The first award presented was for Best Supporting Actor.
The guests who presented the award on stage were veteran actor Jack Lemmon and actress Mary Tyler Moore, who played Hutton's mother in "Ordinary People."
This strong hint made other nominees who were not from the cast of "Ordinary People" a little discouraged. Another nominee for Best Supporting Actor, who was also from the cast of "Ordinary People", sat expressionless.
The camera filmed him for a long time before showing a fake smile.
Hutton looked very nervous and lowered his head, not daring to look at the camera. His mother sitting next to him comforted him softly.
"The winner of Best Supporting Actor is...Timothy Hutton."
The camera turned to the auditorium. Hutton happily hugged his mother next to him. It could be seen that his mother was smiling very happily. Hutton's father was also an actor and introduced him to the entertainment industry. He passed away due to illness before.
Diane sat on the other side of Hutton's mother. As a female companion, she was supposed to sit with Hutton. However, Hutton's previous harsh words towards the Ronald family made Diane unhappy and did not take the initiative to ask for it.
Hutton did not lack the attention of female stars at all. He sneered and simply sat with her on both sides of his mother, chatting with Elizabeth McGovern, who played his girlfriend on the other side of the set.
Hutton, who won the award, smiled broadly and stood up to receive the award. Diane and Hutton's mother also stood up to congratulate Hutton.
As usual, Hutton would congratulate the people around him and give the television cameras plenty of time. Unexpectedly, he walked from the other side to the aisle, shook hands with the director of the play, Robert Redford, hugged Elizabeth McGovern, and walked Diane into the aisle.
Leave it aside to dry.
Embarrassed, Diane stopped smiling and had to sit down.
Hutton received the trophy on the stage and seemed unprepared. He did not take out a pre-written speech and read it like other winners. Instead, he secretly memorized it at home. He could deliver his speech unscripted on the spot, as if it were
Winning an unexpected award is a natural feeling.
"Thank you everyone, this is the first award." Hutton began to pretend to endorse in a nervous voice.
"Uh, uh, this is the first award. I'm a little nervous, I don't know what to say." After drinking too much alcohol last night, Hutton really forgot the content of his speech.
I am really nervous now, so I would like to thank the crew and the stars who are also on the crew, so I can use our connections in the future.
"Thank you to everyone on the cast of 'Ordinary People.' Thank you to Donald Sutherland (who plays Hutton's character's father), thank you to Elizabeth McGovern. And our great director Robert Redford, you are the best
,I love you."
"Well...then I want to thank my father. It would be great if he could be here today." Then he ran down the stage with the trophy in hand amid the applause of the crowd.
Mary Tyler Moore, who played Hutton's mother in the movie on stage, and his real mother offstage, were not thanked on the spot and were forgotten in the acceptance speech that they should have memorized.
As the award-winning music played, Hutton ran off the stage, joked with director Robert Redford, and wished him the best of luck.
Johnny Carson appeared on the stage, "The next winner is not a real person, but a magical machine. Without him, our movie would not have all kinds of wonderful special effects..."
Of course it was not actually awarded to the machine, but to the three inventors of this amazing machine.
This device is called an optical printer. It can reprint several strips of its material onto a piece of film. It can make special effects such as large and small, small and large, etc. The awarding guest demonstrated the effect live, and the TV camera made the awarding guest look harmonious.
The same size as an Oscar trophy.
Taking advantage of the fact that the cameras for the technical awards awards were not aimed at the audience, Diane apologized to the people on the right, ran out of her seat, and looked back to find where Ronald was sitting.
She no longer wanted to sit with Hutton. There were still more than 2 hours left, and it was quite difficult to sit next to a narcissist. Finding Ronald in the back row, Diane ran over.
A handsome man in a tuxedo immediately avoided the camera, squatted on the ground and climbed into the row where Diane was sitting. He hung a sign around his neck saying "Standing Substitute". After sitting in Diane's seat, he quickly
He took off the sign and showed a standard smile.
The Oscars are a live awards show. When some live audiences go to the bathroom or take a break backstage, there will always be stand-ins like this to fill the empty seats, in case the TV audience sees that there are still empty seats at the Oscars.
Ronald was watching the speeches from the three inventors of the optical printer in the back row, while discussing with Coleman how to use this machine to achieve real special effects. The best at this kind of thing is James Cameron.
"Hi, Ronald."
"Diane, why are you here?" Ronald found Diane and saw that she was a little angry, "There is a seat here, sit down first?"
Mr. Cultural Attaché stood up and changed his position gracefully, giving the vacant seat to Diane and letting her sit with Ronald.
"Hutton is a narcissist..." Diane lay in Ronald's ear and told him everything.
"Then just sit here." Ronald smiled. For an actress, screen time is everything.
The next few awards were uneventful. Ronald noticed that the Best Documentary award went to "Isaac Stern in China," a world-class violinist and educator.
It records his cooperation with the Central Symphony Orchestra in China and his teaching of violin to children.
The Academy awarded a special contribution award to "Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back". The best director and best screenwriter in the year of the last movie "A New Hope" were not awarded to the highly anticipated George Lucas.
In order to re-invite him to attend this time, the Academy made some amends. In addition to the Special Contribution Award, the Best Special Effects and Best Sound Effects were awarded to The Empire Strikes Back.
Next, there was another upset for the best artistic direction. The award guest was Natasha Kinski, and the award was awarded to the crew of "Tess".
Ronald and Coleman looked at each other. This award was a bit unexpected. Is it because of nationality and ethnicity?
The award for Best Art Direction is not easy for laymen to understand. Simply put, it is the person responsible for all the visual elements in the movie, the aesthetic atmosphere of the movie, what colors to use, how to draw the background board, and even the color and quality of the sets, costumes, makeup, and props.
Texture orientation is something that the art director must consider overall.
The one that received the most praise at the time was Akira Kurosawa's "Kagemusha". The visual effects of that movie were top-notch, with gorgeous colors, armor, and a large number of horses. It was beautifully crafted and generally consistent with history. It restored the historical features of Japan's Warring States Period very well.
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"Tess"'s restoration of classical Britain is also very good, but in terms of quality and difficulty, it cannot compare to Akira Kurosawa's accumulation of years of hard work and color storyboards for the filming of Kagemusha.
"Ah... have you discovered anything?" Diane asked with great interest when she saw Ronald and Coleman looking at each other in tacit understanding.
"Mr. Coleman and I both believe that it should be awarded to 'Shadow Warrior'..." Ronald explained his views.
Kurosawa came from a defeated country in World War II. There was a disdain for Japan in America, and the judges seemed to be a little biased. But on the other hand, various cheap products from Japan, especially electronic products and cars, are rapidly growing.
occupy the American consumer market.
Having said this, Ronald glanced at Mr. Cultural Attaché. If this suspicion of national sentiment is true, then "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" selected by his home country, in the competition for the best foreign language film... that award has the highest demand.
It’s also a “Shadow Warrior”.
Mr. Cultural Counselor also thought of the same question, and then he was going to award the best foreign language film. The host Johnny Carson had already come on stage and started telling jokes. He immediately said to Ronald, "Quick, who of you can say
Russian?”
Ronald spread his hands and looked at Diane and the Colemans. They also shook their heads.
"Oh, God. We didn't expect to win the award at all, and we didn't bring a translator. Last time in 'War and Peace', the actor who played Natasha came to accept the award, and it was the Russian actress Natalie Wood who did the Russian translator.
"
"Don't you speak English? Mr. Counselor?" Diane asked him strangely.
"Yes, but our country's film bureau usually requires that I accept the award and give my speech in Russian. It is good for our country's image. Besides, speaking in Russian can my scenes be broadcast by our country's TV stations."
The cultural attaché crossed Diane and said to Ronald, "I'll write down my acceptance speech, and you pretend to understand the Russian translation. How about I say something and you say something."
"ah?"
At this time, Johnny Carson had finished telling the joke, "The following people will present the award for the best foreign language film to Franco Zeffirelli, a foreign director from Italy, and Brooke Shields, a young skinny jeans artist."
After the two took the stage, Brooke Shields spoke first, saying, "I am very happy to present the award with my current boss, Mr. Zeffirelli, the gentleman standing next to me. He is a very nice person."
Zeffirelli took over, "You spoke well of me, so you can come to work on the set later tomorrow."
"How late?"
"Like, six fifteen?"
The audience laughed. Brooke Shields began to announce the list of nominees, "The nominees for the 53rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film are..."
"This is my greatest honor, to receive this very important award." Mr. Cultural Counselor was dictating the award speech.
"Only on behalf of director Menshov, actress Vera Alentova, and actor Alexei Batalov, who plays Gosha... I would like to thank the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." Ronald wrote in his notebook
Take shorthand.
"Thank you so much!"
After finishing the three sentences, Zeffirelli on the stage just announced the winning film.
“The winner is ‘Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,’ ussr.”
"Don't forget to mention New World Productions, go ahead." Roger Corman warned, patting Ronald on the back.
Zeffirelli lowered his head and held the note and read out, accepting the award on behalf of USSR, "Mr. Cultural Counselor of the Embassy, and... Huh?" He found that Ronald had also come up, and he didn't quite understand.
Ronald whispered to Brooke Shields, "New World Productions, importer and distributor, and translator."
Brooke Shields took over Zeffirelli's words, "With Ronald Lee of New World Productions, the film's American distributor, he will serve as Mr. Counselor's translator."
"Wow wow wow", the audience applauded.
The counselor said an acceptance speech in Russian, then stopped and pretended to wait for Ronald to translate.
After giving his speech, he finally said in English with a Russian accent, "Thank you everyone."
"Tear it to pieces," Ronald said in the Russian he had just learned.
"Do you speak Russian?" Poky asked Ronald in a low voice while the award-winning music was playing.
"Just a few words, let's talk at the Governor's Ball tonight."
Timothy Hutton in the audience was surprised at first when Ronald came on stage to accept the award, thinking that he was really a rich man who came to the film industry to play.
Later, I heard that he was just a translator for a production company, and smiled contemptuously. "Diane has gone off to nowhere. I will take McGovern to the Governor's Ball later. Anyway, there is no shortage of beautiful actresses at the ball.
Just look at that and bring it back to the party. He is the new Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor."