Every year after the announcement of the Oscar nominations and before the awards ceremony, Hollywood is very lively. Various means of canvassing the film companies emerge in an endless stream, such as full-page advertisements in well-known newspapers and periodicals, or All the places where you can put posters are put up with your own company's shortlisted movies and so on.
And there are countless private contacts. Of course, everyone is very careful. After all, the Oscar is the most authoritative film award in the United States, and many eyes are watching. Therefore, even the contact is carried out in the way of brushing the ball. If you accidentally cross the line, if the situation is not serious and the public opinion atmosphere is relatively relaxed, it will be fine, as long as you are careful next time. But if the public opinion atmosphere is very severe, then I'm sorry, you deserve to hit the gun.
In fact, every year, the jury will more or less criticize some film companies, but most of them are made privately, and they will only be reported to the media after they feel it is necessary to publicly kill the chickens. And the more intense the competition, the more it looks like this, no matter it's a posturing or taking care of one's own face, at least the jury has shown due fairness and impartiality, and many media are happy to take this opportunity to attract readers.
However, this year, a very strange situation has occurred. Originally, because the voting period between the announcement of the nomination list and the official award of the awards is much shorter than in previous years, the major film companies have tried their best to canvass votes. Much bigger than in previous years. What is surprising is that Angela, who was the most popular and most popular in the 81st class, has disappeared since the list was announced, as if she disappeared out of thin air.
Well, it might be wrong to say that, after all, Angela is still at home and updating her blog from time to time - although it is basically nonsense. To be precise, Angela no longer appeared in public with much fanfare like a few months ago, but played hide and seek with reporters again.
During this period of time, reporters who have become accustomed to catching some valuable news about her - especially those scandals, which many people like to read - feel very uncomfortable, so they do everything possible to capture her whereabouts and shoot some valuable news. photo. It turns out that unless Angela wants them to shoot, it's hard for them to catch her.
This is very strange, you must know that although Angela is famous for her laziness in publicity, she will still appear on the show when she is canvassing for the movie. She didn't do anything this time, and let the Pixar gang do it. It was incredible. What did she want to do
This is precisely because of this, almost no reporters noticed that several women who had walked around with Angela in the past few months disappeared like Angela. I have to say that no matter how carefully things are arranged, there will be loopholes. When it cannot be filled, it depends on luck. Fortunately, Angela's luck has always been good.
This situation continued until the opening ceremony of the awards ceremony on February 23, and reporters were on both sides of the red carpet outside the Kodak Theater early. Even if you can hide from anyone, always attend the awards ceremony! Even so, after seeing Angela herself on the red carpet, reporters with a lot of questions still dare not be too rude.
"What do you think of your unprecedented personal 7 nominations?"
"You've broken your own single-person, single-time Oscar nomination record several times, do you think you'll break it in the future?"
"Excuse me, Miss Angela, how many statuettes do you think you might win? Will there be a best director?"
Today's Angela is wearing a black tube top evening dress, very simple, not like other actresses with all kinds of decorations, and she also has beautiful blonde hair simply wrapped around her head, generous Fang's delicate collarbone, white neck and back were exposed. Even so, there is nobility and elegance in simplicity, and this contrast makes her more and more bright and moving, so she murdered many reporters' films. This is too rare. You must know that Angela wore women's suits to attend the previous sessions. Although she couldn't hide her beauty and sexiness, it was still not as glamorous as evening dresses.
"Although I have said it many times, I don't mind repeating it for you. Some things will only be known at the end. If it is mine, I will get it in my hand. If it is not mine, I will not be entangled because of it." Angela She responded to the reporters with a smile, answered a few more questions, and left in their disappointment.
Greeting familiar male and female stars, directors, and producers, Angela quickly came to the entrance of the theater, and then saw a familiar figure who was talking and laughing with others.
"Hi, Manny, it's nice to meet you." Although they have been living together for so long, how to say hello in this kind of situation has to be how to say hello, even if there is an informed person standing in front of him.
"You guys talk, I'll go first." Jim Ford said interestingly, and then ran into the theater without looking back - well, the word "run" is not appropriate to use slip, anyway, I just don't dare to talk to Angela. Her lover stayed by her side, although he only witnessed Angela and Natalie making out, but with examples, he would naturally see something else. Apart from complimenting "Awesome" in my heart, I no longer dared to be too lively in front of Angela. God knows that Miss Angel will not put him in cement and then throw him in Long Beach because of her unhappiness.
"This guy..." Angela shook her head with a smile when she saw his back, and turned her eyes to Scarlett: "Um... You are so beautiful, Manny, I can't help but want to kiss you."
The last sentence was said in a low voice, but in exchange it was Scarlett's rolling eyes: "Will you pay attention to the occasion?"
Of course, she also lowered her voice. After a while, she said half-jokingly, "Besides, shouldn't these words be said to Nat today?"
"Tell Nat?" Angela showed an inexplicable look, but she quickly reacted and waved her hand angrily: "Why do you always think that I will propose to her at the awards ceremony?"
Since Natalie asked Angela that day if she planned to propose at the awards ceremony, other lovers have also begun to speculate. There was not a lot of resistance to this matter before and formed a tacit understanding of not asking. As time passed, the resistance was gone and Natalie broke the tacit understanding. They naturally wondered what Angela was going to do.
"I've said it many times that a proposal at an awards ceremony works well but isn't worth it, and I have to take into account the public's reaction. While they'll definitely know by then, the magnitude of the impact is something I'll figure out... The key to some problems." Angela said and spread her hands.
"Okay okay, I see." Scarlett smiled and raised her hand to stop her from speaking.
"By the way, what about them?" Angela immediately changed the topic, and because she didn't want the reporter to have any associations, everyone set off in batches at different times.
"Kyla and Jesse went in before I arrived. Liv and Kayla went in just before you came. Poor Vivi stayed at home. As for Nat, I didn't see it." Scarlett recalled After a while, he said, "Liv and the others didn't see her before, maybe they haven't arrived yet."
"Okay, I'll just wait here for a while." Angela glanced around.
"Then I'll go first," Scarlett shrugged and turned to walk into the theater, "in case you're uncomfortable."
Angela suffocated for a moment, and she gritted her teeth as she watched her graceful leaving back, and then unconsciously straightened her chest, but after a few seconds, she tapped her feet lightly. Heck, why would I do this!
Fortunately, this tangled feeling was quickly transferred, and immediately after Scarlett left, someone else came to greet her. Many of them are acquaintances, such as David and James, the opponents of this year's best director, and Nicole, who has always maintained a good relationship with her... best friend Naomi. But there are more who are unfamiliar. As the most powerful woman in Hollywood, Miss Angel has naturally received a lot of attention, and this kind of occasion has always been the best place to communicate.
However, the situation did not last long, and Natalie quickly appeared on the red carpet. She was wearing a sleeveless dark green evening dress with some small embellishments, and Scarlett's previous royal blue low-cut sloping shoulder evening dress. have different charms.
"I thought you weren't going to come." Angela said half-annoyed and half-commented when she entered the theater with her, "I was the last to go out before you arrived."
"I wanted to take a shortcut, but ended up in a traffic jam." Natalie shrugged, "Don't look at me in disbelief, the driver and bodyguard can testify."
"I'm just a little suspicious, don't you have to be busy defending?" Angela raised her eyebrows, and then changed the subject before Natalie refuted, "Speaking of which, you have never been excited or excited, and the one nominated is the most A good heroine."
"Anyone who lives with a guy who can easily get an Oscar nomination and a best supporting actress three times is as calm as me." Natalie Shishiran said.
"Wow, I should be very proud." Angela raised her chin deliberately, and was pushed hard by Natalie: "Hurry up and take your seat, don't stand in the aisle like a target."
The lobby of the Kodak Theater was now two-thirds full, and the buzzing conversation made it a little noisy, although everyone kept their voices down, but after all, there were so many people. According to the old rules, the "Mist" crew and "Our Lives" crew are arranged together, and then the "Benjamin Button" crew is on the left, and the "Avatar" crew is below.
So many people sitting together and being relatively familiar with each other so it's a good conversation, like Jim was complaining loudly about the editor of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, if Angela asked him to take charge of "Our Lives" You could get an Oscar nomination for Best Editing or something like that.
But Angela didn't go to Cameron. First, because they were far apart, he sat in the first few rows; second, because none of the lovers except Natalie were shortlisted, they all sat near her—of course , won't sit too close, except for Natalie sitting next to others, there are several other people who are separated from each other, eight women sitting together is still a bit strange.
As the music sounded and the lights dimmed, the awards ceremony officially began, and the host of this year's "Wolverine" Hugh Jackman immediately appeared on the semicircular stage, which was star-studded because of the set.
"Good evening, everyone, welcome to this year's Oscars, the biggest annual event in the film industry." It is undeniable that this Australian man in a suit is very personable and very temperamental, which is probably one of the reasons why the academy invited him to be the host. , although there is not much hosting experience can at least have the effect of attracting attention.
In fact, this is exactly the case. Jackman's hosting is quite satisfactory, but this does not mean that he has no humor.
“…Robert Downey was nominated for his role in Tropic Thunder as an Australian who tried to pretend to be an African American. And for me, I’m an Australian and played in Australia. An Australian who is now the presenter."
The stirring of these Australians immediately attracted a burst of laughter and warm applause.
"It's really unusual for a gentleman to joke." Angela was also among the applause.
Next, Jackman joked about a lot of things, the financial crisis, his own movies, other people's movies, and his preparations for hosting. Finally, he compiled the names of several movies into songs and sang and danced. Little laughter.
The funniest is the set of shorts that feature Jackman in the best movies, from cheering for Sean Penn in Milk, to discussing with Sam Worthington on Pandora's lab Avatar's situation, sometimes teaching the two young protagonists in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", sometimes boringly listening to Natalie and Will's quarrel in "The Mist", and sometimes in the living room in "Our Lives" Interject everywhere.
The one that drew the most laughter was undoubtedly "Our Lives," and one of Angela's close friends, he also had a role in the star-studded film as a drug-drinking, rock-and-rolling hippie. But in the parody short, he became his character's twin.
"Sorry, please don't look at me, he's over there."
There are several times in the movie where the old people look over when discussing his character, and then the camera cuts. But here, always switch to the innocent Jackman first, and then switch to his character after he reluctantly said the above sentence. Every time he switched, Jackman was eating apples from time to time and playing with small things. With an innocent expression and a helpless tone, it was definitely impossible not to laugh.
In the end, Jackman teased Angela with a sigh: "Angela, why don't you set a protagonist in "Our Lives"? So I might be able to sit down and watch someone host it today."
Nothing but laughter.
Funny is funny, what should be done next, beyond everyone's expectations, the first award was the best supporting actress. Although most of the time the Best Supporting Actress is awarded at the opening, but most people think that considering Angela's re-entry and the extremely low possibility of winning this year, the awarding time should be a little later, but I didn't expect the host It's so strange that Fang is still set up as usual.
"It's very simple, for the ratings." Angela revealed the organizer's intentions.
In recent years, although the Oscars have maintained an advantage over the Super Bowl and other shows in terms of ratings, it is an indisputable fact that the history of the Oscars has gradually declined. What's more, the current economic downturn has shrunk a lot, not to mention the ratings, so it is essential to create gimmicks to attract people's attention.
Angela even maliciously guessed whether the jury gave herself 7 nominations for this consideration.
"That's not bad. The person who won the Best Supporting Actress should be honored to have you by my side." Natalie said in a low voice beside her.
To be able to comfort her like this, Angela is still full of comfort.
The way of awarding this year's Best Supporting Actress is also quite special. The organizer invited five female guests, and they are all former Best Supporting Actress winners - if Angela is not shortlisted, maybe they are also invited.
"The five ladies standing in front of you now, representing all the best supporting actresses at the Oscars, welcome a new member or an old friend to the stage tonight." Tilda Swain, one of the invited guests Dun said so.
After the applause, the appearance and works of the candidates were broadcast on the small screen. For each broadcast, a guest would stand up and say the words of praise in the previous paragraph.
"If there is no accident, it should be from between Amy Adams and Viola Davis. "Child Abuse Doubt" has won two nominations, which is a great advantage." Angela said swearingly, she was too lazy Going to recall the best supporting actress at the Oscars, because of her a lot of things were disrupted.
Then, unexpectedly or rather shockingly, the name was announced: "God, I have to say it's an astonishing miracle, and the winner for Best Supporting Actress is: The Mist, Angela Mason! The surprise in Tilda's tone was definitely not feigned.
The scene was quiet for about two seconds, followed by a clatter, which was really shocking. In almost 15 years from the earliest one, a woman has won the best supporting actress four times, which is unprecedented in the history of the Oscars! Well, Angela's acting is really good, and that short ten-minute appearance in "The Mist" is also very impressive, but even Meryl Streep took decades to make it. Now such an achievement, and Angela's last three best supporting actresses were all won after entering the 21st century, which is a bit...
Angela's mind went blank after hearing her name, and she sat in her seat, not knowing what to do. Fortunately, after a few seconds of uproar at the scene, there was still warm applause, plus Natalie next to her pushed her, Angela finally came back to her senses, took a deep breath, stood up and walked on with a calm smile. up the stage.
"Congratulations." Tilda handed the little golden man into her hands.
"Thank you." Angela nodded and glanced at the others. Tilda was okay, maintaining her proper manner, and the other former best supporting actresses all showed a trace of jealousy more or less.
Angela ignored it, suppressed her mood and turned to face everyone, the applause stopped at this moment. Facing countless gazes, Angela said softly, "Thank you!"
Then he waved the little golden man in his hand and quickly walked off the stage.