Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1478 Exposed in front of hundreds of millions of viewers
Everything was so perfect. After catching Ronald's gaze, most people smiled back in a flattering manner. Under the strong lighting at the scene, the smiles were covered with a layer of warmth, appearing very sincere.

However, it was impossible to tell what was hidden behind the smile at a glance. Ronald withdrew his gaze. Under the bright light, many shadows were created, and it was a little difficult to see the people inside.

The evil intent that Ronald suspected had not manifested itself, but he was certain that it must be hiding somewhere.

Forget it. Ronald didn't do any deliberate public relations for such technical awards. We still have to wait and see who wins the next performance award to know the success of his offensive.

Liam Neeson came on stage very gentlemanly and announced another small technical award, the Best Sound Effects Award. This award, like the Best Special Effects Award, only had three nominations. In the end, the most anticipated "Jurassic Park" won the award.

After all, the sound effects made by those ancient monsters from the Jurassic period, which seem to be stepping on the audience's ears, are not on the same level as the sound effects that appear in the other two movies, Cliffhanger and The Fugitive, which appear every year.

"Next up, five-time Oscar nominee... Glenn Gross..."

Whoopi Goldberg had good intentions as the host, but Glenn Gross, who walked onto the stage in a silver evening gown, took a deep breath before speaking, "She has starred in 44 films and has been active on the screen for more than years..."

"Six Oscar nominations..."

Ronald, like many people who knew history, completed the clause in his seat. Deborah Kerr came out with a little limp, and Glenn Gross supported her.

It was only when he was in his twilight years that he was awarded a consolation honorary award by the college, and he even had to go on stage to speak well of the college. Such a history cannot be considered lucky at all.

However, Deborah Kerr, like the lady roles she is best at playing, gave a very decent acceptance speech, thanking all the directors and stars who had supported her in the past...

The Academy, which presides over the Oscars, generally treats the awards as an annual review of an industry association. So whoever can gain more fame, attention, and money for the entire Hollywood industry will be favored by the nominations. As for the awards, it all depends on the voting results, and the Academy's executives have no way to interfere.

The only thing the executives can interfere with is the annual awarding of honorary awards. In this regard, Hollywood still has some human touch, although not much.

This human touch is also to maintain the overall reputation of Hollywood. If a star who has starred in many often-remembered movies is in poor health and has not won an Oscar, then an honorary award should be scheduled as soon as possible to prevent the star from dying without an Oscar.

If something like this happens, the Academy will be criticized for being impersonal, which is unacceptable to the executive committee members who were elected by the committee members. This is also the reason why Henry Fonda won the honorary award first and then the best actor award. At that time, he was in poor health and no one thought that he would be able to play On Golden Pond later...

After becoming the chairman of DDH, Ronald seems to be able to see the game of Hollywood from a higher perspective. If possible, no one wants to be a villain to prevent a person who is deeply loved by the audience or peers from getting the little golden man he or she deserves.

As a person who wants to win an award, the most important thing to do is to take advantage of the situation, rather than blindly spend money on public relations. Just like this year's Spielberg, who else can compete with him? Every time Schindler's List or Jurassic Park was announced as a nominee, the audience's applause was obviously one or two levels louder than other nominees.

"The next person who will present the Best Animated Short Film Award and the Best Short Film Award is an amazing woman. She is a friend of Diane Lane and Madonna in A League of Their Own, and a friend of Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle. I am introducing her like this, and she'd better become my friend as well... Rosie O'Donnell..."

Rosie O'Donnell, this fat woman, is very popular in the circle. Speaking of supporting roles, she is the one who should win the award, because other so-called best supporting actresses are often submitted for awards and may be more dazzling than the heroine in the movie. But Rosie O'Donnell is a real supporting role. With her, any heroine will be set off very well.

Just like this year's Best Supporting Actress nominees, Winona Ryder, Emma Thompson, and Holly Hunter, which one of them will be used as a foil to others on the screen?

That is to say, Anna Paquin, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at a very young age and played the daughter of Holly Hunter's character in The Piano Lesson, can be considered a true supporting role.

"The Oscar for Best Supporting Actress goes to... Winona Ryder... The Age of Innocence"

As expected, this year's Best Supporting Actress was also awarded to a fake supporting actress. In the Age of Innocence, Winona Ryder was not much less than another female star, Michelle Pfeiffer. However, because a person is beautiful, many people ignore their shortcomings. This female lead has applied for the supporting actress role before, and everyone still applauded and congratulated her warmly.

"Ok?"

Ronald didn't pay attention to Winona Ryder, who had short hair and was stammering as she gave her speech on the stage. The feeling of being watched came to his mind again.

This time he did not turn around to look for it immediately. Instead, he closed his eyes, carefully savored the direction of the source of the malice, and then turned back suddenly.

"Humph……"

Five or six rows behind where Ronald sat, a big, sturdy head like a pig was staring at him fiercely. It was Harvey Weinstein, who was defeated by his public relations offensive. Not far from him was Kaige Chen, the director of the Chinese film "Farewell My Concubine" which received several nominations this year.

Kaige seemed to be trying to say something to Harvey in his broken English, but Harvey Weinstein's eyes were not looking at him at all, but at himself.

In an instant, his eyes and Ronald's eyes intertwined in the air, as if breaking the boundaries, and Ronald felt as if he heard Harvey's indignant "humph".

"What's wrong?" Diane noticed something was wrong and leaned over to ask.

"It's okay, a boring person..."

"What's so boring? Hasn't the most exciting award arrived yet?" Tom Cruise, who was standing next to him, heard something and came over to talk to Ronald.

"How do you feel?" Ronald was a little worried about Cruise's mentality. Last time, he was also a hot candidate, but he lost. The photographers at the scene loved to capture the expressions on the faces of these losers.

"I'm fine. In fact, the award ceremony is also a competition for acting skills. This is a competition between four actors who lost the nominations and acted happy for the winner..."

"Puchi..." Ronald almost laughed out loud. Tom Cruise still has a sense of humor, which shows that he has a good mentality.

"Ms. Lian En..."

The assistant next to her came over and invited her to the stage. The Science and Technology Achievement Award, which was presented in advance, would be played on the stage, but Diane, who was presenting the award at the time, also had to go on stage to act.

Ronald stood up and took Diane on stage. He wanted to take this opportunity to see if there were any people who were malicious towards him. After becoming a high-ranking official, he became more sensitive to the auras between people.

"Ronald..."

There was no malicious intent, but Ronald's full-throated aura caught the attention of another person. Spielberg noticed Ronald escorting Diane to the stage and called him.

"How do you feel? Have you prepared your acceptance speech?" Ronald congratulated him. This year gave him a very similar feeling to the year of The Silence of the Lambs. Every time Spielberg's films were named by the award presenters at the beginning of the year, they would receive significantly louder cheers and applause. This was the best indicator, after all, the people present were judges with the right to vote for the Oscars.

"Ha, any advice? I haven't won an award yet." Spielberg was visibly nervous, and his tone of voice was very different from usual.

"Huh?" Ronald then realized that unlike himself who won the Oscar for Best Original Score when he was young and later won the Best Picture as a producer, Spielberg not only had never won the Best Director, but had never won any other Oscars.

I didn't expect that today was your first time... Ronald smiled like a seasoned veteran, "Be careful with that trophy, it's really heavy..."

"what?"

Spielberg was surprised. He didn't expect Ronald to say this to him. Kate Capshaw, who was standing next to him, smiled and said to her husband, "Ronald meant that you must have won the award today..."

"It's hard to say. There are always unexpected upsets in the Oscars..." Spielberg became worried and anxious.

In the following awards, no upsets occurred. The Age of Innocence won the Best Costume Award again, beating out The Piano Lesson, which was also highly favored.

John Williams won the Best Original Score for Schindler's List, and Janusz Kaminski won the Best Cinematography Award for Schindler's List.

"The category is Best Foreign Language Film. The requirement is that it must be a feature film released in theaters. The nominees are Farewell My Concubine, The Wedding Banquet, Taste of Green Papaya..."

Ronald has returned to his seat and glanced back at Harvey Weinstein. This year's Best Foreign Language Film was a big year for Asia, with three of the five nominations.

"The Best Foreign Language Film goes to..." The presenter Anthony Hopkins did not make any jokes and directly announced the winner, "Belle Epoque", Spain.

"Uh..." Ronald seemed to hear a huge sigh from behind. Kaige Chen, who had come to the Oscars with the power of the Cannes Golden Palm, could not accept such a blow for a while, and even the polite smile was gone.

This is not surprising, as Cannes' status is supposed to be stronger than Venice's. Compared to Yimou Zhang, the first domestic winner of the Golden Bear, Kaige's expectations for himself are much higher than this rival.

Yimou's previous film "Raise the Red Lantern", which he thought was not a breakthrough, won the Best Foreign Language Film. He was very disappointed that he didn't win. And his opponent was Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, a Spanish Bellepoque film about a young man pursuing four sisters. Can it reflect an entire era as brilliantly as his own Farewell My Concubine?
Alas, the Hollywood country bumpkins really don’t understand art.

Kaige got even angrier when director Fernando Chuba came on stage to accept the award. This guy has a squint in one eye. He has a squint…

"I thank all my crew members, some of whom are in Spain, some in the United States..."

Fernando Chuba speaks very good English.

"I have many people to thank, but if I want to thank God, I have to believe in him. But I only believe in Billy Wilder. Thank you, Mr. Wilder."

This acceptance speech drew laughter from the audience. Comparing the gradually forgotten Billy Wilder to God is a joke that only Hollywood insiders can fully appreciate.

As a famous screenwriter and director in the Golden Age of Hollywood, many foreign filmmakers worship him like a god and constantly draw nourishment from his films. However, some directors in Hollywood have forgotten him.

There will definitely be related reports on Chuba's witty acceptance speech this time, and at that time, a retrospective of Billy Wilder's works will be launched, which will be a good warm-up for the guest appearance he has agreed to make in Mr. Sweetheart.

Ronald prepared with a smile, these European directors are really lovely, they don't use clichés and are really wonderful.

"On the stage tonight, you have all listened to the five songs nominated for the Best Original Song Award. In order to refresh your memory, I am going to sing the five songs again..."

The person who presented the award was Whitney Houston. She had a slightly elegant sense of humor that was different from that of most black women. "But the organizing committee asked me to save time, so I'll just put my name in..."

"Oscar goes to Bruce Springsteen, and the streets of Philadelphia..."

"Hahaha..." Ronald knew, without looking back, that Harvey Weinstein's neck had become even thicker.

While Jurassic Park swept all the technical awards and Schindler's List won all the artistic awards, only a few awards were missed.

The Philadelphia story led by Ronald has already won two games.

"Best Original Screenplay Award: Jane Campion...The Piano Lesson..."

"Hahaha……"

Now it was Ronald's turn to be disappointed, while Harvey Weinstein behind him laughed. Jane Campion in The Piano Lesson defeated her biggest rival, Ron Neswanier, the screenwriter of The Philadelphia Story.

"The votes have been lost..." Ronald applauded politely. Harvey Weinstein did some PR to snatch two small prizes. This man acted very aggressively, probably using some crooked means.

Fortunately, his offensive has huge financial support, which is not something the Weinstein brothers can defeat. He will have to be more cautious in the future.

There was no surprise in the Best Adapted Screenplay Award. Stephen Zelian of Schindler's List won the Oscar without a doubt. In addition, Schindler's List won the Best Editing Award, which basically announced Spielberg's victory.

Throughout the history of the Oscars, the correlation between these three awards has always been very high.

However, the Best Actor and Best Actress awards have little to do with these three items. Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise also faced the challenge of Daniel Day-Lewis's In the Name of the Father.

"The Oscar for Best Actor goes to...Tom Hanks...for The Philadelphia Story."

Emma Thompson, like Anthony Hopkins, did not make a joke like Hollywood stars, but announced the award directly.

"Oh..."

This award was a climax. Everyone stood up and applauded to express their congratulations. Tom Cruise smiled bitterly at Ronald and also stood up and applauded.

This is the admiration and encouragement of everyone in Hollywood for Hanks breaking the taboo and playing such a role. Not many actors would risk their careers to play such a role, and if someone else does, it represents the sacrifice and contribution made by Hollywood actors as a whole to the cause of progress.

"Tom..." Hanks walked up to Cruise and gave him a gentle hug. They wished each other good luck.

"What a great win..." Ronald sat down with everyone else. Winning the Best Actor award today meant he had achieved his desired goal.

Tom Hanks was obviously very nervous. This was his first time. He kept changing hands while holding the golden statue.
"... I don't know if I should do this, I probably shouldn't do this, but everyone deserves this heavenly moment.

I would not have the honor of standing here today if it were not for two very important men in my life... I haven't been in touch with them for a long time. One is Rowley Farnsworth, my high school drama teacher, and the other is my drama classmate, John Helson, who was also taught by Mr. Farnsworth.

The reason I mention their names is that they are two of the finest minority-oriented people in America..."

"Boy, boy, Tom Hanks you are so exciting..."

Ronald had to cover his face. This guy won the Best Actor Award, but he actually kicked his high school teacher and classmates out of the closet on the spot in a live broadcast watched by tens of millions of people across the country and hundreds of millions of people around the world...