"Welcome to the 60th Academy Awards live broadcast..."
In their house on Staten Island, New York, Ronald's aunt Karen was watching the live TV broadcast with her boyfriend. She had prepared snacks and black tea early, tuned to ABC TV station, and was just waiting for the live broadcast to start.
"The 60th Academy Awards were star-studded, including the beautiful 'Dirty Dancing' heroine Jennifer Grey, Best Supporting Actor nominee Sean Connery, the most popular actor Michael Douglas, and his winner
Beautiful female producer Shirley Lansing of the nominated film 'Fatal Attraction'…
The two people holding leather bags are accountants from PricewaterhouseCoopers. In the bag is tonight's list of winners, which ensures the confidentiality and professionalism of tonight's list of winners..."
Aunt Karen saw the leather bag containing the results, picked up the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine, turned to the Oscar prediction column, and said to her boyfriend:
"Look at this. The probability of winning is analyzed above. Ronald's Best Director ranking is only ranked third after The Last Emperor and Famous Attraction. Isn't there a lot of hope?"
"I cheer for Ronald. But, dear, if you care so much about whether Ronald wins the award, why are you unwilling to go when he invites you to the award ceremony?"
Aunt Karen hit her boyfriend, "I'm sorry..." It turned out that Aunt Karen had long suspected that Ronald wanted to film a story about a widow who found love again, which was somewhat related to herself. The protagonist played by Cher was related to herself.
The situation is quite similar.
"Look, is that Ronald?" Aunt Karen and her boyfriend chatted affectionately for a while, and the live TV camera captured Ronald and Diane...
"Ronald Lee, who won the best director for "Moonlight"...and Louis Malle and his beautiful girlfriend Candace Bergen, the big star Mel Gibson, the actor of The Last Emperor and Today
Award presenter John Lone..."
The scenes of Ronald and Diane flashed by. Aunt Karen was still very happy and shed tears of excitement, "Oh, it would be great if my sister could see today..."
…
Outside the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, this Moorish-style building is the venue for the new Hollywood Academy Awards gala.
As soon as Ronald and Diane passed the TV cameraman, they were blocked in the sermon between the place where they got off the bus and the gate. The guests in front stopped moving, and the flow of people kept coming from behind. Ronald had no choice but to let go
Diane walked ahead of him to avoid getting her new dress stained.
This new venue is larger than the old venue, the Dorothy Chandler Concert Hall. It was originally the location of the Temple Brotherhood, the largest branch of Freemasonry in America. Ronald looked at the four corners of the building.
The dome-topped tower is full of Middle Eastern Arabian style. When this organization was established, it was deliberately made in a Middle Eastern style in order to attract members.
However, its current religious use is completely different from its original use. Now it is mainly used for rock concerts and large-scale events.
Ordinarily, the entrance here is very wide, so it wouldn't be a jam. This is all caused by Chevy Chase, the comedian who is full of vulgar taste and is the host of this year's Oscars ceremony.
"Hello, hello, how do you feel?" Chevy Chase didn't know whose hand he shook. He was mainly doing it to make jokes. "Dear audience friends, don't be fooled by these people wearing tuxedos and sitting in the seats.
The people who came in luxury cars were deceived. Although they are famous actors, directors, screenwriters, and producers, they are all very nervous today. They are just...well, just a nominee..."
"I'm not nervous, just let us in right now." Ronald cursed secretly, what's going on with such a crappy talk show at the gate?
"Didn't you prepare an acceptance speech?" Diane exposed him mercilessly from the side.
"What if?" Ronald smiled... and greeted Olympia Dukakis who was also blocked in the back. She was also dressed in costume today and came with her husband.
The flow of people in front finally began to loosen up, and Ronald and his team were able to move forward. When they passed by Chevy Chase, they saw that he had taken off his microphone and was checking the time with his assistant, "Did I say it was one minute? I said it was full.
?"
Ronald also shook his head and smiled bitterly. It was really difficult for this old man who could only make some dirty jokes to host the Oscars for the second consecutive year.
However, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., the producer of the awards ceremony, is also unavailable. During this year’s writers’ strike, the Writers Guild refused to grant a special license to the Oscars Awards Show. There was no screenwriter to write scenes and jokes, so last year’s host could only be used.
Chevy Chase continued, those bad words just now were all performed by him on the spot, which is really a headache.
Ronald was likely to win, so he sat in the front row by the aisle. In front was Cher, the heroine of "Moonlight", and her boyfriend, behind was Dukakis and her husband, and on the left was Diane
, on the right is Donna, followed by screenwriters Shanley and Nicolas Cage, and across the aisle on the left are Patrick Schwytz and Jennifer Gray from "Dirty Dancing".
The people who arranged the seats were thorough, and Ronald unbuttoned his dress and sat down. In this solemn occasion, everyone said little, waiting for the ceremony to begin.
After the lights in the hall dimmed, the lights on the stage came on. The small white grids like the windows of a building represented the work of each type of work in the movie. The actors in it performed poorly, and their actions were wrong in many places...
Ronald wanted to facepalm, that's what acting without a script is like.
Finally, a dozen dancers wrapped in golden tights, holding a big sword in their hands, began to dance to the music. The laser in the center of the stage shone on them, reflecting golden light, and finally they boarded the small
On the stage, place the big sword on the ground and transform into little golden figures.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Good evening, Hollywood hypocrites..." Chevy Chase came up and started tonight's award ceremony. "As you may know, the Writers Guild is on strike.
So I was hired as a comedian to be the host. We won’t follow the script tonight, so I’ll hurry up and save time.”
As he spoke, he took out a handful of envelopes from his pocket and said, "Bertolucci, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep," and then flew the envelopes one by one to the audience.
"Oh, Shxt," Ronald cursed in his mind while trying to remain calm on the outside. This host simply had no taste. The Oscar Awards show under strike was disastrous from the beginning.
"You're just kidding, you're just kidding, none of what I just said is a winner..."
Ronald was stunned. A joke of this level is so bad. You might as well not say this last sentence. Both Nicholson and Streep were nominated for a love tragedy. What does this mean?
Curse them for not getting the prize?
Most of the audience did not laugh, and the few who laughed quickly realized something was wrong and stopped laughing. There was a rare silence at the scene.
Idiots like Chevy Chase also realized something was wrong and had to forcefully say, "The Writers Guild is still on strike, so all my lines tonight were neither written by me nor by members of the Writers Guild. They were actually written by
Several college students at the University of Southern California donated it to me..."
Ronald turned his head and looked around, and found that the supporting actress in "Gone with the Wind", Mrs. Olivia de Havilland, seemed to have the same feeling as him. She had a straight face and looked at Chevy Chevy.
Very dissatisfied with the vulgar jokes.
Then Chevy Chase half-jokingly asked the audience to forgive possible errors during the live broadcast, because there was really no script, and also introduced that there would be other comedians to be responsible for connecting between different award stages...
Ronald could only smile bitterly. There was really no other way. Let the comedians buy time. They told some jokes to delay the lack of live performances.
Sean Connery first presented the award for the best special effects. He went up and said a bunch of clichés about how special effects can create volcanoes, avalanches, and explosions in movies, and then read out the list of nominees. The final winner was The Amazing Flight (
Innerspace), except for which only one other "Predator" was nominated.
Posters for the award-winning movie were displayed on the big screen. This movie stars Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. Since Quaid broke up with Leigh Thompson, he hooked up with Meg, who worked with Ronald.
Ryan.
The screen was quickly removed and the team, each with two acceptance speeches, came off the stage. Next up was the first acting award of the night, Best Supporting Actress.
"The awards presented to us are the heroes and heroines of a blockbuster movie. The plot is very interesting. A professional woman had a one-night stand with a colleague. She didn't want to stay together for the night, so she took a knife to break up the family of her colleague... Fatal Attraction
force……"
After Chevy Chase finished speaking, the big poster of Fatal Attraction was raised on the stage, and the award guests, Michael Douglas and Glenn Gross, came out from behind.
"I'm so happy that we can do this together..." Glenn Gross, who was already pregnant, said a line from the movie...and the guests laughed at the pun.
"Um..." Michael Douglas paused deliberately. More viewers understood, and the laughter became louder again, "This lady is really capable... Let's hurry up and award the award..."
"Great idea...the nominee for Best Supporting Actress is..." Glenn Gross began reading the list of nominees.
"Norma Aleandro, 'Gabby: A True Story'"
The camera caught her, an Argentinian Latina actress. The film was a co-production between America and Mexico.
"Ann Sassen - The Whale of August", this is an old lady, everyone applauded warmly. It's not because of Ann Sassen herself, but there is something very unbelievable about this movie, women
The protagonist is Lillian Gish, the first female star of the silent film period, who collaborated with Bette Davis.
This actress, who made a movie with director DW Griffiths (who made her first feature film and invented many editing techniques), is already in her nineties. Many people don’t know that she is still alive and still alive.
She can be a heroine in a movie. She couldn't come to the scene because she was too old, but some old people in the scene still applauded because of her.
The scene of Dukakis speaking to Cher appeared on the big screen on the stage of "Olympia Dukakis-Moonlight Sultry"...and then cut to Dukakis himself sitting in the audience.
The audience's applause and cheers suddenly increased in volume, and some people blew loud whistles at the scene.
Ronald was shocked, why was Dukakis so popular? It seemed like the whole audience was cheering for her.
"Anne Archer - Fatal Attraction," Glenn Gross laughed when she announced it, the supporting actress who played Mrs. Douglas in Fatal Attraction, who shot Gross's character to death in the end.
The cheers and applause suddenly dropped a little. Ronald looked to his left, and Diane also looked at him in surprise. He couldn't figure out why "Moonlight Sultry" was so popular with the audience.
"Anne Ramsay - Throw Mum from the Train, and the winner is..." Michael Douglas raised his voice...
Ronald drove past Diane. Across the aisle, Olympia Dukakis was too nervous to speak. She just sat there blankly, watching Glenn Gross on the stage.
envelope.
A drum beat sounded, and Glenn Gross finally opened the envelope:
"Olympia Dukakis!"
Olympia Dukakis next to her breathed a sigh of relief. She kissed her husband, then stood up and stepped forward very steadily. Ronald saw a sparkle in her eyes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The scene began to play Dean Martin's song, a variation of the theme song of "Moonlight". The new Best Supporting Actress came to the stage to accept the award.
The applause at the scene began to get louder again. Dukakis walked very steadily. When she passed Cher's row, she even shook hands with Cher. She didn't stay for too long. After finally taking the stage, she took the hand from the guest.
won the trophy.
"Well, I'm very honored," Dukakis paused, then began his speech.
"Thank you to the members of the academy..."
Dukakis was obviously very excited, her eyes sparkling, but as a stage actress, she tried her best to contain her excitement, "I've said it many times, and I still want to say,
Thanks to Ronald Lee…
Thanks to John Patrick Shanley
Thanks to my husband for being my partner in life and work for so many years...
Thanks to my friends and colleagues…
Finally, Michael—Let’GO!”
Olympia Dukakis controlled it very well. She knew that she didn’t have much time to give her supporting actress acceptance speech. After a round of thanking her, she finally showed her true excitement for her cousin Michael Dukakis, the leader of the Donkey Party.
Lead the candidates to shout and let them work as hard as themselves to win in the upcoming Super Tuesday primaries!
Dean Martin's "That's Amore" sounded again. The host of this year's Oscars was poor, but the coordination of various details was very good. The sound equipment in the new venue is better than that in the old venue.
There are many, and you can switch the winner's theme music at any time.
The screen, which can be raised and lowered at any time, is wrapped like an oil painting frame. As the winners, award presenters and other guests come on stage, they have stills of their masterpieces as background introductions to familiarize the audience.
The stills of the mother played by Dukakis wearing pajamas in the breakfast scene slowly rose up as she came off, and the audience kept applauding to express their congratulations.
Ronald stood up, waited for Dukakis to come down, gave her a hug, and kissed her on the cheek.
"Congratulations!" There are thousands of words in this sentence.
"Thank you, Ronald." Olympia Dukakis couldn't help it anymore and hugged her husband's shoulders tightly. Her husband was also a stage actor. The two of them worked hard to play the supporting actress role in "Moonlight"
, it was a decision that changed her destiny.
Seeing that the audience was still applauding, Ronald looked at the people on the crew next to him. Nicolas Cage also looked over, and he also noticed the abnormality in the applause for Dukakis.
Then there was screenwriter John Patrick Shanley, who was attending the Oscars for the first time and had no idea that Dukakis's unexpectedly loud ovation was particularly rare.
"What happened?"
With a big question mark in his heart, Ronald put away his doubts and sat down.
"The next award is for the best art direction..." Chevy Chase didn't tell his bad jokes this time.
Dong dong dong dong... The drumbeat started to sound, this time not after the winner was announced, but before the award winner was announced.
"Ladies and gentlemen, our presenter is...five-time Oscar nominee, two-time winner, Olivia de Havilland..."
On the frame was a still of Gone with the Wind played by de Havilland, rising slowly. The theme song of "Gone with the Wind" began to play on the scene. After the last note stopped, the still rose to the highest level and the lights turned on.
Behind...
Olivia de Havilland walked to the awards podium wearing an all-red dress and a large sapphire necklace.
Oops...
The scene was bigger than the winner. All the audience stood up to pay tribute to this Hollywood legend. The applause was comparable to that of Dukakis just now.
What's going on? This is the second abnormal applause today.
Ronald also slowly sat down.
The old lady's line skills are excellent, her speech is cadenced, and she has the charm of a classical actress. People can't help but recall the Melanie she played decades ago.
"I have played eight centuries of stories on the screen, from Robin Hood to the Civil War. Actors need the help of artistic directors to get into the role..."
"The winner is..." Olivia de Havilland paused with an accent, "Ferdinand Scafioti, the Last Emperor"
The graceful theme song of "The Last Emperor", with silk and bamboo tunes and full of oriental charm, sounded, and the winners began to come on stage to receive their awards.
However, the applause this time was much smaller, and even the theme song has not been changed. The soft orchestration in it can be heard clearly.
Ronald, who felt strange, looked at Donna on his right. He saw that she didn't clap vigorously.
Today is the first time the awards ceremony is held in the new venue. Because there are many more seats, nominees can bring their family members to attend, and Donna also came to attend.
"Why don't you applaud? I saw you applauded Dukakis very enthusiastically just now?" Ronald asked his cousin in a low voice.
"I've seen Moonlight and Seductive. Olympia was so great. I haven't watched The Last Emperor yet. I don't know if it's good or not..."
Donna's words seemed to give Ronald an inspiration.
De Havilland's Gone with the Wind is the most watched Hollywood movie in history. Many of the audience were outsiders like Donna. They didn't know what movies like "The Last Emperor" and "Moonlight" were.
They like it.
Ronald took out the list of all the nominated films prepared by his agent and scanned them casually. Sure enough, his guess was right.
Many movies that are very successful at the box office, such as "Dirty Dancing", "Beverly Cop 2", "Lethal Weapon", "Predator", "RoboCop", "The Show", etc.
There are no nominations, or only one or two minor awards.
Among the films that have been nominated for major awards such as Best Picture, Director, Acting, Screenplay, etc., except for "Moonlight", the box office number has reached 25 million since the nomination, and "Fatal Attraction" has received 140 million.
"Receipt of News" is 35 million, and none of the films nominated for other major awards exceed 20 million.
The best-performing "The Last Emperor" only earned over 10 million after a long run. There are also several films nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay, which are one or two million more.
, less than a few hundred thousand, and apart from insiders, there are very few viewers who have watched it.
"No wonder they applauded Olympia Dukakis. Her performance was good and impressive on the one hand. Anne Archer in Fatal Attraction, the supporting role of the wife, was less impressive to the audience than the leading actor and actress. Other nominations
The people and the audience didn’t even watch it, so how could they applaud.”