Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The first award presented was for Best Supporting Actor.

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

This strong suggestion made the other nominees who were not in the cast of ‘Ordinary People’ a little discouraged. Another actor nominated for Best Supporting Actor, who also belongs to the cast of 'Ordinary People', sat expressionless on his seat.

The camera filmed him for a long time before showing a fake smile.

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

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

The camera panned to the audience, where Hutton happily hugged his mother next to him, and it could be seen that his mother was smiling very happily. Hutton's father was also an actor and introduced him to the entertainment industry. He died of illness before.

Diane sat on the other side of Hutton's mother. As a female companion, she was supposed to sit with Hutton, but Hutton's previous harsh words towards the Ronald family made Diane unhappy and did not ask for it.

Hutton did not lack the attention of female stars at all. He sneered and simply sat on both sides of his mother with her, and started chatting with Elizabeth McGovern, who played his girlfriend on the other side of the set.

After winning the award, Hutton smiled broadly and stood up to receive the award. Diane and Hutton's mother also stood up to congratulate Hutton.

As usual, Hutton would congratulate everyone around him and give television cameras plenty of time. Unexpectedly, he walked to the aisle from the other side, shook hands with the director Robert Redford, hugged Elizabeth McGovern, and left Diane aside.

Embarrassed, Diane stopped smiling and had to sit down.

Hutton received the trophy on stage and seemed unprepared. He did not take out a pre-written speech and read it like other winners, but secretly memorized it at home. I could deliver my speech without script on the spot, as if I had received an unexpected award and had a natural feeling.

"Thank you 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." After drinking too much alcohol last night, Hutton really forgot the content of his speech.

I am really nervous now, so I would like to thank the crew and the stars who are also on the crew, so I can use my connections in the future.

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

"Well...then I want to thank my father. It would be great if he could be here today." Then he ran down the stage with the trophy in hand amid the applause of the crowd.

Neither Mary Tyler Moore, who played Hutton's mother in the movie, nor his real mother in the audience were thanked on the spot, and were forgotten in their acceptance speeches that they should have memorized.

As the award-winning music played, Hutton ran off the stage, joked with director Robert Redford, and wished him the best.

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..."

Of course, it was not actually awarded to the machine, but to the three inventors of this amazing machine.

This device is called an optical printer, and it can reprint several pieces of material onto a piece of film. It can make special effects such as big and small, small and big, etc. The presenter demonstrated the effect live, and the TV camera made the presenter the same size as the Oscar trophy.

Taking advantage of the fact that the technical awards cameras were not pointed at the audience, Diane apologized to the person on the right, ran out of her seat, and looked back to find where Ronald was sitting.

She no longer wanted to sit with Hutton. There are still more than 2 hours left, sitting next to a narcissist, which is quite difficult. After discovering Ronald's position in the back row, Diane ran over.

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

The Oscars are a live awards show. When some live audience members go to the bathroom or take a break backstage, there will always be stand-ins like this to fill the empty seats, in case the TV audience sees that there are still empty seats at the Oscars.

Ronald was watching the speeches from the three inventors of the optical printer in the back row, 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 are you here?" Ronald found Diane and saw that she was a little angry, "There is a place here, sit down first?"

Mr. Cultural Attaché stood up and changed his position gracefully, giving the vacant seat to Diane and letting her sit with Ronald.

"Hutton is a narcissist..." Diane lay in Ronald's ear and told him everything.

"Then just sit here." Ronald smiled. For an actress, screen time is everything.

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

The Academy gave "Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back" a Special Contribution Award. The best director and best screenwriter in the year of the last A New Hope were not awarded to the highly anticipated George Lucas.

This time, in order to invite him to attend again, the college made some amends. In addition to the Special Contribution Award, Best Special Effects and Best Sound Effects were awarded to The Empire Strikes Back.

Next, the best art director had another upset. The presenter was Natasha Kinski, and the award went to the cast of "Tess."

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

The award for Best Art Direction is not easy for laymen to understand. Simply put, it is the person responsible for all the visual elements in the movie, the aesthetic atmosphere of the movie, what colors to use, how to draw the background board, and even the color and texture of the sets, costumes, makeup, and props. Texture orientation is something that the art director must take into consideration.

The one that had the highest demand at the time was Akira Kurosawa's "Kagemusha". The visual effects of that movie are first-class, with gorgeous colors, armor, and a large number of horses. It is exquisitely beautiful and generally consistent with history. It restores the historical features of the Japanese Warring States Period very well.

"Tess"'s restoration of classical Britain is also very good, but in terms of quality and difficulty, it cannot compare to the accumulation of Akira Kurosawa's hard work and color storyboards for several years on the filming of Kagemusha.

"Ah... have you discovered anything?" Diane asked with great interest when she saw Ronald and Coleman looking at each other in tacit understanding.

"Mr. Coleman and I both believe that it should be awarded to 'Shadow Warrior'..." Ronald explained his views.

Kurosawa comes from a country that was defeated in World War II. There is a disdain for Japan in America, and the judges seem to be somewhat biased. But on the other hand, various cheap products from Japan, especially electronic products and cars, are rapidly occupying the American consumer market.

Having said this, Ronald glanced at Mr. Cultural Attaché. If this suspicion of national sentiment is true, then "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" selected by his home country, in the competition for the best foreign language film... that award has the highest demand. is also a "Shadow Warrior".

Mr. Cultural Counselor also thought of the same question, and then he awarded the best foreign language film. The host Johnny Carson had already come on stage and started telling jokes. He immediately said to Ronald, "Quick, do any of you speak Russian?"

Ronald spread his hands and looked at Diane and the Colemans. They were shaking their heads too.

"Oh, God. We didn't expect to win the award at all, and we didn't bring a translator. Last time in 'War and Peace', the actress who played Natasha came to accept the award, and it was the Russian actress Natalie Wood who did the Russian translator. "

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

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

The cultural attaché crossed Diane and said to Ronald, "I'll write down my acceptance speech, and you pretend to know how to translate it into Russian. How about I say something and you say something."

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By this time Johnny Carson had finished telling the joke, "Firelli, and the young skinny-jeans artist Brooke Shields."

After the two took the stage, Brooke Shields spoke first, saying, "I am very happy to present the award with my current boss, Mr. Zeffirelli, the gentleman standing next to me. He is a very nice person."

Zeffirelli took over, "You spoke well of me, so you can come to work on the set later tomorrow."

"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 was dictating the award speech.

"Only on behalf of director Menshov, actress Vera Alentova, and actor Alexey Batalov, who plays Gosha... I would like to thank the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." Ronald wrote in his notebook Take shorthand.

"Thank you so much!"

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

"The award goes to 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears,' USSR."

"Don't forget to mention New World Productions, go ahead." Roger Corman warned, patting Ronald on the back.

Zeffirelli lowered his head and held the note and read out, accepting the award on behalf of the USSR, "Mr. Cultural Counselor of the Embassy, ​​and... Huh?" He found that Ronald had also come up, and he didn't quite understand.

Ronald felt like whispering to Brooke Shields, "New World Productions, importer and distributor, and translator."

Brooke Shields took over from Zeffirelli, "With Ronald Lee of New World Productions, the film's American distributor, he will serve as Mr. Counselor's translator."

"Wow wow wow", the audience applauded.

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

After giving his speech, he finally said in English with a Russian accent, "Thank you everyone."

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

"Do you know Russian?" Poji asked Ronald in a low voice while the award-winning music was playing.

"Just a few words, let's talk at the Governor's Ball tonight."

Timothy Hutton in the audience was also surprised at first when Ronald came on stage to receive the award, thinking that he was really a rich man who came to the film industry to play.

Later, when he heard that he was just a translator for a production company, he smiled contemptuously. "I don't know where Diane has gone. I'll take McGovern to the Governor's Ball later. There will be no shortage of beautiful actresses at the ball anyway. I'll just take the one I like back to the party. I'm the new Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor."