Hollywood party crasher's grand slam includes Oscars

The next step was to secure a location from which they could film Weiss. Magid and Torro walked into the rental office of an apartment building directly behind the theater and asked whether they could rent a room for a few hours. Nothing was available, but the rental agent knocked on a tenant's door. College students who lived there said Torro and Magid could film from the balcony.

Just before the show started, Weiss wandered up to the guards, fighting nerves, expecting to be stopped. He stayed in character as a producer's assistant and walked right in, no questions asked.

But he wasn't home free. Inside the Kodak, he had no idea where he was going and wandered the bowels of the theater, at one point brushing past Anne Hathaway near the green room.

The necklace-cam footage in the film shows Weiss nearly hyperventilating when an usher stops him at the door to an upper balcony. But she allows him in a moment later, and Weiss turns the camera around and films himself sitting happily in the audience during the ceremony.

After the show, brimming with false confidence, he tried to get into the Governors Ball but was turned away when he did not have the required lapel pin. He went to another floor and successfully ducked into the ballroom.

There, Weiss snapped grab shots with Oscar winners Javier Bardem and Daniel Day-Lewis and that year's master of ceremonies, Jon Stewart. With that, he had accomplished what he calls the "grand slam of crashing" -- he had infiltrated some of the most glamorous events in town and capped it off by besting the tightest security in all of Hollywood.

Last week, the filmmakers provided a free consultation about potential security problems at the Kodak to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' officials. The academy also arranged for every guard working the Oscars this Sunday to view "Crasher," which the trio have yet to sell to a distributor.

"There is a distinct possibility that the publicity about these crashers -- as well as the video itself -- could serve as an inspiration or a road map for those looking to commit far more serious criminal acts," academy communications director Leslie Unger said in a statement to The Times.

Weiss, Torro and Magid have met with a SAG Awards producer to discuss similar security issues. They have also offered their knowledge to producers of the Emmys, Grammys and Golden Globes.