[US Entertainment] Actor

Finding Nemo was next awarded for Best Animated Feature, and Best Costume Design went to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The presentation of the awards has finally reached a small climax. In the next best supporting actor award, Tim Robbins finally lived up to expectations and won the first Oscar in his life.

"The Shawshank Redemption" made him famous, but until Tim Robbins stood on the podium and told his excitement and desire with a smile, the careful audience would not have noticed that the actor who played in that movie 10 years ago Actors who have dedicated outstanding performances in classic movies are no longer young.

For actors who always play other people on the screen, it is not easy for people to notice their age. Once they are noticed, it means that they are really old.

In Ebert's view, he is not willing to win the favor of an Oscar until he is old like Tim Robbins and Christopher Plummer. He hopes to create a great career while young and become history. writer.

It's not easy though.The Oscars represent pretty much the toughest competition in the entire industry for the best and greatest performances of the year.In the 76th Oscar, Ebert was honored to be one of the best fifth, but for him, this is not enough, this is just a good start, in his ultimate goal, he wants to be the only .

He can only create his own miracle step by step.

Compared with the lively and cheerful Golden Globe Awards, the atmosphere of the Oscars is slightly dull.In fact, even though awards such as best art direction, best photography, and best makeup are also an integral part of the Oscars, no one cares who takes them. The audience and the media only pay attention to the actors. Awards, even though directors and screenwriters are no less important than actors in filming, they are still far behind actors in terms of attention.

Hollywood has been calling for lower pay for actors in recent years.If the actors lower their salaries, the crew can invest more in improving the quality of the film, which will undoubtedly promote the healthy development of the Hollywood film industry.

But in practice, none of the actors would be willing to accept such a request. After all, this is a practice that harms their interests. Especially for first-line stars, the salary not only represents dollars, but also a symbol of identity and status.

Then on the podium was Ebert's old acquaintance, Chris Cooper, who had a tacit cooperation with him in "The Pentium Age", who presented the Best Supporting Actress Award, and finally the award was awarded to Rui Nee Zellweger, the actress nominated three times in a row, finally landed the Oscars tonight.

In fact, Renee is the most likely winner of this award. She won all the awards in the supporting actress department this year, and the award is a certainty.Because of this, her acceptance speech took 3 minutes to read. I am afraid that none of the supporting female nominees present would write such a long acceptance speech unless they are sure that they can win the award.

Zellweger even thanked CAA, the brokerage company. What's more frightening is that she didn't stop where Ebert thought she would stop, and poured out her thanks to everyone. Well, she is really too Excited, which is understandable.

In a way, this is also a display of hypocrisy by the actors.Fans of her crying performance who won the supporting actress at the Golden Globes will only take it as an emotional catharsis, but she is very sure, and she also showed a shocked expression, oh, this is hypocritical Hollywood.

In the future, Anne Hathaway's performance when she won the best supporting actress will also be ridiculed by the crowd.

The entire awards ceremony was lengthy and boring, and even the song and dance performance at halftime couldn't attract Ebert's attention at all. While the camera didn't notice him, he simply chatted with Johnny Depp on the side.

"He must have thought that the camera couldn't notice him." Tobey Maguire, who had been staring at the TV, suddenly said, "Oscar has already achieved all-round full-court detection, and ABC TV also knows that the audience likes it." What to look at, look at the focus of the camera, except for the winners who are favored by the camera the most times are him and Johnny."

"I'm more inclined that he and Johnny regard each other as a pair of hopeless brothers and sisters, although this is the case." Leonardo frowned, "When I have no hope, I can only watch others take it away." With the grand prize, there's nothing wrong with his performance."

The reason why Leonardo frowned was not because Ebert had no possibility of winning the award - even though he quite recognized Ebert's acting skills, he also thought that Ebert, who was well aware of the urgency of the academy, could only return with regret.He just felt that the relationship between Ebert and Johnny was a bit beyond his expectation.How Billy Crystal described Johnny, oh, a pirate with gay tendencies!

Homosexuality is not uncommon in Hollywood, which is not a vast land, but Leonardo never considered that his good friend would have such a tendency. After all, he himself is an out-and-out straight man. Seeing that such things as Renji would never happen to him.

But now, seeing Ebert and Johnny talking happily, Leonardo's thoughts could not help drifting to a certain report he saw a month ago.

On the list of the most popular gay actors in 2003 released by a certain homosexual magazine, Ebert, who was shortlisted for the first time, successfully entered the top five. Johnny Depp of "Pirates of the Caribbean" ranks in the top three, one of the reasons is that the character of Jack Sparrow is really gay, and the other is that Johnny has a kind of feminine sexiness.Johnny and Ebert were supposed to be the best same-sex couple by this magazine...

Leonardo remembers his first thought when he saw the report was, huh, these journalists who have nothing to do all day are a complete waste of paper, writing this kind of report is better than making toilet paper!

At this moment, Ebert and Johnny's cheek-to-cheek gesture is really obtrusive, the best match for same-sex couples?ha!Leonardo almost wanted to sneer.

What Ebert and Johnny discussed was not a serious topic, but the ceremony scene was too boring, and they had to discuss some interesting topics to enrich this boring night.They only chat occasionally, but the camera is too fond of them, and a close-up will come every once in a while.

The awards ceremony went on for more than half of the time, and most of the awards had been handed out, but the crew of "The Pentium Era" still got nothing.

Since "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" took 24 of all 11 nominations, excluding animated feature films, animated short films, original screenplays, documentaries, short documentaries, foreign language films, and live-action short films. 7: Nominations that are impossible for The Return of the King, and 3 nominations for actors are excluded. Of the remaining 4 nominations, this massive series of masterpieces took 13 nominations. For other films competing with it In other words, this is undoubtedly a great tragedy.

Among the 8 nominations of "The Pentium Age", the only two that did not overlap with "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" are the best cinematography and Ebert's best actor nomination.

As the results of the awards were announced one by one, director Gary Rose's expression became more and more stiff. The director did not plan to attend this awards ceremony, but Mr. Director showed up on time under the persuasion of the producer Catherine Kennedy. On the Oscars red carpet.

No one on the scene knew the end result better than Ebert. "The Pentium Era" got nothing, and regretted leaving this Oscar.And the results of other films competing for Oscars with the powerful "Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" were not so good, except "Mystic River" took away the leading actor and supporting actor, and "Lost in Translation" took away an original film that could barely save face. In addition to the script, "Raging Seas" and "The Pentium Age" have completely become the foil for "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" at this year's Oscars.

But even though he knew the final result, Ebert appeared at the awards ceremony without hesitation.

But this is the charm of the Oscars. It will bring Ebert into contact with the best film creators and performers in the world. Its significance is far from that of an ordinary award.

Most importantly, Ebert feels he has changed history.In the world of his previous life, there was no such character as Albert Dawson. He broke into the Oscars with a completely unfamiliar attitude and snatched Jude Law's best actor nomination. place of change.

Ebert is confident he can change more.

Although he was still a little sad when he saw the doomed ending, when he saw Sean Penn talking on the podium, Ebert also felt a sense of unwillingness to admit defeat.

This time it's Sean Penn, but he'll be the next Oscar winner.

Everyone can see that when the best actor award was announced, the person who was most disappointed was Bill Murray, who was considered the closest to the Oscar. His performance in "Lost in Translation" did create a classic, but Sean Penn The performance is more sophisticated and can impress the judges.

This unattractive Hollywood "bad boy" with forehead lines that can catch flies and punch a reporter's forehead is not only famous for his fiery temper, but also his acting skills and the tension in his performances are also very moving.If Daniel Day-Lewis' performance is a jade after many times of honing, then Sean Penn is a natural acting talent. The judges hate his troublesome habits, but they are unwilling to give up his fascinating performance. .

After "Mystic River", Sean Penn won the best actor trophy with "Milk" in the future, which is not common in Hollywood history.

Being defeated by such an opponent, Ebert has no regrets.On the contrary, he is more full of fighting spirit.

Having a strong opponent is more motivation to move forward. If he continues to maintain the possibility of sprinting for the Oscar, then his opponents will be Tom Hanks, Daniel Day Lewis and others. He has no possibility of retreating at all. .

He can only keep moving forward.

Mr. Agent, who thought that Ebert would be complacent after Oscar’s return, has prepared a lot of lines to admonish him-he copied these words from the speeches of Franklin, Lincoln and others, as long as Ebert Showing a proud mood, Mr. Manager swore that he would make him feel ashamed.

But now, what the hell is going on here?

After Opie's "Vanity Fair" dinner, Ebert locked himself in his room all day and did not go out. At first, the manager thought he was depressed because he didn't win the award, but when this situation lasted for a week, the manager Mister must have been a little worried.He remembered the scene where Ebert had mental problems during the filming of "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"... So one sunny morning!When Ebert turned on the TV as usual to imitate Orson Welles' performance in "Citizen Kane", the wooden door in his room, made of precious wood, with smooth lines and high security, suddenly split from the middle in half.

Just when he thought that a thief had entered the house, the manager with a flustered face suddenly came out from behind the door, to be precise, through a hole.

After figuring out the reason, he couldn't help sighing: "Lynn, I'm fine, one loss can't beat me at all. Oh, it's my fault that the phone doesn't turn on, but I just want to use this time to study the performance well. , I have nothing to worry about."

"My fault, I shouldn't be so impulsive." Lynn said dejectedly. When he asked the price of the door from Ebert, his head couldn't help but droop even lower.

Compared with the tens of millions of dollars of luxury houses of other celebrities, Ebert's villa is quite simple. The most distinctive feature in the whole house is probably the huge bookcase on the first floor, but the bookcase is not the most expensive, the most expensive It was the wooden door that was split in half by Mr. Manager at this moment.

This is probably the most expensive door available in the US market.

Ebert is usually very involved when making a movie, and it often takes him more time to get out of the plot of the script after the movie is finished. A closed door with excellent sound insulation becomes his The only choice.

But now, the door is reduced to crumbs.

Considering that Mr. Broker's current income is much higher than the average salary, compensating for such a door will also make him feel heartache.

The schadenfreude became Ebert: "Oh, dear Lynn, this is unfortunate, I sympathize with you, but I won't pay you a penny, not even if you beg me."

When the manager looked at Ebert with his Nemo-like eyes, Ebert just shook his head, showing no sympathy: "Don't wink at me, Mr. Lynn Hawke, how long are you?" It doesn't fit my aesthetics at all, I'm not your Marin."

Mr. Broker rolled his eyes at Ebert severely, and took the decoration workers to reinstall a new door for Ebert the next day.

While the decoration workers were busy, Ebert also welcomed two guests whom he hadn't seen for a long time.