Rebirth In Hollywood

For Hugh Jackman, who has hosted the Tony Awards three times, it is not a big challenge to host the Oscars. The academy chose him as the host, not the past comedians or talk show hosts. Naturally, it is fancy Wolverine itself has a strong appeal.

Today, even the most stubborn and conservative members of the Academy have to admit that Oscar ratings have reached a point where they have to be rescued.

Think about the situation when "Titanic" swept the Oscars, with an average viewership of 59.75 million, setting an Oscar record; when Ryan won the Oscar for Best Actor with "Gladiator", there was a history of 78.97 million The peak moment of the highest ratings; when "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" won 11 statuettes with 11 nominations, the average ratings were the highest since the new century.

These all reflect from the side that the method to solve the ratings problem is actually very simple and direct, but it is very difficult for a conservative academy to make this choice.

Therefore, Oscar can only start from other aspects, such as unexpected and so on.

Different from the previous method of announcing in batches, this year's Oscars firmly "covers" the list of award presenters, and will not disclose a name until the last moment. This is mainly reflected in several major awards, especially the award ceremony. Significant changes occur.

This change is fully evident in the first Best Supporting Actress award.

The award presenters are no longer the traditional winners of Best Supporting Actor in previous years, but five female stars who have won the Best Supporting Actress award in the past, including Anjelica Huston, Whoopi Goldberg and Scarlett Johansson , when they walked out from the bottom of the big screen showing their respective avatars, because the organizing committee did a good job of keeping secrets in advance, it did bring some surprises.

Of course, that was the end of the surprise, and the rest was still talking about strings, introducing the nomination list, and awarding the Best Supporting Actress statuette. Winners post how it feels to win...

Spanish star Penelope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for "Midnight in Barcelona".

"It's not Amy Adams."

Watching the other party go backstage, Nicole whispered, "Is this considered unpopular?"

"It seems that this award is going to go international." Ryan squeezed his chin, "This is a good thing."

Just like that fake list, Amy Adams is the favorite of the best supporting actress predicted by the media. Now that she has chosen an overseas actress, the Academy seems to want to change the situation of being too American in the past two Oscars and take an international route. .

Like Ryan said,

This is a good thing, after all Nicole is not an American actor.

Nicole understands this too. Her eyes swept across Ryan's face, and she suddenly thought of herself from the lineup of award presenters just now, and said in a low voice, "Natalie Portman should not be one of the award presenters for Best Actress?"

Although Nicole still had a smile on her face, it was completely superficial.

"Nate is on location in Israel." Ryan shook his head, not shying away, "Didn't come back."

Nicole's eyes flickered when she heard this name, which was once very close, but later became extremely annoying. A hand was hanging down on Ryan's leg, as if he wanted to grab it viciously, so as to vent the resentment that still couldn't be dispelled in his heart.

The two were very familiar with each other, even if it was only the corner of the eye that glanced over Nicole's face. Ryan could roughly guess part of her thoughts, one hand quietly reached out, held the hand next to her leg, and wrapped it tightly.

next moment. The corner of his mouth trembled unconsciously, even if he just felt it, he knew it. Those long nails must have sunk into the palm of his hand.

"Best Adapted Screenplay Winner is..."

Steve Martin and Tina Fey on stage have presented best original screenplay, and the next winner is, "Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire, based on Vikas Swallow's novel "Q\u0026A."

The British film, set in India, was one of the big winners on the nomination list, and Brad Pitt's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" proved to be the film's supporting role and backdrop.

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" only won two technical awards for best make-up and best art direction, and the other joint nominees on the list almost failed miserably.

"The Weakness" has only two nominations for Best Actress and Best Picture. In other times, Ryan and Nicole are acting as spectators.

Of course, there are other films under Walt Disney that have entered the scope of the awards, such as the best animated feature film.

"Jack, I heard you started your own animated feature film business?"

On the stage, Jennifer Aniston and Jack Black were chattering. Jack Black took Aniston's words and said, "Yes, I have participated in the dubbing of DreamWorks animation feature films in recent years, and then the next Bet Pixar will win Best Animated Feature."

There was a burst of laughter off the stage, and the camera gave Jeff Katzenberg a close-up at the right time.

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Katzenberg." Aniston said, hugging Jack Black. "We don't know where he came from."

"I don't think Mr. Katzenberg would mind." Jack Black teased at the right time, "They all belong to Disney now."

"How powerful Disney's animation is," he continued, "you can see it in this list of nominees."

"Then let's take a look." Jennifer? Aniston turned to the big screen, which was a wonderful clip of an animated feature film in the past.

Passing through the sky surrounded by garbage, the camera zooms in on the ground, Wall-E cuts open a pile of garbage and finds two items that make it very curious-a video tape and an Oscar statuette!

Picking up the statuette with his left hand and the video tape with his right hand, Wally hesitated a little, chose the videotape, and threw the statuette away like trash.

Back home, Wally played the video tape, in which a green-skinned monster and a donkey appeared, and then a dog jumped out. This fast and sharp editing is to introduce the three animated feature films that were nominated this year—— "Wall-E", "Lightning Dog" and "Shrek 3".

The former comes from Pixar Studios, while the latter two are produced by DreamWorks Animation Studios.

After the animation was cut, a close-up of Ryan appeared in the middle of the big screen. Without any introduction or mention, the Kodak Theater burst into applause, and then people stood up one after another. Even if some of them were reluctant, they stood up. There are more and more people, and they can only stand up with them.

The audience stood up and paid tribute to the key figures who reshaped the glory of Disney with the warmest applause!

Ryan also stood up and applauded lightly. It is no exaggeration to say that he has already stolen the limelight from the winner of the Best Animated Feature Film.

Of course, for the award-winning and numb Pixar studio, it doesn't care much about this kind of thing.

The winner is "Wall-E". Although the market response is relatively cold, this kind of cold and reflective theme is Oscar's favorite.

Pixar Studio has won too many awards. On the Best Animated Feature Film, to use the words from the East, it is "When Pixar comes out, who will compete with it"!

Andrew Stanton, who came to the stage to accept the award, looked unusually calm like last year's Brad Bird. After the routine thanks, he hurried into the backstage.

Subsequently, "Slumdog Millionaire" began to highlight its dominance at this year's Oscars. They successively won Best Sound Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Dubbing, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Film Editing. Original song and other awards, can be called the biggest winner.

After Hugh Jackman and Beyoncé performed a song and dance, the Best Supporting Actor ushered in the awarding moment. Just like the Best Supporting Actress, five past Best Supporting Actors including Jon Gray and Alan Arkin walked away. He went on stage, and there was no suspense about the result. Although the movie and the role were different, as before, Heath Ledger won the Best Supporting Actor crown without any suspense by virtue of the advantage of having already died.

This is Oscar. There are many ways to win awards, and this is also a very different kind.

If he hadn't met God in advance in his previous life, there is a 90% chance that Heath Ledger would not win Best Supporting Actor. The reason is very, very simple. He starred in not only big-budget commercial films, but also comic book superhero movies... …

Most of the Oscar judges have deep-rooted discrimination against this type of film or role, but they can care about the living, but like all the public, they are extremely tolerant of the dead.

Looking at the parents who accepted the award instead of Heath Ledger, Ryan, like everyone else, stood up and applauded. Similarly, like most people around him, he didn't have any thoughts in his heart.

This is Hollywood, and even without James Cameron, it can still function as usual.

Just like Best Supporting Actress, this is just a part of the awards ceremony, and the four most important awards are still placed at the end.

Reese Witherspoon stood on the stage, unlike the award for best director, which was always presented by male guests.

"Before, there have been all the components of film art, except for one profession, and that is the director. The director is the chief executive of a crew, he has a lot of power, and he is also a parent, brother, and negotiator. When there are actors staying in the babysitter When the car refuses to come out, the director is also responsible for inviting them out."

The former Oscar-winning actress looked towards a place below the stage, "Of course such a person is not me, that is Ben Stiller."

"The best director nominees for this year's Oscars are..."

Cooperating with the big screen, she introduced the five best director nominees one by one, and then opened the envelope. The result was as everyone expected, "Danny Bowie..."Slumdog Millionaire"!"

So far, among the heavyweight awards that have been awarded, the best supporting actress has been awarded to the Spaniard, the best supporting actor has been awarded to the Australian, and the best director has been awarded to the British. The trend of internationalization is extremely obvious.

What about Best Actress? (To be continued..)

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