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Finally came to the end of the red carpet, it was a little early, many people did not enter the auditorium, and she was also brought to Daenerys' entertainment circle.

Amy Pascal is talking to the Bruce Willis couple, WMA VP Jonathan Friedman is here, and Robert De Niro, Kevin Costner, Billy Crystal, Big names like Sandra Bullock and Madonna.

When he came here, Illian stopped following him and went forward to have a low-key conversation with Jonathan Friedman.She was not stage fright, and took the initiative to chat with Billy Crystal.

Very funny guy.

Complimenting the other party, I like his "When Harry Met Sally", so I was tested for some lines.Well, the apple pie goes on the side, the vinaigrette goes on the side, the side is important.

Pity I didn't see Meg Ryan.

Heard she and Daenerys Entertainment had a falling out.

Pascal entertained the crowd, and did not forget her, chatted a few words, and was asked about his preparations for the nomination in Westeros.

Nominated for Best Score Award.

That's interesting, isn't he the director?

I heard that last time I got a best editing.

Calculated in this way, best editing, best soundtrack, best sound, best visual effects, best script, best director, best actor, best supporting actor, best actress... well, this is a bit difficult big.

Still, that guy is a real all-rounder.

Hollywood has nominated many statuettes for one kind of award, but there has never been one that can span so many types of awards.

Near six o'clock, everyone began to enter.

The crew of "Rain Man" was very scattered. Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise sat at the front of the stage. Director Barry Levinson also had a very conspicuous Seats, Valerie Golino was seated next to the Dead Poets Society crew, and some of the other Rain Man nominees were scattered around.

The various turmoil of "Rain Man" before its release is well known, but fortunately it did not affect the box office.After the film's box office and word-of-mouth both exploded, all parties began to claim credit for themselves, but on the surface there was no major conflict.However, from the distribution of seats at this Oscar ceremony, it is not difficult to see the serious split between the main creators of the film.

Perhaps it is because Chevy Chase and other hosts in the previous sessions have performed poorly, and this year's Oscars simply did not set up a host.

After Richard Kahn, the new president of the Academy of Film, took the stage to give a speech, the opening song and dance followed.

First up was the Best Supporting Actress award.

Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts, who are closely related to Daenerys Entertainment, both received the nomination.Sandra's nominated film is "Dangerous Liaisons". The film crew originally preferred Michelle Pfeiffer. Because of some disputes between WMA and ICM, Jonathan Friedman used his relationship to snatch the role. Julie Ya was nominated for her role as Shelby in "Steel Magnolias."

The two women have only debuted for a few years, and it is very rare to be nominated.

The award eventually went to Geena Davis in "The Accidental Tourist" without any suspense.

Jane Fonda took the stage after the best supporting actress awards to introduce this year's best picture nominee, Rain Man.

It was followed by the Best Sound Award.

Amy could have sat in the awards hall, but she chose to wait for the results backstage with Deutschman, Friedman and others.

The first few awards were irrelevant, and Amy also found time to contact the Hilton Hotel about the preparations for the after-party.

It took about half an hour before Vanessa reminded her that the best production direction award was coming up, one of the eight nominations for "Rain Man."

Amy turned her attention to the live screen in the background.

On stage, the winner of Best Animated Short Film is giving an acceptance speech.

Seeing this, Amy felt a little regretful.

The Pixar Animation Studio bought by Simon also applied for a nomination for their "Tin Soldier" this time. Unfortunately, Daenerys Entertainment has been obviously suppressed this year. It also failed to get a nomination for Best Animated Short Film.

The subsequent best art direction, "Rain Man" also missed the award, and the statuette was taken away by "Dangerous Liaisons".

Although she didn't care about the result of this fringe technical award, the loss of the best art direction still made Amy feel more hazy.

After the best art direction, "Rain Man" also lost in the other two technical awards for best photography and best editing. Kidman had already slipped out to smoke twice.

Important nominations are awarded later, however, Rain Man didn't get any of these technical awards, and it's hard to say the results of the more competitive nominations.

If there is nothing tonight, Oscar will definitely face controversy, and Daenerys Entertainment will also become a laughing stock in the circle.

In the anxious waiting, half of the three-hour awards ceremony passed without knowing it.

The Bridges family trio, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges, took to the stage to begin introducing the Best Original Screenplay nominees.

"Rain Man" is one of five films nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

Everyone's mood was raised again, but they basically didn't report too much expectation.The deep entanglement between Daenerys Entertainment and the Writers Guild of America cannot be resolved in the short term.

After introducing the five films, Jeff Bridges took a look at the envelope containing the awards, and then handed it to his father with a smile.Lloyd Bridges glanced at the results of the awards, deliberately put off, and then announced into the microphone: "The winners of the best original screenplay are Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass, "Rain Man" .”

applause.

The two screenwriters of "Rain Man" got up excitedly from their seats at the back of the hall, but instead of going straight to the stage, they came to the film director Barry Levinson and the two leading actors Dustin Hoffman, Tom Beside Cruise, warmly hugged and greeted the three of them.

This obviously deliberately arranged 'plot' is easy to see through for those who are interested.

The applause continued, but many people in the hall had different expressions.Some people have a clear expression, some gloat, and more people are watching the excitement.

As we all know, "Rain Man" is a package project of C. Naturally, Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass are both customers of C. The film directors in different positions greeted the two male protagonists, and the intention of demonstrating and soliciting credit could not be more obvious.

Sure enough, on the stage, the two screenwriters once again publicly thanked Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, but did not mention Daenerys Entertainment.

C headquarters in Century City.

Although it was past seven o'clock in the evening, many senior executives of this talent agency company were guarding a large conference room, and Michael Ovitz did not leave.

Seeing Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass win and everything on the TV screen, there was a lot of cheering and high-fiving from many agents.Michael Ovitz also smiled, whispered a few words to his assistant David O'Connor, and told him to check C's party preparations for tonight.

Like Daenerys Entertainment, C also prepared a grand after party tonight.

This is an undercover battle.

Everyone knows that.

If C can't maintain the glory of his clients tonight, the status of this talent agency company, which has expanded rapidly in recent years, will suffer a heavy blow in the industry.

The award of the two screenwriters of "Rain Man" may have added some luster to the film, but it is more of C's victory.If only Daenerys Entertainment came forward for public relations, the possibility of "Rain Man" wanting to win this award from the Writers Guild of America is very low.

Now, as long as Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman get their due, the C's will win big tonight.

The award of the two screenwriters made Michael Ovitz more confident in this.

After Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, five of Daenerys Entertainment's total of 11 nominations have been handed out, with Julia Roberts missing Best Supporting Actress and three technical awards for Rain Man, Only the best original screenplay nomination led by C won a statuette.

Next, except for the best soundtrack that Simon himself was nominated for, the others are heavyweight awards such as best film and best director, and the order of awarding is also very low.

Backstage at the ceremony, although "Rain Man" had a high probability of becoming the winner of the last few major awards, Amy was still a little disappointed.

However, noticing Deutschman's obviously more frustrated expression, she had to cheer up and comfort him.In any case, Deutschmann's outstanding performance in recent months is obvious to all.Both "Metropolitan" and "Sisters" released by Gaomen Films have achieved commercial success, and Deutschman's public relations strategy has not made any mistakes in Amy's opinion.

This matter, after all, is due to Daenerys Entertainment's lack of background in Hollywood.

At the same time, Amy comforted herself in her heart. Even if the results of tonight's Oscar awards were not satisfactory, Daenerys Entertainment's commercial achievements at the box office last year were still unmatched.If other Hollywood film companies can choose to give up the Oscars in exchange for box office results like Daenerys Entertainment, no company would hesitate.

The award ceremony did not stop because of the different moods of the people.

After the Oscars for Special Achievement, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore took the stage to introduce the nominees for Best Score.

Everyone who was familiar with the inside story of tonight's secret battle cheered up instantly.

Moreover, many people also had the idea that Valerie Golino was on the red carpet. Simon Westero is definitely an all-rounder in Hollywood. It is very rare in Hollywood history for a director to be nominated for these technical awards in addition to his job.

There is no live camera for the Best Supporting Actor award, which also avoids the regret of Simon's absence.

After the Willis couple introduced the five nominees in turn, Bruce Willis slowly tore open the envelope, looked down, with a surprised expression on his face, and then handed the envelope to his wife.

Many people off the stage clearly saw Demi Moore's silent "wow" mouth after aiming at the award results. After guessing something, Demi Moore finally approached the microphone and said, "What a surprising result, but unfortunately he couldn't appear tonight. Then, the winner of the best soundtrack is Simon West Lo, "Rain Man."

Although he had already guessed the result, the atmosphere off the stage was still stagnant for a moment, and then the applause broke out.

"I actually got it."

"Just kidding."

"What's next, best cinematography? I hear Westeros has better cinematography."

"My God, it's unbelievable."

"Is there a Grand Slam for the Oscars?"

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If the award ceremony can have barrage, it will definitely be overflowing at this time.

Headquarters C, seeing the award results on the TV screen, Michael Ovitz almost threw the coffee cup in front of him.

At the backstage of the ceremony, Ella Deutschman confirmed the result in a daze, and opened her arms in a gaffe to embrace Amy, who was also very surprised.

If it is the past, the award for best soundtrack is really insignificant.But at this undercurrent Oscar, Daenerys Entertainment won this award, which is definitely no less meaningful than the best picture of "Rain Man".

Among the various moods of countless people, Valerie Golino walked to the stage with her skirt in her hand and began to deliver a brief acceptance speech in place of Simon.After celebrating, Amy and Deutschman immediately called Melbourne to inform Simon of the good news.

Chapter 251 Aftermath (Revised)

Along with the waves caused by the best soundtrack award, the 61st Academy Awards Ceremony also entered the final stage unknowingly.

When Anne Archer introduced "Working Girl", the last Oscar nomination for Best Picture this year, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn took the stage together and began to present the Best Actor award.

In front of the stage and behind the scenes, on and off the field, the people who had just watched a wonderful 'showdown' held their breaths again.

On the stage, after some joking speeches by the Russells, they took turns saying: "The best actor nominees for this year's Oscars are Gene Hackman, "Mississippi Is Burning"; Tom Hanks, "Fly Over The Future”; Dustin Hoffman, “Rain Man”; Edward James Olmos, “Being a Teacher”; Robert De Niro, “Dead Poets Society.”

During the introduction of the Russell couple, the live camera was aimed at the five nominees in the audience.

Kurt Russell opened the envelope, whetted everyone's appetites with Goldie Hawn, and the couple finally announced at the same time: "The winner of the best actor is Dustin Hoffman, " Rain Man. Congratulations, this is Dustin's second Oscar."

wow wow wow.

There was applause from the audience, and when Dustin Hoffman walked onto the stage, some people stood up on their own initiative, and the applause became more enthusiastic.Driven by those people, the rest of the people in the hall also stood up one after another, and the applause lasted for more than a minute before it finally fell.

Dustin Hoffman hugged the Russell couple respectively, took the statuette from Kurt Russell, came to the microphone, looked at the people who stood up in the audience, and said: "Thank you, thank you everyone. With that said, after the applause stopped and everyone was seated again, Hoffman shook the statuette in his hand and continued: "To be honest, it's really not easy to get this award."

When everyone in the awards hall heard Dustin Hoffman say this, they didn't know if he did it on purpose, but many people laughed 'knowingly'.

"First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Michael Ovitz, the president of C. Without him, there would be no "Rain Man". The script began to be prepared three years ago, and there were many times during which it was almost unsustainable. When stranded, Michael will always express his strongest support with actions. It is because of Michael's tireless promotion that we can see this movie on the big screen. Secondly, I would like to thank Barry. I took over Rain Man, he created it, and Tom, he's a great partner..."

Compared with the short speech time for the technical awards, Dustin Hoffman's acceptance speech lasted more than three minutes, telling the entire "behind the scenes" of "Rain Man", starting from Michael Ovitz It has been mentioned by Barry Levinson's queen editor. In summary, it is how difficult it is for the main creator of the film, how bumpy the birth of this project is, and how many people he mentioned have done for "Rain Man". contribute.

Although Dustin Hoffman looked at the sky from time to time, as if he was not in a state of wandering, but during the entire speech, he bypassed all the information related to Daenerys' entertainment very accurately.

C has recruited a large number of top Hollywood stars in recent years. Most of these stars are judges for Oscar actor awards. Coupled with their intricate network, C's potential influence in actor awards is stronger than that of the old WMA. Many, let alone Daenerys Entertainment, which was established less than three years ago.

Therefore, everyone in Daenerys Entertainment has already expected the current result.

However, listening to Dustin Hoffman's speech on the stage, Amy and others still looked a little ugly.

Many people in the circle know that if Simon hadn't given the green light to "Rain Man", the project might have been in a state of nothing until now.Now, all the credit for Hoffman's words seems to be falling on someone else.

When Dustin Hoffman finally finished his speech and came to the backstage, everyone from the C series immediately surrounded him, but Daenerys Entertainment just watched with cold eyes, and the two sides were too lazy to talk to each other.

In the end, there were only three awards left: Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture. Ella Deutschmann asked Amy in a low voice if she wanted to leave early.The Best Actress award has nothing to do with Daenerys Entertainment. As for the other two, after the Best Actor award, Deutschman, whose confidence has been shattered, doesn't think there will be any special changes.

Amy just shook her head, folded her arms and looked at the live TV screen in the background, quietly waiting for the final result.

The farce of "Three Yellow Eggs" for Best Actress at the Golden Globe Awards two months ago will naturally not happen at the Oscars. Jodie Foster won her first prize with "The Robbery of Pear Blossom" just like the original time and space. Honoring the Oscar statuette, this Hollywood actress who was born as a child star has finally achieved a positive result after experiencing the misfortune of the year.

WMA Vice President Jonathan Friedman, who has been waiting in the background for the award results, looked at Jodie Foster, who delivered his acceptance speech on the stage, feeling equally depressed.

Jodie Foster was also a client of WMA earlier.

The decline of WMA in recent years has not been reversed because he discovered Simon Westero, a Hollywood genius, and WMA's customers are still losing.

Jodie Foster was also poached early last year when another WMA vice president, Ed Limato, led stars such as Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington and Michelle Pfeiffer to jump ship. ICM.Then, in just one year, Jodie Foster changed her tepid career status in previous years with "The Robbery of Pear Blossoms", and won the Oscar for Best Actress at the age of 25.

While thinking about it, Jonathan Friedman couldn't help but secretly clenched his fists.

Fortunately, this situation will not continue anytime soon.

WMA president Norman Broca will leave his post in the near future.

Over the years, many ace clients in the hands of WMA's brokers have been losing. Only Jonathan not only kept big-name clients such as Brian De Palma, Robert Duvall, and Billy Crystal, but successfully signed Robert Big names like De Niro have also cultivated first-line stars such as Sandra Bullock and Matt Dillon. Simon's rise in Hollywood is even more dazzling.

Therefore, Jonathan is almost the candidate for the next president of WMA, and he also takes it for granted.

This time, if the old men at the top continue to play tricks and hand over his position to others, Jonathan feels that this talent agency company that has lasted for more than half a century will come to a complete decline, and he will choose without hesitation. leave.

In the live footage, Dennis Quaid and Michelle Pfeiffer took to the stage, and Friedman regained his thoughts.

Even though they had no expectations, Amy and the others still stared at the TV screen intently.