Hollywood Road

The dashing James Franco strode onto the stage and stood in front of the microphone with a charming smile, definitely a handsome guy.

"The five actors competing for Best Supporting Actress have very different voice styles from each other, but four of them are nominated for Oscars for the first time, and they all have indelible talents."

James Franco turned slightly, looked at the big screen behind him, and said, "The nominees for Best Supporting Actress are: Berenice Bejo in The Artist, Jessica Chastain in The Help, Octa Via Spencer "The Help," Melissa McCarthy "Bridesmaids," Margot Robbie "Diego Ross."

Murphy turned to look at Margot Robbie, who was holding Gal Gadot's hand tightly, looking very nervous.

For an actress born after the 1990s, if she can win a Best Supporting Actress award at this age, her career will definitely take a big step forward.

Originally, Murphy was not optimistic about Margot Robbie winning the award, but the Academy found James Franco to present the award instead of the one who won the best supporting actor last year. There must be a reason, wouldn't it? What about the relationship between the winners?

"The Oscar winner is..." James Franco opened the envelope and read out the answer directly, "Octavia Spencer's The Help!"

The theater was silent for a second, then burst into applause.

Margot Robbie let out a sigh of relief. Since she was mentally prepared before, she was not particularly disappointed. She applauded along with Gal Gadot next to her.

Seeing the award-winning older black female go to the stage, Murphy could only sigh secretly, the Oscar is still the Oscar, it is always so politically correct, and always respects and loves the old.

If you read it correctly, Octavia Spencer is the oldest nominee for Best Supporting Actress. Thinking about the nickname of Best Supporting Actress, isn't she the most winning?

The Oscar's Best Supporting Actor Award is also known as the Old Age Consolation Award!

Octavia Spencer is old enough to be black...

Losing Best Supporting Actress, which was not in the plan, the crew of "Diego Rose" seemed to be possessed by bad luck. In the next few awards, they lost Best Makeup and Best Art Direction. Lost out to Martin Scorsese's Hugo.

Then came the award for Best Original Screenplay.

Angelina Jolie stood on stage and loudly announced, "Best Original Screenplay is...Michael Hazanavicius' The Artist!"

As soon as the result came out, the crew of "The Artist" burst into cheers. They had already won the best soundtrack and best sound editing, and with this award for best original screenplay, the number of statuettes taken away reached three!

Murphy noticed that Harvey Weinstein looked this way again. After all, he was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay for "Diego Ross", and now he directly overwhelmed him in this award, that Jewish The big fat man's eyes were obviously a little smug.

However, compared to the people around him, Murphy seemed very calm. He met Harvey Weinstein's eyes directly, without fear or retreat. Even if he lost this round, he could make a comeback later, even if With age, he can also kill Harvey Weinstein!

Harvey Weinstein took the initiative to look away. There is absolutely no need for him to compare sharp eyes with a loser. Now the ratio of "The Artist" crew to "Diego Ross" statuette is three to one, Murphy-Stein Don has lost all but three nominations, with no performances other than an award at the start.

"It seems that the academy is going to let him run away again." Bob Weinstein whispered next to him, "So throw a best photography to the crew of "Diego Ross" as a consolation."

Harvey Weinstein nodded his head, "It's very likely."

The awards ceremony was still going on, and many people were complaining in the discussion forums on the Internet. On the one hand, they were dissatisfied that Murphy's crew did not win another award.

On the other hand, the award ceremony has now gone on, and it has become the old tune again, which is a bit boring.

"After the first fifteen minutes, other than the Billy Crystal jokes, it's pretty boring."

"It's politically correct, and it's comforting the elderly. Is there any mistake? This is the most important film award in Hollywood, and it's not an association for respecting and loving the elderly!"

"The college talks about changing every year, but it always keeps the same way. It uses different ways to nostalgia. Who remembers those old movies!"

Seeing this, Daisy thought for a while, and wrote in the discussion area, "There is another reason, the nominated films are too unfamiliar, "Hugo", "Descendants", "Tree of Life", "The Artist"... how many have you seen?"

Many responses followed.

"I haven't seen any of them, so I don't feel much about the awards."

"I watched "Descendants", but I left the show before finishing it. It was really boring."

"Yes, I've seen it too, it's slower than "Diego Ross"."

Daisy analyzed these people, "You haven't seen the movies, and you don't think how good these movies are. Naturally, you are not interested in whether they win awards, and you will be bored."

If it wasn't for Murphy, she wouldn't be staying here to watch the Oscars.

In the Dolby Theater, the awards were awarded one after another. Films such as "The Descendants", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", and "Midnight in Paris" all achieved their own gains, but the ratings of the Oscars continued to decline.

It is undeniable that apart from jokes, Oscar likes nostalgia the most, which is also in line with the appetite of the core members of the academy. Every Oscar awards ceremony is always full of nostalgic episodes for a long time.

For viewers who are not too old, this nostalgic plot is always tasteless.

Nielsen Statistical Company has been monitoring the ratings of this year’s Oscars. When Sean Connery stepped onto the stage and the big screens and televisions turned to black and white, the awards ceremony was nostalgic again. Nielsen A person in charge of the TV station kept reporting the number of viewers.

"The number of viewers in North America has dropped from 35 million just now to 31 million..."

A minute later, the show that missed the golden age was still playing for a long time, and the person in charge reported again, "Now it is 29 million!"

Every minute, he will report the number of viewers. The number proves that the old period is really not very popular, and it can be called the killer of the ratings. The lowest audience rating for the Oscars!"

Fortunately, the show that missed the golden age ended after more than five minutes, and then the best supporting actor slowly pulled up the ratings.

The academy is obviously not stupid. It knows that the audience doesn't like this type of show, and deliberately arranged to use the best supporting actor award to save the scene. At the same time, it also shows the stubborn and conservative side of the academy, even though it knows that nostalgia is not popular. Still stubbornly putting this type of program in the awards ceremony, it took more than five minutes.

The Oscars finally got back above 30 million viewers the moment a gray-haired Christopher Plummer took home the Best Supporting Actor statuette for "Beginners," which most people have never heard of.

This can be said to be a very serious situation facing the Oscars since the beginning of the new century. With the flow of information and the increase of entertainment methods, the ratings of the award ceremony have been declining, and even hit new lows since the 1970s.

In fact, it is not difficult to save the ratings of the Oscars. Choosing a movie with a wider audience can easily solve this problem. For example, since the 1990s, the 70th Oscars has the highest ratings. , "Titanic" easily supported the ratings of the entire awards ceremony.

It's just what the academy made, and most of the time, it runs counter to ordinary audiences.

Although a best supporting actor dragged the number of viewers back to more than 30 million, it was unable to take it to a higher level. The task of saving the ratings of this Oscar is definitely not that the number of viewers like "Beginner" may not be able to reach it. A million-passenger movie can afford that.

When it comes to the number of viewers and the box office, although "Diego Ross" has a box office of less than 60 million US dollars in North America, it is enough to disdain all the films nominated for the best picture

And after the next commercial, the person in charge of Nielsen was even more surprised to find that the ratings of the awards ceremony not only did not decline, but started to rise, and even faintly approached the 35 million mark!

"The next award is Best Editing," his lieutenant reminded. "Murphy Stanton is nominated!"

The person in charge suddenly woke up, "No wonder the ratings keep rising. It turns out that the most outstanding young director in Hollywood in the 21st century may be about to win an award!"

In the Dolby Theater, Murphy once again saw his own people on the stage, and Seth Rogen swayed to the microphone.

"The famous Hollywood director Ridley Scott once said that the cooperation between the film editor and the director is like a marriage."

The members of the Stanton Party seem to have learned some of Murphy's traits. Seth Rogen didn't have any nonsense, and directly talked about the string prepared by the organizer, "Just like a marriage, they huddled in a dark cabin without windows, Sharing takeaways and enjoying other people's small movies."

He obviously made a little joke, and there was laughter from below the stage.

I have to say that this fat man looks simple and honest, but his talent for creating joy is indeed unique.

After making a small joke, Seth Rogen took the initiative to step aside, looked at the big screen and said, "The best editing nominees are..."

On the big screen, a clip of the nominated film began to play, "Michael Hazanavicius "The Artist."

Hearing the name, Murphy remembered that "The Artist" was the same as himself, the director also served as the editor.

The voices on the stage continued, "Selma Schoonmaker's "Hugo", Murphy Stanton's "Diego Ross"..." (To be continued..) u More exciting novels, welcome Visit our library