Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 235 Tear Bar West Bar

   The first award given out was Best Supporting Actor.

  The honored guests were veteran actor Jack Lemmon and actress Mary Tyler Moore, who played Hutton's mother in "Ordinary People".

The strong hint of    discouraged the other nominees who were not from the cast of "Ordinary People". The other nominated Best Supporting Actor from the cast of "Ordinary People" sat expressionless.

  The camera was on him for a long time before a smirk appeared.

   Hutton was very nervous, and lowered his head and dared not look at the camera. His mother, who was sitting next to him, comforted softly.

   "The winner for Best Supporting Actor is... Timothy Hutton."

  The camera turns to the audience, Hutton and the mother next to him hug happily, and it can be seen that his mother is smiling very happily. Hutton's father, who is also an actor, introduced him to the showbiz and died of illness before.

  Diane was sitting on the other side of Hutton's mother. Originally, as a female companion, she should sit with Hutton, but Hutton's vicious words to the Ronald family made Diane not very happy and did not ask for it.

   Hutton did not lack the attention of female stars, sneered, and simply sat with her on both sides of his mother and chatted with her on the other side, Elizabeth McGovern, who played his girlfriend in the crew.

  The winning Hutton smiled and stood up to accept the award. Diane and Hutton's mother also stood up and congratulated Hutton.

  As is customary, Hutton and the people around him congratulate each other and give enough TV shots. Unexpectedly, he walked down the aisle from the other side, shook hands with director Robert Redford, hugged Elizabeth McGovern, and put Diane aside.

  The embarrassed Diane stopped smiling and had to sit down.

   Hutton on the stage took the trophy and seemed not ready. Unlike other winners, he took out the pre-written testimonials and read them, but secretly memorized them at home. You can give an unscripted testimonial on the spot, as if it was an accidental award, a feeling that comes naturally.

   "Thanks 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." He drank too much alcohol last night, and Hutton really forgot the content of his testimonials.

   I’m really nervous now, so I’d like to thank the crew, and the stars who are on the same crew, and I’ll be able to make use of the relationship in the future.

"Thank you to everyone on the cast of 'Ordinary People'. Thank you Donald Sutherland (who played Hutton's character's father), thank you Elizabeth McGovern. And our great director, Robert Redford, you're the best ,I love you."

   "Uh...then I want to thank my father, if only he could be here today." Then he ran down the stage with the trophy in the applause of the crowd.

  Mary Tyler Moore, who played Hutton's mother in the movie, and his real mother offstage, both of them were not thanked by the scene and were forgotten in the acceptance speech that should be memorized.

  The award-winning music sounded, and Hutton ran off the stage and joked with director Robert Redford, wishing him the grand prize.

  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..."

   is not really awarded to the machine, of course, but to the three inventors of this amazing machine.

   This device is called an optical printer, and it can reprint several strips of it onto a strip of film. Special effects such as big and small, small and big can be made. The presenter demonstrated the effect on the spot, and the TV camera made the presenter the same size as the Oscar trophy.

   Taking advantage of the technical awards camera not aimed at the audience, Diane said sorry to the person on the right, ran out of the seat, and looked back to find where Ronald was sitting.

   She didn't want to sit with Hutton anymore. There are still more than 2 hours, sitting next to a narcissist, it is very difficult. Spotting Ronald's position in the back row, Diane ran over.

  A handsome man in a tuxedo immediately avoided the camera and squatted on the ground and climbed into the row where Diane was. He hung a sign "Standing Stand" around his neck. After sitting on Diane's seat, he quickly took off the sign and showed a standard smile.

  Oscar is a live awards show. When some audience members go to the bathroom or rest in the backstage, there will always be this kind of stand-in to fill in the empty seats, in case TV audiences see that there are still empty seats at the Oscars.

   Ronald was in the back row watching the speeches of the three inventors of optical printers, 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 did you come here." Ronald found Diane and looked a little annoyed, "There's a seat here, sit down and talk?"

Mr.    Cultural Counselor stood up and changed his seat with grace, giving Diane the vacant seat and letting her sit with Ronald.

   "Hutton is a narcissist..." Diane leaned on Ronald's ear and repeated his story.

   "Then you can sit here." Ronald laughed. For actresses, the time to appear is everything.

The next few awards were uneventful, with Ronald noting that the win for Best Documentary went to "Isaac Stern in China," a world-class violinist and educator, film It records his cooperation with the Central Symphony Orchestra in China and the story of teaching violin boys.

The    Academy presented a special contribution award to "Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back". The best director and best screenwriter of the last New Hope year were not awarded to the much-anticipated George Lucas.

   This time, in order to invite him to attend again, the academy made some remedies. In addition to the special contribution award, the best special effects and best sound effects were awarded to The Empire Strikes Back.

   The next best art direction is out again. The presenter was Natasha Kinski, and the award went to the crew of "Tess".

   Ronald and Coleman looked at each other, the award was a bit of a surprise. Is it because of nationality and ethnicity?

The best art direction award is not easy for laymen to understand. Simply put, it is the person in charge of all the visual elements in the film, the aesthetic atmosphere of the film, what color to use, how to draw the background board, even the sets and costumes, makeup, color of props and The texture orientation is the overall consideration of the art direction.

   The one who called the most in advance should be Akira Kurosawa's "Shadow Warrior". The visual effects of the film are first-rate, with gorgeous colors, a large number of armors and horses, and it is elegant and generally in line with history.

   "Tess" is also very good at restoring classical Britain, but in terms of quality and difficulty, it is not comparable to the accumulation of Kurosawa Akira's years of painstaking efforts for photographers and painting color storyboards.

   "Ah... Did you find anything?" Diane asked with interest when Ronald and Coleman looked at each other tacitly.

   "Mr. Coleman and I both think it should be awarded to the 'Shadow Warrior'..." Ronald explained his opinion.

   Akira Kurosawa is from a defeated country in World War II, and Amerika has a contempt for Dongying, and the judges seem to be biased. But on the other hand, various cheap products from Dongying, especially electronic products, and automobiles, are rapidly occupying the American consumer market.

Speaking of this, Ronald glanced at Mr. Cultural Counselor. If this conjecture of national sentiment is true, then the "Moscow does not believe in tears" selected by his home country, in the competition for the best foreign language film...the one with the highest voice for the award Also "Shadow Warrior".

Mr.    Cultural Counselor also thought of the same question, and then the best foreign language film was awarded. The host Johnny Carson has already taken the stage and started to tell jokes. Immediately he said to Ronald, "Come on, do any of you speak Russian?"

   Ronald spread his hands and looked at Diane and the Colemans. They are also shaking their heads.

"Oh, God. We didn't expect to win the award at all, and we didn't show up with an interpreter. Last time on 'War and Peace,' the actress who played Natasha came to accept the award, and it was a Russian translation by Russian-born actress Natalie Wood. "

   "Don't you speak English? Mr. Counselor?" Diane asked him curiously.

   "Yes, but my country's film bureau generally requires you to accept the award and give a speech in Russian. It is good for our country's image. Besides, speaking in Russian, my pictures can be broadcast by our country's TV stations."

  The cultural counselor passed Diane and said to Ronald, "I will write down the acceptance speech. You pretend to understand Russian translation. I say something, how about you say something."

"what?"

   At this time, Johnny Carson had finished telling the joke, "The next award for the best foreign language film is the foreign director Franco Zeffirelli from Italy, and the young skinny jeans artist Brooke Shields."

   After the two came to power, Brooke Shields spoke first, "I am very happy to present the award together with my current boss, Mr. Zeffirelli, who is the gentleman standing beside me. He is very nice."

  Zeffirelli took over, "You told me very well, so you can come to the crew later tomorrow for work."

   "How late?"

   "Like, six-fifteen?"

  The audience laughed. Brooke Shields began to announce the nomination list, "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 is dictating the award speech.

"On behalf of director Mensov, actor Vera Alentova, and actor Aleksey Batalov, who played Gosha...Thanks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." Ronald in a notebook shorthand.

"thank you very much!"

   After finishing the three sentences, Zeffirelli on stage just announced the winning film.

   "The winner is 'Moscow does not believe in tears,' USSR."

   "Don't forget to mention New World Productions, go ahead." Roger Coleman urged, slapping Ronald on the back.

  Zeffirelli lowered his head and held a note to read. The one who accepted the award on behalf of USSR was, "Cultural Counselor of the Embassy...Sir, and...Huh?"

   Ronald felt whispered to Brooke Shields, "New World Producer, Importer and Distributor, and Translator."

   Brooke Shields took over Zeffirelli's words, "and Ronald Lee of New World Productions, America's distributor of the film, who will serve as a translator for Mr. Counselor."

   "Huahuahua", the audience applauded.

The counselor    gave an acceptance speech in Russian, then stopped and pretended to wait for Ronald to translate.

   After giving his testimonials, he finally said in Russian-accented English, "Thank you, everyone."

   "Tear it off." Ronald said in the Russian he had just learned.

   "You can speak Russian?" Brooke asked Ronald in a low voice while the award-winning music was playing.

   "Just one sentence, we'll talk about it at the boardroom dance tonight."

  Timothy Hutton in the audience was also surprised that Ronald took the stage to accept the award at first, thinking that he was really a rich man who came to the movie circle to play tickets.

   Later heard that he was just a translator for a production company, and smiled contemptuously. "Diane doesn't know where to go. I'll take McGovern to the dance party later. Anyway, there's no shortage of beautiful actresses at the dance party. Just look at the one that's pleasing to the eye and bring it back to the party. I'm the best new Oscar winner. supporting actor."

   (end of this chapter)