Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The 63rd Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 25th and was broadcast live to the world by ABC TV.

During the entrance ceremony, they deliberately looked for celebrity couples. Based on last year's experience, this was the first peak in the ratings of the Oscars. Most of the audience came to see gossip.

Which celebrities broke up with which celebrities this year, which celebrities got together with new lovers, and which ones went back to reunite with their old lovers. The Oscars is the best time to summarize the year.

The two most famous couples in the entrance ceremony were the male and female protagonists of "Pretty Woman", the best-selling love movie in the first half of this year. Richard Gere and Julia Roberts.

However, they came with their respective lovers. Richard Gere was officially appearing with his girlfriend Cindy Crawford at a large public event, which was an official statement.

But Cindy Crawford's anxiety was still obvious. She wore the red dress that exposed her sexy figure more than Vivian in "Pretty Woman". Her curvy figure made ABC's instant ratings soar to more than 20% in one go.

But some things are not accepted by the public just because you think so. Richard Gere is a famous Hollywood bachelor with many scandals. Cindy Crawford, in addition to her certain fame in the New York modeling circle, is not widely known to the public.

The ABC broadcaster did not recognize her and got stuck when calling her name. In the audience area on both sides of the red carpet channel, Richard Gere had fans screaming everywhere, but Cindy Crawford had no fans. The red carpet was getting more and more awkward.

Julia Roberts' boyfriend Kiefer Sutherland also walked on the red carpet, and the two of them were reversed. Roberts' fame exceeded her boyfriend, and her screams were louder on the red carpet.

Kiefer Sutherland still looked like a traditional Hollywood movie star, and was very dissatisfied with this, but he also had to pretend to be indifferent. However, Roberts's deliberate black pants and Sutherland's deliberate kiss in front of the camera still exposed his embarrassment.

The most natural pair in front of the camera were Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Both of them are naturally beautiful, smiling without any embarrassment. Even though Kidman is a head taller than Cruise, she looks like nothing happened.

This year's entrance ceremony arranged several interview points. Different crews were interviewed in different places.

Al Pacino and Andy Garcia from The Godfather III hugged each other and couldn't wait to show the unity of the crew. The stars of this crew have recently encountered setbacks in their careers and need some energy to show.

Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves was the most lively. In addition to several leading actors, the two Indian actors who have been running TV shows for the past six months wore Sioux costumes, long hair, and bird feather decorations, which attracted the camera.

Ronald and Diane were of course in the "Ghost" crew. There were no male and female protagonists who were nominated, and there were not many reporters paying attention. Demi Moore, Patrick Schweitzer, like Ronald, except for not being nominated for professional awards, the others have gained both fame and fortune, and the atmosphere is very harmonious.

"Hi, Ronald..." Gregory Peck also came over to say hello. He is not only the guest of honor tonight, but also the former president of the Academy, so he has extra courtesy.

"I have read Director Huang's script, and I decided to go on..."

"That will be a very good movie..." Ronald smiled and hugged Peck and chatted.

After a while, Michael Douglas also came over to say hello. He did not have any entries this year, and he wanted to find an opportunity to show up, so Ronald's stall was the most suitable.

"Oh, you co-produced a movie with a Chinese director? Is it from Hong Kong?" In addition to being an actor, Michael Douglas is also a successful producer. His first Oscar statuette was actually the Best Picture Award for his role as the producer of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Last year, he co-produced "Black Rain" with Ken Takakura from Japan and produced by Shirley Lansing, which also achieved very good box office results. So when I heard about co-productions, I was very interested.

"It's not from Hong Kong, it's a female director from the mainland. Why are you interested?" Ronald thought it would be nice to get Douglas to join.

"Of course I'm interested, but I'm more interested in Hong Kong. I've seen a few martial arts films produced by your company, which are very popular with the audience?"

"Hahaha, it just so happens that we are going to produce a few new films this year, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lundgren, how about you count them in?"

Ronald knew that Michael Douglas was the son of Kirk, the previous leader of Hollywood Jews. And this person is not as extreme as those Jews. He prefers the New York culture of his mother who brought him up.

"Let's find time to talk in detail..." Michael Douglas smiled when he saw Ronald agreed. The risk of independent production is relatively large. It is much better to cooperate with a small production company like Ronald, and everyone can share the risk. And this is also a rare producer in Hollywood who likes to co-produce with foreign capital, and he is like-minded.

The two turned to chat about some gossip, and saw a big star coming at the end of the red carpet. A dark-skinned elderly beauty and a handsome guy who looks like her son walked together.

"See you inside later..." Gregory Peck greeted them and went in with his wife first.

Ronald looked closely and found that it was the Italian star Sophia Loren.

Seeing that Ronald was a little puzzled, Michael Douglas explained to him that when Loren came to Hollywood, all the big male stars fell in love with her and competed to act with her. This was a whirlwind that swept Hollywood at that time.

In the end, Cary Grant won the competition and had a relationship with her. Some old stars outside today, such as Bob Hope, were probably losers in the competition back then.

I didn't expect these old men and women to still have such persistence. Ronald also entered the award hall afterwards. The seats for this year's award ceremony are quite spacious. Guests can go to the bar next to the hall to drink cocktails and chat, and go to the scene when the time comes.

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This year's nomination has the most "Dances with Wolves", which received twelve nominations, so the actors were arranged in a relatively important position. However, most of the nominations are for awards such as Best Photography, Best Makeup, and Best Sound. Because it is true that this movie has invested in this aspect, which is difficult for other movies to match.

As for the professional awards, there are Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Best Original Screenplay.

The next biggest nominees are the comic book adaptation "Dick Tracy" and The Godfather Part III, each of which received seven nominations. The former is a collaboration between Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, and Madonna, with great fanfare, but the actual performance is poor. Only Al Pacino was nominated for a supporting actor, and many of the nominations are small awards.

The Godfather Part III has strong nominations such as Best Director and Best Picture, and Andy Garcia was nominated for a supporting actor.

So, it seems that Dances with Wolves is far ahead, but if you look closely at the distribution of important awards, it is actually very even this year. There is nothing particularly amazing. The number of important award nominations for movies such as The Silence of the Heavens and The Gambler is also comparable to Dances with Wolves.

Ronald was also near the nominees of "Ghost", waiting for the award ceremony to begin. This year's location is in Paris. British actor Michael Caine hosted in Paris at three in the morning. He happened to be in the cafe where the Lumière brothers showed their first movie, introducing the first few silent movies that have left their names in the film industry. They were all more than 40 seconds long, showing factory gates, people watering plants, and trains entering the station.

Oscar spent a lot of money to have a group of actors dress up as Parisians of the time, sitting next to Michael Caine to watch the film replicas of the year. The screen in the cafe showed the train entering the station, and the actors stood up and fled in embarrassment like the audience of the year.

When this scene was shown on the big screen at the Oscars, the lights came on and the live song and dance performance began.

"Huh..." Ronald smiled. This year's producers spent a lot of time to surpass their own work last year. A montage was played on the stage.

This year was determined by the Oscars to be the centenary celebration of film. The invention of film actually has two sources. The first is the Lumière brothers in Paris. Their series of classic scenes that have been passed down to this day are considered by many people (especially Europeans) to be the earliest publicly screened films. These films were mainly screened in 1895 and 1896.

Another source is Thomas Edison's camera series. In fact, Edison, who was the equipment for filming and projecting moving images, projected a three-second moving image, "Dixon's Greetings" for 150 delegates to the International Women's Conference at the end of 1891.

So, if the publicly projected moving images are defined as movies, then Edison's invention is the birthday of movies. But Edison was not interested in filming and promoting the film industry, and only wanted to make money through patent fees.

So, if movies are regarded as a commodity, selling tickets to the audience to enter the theater to watch moving pictures with plots, then the short films of the Lumière brothers should be the origin of movies.

However, Americans certainly don't care what the Americans claim. Movies must have been invented by Edison.

"Da Da Da..." After the song and dance, the host Billy Crystal rode a horse onto the stage. He worked hard to surpass last year. It happened that he was also learning to ride a horse in order to prepare for the comedy western he wanted to shoot, which was not too difficult.

"Beep beep..." Billy Crystal took out a car key and pressed the stop button in the direction of the horse after he stood still.

"Hahaha..." The effect on the scene was very good, and everyone was very amused.

"Welcome everyone to the award ceremony today. It will be fun tonight. In fact, it doesn't matter who wins or loses, because no matter who wins, the madman in Iraq will claim that he won..."

"Hahaha..."

"Speaking of who will come to the party tonight, Madonna said to me, how many people do I need to fax to go to the Oscars? So she faxed me, and I faxed back twice, and she came tonight."

"Hahaha..."

The opening jokes were very loud. ABC's rating for tonight's program is ordinary, so even if it is a dirty joke that touches the edge, it must be handled with homophony. Billy Crystal is a master and handles it very well.

The atmosphere became warm, and ABC's ratings also exceeded 23%. The first award, Best Supporting Actress, began to be awarded.

"I feel very honored to present this award. There are five talented actors nominated for Best Supporting Actress..." Last year's Best Supporting Actor, Denzel Washington, presented the award.

"The nominees are... Annette Bening - The Fatal Bet, Lorraine Bracco - Goodfellas, Whoopi Goldberg - The Ghost Story, Diane Ladd - Wild at Heart, and Mary... Macdonald - Dances with Wolves..."

Ronald looked at Whoopi Goldberg next to him. It was obvious that she was a good actress. Although she was the one with the highest voice and won more than 80% of the awards in the frontline competition, her expression was very calm.

It was just the sparkle in her eyes that gave her away. The award guest this time is Denzel Washington. Although it is customary for winners of the previous session to be given awards to this session, it is not limited to specific awards. The fact that a black person was the guest of honor obviously meant that the organizing committee already thought that it was probably her.

"Although in my mind, the acting skills of the five are tied, there is only one award, and the Best Supporting Actress award goes to Whoopi Goldberg..."

"Ah..." Whoopi got a black Deadlock hairstyle with thick braids. After hearing that I had won the award, I stopped pretending at all. He jumped up suddenly, his hair twitched up and down, and his bucket-shaped figure looked a little cute.

Like a little girl receiving an award from her beloved school, she shouted, hugged Ronald and others, and jumped onto the stage.

"Thank you all. This is what I've wanted since I was a kid! Thank you to Ronald Lee, who decided to cast me in this role after much deliberation because he felt it was my role. And thank you to Patrick Schwyz, he told Ronald that I was the best."

"Hahaha..." Ronald said affectionately. But this person is worthy of performing stand-up comedy, and his few words are both organized and appropriate.

Of all the people I nominated for the award, Whoopi Goldberg gave the highest level of speech.

"This year is the centennial celebration of film, so you're going to hear it a lot of times tonight, 'The first, the first color film, the first talkie, the first time a major studio accountant said, 'Batman. Not making money?”

"Hahahaha..." Billy Crystal sarcastically said that the industry is also very spicy. It's really too much for Warner Bros. to record a loss for a blockbuster movie like "Batman."

“Next up is the award for Best Sound Effects…and the presenter is Dianne Wiest, star of Hannah and Her Sisters.”

"Huh?" Ronald's heart moved. Best Sound Effects is a minor award. Among the nominees this year, the sound effects crew for Dances with Wolves were the same team that did the sound effects for Hannah and his sisters. Later, he also participated in the work of a baseball movie starring Kevin Costner, and he handled it smoothly.

"The winners of the Best Sound Effects Award are Jeffrey Perkins, Bill Benton, Gregory H. Watkins..." Dianne Wiest's very gentle and beautiful voice said These people were named "Dances with Wolves".

"Hey..." While applauding, Ronald discovered that the producers this time were very much in the tradition of old-school award ceremonies. Whenever possible, they would always have well-connected award presenters, which would show some old-school respect for the winners. .