The Oscars Dinner-Dance, held in the name of the Film Academy's trustees, is held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. All winners are required to attend.
Those nominees who did not win, the audience, and people who did not enter the scene all wanted to squeeze into this natural social occasion. It is not unheard of in Hollywood that handsome men and beauties were brought into parties and flew into the sky.
So almost everyone who attended the awards dinner came, except David Lynch.
Having failed in one of the eight nominations, this arrogant new director did not want to attend the dinner party and face other people's concern and ridicule.
"How come there isn't anything?" Ronald and Diane walked into the dinner together and quickly found their agent Rick Niceta, who had arrived in advance. They found an empty table and sat down while eating.
While chatting.
"This is the charm of the Oscars. No one knows the result before it is announced." Niceta took a bottle of red wine and poured it into several glasses. "Congratulations, Ronald, young Oscar winner, cheers!"
"Cheers!" Diane, Bert, and Richard also toasted.
Not many people noticed their joy, and the nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Song Lyricist were not very important awards, except for the waiter who gave them a smile.
"Can I see this statuette?" Bert said, staring at the trophy that Ronald placed on the table. His biggest wish is to train his daughter to become a star actress.
"Of course", Ronald motioned Bert to start by himself. He took a plate of seafood pancakes as an appetizer, grabbed two pieces and stuffed them into his mouth. They tasted pretty good.
Ronald took another red wine and poured a little more into his glass. Coppola Winery, Napa Valley, was written in round letters on the label.
"Is this the Coppola I know?" Ronald asked Niceta.
"Yes, Coppola used the money he earned from 'The Godfather 2' to buy a vineyard." Niceta took a sip and put down the wine glass. He glanced at Diane and his daughter, and then leaned closer to Roman.
Nader's ear said:
"Spielberg will be a little late. I made an appointment with his assistant Catherine. You go to deal with your trophy first, make phone calls, etc., and then come back and wait for him in half an hour. Don't delay."
"I'll go right away." Seeing that he didn't continue drinking red wine, Ronald thought, "Doesn't it taste good?"
He picked up his glass and took another sip, and hurriedly ate another seafood pancake. He took the statuette back from Diane, stood up and handed it to the staff of the college council.
A series of procedures need to be signed when returning the trophy. The most interesting thing is that the trophy cannot be resold privately. If it is put up for auction, the college has the priority to take it back for $1. This is the college's remedial measure after some trophies flowed into the auction market in the early years.
"Mr. Li, the academy only provides one free trophy for each award, and the remaining one has to pay a cost of US$350." The staff politely asked him who would pay the money.
"So it's only 350 to sell and $1 to buy?" Ronald muttered and waited for Michael Gore to come over. The two discussed it and divided the money equally.
After queuing up to call Aunt Karen and sharing happiness with his family, Ronald walked back to the banquet hall.
As soon as they sat down, Timothy Hutton came over, stretched out his hand to pull Diane to go with him, and pointed to the crowd of ordinary people, "Mary Tyler Moore wants to meet you."
Bert stood up and stood in front of his daughter, and his agent Niceta also stood up, trying to avoid a conflict.
Ronald also stood up and stretched out his arm for Diane to take, "Let's go meet Ms. Moore together."
Niceta and Bert both felt that this was a good solution and stood up to prepare to go over.
"You are my female companion and should be with me." Hutton looked a little under the influence of alcohol.
"Poor kid, just because a girl agrees to go to the graduation prom with you, it doesn't mean that she will also dance with you when the prom starts." Ronald said a word and took Diane to meet the big shots.
"Hey! You're just a screenwriter who didn't win any awards." Hutton found that no one was paying attention to him, so he followed him back.
Diane greeted the heroine Mary Tyler Moore. It turned out that Mary liked Diane's "Love at Sunset Bridge" very much. Knowing that Hutton's female companion was her, she wanted to chat with her.
"Robert, this is Ronald who won the best original song." Redford is also a client of CAA, and Niceta introduced them to them.
"Mr. Redford, I am your fan." Ronald said quickly.
Redford responded politely, flanked by his adult daughter.
When Redford's daughter was just about to go to college, she made a joke about Hutton, "Isn't this your girlfriend? Why is he with others? What does he do?"
"Just a screenwriter..." Hutton responded angrily, his voice a little loud.
Redford and Ronald looked back at the same time.
"You are a screenwriter, Ronald. What you write ultimately requires us actors to appear in front of the camera. You have written so many scenes, but you cannot appear in any of them. Movies are the art of performance after all, right?"
Hutton said, "The spotlight in Hollywood is always on the stars, and girls only know me, Ronald."
Redford couldn't help but frown after hearing this. The screenwriter of Ordinary People was at the scene. Didn't Hutton include him when he said this? I had put in some effort to invite him to adapt this best-selling novel.
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Everyone present also saw the problem, and everyone looked at Ronald to see how he would respond.
"Mr. Hutton, you won the best supporting actor award, but you appear in every scene of the movie. Who are you supporting?"
Ronald fought back with words. Hutton obviously had the leading role, but he didn't dare to compete with this year's veteran actors such as Robert De Niro, Jack Lemmon, and Peter O'Toole, so he switched to Best Actor.
The male partner grabs the fruit.
The actors in the cast who were also nominated for Best Supporting Actor were forced to give way. Mary Tyler Moore, who directly competed for Best Actress, failed, and Donald Sutherland, who was squeezed out of the spot by Hutton and was not nominated for Supporting Actor, all felt sorry for him in their hearts.
Ronald gave a thumbs up.
Hutton won an Oscar just after his debut, and some of his style really aroused the dislike of many people.
"You!" Hutton's face turned red immediately after being told the central issue.
When Robert Redford saw all this, he thought to himself that this young man was so sharp with his words, how about his screenwriting work?
Niceta took the opportunity to introduce to him that Ronald was one of the nominees for Best Original Screenplay this year. Redford became a little interested in Ronald and said:
"A good script is the dream of a film actor. My film festival in Park City, Utah will be moved to January this year. If you have a good script and make it into a low-cost film, you might as well send it to the exhibition next year."
Ronald quickly expressed his thanks, and after chatting for a while, he and Diane returned to their seats.
At this time, on the other side of the hall, several important people had just walked in.
George Lucas and his wife Martha, together with Steven Spielberg, discuss the final editing of the new film "The Lost Ark of the Covenant."
Martha Lucas is also a film editor. "It was cut from 3 hours to less than 2 hours, which was very good. But I think the movie lacked an emotional climax."
The actor Indiana Jones and the heroine Marion Ravenwood did not meet in the end. This is something that the audience is missing when they walk out of the cinema."
"You're right, the test screening audience also generally felt that this was a problem. I'm preparing reshoots for Harrison and Kelly." Spielberg said, "Martha, George, do you see anything in the final version?
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"What?" Martha asked.
"That shot of the McDonnell Douglas DC-3 aircraft," George Lucas laughed, "is it a reused shot from an old movie?"
"Hahaha, yes. It can save a lot of budget. I don't think ordinary viewers can see it. The editing is very clever."
The three of them took a glass of Coppola's red wine and continued to sit and chat.
"How did Francis start selling wine?" Spielberg asked Lucas.
"His new film 'Just Love' was withdrawn from investors. Now he needs to mortgage his vineyard to complete the film. He can use it at the Oscar dinner to make ****'s valuation higher."
George Lucas was once Francis Coppola's younger brother, and he was full of emotion when talking about his eldest brother, "I tried to persuade him, but he liked the movie very much, and he also hired the dance king Gene Kelly as the choreographer.
For this movie, he bought a large studio in Los Angeles and rebuilt the scene instead of shooting on location."
Several of them are old friends and know Francis Coppola's style. The budget of the movie always gets higher and higher, and every shooting is like gambling. Coppola also loves gambling and once took a thousand dollars to go to Las Vegas.
Si, I hoped to win the bet and buy a better camera, but ended up losing everything.
"It doesn't matter, Francis Coppola performs better when he is under greater pressure," Spielberg said.
"Hahaha. You're right." Lucas knew that his old friend was referring to the previous movie "Apocalypse Now", which he invested tens of millions of dollars in and successfully turned around at the box office.
"We'll be here for a while and then leave. What about you, Steven?" Martha Lucas asked. Neither of them were social people by nature. When they met old friends, they would talk about their favorite topics.
, but they are not very keen on social occasions such as Hollywood that create relationships.
"I also want to meet with a young man who gave me some suggestions for the script of my new film, and he has the same ideas as I do."
"Young people who interest you? Like Zemeckis?" Robert Zemeckis is equivalent to Spielberg's apprentice, but he served as screenwriter and Spielberg directed 1941, which was a complete failure.
Spielberg contacted Columbia again and asked Zemeckis to direct "Intrigue", which will be released soon.