Year: "Thanks, this is deeply weird."
•Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: "It's short for group coupon."
•Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, for his Special Recognition Award: "Can you hear me now?"
•Wieden + Kennedy for Agency of the Year: "Anonymous, we thank you, anonymously."
•Chris Milk for Online Film and Video Music Award: "Sinners make the best saints."
•Peter Vesterbacka, creator of Angry Birds, for Webby and People's Voice Awards: "Get those pigs!!!"