Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1631 This Year's Oscars Are a Little Abnormal

After Braveheart and Apollo 13 won the Best Sound and Best Sound Effects awards respectively, the Oscars entered the main award announcement stage.

Whoopi Goldberg introduced the Best Supporting Actress award presenter, last year's Best Supporting Actor winner, Martin Landau.

"It's hard to believe now that the first Academy Awards did not have Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress awards. Fortunately, today we are very honored to see five great actresses nominated for the first time..."

The nominated actresses are very strong, including Joan Allen in Nixon, Kate Winslet in Sense and Sensibility, Mare Winningham in Georgia, and Kathryn Quinlan in Apollo 13.

However, the winner of the Best Supporting Actress announced by Martin Landau was Mira Sorvino for her role in Atypical Aphrodisiac.

Mira Sorvino?
This award was rather unexpected, and the cheers and applause at the scene were smaller than those for the Best Supporting Actor award.

The previous favorite was Joan Allen, who played Mrs. Nixon. She received the Screen Actors Guild Award for both the leading and supporting roles, second only to Susan Sarandon, the leading actress of Death Row Walking. Another supporting actress nominated was Kate Winslet of Sense and Sensibility. Mira Sorvino did not even receive a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award.

Joan Allen also won a series of awards at the Film Critics Association Awards in various cities, including the Best Supporting Actress at the Chicago, Los Angeles, and other film critics awards.

In addition, this film is a biographical film that Americans love very much. Director Oliver Stone portrayed Nixon and his chief diplomatic adviser Dr. Kissing in a negative way in the film, and the first lady Patty was a lady who conformed to traditional virtues...

This kind of role is almost the type that Oscar judges love the most. In addition, Joan Allen's acting is great. The movie hints that Patty almost fell into alcohol and drug addiction because of her husband's problems. Several close-up crying scenes can be said to be synonymous with "acting skills".

The earliest candidate for the leading actor in this film was not the British Anthony Hopkins, but the local actor Warren Beatty. When Beatty was considering the role, he specially asked Joan Allen to fly over to read the script with him. After reading it, even the Oscar-winning director said that Joan Allen was the best actor to play Patty Nixon.

Even if Joan Allen didn't win the award, everyone thought Kate Winslet might be the upset winner. Her performance as the middle sister Marianne in Sense and Sensibility was well received by the audience and critics. She also won several critics awards and became a hot candidate for nominations at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA Awards), known as the British Oscars. According to BAFTA's practice, it was very likely that the award would be given to her, a British actress, for her performance in Jane Austen's work.

Mira Sorvino, along with Sharon Stone, only “bought” one award at the Golden Globe Awards. Her current boyfriend Quentin Tarantino and the manipulator behind the scenes, Harvey Weinstein, even if they spent a lot of money, could only win one trophy in this kind of award where it is easy to “buy” the judges.

At the time, Ronald thought that this was the only trophy that this Miramax work could win, but he didn't expect it to be an upset at the Oscars.

A person who was generally believed to be an upset to be nominated for an Oscar actually defeated two major favorites to win the award, which surprised many in the audience.

When the awards were announced, there was a large screen on the scene, which played the expressions of the five winners and nominees in real time. Ronald, like most of the audience, stared at Joan Allen. After hearing the results, Joan Allen smiled very freely and then began to applaud.

Ronald's attention then shifted to Mira Sorvino's face, and just then her new boyfriend Quentin Tarantino came over and kissed her forcefully.

In the moment when he was blocked by Quentin's big face, Ronald seemed to see an expression of "It's me" on Sorvino's face.

Feeling something was wrong, Ronald was about to continue watching when suddenly a belated applause broke out from the back of the scene.

This applause was different from the usual applause for winners. It was concentrated in a certain direction at the back of the scene. Ronald couldn't help but look back. But he couldn't see anything clearly under the light...

"She dodged the kiss..." Diane whispered to Ronald's ear.

"What?" Ronald was confused.

"I said, just now when Mira Sorvino found out she had won the award, she dodged her boyfriend Quentin Tarantino's kiss..." Diane gossiped to Ronald about her discovery.

"Ok?"

"Thank you to the Academy judges for your recognition of me, and thank you to Woody Allen for writing such a great role..."

Ronald, who was confused by all the strange signs, heard Mira Sorvino's speech on the stage.

She seemed very excited, but after laughing twice, she spoke the rest of her speech quickly and accurately, giving people the feeling that she had memorized it many times.

"I also want to thank my parents. By giving me this award, you are honoring my father, Paul Sorvino, who taught me everything about acting..."

Mira's father, Paul Sorvino, is also a veteran actor. He played a gangster in Ronald's "The Trap" and a sheriff in the popular TV series Law & Order. He has always played either a gangster or a law enforcement officer.

But what’s interesting is that although he sat next to his daughter today, he got his ticket because he played Dr. Kissinger in “Nixon.”

The camera also gave a timely look to the father Paul's face. The proud Paul Sorvino was very excited and very happy. When he heard his daughter attribute the pride to Feng Junjie, he could no longer control his emotions and burst into tears. He had to cover his face with his hands...

However, the audience at the scene and in front of the TV love to watch such gossip scenes. There was another round of applause at the scene, and it is estimated that the real-time ratings will also surge upwards.

This time the applause was more evenly distributed. Ronald thought of the abnormal applause just now. The person in the back was not a member of the crew of the powerful aphrodisiac. Could this be arranged by a shill? If so, how could Harvey Weinstein be so confident?
Thinking of this, Ronald looked over at Weinstein...the fat man Harvey Weinstein was clapping happily there.

“Harvey Weinstein…”

Suddenly, the host Whoopi Goldberg on the stage started to talk again, which startled Ronald and Weinstein. Their eyes suddenly met.

"Latest news: Harvey Weinstein renamed his mild aphrodisiac the Sorvino Family..."

“Hahahaha…” It turned out that he was joking about the award ceremony just now. Ronald smiled, but he felt suspicious. Harvey Weinstein’s expression was as if he had seen through something shady…

Braveheart and Apollo 13 took home the Best Cinematography and Best Editing awards, respectively. This is also a strong signal for the Best Picture winner. Considering that Apollo 13 was not nominated for Best Director, perhaps Braveheart will be the winner of the Best Picture this year.

Ronald has participated in many Oscars and is familiar with this kind of signal. But this year he did have a strange feeling. Maybe Harvey Weinstein has mastered some new technology to win awards?
Stars who receive important nominations often become presenters of important awards. Mel Gibson presented the Best Foreign Language Film Award. Antonia House of the Netherlands won the award.

The next two awards were for Best Short Documentary and Best Feature Documentary. The presenters of these two awards were Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, the leading actors and actresses of Leaving Las Vegas, released by New United Artists.

Elizabeth Shue's answer to the Oprah interview just now did not seem to be fake. She was very nervous about her nomination for Best Actress. Nicolas Cage read out the nominees and winners for both awards.

Two films about the Holocaust, Memoirs of a Survivor and The Diary of Anne Frank, won the two best documentary awards.

Last year was the 50th anniversary of the victory of World War II. The leaders of the Allied Powers, including Britain, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, gathered in Moscow and, together with the German Chancellor, celebrated the peaceful years that people around the world have been able to enjoy since the end of the Cold War.

So this year a large number of documentaries about the Nazis emerged, but the two winning films are both about the Nazis' atrocities against the Jews, especially Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl whose diary includes some of her experiences during her hiding in the Netherlands. Now she has become a symbol of Jewish suffering.

The next guest to present the Honorary Oscar was also Jewish. Spielberg personally presented the honorary award to Kirk Douglas, the most famous Jewish actor in Hollywood.

Kirk Douglas, who is almost 80 years old and has a slow pace of speech and movement, was still very happy to accept the award. His acceptance speech was also very interesting. The old man was most proud that his four sons came to the scene to witness his 50th anniversary in Hollywood.

Michael Douglas and his younger brother Joey were born to his first wife and both are doing well in the industry. Joey is also the producer of many of his brother Michael's films. Peter and Eric, the two sons from his third wife, do not hang out with their eldest brother and rely on the face of their old man Kirk Douglas to get into small-budget films.

At the awards ceremony, the two younger sons also shouted and cheered for their dad, hoping that he could live longer. This made the older and second older brothers a little uncomfortable... After all, this was the Oscars, and making weird noises and whistles to cheer for their dad, what kind of thing was that?
Fortunately, the farce ended quickly, and black singer Vanessa Williams performed the theme song of "Pocahontas" on the spot...

The awards ceremony started after the halftime singing and dancing performance and gradually moved on to the important awards.

As expected by many people, the Best Adapted Screenplay Award was awarded to British talent Emma Thompson.

This is also the only star in Oscar history who has won both the screenwriting and acting awards. The last star to be nominated for both was Sylvester Stallone for Rocky. And Sylvester Stallone did not win either of the two nominations.

Emma Thompson was very graceful. Like the Golden Globe Awards, she also thanked the original author, the famous Jane Austen, and finally presented the trophy to the director Ang Lee. It can be seen that this movie really benefited Emma Thompson a lot.

Just after Emma Thompson left the stage and the curtain was drawn, the audience was waiting for Whoopi Goldberg to come out and introduce the most important presenters for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Picture.

Who knew that when the curtain was drawn, a handsome man appeared in the center of the stage, sitting in a wheelchair.

The audience was stunned for a moment. This was Christopher Reeve, who played Superman. Less than a year ago, he almost died in a horse-riding accident. He didn't expect to appear at the Oscars so soon. Then everyone stood up and applauded.

The applause lasted for more than a minute, and it would have continued for quite a while if many assistants hadn't started to persuade everyone to stop. However, Reeve probably couldn't stand it.

Poor Christopher Reeve was not in a good condition and could only speak for a short time. He listed some movies that reflected social issues that he had watched since his childhood, such as Dr. Strangelove, Philadelphia, Platoon, etc., and encouraged everyone to make more excellent films that put social responsibility above box office.

It was obvious to the naked eye that Reeve was not in good condition. He had to wait for a few seconds before he could continue speaking. His voice was also very soft. It was really not good for Quincy Jones to exploit a severely disabled person like this.

Reeve himself felt good, and such activities gave him a lot of courage to face life, because he felt that he was still a useful person. However, he also rejected Quincy Jones's very vulgar use of Superman's theme song, and instead used the theme songs of the movies he mentioned that reflected social issues as the background music for his speech.

Such moments always allow people to see who is truly noble in Hollywood and who is a lover of fame and fortune...

Quincy Jones, a fame and fortune lover, certainly would not miss such a good opportunity. After Reeve stepped down, he arranged for the black gospel choir Take 6 to sing a cappella several songs that won the Best Original Song Award...

In order to have more black elements at this year's Oscars, this guy crammed a lot of black performers and presenters even though there was only one black nominee. The only thing missing was hanging a banner on the stage that read: "An Oscar without black people is not a real Oscar."

"Director Li, this way please..."

When it came time to present the Best Director award, Ronald, the previous winner, also stood up and came backstage. A beautiful female assistant handed him an envelope... Inside was the name of this year's Best Director Oscar winner...

"Oh, Steven..." Ronald suddenly realized that Spielberg was still backstage. He had just returned from accompanying the old star Kirk Douglas to the back hall.

"Hi, Ronald..." Spielberg pushed up his glasses.

"I feel more nervous than when I won the award. It's my turn soon. By the way, are you free after the event? Can we chat? About this year's Oscars..."