Made in Hollywood

"It won't win! It won't win!"

Because the live broadcast was temporarily cut to the scene of the Kodak Theater, a makeup artist came to touch up Roger Albert's makeup. The eyes of the famous film critic have been staring at the big screen in the live broadcast room, and his heart is like a curse. Stop repeating this sentence.

"It definitely won't win!"

Thinking of the concerted efforts of nearly 400 professional film critics, Roger Albert's slightly frightened heart was filled with confidence.

He firmly believes that professional film critics have a strong influence and even dominance during the awards season, and they can completely control the attribution of awards!

Just less than five miles east of the studio, a young David Ellison and his sister Meghan Ellison sat in front of the TV, also watching the Oscars.

"Is this the director who refused to accept your kindness?"

Looking at Duke's close-up on the screen, Meghan Ellison said disdainfully, "Hollywood's poor gangsters are going to do wrong with money?"

"He not only rejected my funds." David Ellison's dissatisfaction was written on his face, "He also rejected my kindness over and over again. This is what I can't tolerate!"

"Proud director."

However, the fifteen-year-old Megan Ellison seems to have a more aggressive temper than David Ellison, and is completely a spoiled young girl, "David, if you have money, you can invest in it. His project, grab his theater chain, grab his schedule, and knock him down from the cloud to the bottom!"

David Ellison laughed. "Honey, I'm doing it!"

On the stage of the Kodak Theater, Angelina Jolie opened the envelope and glanced down, but she didn't give a shit. Said directly, "The Oscar winner is..."The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", Hannah Serena!"

"Wow!"

Billy Boyd clapped his palm first, stood up first, and Duke stood up, clapping his palm. Turning to her art director, this is not the first time that Hannah Serena has won an Oscar. She herself seemed relatively calm, hugged the crew members one by one, and finally walked to Duke's side.

Duke opened his arms and hugged Hannah Serena deeply.

"Thank you, Duke," she whispered. "It is my greatest fortune to work with you."

Done. She turned and strode onto the stage, with "Minas Tirith" playing in the background for the first time tonight at the Kodak Theater.

Hannah Serena took over the statuette from Angelina Jolie and stood in front of the microphone.

"Thank you, thank you all, I love the job of filming, I love working on a great team, and I have so many people to thank. My parents, my boyfriend. All my work mates. I especially want to thank Du K, I still remember when I applied to his crew, he said to me, Hannah, we are going to start an amazing journey! Yes, his words came true. How I feel now can only be described as incredible ."

Below the stage, the crew headed by Duke applauded Hannah Serena one after another.

In the live broadcast room of abc TV station, even if there is a thick foundation to cover it. Roger Albert's face was still a little blue. He had just swore that "The Return of the King" would not win this golden statuette, but the actual award result gave him a slap in the face and asked him what to say next?

However, as a professional film critic who always likes abuse and vicious attacks, he immediately adjusted his mentality. This is just a technical award. The Academy is likely to be the same as the previous two, just throwing some consolation prizes to Duke Rosenberg, As long as he can't win the best picture and best director, he is still a loser, and he will still win steadily. Then he must rush to the Oscar venue to see his face.

"I won!"

The instant-sharing site was buzzing, and a few circles centered on Duke's die-hard supporters were as happy as if they had won the jackpot.

"Open the door!"

"We will continue to win awards in the future!"

"The Return of the King will sweep the Oscars!"

The successful beginning did indeed continue in the Kodak Theater. After Pixar Studio took the Golden Man for the best animated feature film with "Finding Nemo", the soundtrack of "Minas Tirith" sounded several times. Cheers broke out one after another, and he undoubtedly became the protagonist of the night.

The best costume design, the best sound effects, the best sound effects editing and the best visual effects four golden statuettes were won by the crew. At the third of the awards ceremony, "The Return of the King" not only easily picked Five statuettes have been placed, and all the nominated awards have successfully reached the top!

"We're getting closer and closer to our goal." Ivanka whispered in Duke's ear.

As a bedside person, she certainly knows what kind of ambition Duke has in this Oscar, and she also knows that it is not easy to realize these ambitions.

Duke smiled at Ivanka, "There are seven more."

Among the twelve nominations, five golden statues have been won. No one can say whether the next awards will be missed.

The Oscars not only have serious awards, but also all kinds of jokes full of ridicule. Maybe laughing at others will be troublesome, but ridiculing politicians in Washington has always been a reserved show for the Oscars.

Ben Stiller, the recognized boss of the Hollywood Bad Boys, stepped onto the stage to the beat of the music, "God, they're actually using this music, it suits me so well, don't you think I'm full of charisma? "

The background music played is the famous "Presidential March"!

"In the past year, there have been many celebrities who have fallen in love with movies."

Speaking of which, Ben Stiller pointed to the big screen, which was a photo of a woman, "For example, Hillary Clinton, who is said to like "Kill Bill" very much..."

Laughter erupted from the stage.

Apart from the jokes, Oscar also likes nostalgia, which is also in line with the appetite of the core members of the Academy. Every Oscar ceremony is always full of nostalgic plots for a long time.

Nielsen Statistics has been monitoring the ratings of this year's Oscars. When Marlon Brando took to the stage and the big screen and TV were turned to black and white, a Nielsen executive kept reporting the ratings. number of people.

"The number of viewers in North America has dropped from 34 million just now to 32 million..."

After a minute, the program of nostalgia for the golden age was still being broadcast for a long time, and the person in charge reported again, "Now it is 31 million!"

Every minute, he will report the number of viewers, and the number proves that the old period is really not very popular, and it can be called the killer of viewership. "30 million, 29 million, 28.5 million, 28 million, it is about to break through the last ten years. Oscar minimum viewership!"

Fortunately, the program of nostalgia for the golden age ended after more than five minutes, and the subsequent best supporting actress slowly pulled up the ratings.

The Academy is obviously not stupid. It is clear that the audience does not like this type of show. It specially arranged to use the award for Best Supporting Actress to save the scene. At the same time, this also shows the stubborn and conservative side of the Academy. Even if we know that nostalgia is not popular, Still stubbornly putting this type of program in the awards ceremony, it took more than five minutes.

The moment Renee Zellweger won the best supporting actress statuette, the audience for the Oscars finally returned to over 30 million.

This can be said to be a very serious situation faced by the Oscars since the new century. With the increase of information flow and entertainment methods, the ratings of the awards ceremony have continued to decline, and even hit a new low since the 1970s.

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

It's just what the academy does, and most of the time, it runs counter to the mainstream audience.

Although a best supporting actress has dragged the viewership back to more than 30 million, it is unable to take it to a higher level. The task of saving the ratings of this Oscar is definitely not a movie like "Cold Mountain" with only millions of viewers. Movies can afford it.

When it comes to the highest number of viewers, is there any other film at this Oscar that can surpass Return of the King?

Subsequently, "The Return of the King" continued to show a sweeping trend, and successfully continued the rule of nominations that must win awards, winning four golden figures in succession: Best Editing, Best Makeup, Best Soundtrack and Best Cinematography.

The strong performance of "The Return of the King" also boosted the audience rating of the awards ceremony. When the best photography was awarded, the number of viewers shown by Nielsen had risen to 36 million.

And after the next advertising time, 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 continued to rise, and even faintly approached the 40 million mark!

"The next award is best adapted screenplay," his deputy cautioned.

The person in charge suddenly woke up, "No wonder the ratings keep rising. It turns out that the director who created this magical journey may be on the stage!"

On the stage of the Kodak Theater, Sofia Coppola walked up slowly, and many people's eyes turned to Duke at the same time.

Sofia Coppola is Duke's best friend in the circle, which is well known in Hollywood, and many people even believe that Duke's role is far greater than Francis Coppola's if Sofia can be nominated for the best director. pull.

Based on the college's past habits, these people can't help but have an association, asking Sofia Coppola to present the Best Adapted Screenplay Award. Does this mean that Duke will win the award?

There was applause in the Kodak Theater, and Ivanka was also applauding Sophia vigorously. Although she did not understand some of the unwritten rules of the academy, she also faintly felt that Sophia awarded the prize, and her side might win even more.

On the Nielsen company's side, the number of people who cleaned up at this time has exceeded the 40 million mark! (To be continued..)

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