"Oh my god, I finally have a chance to use this..." Denzel Washington is a very handsome black man, with very upright facial lines and facial features. "45 seconds, right? First of all, I want to thank...
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Nielsen's ratings and viewing ratio sampling data are slowly rising. More and more viewers are turning to ABC to watch the live broadcast of the Oscars.
Ronald has fully communicated with ABC. It is no longer the previous method of focusing on on-site awards and only giving the TV station a chance to broadcast. Instead, he considers the TV station and strictly limits the time for the award speech.
Important content, the TV station is very grateful for this. Precise time control is very helpful to the selling price of TV advertisements.
After awarding several minor awards, the Oscars introduced a new link.
This year's Best Foreign Language Film Award will be awarded at the Moscow branch. Relations between the two countries have eased under the new leadership. So this is also a good gesture to express peace for all mankind in the cultural field.
The famous Hollywood actor Jack Lemmon is currently hosting in Moscow, and his companion is Natalia Negoda, the heroine of last year's Soviet Union box office hit movie "Little Vera".
This movie attracted 54.9 million viewers into the cinema (the alliance does not count ticket prices but the number of people), second only to "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" in 1980 in history.
Of course, this cannot be entirely attributed to the wonderful shooting of the movie. On the contrary, the plot of this movie is not the routine of a blockbuster commercial movie, but a description of people losing their faith, everyone hating each other, and finally ending with the death of the protagonist.
The reason why it became the annual champion is not because people there like to watch boring tragedies, but because this movie contains the first sex scene during the Soviet Union period.
Through the satellite connection, the two places can be broadcast live on TV cameras at the same time. For this little tidbit, ABC spent a lot of money to rent a satellite and spent a lot of effort to temporarily build a venue in Moscow.
Although there were some echoes, it did not affect Jack Lemmon's award speech. After mentioning multiple nominated films, the actress Natalia Negoda, who spoke metaphorically with a thick Russian accent, opened the envelope
, she burst out with an exclamation:
"Best Foreign Language Film goes to...Italian Film...Cinema Paradiso"
There was a burst of applause, and the camera cut back to the awards show. Director Giuseppe Tornatore, who was sitting in the seat, stood up with a smile and went up to receive the award with the producer.
Ronald hadn't seen the movie yet. He looked back to his agent Richard. When he saw the latter coming over, he asked him about the details of the movie.
It turns out that Giuseppe Tornatore is also a strange person. This is his second directorial work. The original 155-minute version was released in Italy in 1988 without causing any ripples. It was re-edited last year.
The 123-minute version aroused huge response and crowds of moviegoers.
Richard said that this movie is a meta-story about movies. The whole plot revolves around a small town movie theater that wants to cut out all the kissing scenes. Ronald was interested and said he wanted to buy a hairdo.
Let’s take a look at the copy of the video tape produced by the Chinese company.
The next award was for Best Supporting Actress. Presenter Kevin Kline finally announced the winner. Among the five nominees, it was Brenda Fricker from Ireland for her wonderful performance in "My Left Foot"
, won this honor.
The other four nominees shown to the camera all had official fake smiles like "Although I didn't win, but I'm glad she won". Especially Julia Roberts, who was the most average looking among the five.
, the Irish aunt with a body like a bucket won the award, which made people...a little speechless.
The lens was specially designed to capture the expressions of award winners. Surprisingly, she managed to capture a close-up of Brenda Fricke's face.
"What the fuck...", Ronald almost didn't mention it in one breath. It turned out that this tough Irish actress was caught in a close-up with her mouth shape saying "What the fuck..." and she was awarded the award.
There was loud music playing at that time, covering her voice...
All the minor accidents have been taken care of well, and the Oscar awards have entered the important awards ceremony. The first important award is the Best Editing Award, which has the iconic role of Best Director and Best Picture.
Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy took the stage to present the award. Ronald's arrangement was very thoughtful. The eighty-year-old actress was dressed up to attend the award show, and he had to give her a chance to appear on stage in return.
"The winner... was born on the Fourth of July..."
The camera was given to two editors, and director Oliver Stone and actor Tom Cruise were interspersed.
This small hint is the innovation of this year's broadcast. Everyone wants to see whether Stone and Cruise, the two nominees tonight, will get what they want like the editor. If we go by previous experience, maybe
Sex is still quite big.
"Born on the Fourth of July" received eight nominations, second only to "Driving Miss Daisy" which had nine nominations. Since it won the important Best Editing category, the next few awards are also very promising.
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But the next Best Cinematography was awarded to Freddie Francis for "The Great Battle". This was his second time winning. There are also many connections between Best Cinematography and Best Picture. It seems that the final award will still be
Depends on luck.
Next, Gregory Peck took the stage to present the Best Actress Award. He also reviewed the earliest Oscars. In the first Oscar, the actress still won the award for her performance in three movies.
It is indeed appropriate for him to present this award. He is one of the few Hollywood old men who has witnessed the golden age.
Gregory Peck introduced the five nominees, three of whom are famous beauties in Hollywood.
Isabelle Adjani in "Rodin's Lovers", Jessica Lange in "The Music Box", and Michelle Pfeiffer in "The Mythical Baker Boys".
The outside world generally thinks that Adjani's performance is very good, but she is from China and the film is in French. Lange has won an Oscar, and the outside world is generally optimistic about Michelle Pfeiffer.
"The Oscar goes to...Jessica Tandy..." Gregory Peck read the name from the envelope.
The Best Actress award went to an unprepared Jessica Tandy. Jessica Lange on the side could only smile bitterly. Parker spoke slowly. Many people thought she had won the award. Fortunately, she did not celebrate immediately.
Otherwise it will be a big joke.
Jessica Tandy was kissed by her husband next to her and smiled. At 80 years old, she had seen all the ups and downs and was relatively calm. After taking the stage, she said she took a deep breath:
"I would never have thought in ten thousand years that I would be standing here...I thank you all..."
A big upset occurred. Ronald and his assistant exchanged a few words, but fortunately there were no problems with the broadcast.
The award ceremony has reached its midpoint, and Billy Crystal joked a few more times, asking everyone not to forget to pick up gift bags when leaving and attend the dinner hosted by 20th Century Fox. Then he gave up the stage to the award ceremony for the best visual effects.
Guest, Dan Ackroyd.
The Canadian comedian was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for "Driving Miss Daisy" this time. Although he lost to Denzel Washington, he was in a good mood.
But the guest next to him, Chevy Chase, was annoying and kept making vulgar jokes about Dan. The audience couldn't help but laugh, but they also got bored over time.
Ronald originally didn't want to invite this host who caused the ratings of the Oscars to plummet, but because the Academy didn't want to live up to the facts, they asked him to present an award and make an appearance to show the unity of the two presidents.
Seeing Chevy Chase start running the train again, no orders from Ronald were needed here, the people backstage had already started to raise the volume of the music, reminding this bad comedian to get off early.
"The Oscar for Best Visual Effects goes to...The Abyss!"
Ronald raised his hands and clapped. His old friend was really recognized this time. Although the four directors of visual effects received the award, without Cameron's name, each of the four gave an acceptance speech of more than ten seconds.
Time, they all mentioned Cameron's control over the entire movie's special effects.
How should I put it? Although the person is not present, the sense of presence is not weak at all.
Finally, it’s time for the highlight of this year’s Oscars. The president of the Academy personally introduced himself, and the two most important award presenters, Spielberg and Lucas, slowly walked out. The soundtrack for them was “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
The theme song of , originally this was also a movie that the two collaborated on.
Spielberg spoke first, "This year, the Academy's trustees voted to award an honorary award to a person. Many people believe that he is the greatest living film director...
Akira Kurosawa, in his forty-seven years of film career, shot twenty-seven films. Among them are undisputed film and television classics, such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Lust for Life, Spider's Nest, and Chaos.
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George Lucas responded, "Many people ask director Akira Kurosawa what is the common theme of his films? The answer is simple. He said that he always wants to ask a simple question, why can't people live happier together?
…
In his movies, he always answers this question with very elegant strokes, sometimes with heartbreaking tragedy..."
"What follows are some clips from some of this great artist's films..." Spielberg took on the role of host.
A line of words appeared on the screen, which was Kurosawa's own words, "To be an artist, don't take your eyes away [from reality]"
As soon as the lights dimmed, representative images from many of Kurosawa's past films appeared on the screen.
This time, the audience was more attentive than the mixed editing at the beginning. Kurosawa Akira is known for his shocking images, and Ang Lee's mixed editing perfectly connected the scenes in Seven Samurai, Lust for Life, and Random.
Get up (the original film is not enough, so only a few cuts can be made).
The last thing that appeared on the screen was the scene of Akira Kurosawa working at the filming site. He was wearing sunglasses and a hat, working very hard in the sun at the age of eighty, and received a round of applause from the audience.
When the lights came back on, Spielberg called out Akira Kurosawa's name and invited him to the stage to present the award.
At this time, the broadcast camera swept over. Akira Kurosawa, who had just turned 80, had a serious face and was a little nervous. After all, they are two of the biggest directors in Hollywood, and they were investors in his past two films, Kagemusha and Wanran respectively.
The camera focused on the old man and the music started to play, but Kurosawa's English was not good and he didn't yet understand whether he was going to go on stage to award an award.
Ronald, who was sitting in the back, quickly stood up and stretched out his hand, giving Kurosawa a signal for him to come up. Kurosawa bowed to Ronald with a bow, and then stepped forward.
"Before we award the award, we are going to connect with your hometown, where some of your old friends have something to say to you." Spielberg asked Kurosawa to look at the screen.
The ones connected were Kurosawa's colleagues in Tokyo, where they and their families took turns congratulating him on the award. Then someone rolled out a big cake, and the staff and their children sang "Happy Birthday to You" in unison.
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In particular, the child's innocent singing also moved the audience. Everyone stood up and applauded, and then started singing Happy Birthday to the music. The atmosphere was very harmonious.
George Lucas presented Akira Kurosawa with a statuette on behalf of the academy. A Japanese translator hired by the organizing committee translated Kurosawa's acceptance speech beside him:
"I'm deeply honored and honored to receive such an honor, but I have to ask myself if I really deserve it. I'm a little worried because I feel like I don't understand film yet. I really don't feel like I've got it.
The essence of.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The audience was a little speechless for a while. They were not used to this kind of Eastern self-effacement. They immediately reacted and started to applaud more enthusiastically.
"Movies are a wonderful thing, but it's very, very difficult to grasp its true meaning. But what I promise you is that from now on, I will try my best to make movies and maybe go down this road
If I continue, I will understand the true meaning of movies and be worthy of this award.
George [Lucas], Steven [Spielberg], and then waved to Ronald in the audience, Ronald, thank you."
The camera gradually zoomed out and preparations for the theatrical performance began. Ronald sighed, so far, everything is going very well.
There were few popular works in the following awards, with the best original screenplay going to "Dead Poets Society" and the best adapted screenplay going to "Driving Miss Daisy."
The Best Director award was presented to Martin Scorsese and his long-time partner Bob De Niro.
The clips of the nominees continued last year's tradition and used photos or videos of several directors' on-site work to introduce them.
"The Oscar goes to...Oliver Stone!" Scorsese handed the statuette to Stone.
The live footage took care of Tom Cruise again. Today, "Born on the Fourth of July" won the Best Editing, Best Screenplay, and Best Director. Judging from previous practices, Cruise has a good chance of winning.
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"My deepest gratitude to you..." Oliver Stone seemed very emotional above, "The Vietnam War is not over yet, some people say it is. But the Vietnam War is a psychological state that will never end, as long as
There are also people who have a desire for power and want to use power to interfere in other people's lives..."
Ronald was about to ask his assistant to turn up the volume again, and Oliver Stone kept blinking. Could it be that today was... coming in the future?
"Thank you to Kovich (the prototype of the movie), and thank you to Tom Cruise for making Kovich live on the screen..." Fortunately, he returned to normal, stopped talking nonsense, and thanked many crew members and his own
spouse.
But then, Jodie Foster presented her with the Best Actor award, making Cruise's dream come true, having appeared in the broadcast three times.
Daniel Day-Lewis in "My Left Foot" won the Best Actor. It can be seen that although Tom laughed and applauded, he was obviously acting. Next to him, the British actor and director Kenneth Branagh (
He directed and starred in Henry V, and was nominated for Best Director and Best Actor. He also knew that his chances of winning the award were slim, so he was very sincere when he was happy.), and that’s when I applauded sincerely. The contrast between the two is very special.
strong.
The last award, Best Picture, also had an upset. "Born on the Fourth of July", which won directional awards such as Best Director and Best Editing, did not win, but was awarded to "For Miss Daisy"
drive".
Jack Nicholson, who had made a lot of money, went on stage to present the award, and Richard Zanuck, the producer of "Driving Miss Daisy," picked up the trophy with his wife Lily.
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Finally, the frustrated Tom Cruise found Ronald after the awards show. "Are you going to Fox's party?" Cruise's attempt to hug Oliver Stone's thigh failed, and he remembered again.
Ronald, who has not won the Best Director yet, might it be easier to win the award by working with him?
"Nominations are about strength, winning are about luck..." Ronald patted Cruise and comforted him. His performance this year was actually very good. He lost to Daniel Day-Lewis and maybe some of his fellow actors also criticized him for his high salary.
A kind of jealousy due to the large number of fans is at work.
"Ronald..." Richard came over and called him. He had his phone number.
After hurriedly talking to the phone for a few words and then hanging up, Ronald came back and said to Tom Cruise, "Diane is a little lonely at home. He asked me to go back early. Let's talk some time to see if there is anything suitable."
script."
After declining invitations from many guests, Ronald got into Little Bud's car under the protection of his bodyguards. Diane rarely called him to ask him to go back. Ronald felt that his wife was more important, so he gave up a few
Female celebrities invited him to various after-parties.
"You stop at the video store next door, and I'll go see if there are any Cinema Paradiso videos..."
Passing by an intersection, Ronald saw a video rental store. He asked Little Bud to stop. He heard that this best foreign language film was very good and he wanted to buy it and watch it at night.
"I'm sorry, I can't find the movie you want. I have to ask my dad..." The video rental store is not big. There is only one clerk, and he is Chinese. She is not familiar with this movie, so she searched for it for a while and couldn't find it. Come here
Apologize.
"It's okay, does your dad know about this movie?"
"He understands it very well... Wait a minute, Dad..." The girl turned to the back and shouted, "He is watching the Oscars and will be out soon..."
"Here we come..." came a deep man's voice, which sounded like he was very depressed.
The curtains before and after the partition were lifted, and a dark-looking Chinese man came out?
"Old Wu? Why are you here?" Ronald's jaw couldn't close in surprise.