Ronald didn't have much time to think, the Best Picture award was coming soon.
Barbra Streisand, the most beautiful Jewish actress, wore a shawl of blonde hair and a black skirt with a big slit and swayed on the stage. Because the previous awards timeout, her movements were particularly fast.
Ronald has two films nominated as a nominal producer this year: The Ghost Story and Dances with Wolves. In terms of his contribution to the film, Dances with Wolves may be more important. After all, The Ghost Story is Here.
A different director might not have been able to make it, but without his support, Dances with Wolves might have died on the way.
"Oh, God." When Ronald saw it was Barbra Streisand, he couldn't help but remember that he had commented on how ugly she was several times in front of others. It would be embarrassing if he won the award tonight.
"This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of film, so it is very appropriate to end today's awards ceremony with an award that represents the highest honor of the film festival."
Barbra Streisand spoke very quickly, finished naming the five nominated movies, and immediately opened the envelope.
"The Oscar goes to..." Barbra Streisand gave a hump-nosed smile, as if she had an expression I'd always known was there, "Dances with Wolves! Ronald Lee and Kevin Coster."
Accept”.
The meaning of Streisand's smile was unclear. She didn't know whether it was because of jealousy or the sequelae of plastic surgery. It made people feel weird. Her voice when announcing the winner was not loud enough, which made Ronald stay for two seconds, as if to confirm whether it was him.
Winning an award.
"Ahhh..." Diane had already started cheering and subconsciously pinched Ronald's arm, obviously even happier than him.
Ronald stood up and kissed Diane. Then he stood up, ran quickly to Kevin Costner, and hugged him.
Costner was obviously dazed with joy and was in a state of confusion. He had just returned from the backstage and immediately received another heavyweight award. It felt like he was dreaming.
After Ronald hugged him, he realized what he was doing and ran quickly to the stage behind Ronald. The assistant next to him was already gently reminding him to hurry up because the broadcast time was about to time out.
"Well..." Barbra Streisand didn't say much to Ronald. She just gave him the statuette and then hugged and kissed him on the cheek as usual.
When he presented the award to Costner, he discovered that he was so nervous and excited that he forgot to put down the Best Director statuette and was still holding it in his hand.
After a moment of commotion, Kevin Costner held the two statuettes and laughed loudly.
The camera moved away from the two men standing on the stage and gave a close-up of Costner's wife Cindy and Diane respectively. Cindy bit her lip with tears in her eyes. Diane smiled like a flower and made a professional move.
The most beautiful smile of an actor.
Ronald stood in front of the microphone and waited for the applause to subside before he began his acceptance speech.
He gave up the idea of teasing, because the previous Best Director was not popular, and any jokes at this time were not good, so he just went to the most classic one to thank everyone.
"I want to thank the Academy, I want to thank the judges. I want to thank Daydream Pictures, Disney, and Kevin Costner and screenwriters Michael Blake, Graham Greene, Mary McDonough, and everyone involved in this film.
The cast and crew of the movie. I would also like to thank the National Association for the Preservation of Indian Culture... and others for their strong support. Finally, I would like to thank my wife and my family..."
A routine speech, of course, routine applause. Kevin Costner came up to take over the speech. His other director award winner, Ronald, helped him get it. He put the Best Picture statuette on the stage and took it from his pocket.
He took out another card, but he had already read the words on it when he won the Best Director award.
He had no choice but to turn the card over and pretend that there was a speech for Best Picture on it. In fact, he was just buying time to organize his words.
"Hahaha..." The audience let out a burst of good-natured laughter.
"I want to express my gratitude to you..." Kevin Costner simply put down the card, but he was still quick-witted, "I will never forget tonight, my family will never forget tonight... South Dakota
The Sioux tribe will never forget tonight..."
During the "Dances with Wolves" theme song, Ronald and Costner walked down the exit door together.
"Ronald, I heard what you said about me." In the exit aisle, Barbra Streisand said to Ronald with a smile, and made a gesture to leave a message in her ear.
"Oh? I'm actually your fan..." Ronald now had no feelings for words of this magnitude.
"If there is a chance, we should collaborate on a film"
"Have the opportunity."
"Oh, God, we actually won seven awards." Costner was still very excited when he got backstage.
Dances with Wolves was originally a big hit tonight, and it was generally believed that this movie might win five or six statuettes. However, Best Director and Best Picture were not within the prediction range, but Best Actor was the winner.
For Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, various predictions will give it at least one.
"Kevin, do you have anything else to say?" Backstage after winning the award, everyone had a short period of time to be interviewed by the media.
Those reporters had just finished interviewing Costner for Best Director, and now they wanted to interview Costner for Best Producer.
"Like I said, it was an unexpected surprise, but I think our movie deserves this award."
"Ronald..." The reporter remembered Ronald and asked him his thoughts, "I heard that you almost took over as the director of this movie?"
Ronald looked at Costner, what he said was a bit interesting. Why did the reporters ask that? Although the two signed an agreement at the time, if Costner encountered obstacles in filming, Ronald had the right to substitute someone to take over as director.
"I just said that you provided a lot of help in the filming of the movie. I don't know where they got the news." Costner whispered a few words in Ronald's ear, then turned to the reporter and said, "Without Ronald's optimism,
This movie would never have been as successful as it is now." He spoke like an old-school white man, giving people a very honest impression.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Kevin is a very talented director who always has his own unique ideas. I saw the finished film earlier than you and I always feel very excited.
I'm lucky to be able to feel the scenery and the majesty of the native Indian tribes." Of course Ronald denied that this credit is not easy to grab.
After dealing with the reporters, the awards ceremony over there was also over. Ronald and Kevin Costner, screenwriter Blake, and the two nominated actors all gathered together to wait for Diane and Costner's
When his wife Cindy arrived, they were ready to leave for the after-party.
While waiting for the bus, Ronald happened to see Martin Scorsese.
"Why do you have two?" Scorsese's mood has improved, or he has deeply hidden his dissatisfaction.
"Ah, there is also Kevin's Director Award. I had a great time winning it. I really didn't expect it..."
"Everything in the world is unpredictable. It reminds me of the situation ten years ago. It's exactly the same..." Seeing Ronald's appearance, Scorsese could only smile bitterly at him. The two of them share the same problem. If only they knew that this movie would be so easy.
If he wins the award, Ronald will definitely grab it and direct it himself.
"Ronald!" Diane called him over there, and Ronald had no choice but to make an appointment with Scorsese, "We'll talk again in two days."
"What did Marty mean when he said that ten years ago and today were exactly the same?" Ronald said to himself in the car.
Ten years ago, it was the 53rd Oscars in 1981, and Scorsese seemed to have been nominated.
"Hey, he lost to the ordinary Robert Redford that year." Diane was deeply impressed by the Oscar that year, and that's when Ronnie met him.
"Oh...", Ronald suddenly realized, and the floodgates of memory opened.
At that time, "Ordinary People" was also killed by Robert Redford in one hit when Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" was the favorite for Best Director and Best Picture.
Moreover, Robert Redford is also a white director, and "Ordinary People" is also his debut film.
"Raging Bull" is also a story about lower-middle-class people of Italian origin, and Joe Pesci was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Of course, he didn't win that time, and only Robert De Niro won the Best Actor.
It seems that no matter how outstanding an Italian film is, there is only one important award and there is always a quota.
This quota was taken by Joe Pesci, who had been ignored several times. Maybe the judges thought Scorsese could wait.
Thinking about it this way, it suddenly dawned on me. "The Godfather", which was very popular that year and ranked first in reviews and box office all year, only won the Best Actor and Best Picture. Coppola lost the Best Director to "Cabaret"
"'s Bob Fosse, three nominees for Best Supporting Actor, also lost to Cabaret actor Joel Grey.
Only in The Godfather II, because of the big controversy that Coppola didn't win the first film, the director award was given to him. In this way, Al Pacino, who was nominated for Best Actor, also didn't win, and only Robert Denis
Luo won Best Supporting Actor.
The car soon arrived at the award party. Ronald got out of the car and took the two statuettes with him to the place where the award bases were engraving. After many years, the engraving was done on site and they could be taken back in the evening.
"Hey, where is my director's statuette? Who has seen my director's trophy?"
As soon as he arrived at the queue, Ronald saw Kevin Costner wiping his sweat. He only had a Best Picture trophy in his hand. He was looking around anxiously and kept asking questions about his wife and companions.
"I think you forgot this..." Ronald handed the statuette into his hand.
"Oh, God, I thought I lost it. I thought it would be on the headlines tomorrow..."
"Well, that's a good title. New Oscar winner. Best Director lost his trophy."
Ronald smiled and retracted the hand holding the trophy and made a hug gesture, "If you don't want it, just give it to me..."
"Hahaha..." All the colleagues on the Dances with Wolves crew laughed happily. Even Graham Greene, who was depressed after not winning the Best Supporting Actor, smiled for the first time.
"I don't know what they think, but in my eyes, you are the best. And you, Mary, you too."
As a producer, Ronald also had to say some words of relief to the two supporting actor nominees who did not win.
"I think my role as an Indian is really good." Graham Greene didn't say much tonight, but he was very touched when Ronald said this. The Oscar is a vanity fair, and he didn't win the award. Looking at this
This scene is really uncomfortable.
Ronald looked at the two people, and sometimes it was very interesting. Kevin Costner was the winner, but if he said this to these two people, it might have the opposite effect. If he were to be a loser, he would
It's more comfortable.
In contrast, Mary McDonough was looked down upon very little. She was a shy, beautiful, and capable actress. When she played Dances with Wolves, she was already thirty-seven years old, and she was only ten months older than him.
Graham Greene plays father and daughter, no one would feel discordant if they didn't say it.
…
"This is interesting. It reminds me of the last emperor a few years ago."
After returning home, Ronald did not go to bed immediately. Instead, he found the entire Hollywood yearbook of the 1980s and began to look at the past Oscar winner lists.
"What do you mean?" Diane put on her pajamas and yawned.
"The Last Emperor swept all the nominated awards, except for the two leading actors and actresses who were not nominated. The same goes for Dances with Wolves, which did not receive a single acting award among the nominations."
"It's true..." Diane calculated. It's true that movies that show the stories of ethnic minorities can win awards, but acting awards are extremely difficult.
"And this, my God, many well-known directors were nominated ten years ago." Ronald turned to the list of the year when "Ordinary People" won the award ten years ago.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Robert Redford won the best director, which caused a lot of controversy that year. The media generally believed that this was Scorsese's best performance.
The director's award was stolen. The film was also criticized and said to be unworthy of its reputation.
In addition to Scorsese, there were also David Lynch, Richard Rush, and Roman Polanski.
Ronald read the list carefully. There seemed to be some important rules in it. If you want to win an Oscar, you need to study them thoroughly.
Let Diane go to bed first, and Ronald studied alone for a long time, but he still got some clues.
Among the Oscar judges, actors have an overwhelming advantage. Martin Scorsese's two highly requested nominations were unanimously recognized by famous directors and critics, but ordinary directors and ordinary actors did not recognize them very much. And they
It is the largest group of people who vote.
This year's Coppola's The Godfather Part 3 is not really good enough to win the award, but they don't want to give the award to a few other people. "Goodfellas" is about the bottom of the gang, and "The Debt" is about a husband who is in a coma when his wife is unconscious.
He was later suspected of murder and eventually acquitted. Fatal Gambit is about a family of swindlers, and the hero dies in the end.
In fact, these most popular judges are not the kind of people who have a deep understanding of film art. They can be regarded as people with ordinary audience aesthetics and some professional abilities.
Anyway, those movies are not to their taste. Only the performance of the best actor Jeremy Irons is understandable and well-acted by them. So when it comes to awards such as Best Director and Best Picture, which they don’t understand,
The actors and judges all voted for "Dances with Wolves". Anyway, I voted for this movie. It sounds good.
Ten years ago, it was the same story. Roman Polanski was surrounded by scandals, David Lynch filmed a deformed man, and Richard Rush filmed an inexplicable story between a stuntman and the director. Anyway, they were all
Can't vote.
And Scorsese's "Raging Bull" is a loser's story. In the end, the boxing champion can only make a living as a commentator. It was still shot in black and white film, with some color images shot by everyday home cameras interspersed.
People who know the art think it’s brilliant, but I’m afraid most of these actor judges commented: “I can’t understand!”
Anyway, I don’t want to vote for Scorsese and others, so I will vote for a director who can understand the film and is the largest white group in Hollywood. In addition, these two white directors have switched careers from actors...
After thinking about these things, Ronald fell asleep.
"Richard is here to see you..." It was already noon the next day, and Diane woke Ronald up.
"What's the matter?" A sleepy-eyed Ronald quickly got up.
"Several newspapers have published rumors that the most exciting scenes in Dances with Wolves were not directed by Kevin, but by you..." Richard put several newspapers in front of them.