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Billy Crystal teased all the nominees with a hilarious chorus, and the awards ceremony officially began.
Julie Andrews, a veteran Hollywood actress who had participated in "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music", first appeared on the stage and presented an Oscar honorary award to Hollywood director Michael Kidd. Eric did not know this eight-year-old Xun Xun's veteran director, but remembers the last honorary award winner, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas' father.
Immediately afterwards, the second award involved "Titanic", the best costume design.
Julia stepped onto the podium as an award presenter and began to introduce the nomination list. The atmosphere in the auditorium seemed to be much quieter at this moment.
Although almost everyone predicted that "Titanic" would be the biggest winner tonight, but the result did not settle for a minute, and variables and suspense always existed. The sophistication of the costume design of the few nominated films obviously cannot be compared with that of "Titanic". will be cast a shadow.
"Oscar nominees for Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell, Shakespeare in Love; Paul Brown, The Blue Storm; Ruth Myers, Emma; Alexandra Blaney, "Hamlet," and Deborah Scott, "Titanic."
The gorgeous dress clips of the corresponding movies flashed one by one on the big screen. Immediately, Julia opened the envelope in front of her and glanced at the result, but she did not immediately approach the microphone, but subconsciously looked at Eric, with a smile on her face. With a smile that invites credit.
Eric immediately understood, and before the live camera could scan over, he gestured at Julia indiscriminately.
Although some people in the venue noticed this brief detail, except for Eric himself, most people would only subconsciously regard this smile as congratulations.
After being prompted by Eric, Julia immediately approached the microphone as if nothing had happened, and announced: "The Oscar will belong to Deborah Scott, "Titanic."
As expected, there was immediate applause in the auditorium.
In the back seat of the auditorium, a woman in her early forties stood up excitedly, hugged her husband, and walked to the front row where the main creators of "Titanic" were sitting, shaking hands and hugging everyone one by one. Eric, who was sitting in the middle of the third row, also stood up and reached out to shake hands with Deborah Scott in the aisle to express his congratulations.
With the good start of the best costume design, "Titanic" finally won three consecutive technical awards for best editing, best sound effects, and best visual effects. In just half an hour, four statuettes have been won .
After another Best Foreign Language Film award that had nothing to do with "Titanic", the suave Pierce Brosnan took the stage to introduce Celine Dion to perform "My Heart Will Go On", the theme song from "Titanic".
The heavenly music reverberated in the Holy Citizen Auditorium. Eric thought that the organizer would present the best original song, but unexpectedly, it was Nicolas Cage who came on stage and introduced the best actress nominations.
Among the five nomination lists this year, there is no overwhelming nominee.
In this case, if "Titanic" hadn't turned out, with Miramax's strong public relations ability, Julia might have a great chance to become the queen of the movie.
However, under the strong performance of "Titanic", in order to save money and network resources, Miramax gave up the public relations of "Shakespeare in Love", and the possibility of Julia getting the actress also plummeted.
As for Rachel Weisz, although her performance in the movie is much better than that of Xiao Lizi, for such a newcomer to Hollywood, an Oscar nomination for Best Actress is already the best for her. The best reward, if you want to win an award, your hope is much slimmer than Julia.
Firefly's public relations strategy did not spend too much energy on Rachel's nomination.
In the end, the award for Best Actress fell to Frances McDormand, the heroine of "Fargo". It is also a good talk to win the Oscar for Best Actress with the film of the Coen Brothers again.
In the next few awards, Best Art Direction and Best Original Screenplay, once again added two statuettes to "Titanic".
When Cameron walked into the backstage holding a statuette amidst the warm applause of all the people, Eric raised his hand and looked at his watch. The awards ceremony lasted exactly one hour.
It seems that the organizers have put a lot of thought into the order of the awards for the sake of ratings.
Eric couldn't help guessing that the best original song award related to himself might be awarded at the time of one and a half hours or two hours.
With Eric in his thoughts, on stage, the next award presenter, Courtney Love, began to announce the nominees for Best Makeup.
Eric also cheered up immediately.
Because of this award, whether "Titanic" can break the record of 11 Oscars won by "Ben-Hur" that year.
Among the 14 nominations for "Titanic", except Rachel's nomination for Best Actress, there is basically no hope. There are two variables, one is Best Supporting Actress, and the other is Best Makeup.
Although "Titanic" has an overwhelming advantage over other nominees in terms of costume design, the advantage in terms of actor makeup is not obvious, because there is another very important competitor in the same period, that is last summer's Universal Pictures In "Professor Fatty" released, Eddie Murphy, a black male star with a standard figure, in "Professor Fatty", wonderfully deduced a fat man over two hundred catties through makeup.
Only three films were nominated for best makeup, "Titanic," "Professor Fat" and "Star Trek: First Contact."
After introducing the nominated films, Courtney Love opened the envelope in his hand, and Eric couldn't help shaking the little hand of the girl beside him.
"Then, the Oscars go to," Courtney Love paused with a smile and read out the winners: "Tina Earnshaw, Gray Cannon, Simon Thompson, Titanic, congratulations. "
There was applause again in the auditorium, and the three award-winning makeup artists walked to the stage one after another.
This is already the seventh Oscar statuette of "Titanic". The guests at the scene are already in a state of numbness, and most of them don't know what this statuette may mean to "Titanic".
After Eric and several core creators of the film congratulated the three makeup artists, they sat down again, including Cameron, and the two producers Jon Landau and William Stewart all looked at him, Several people exchanged glances excitedly.
The six statuettes before the best make-up award completely show that the Oscar jury has made a compromise to the great commercial success of "Titanic". The biggest suspense of "Titanic" at this awards ceremony is whether it can break the record of 11 Oscars won by "Ben-Hur".
When the best make-up, which is a highly uncertain statuette, is in hand, perhaps most of the guests present and the audience eagerly waiting for the final result in front of the TV still don't understand what this award means, but after numerous results in the public relations stage The deduced "Titanic" creator and public relations team are very clear about the significance of this award. Winning the best award almost means that "Titanic" will probably win 12 statuettes in the end, creating a new record in the history of Oscars.
As Eric guessed, two hours into the awards ceremony, veteran Hollywood actress Goldie Hawn took the stage to present the best original song award.
Eric originally wanted Cameron, James Horner and him to sign the award together.
After all, he only wrote the lyrics and score at the beginning, and the arrangement and recording of the song were completely done by Cameron and James Horner. In Eric's current position, he can't care whether he has an Oscar statuette for himself. However, when declaring the award, Cameron and James Horner declined the signature of the award, and the public relations team also felt that Eric Ke signed alone, which is more beneficial to the public relations and later publicity of the award. Therefore, he is the only one in the final declaration list.
Before this award, Madonna just came to the stage to perform "You Must Love Me", which is the most threatening song to "My Heart Will Go On" in the movie "Madame Peron". Obviously, this is a link deliberately created by the Oscar organizers to create suspense , but the solution does not have any suspense.
Goldie Hawn quickly opened the envelope and announced the results: "The Oscar goes to, Eric Williams, "My Heart Will Go On."
There was the warmest applause from the beginning of the awards ceremony, and even cheers from some people.
Eric got up with a smile, hugged the girl beside him, left his seat, and greeted Cameron, Jon Landau, William Stewart, Rachel and others one by one, and then stepped lightly on stage.
After receiving the statuette handed over by Goldie Hawn, Eric embraced the still-style first-generation American sweetheart before walking to the microphone.
As Eric stood in front of the microphone, the applause that had fallen back became enthusiastic again.
"Thank you, thank you everyone," Eric expressed his gratitude politely, waited patiently for the applause to stop, and then weighed the statuette in his hand, jokingly said: "I think I should make a statement in advance, actually, I am a director .”
After a short silence, the guests at the scene quickly understood the self-mockery in Eric's words, and all laughed.
Eric is a director, and there is no doubt that he is one of the best directors in Hollywood.
However, plus now, standing on the Oscar podium twice, the awards Eric won have nothing to do with the best director, which has to be said to be a very interesting thing.
While delivering his acceptance speech, Eric couldn't help but think of the joke he made with the girl during the fitting two days ago, whether he would really win the Oscar's corner awards, although the performance awards, Eric definitely doesn't have much hope, and he is not very interested in these awards, but in addition to best screenplay, best soundtrack, best editing and other technical awards, he still has the confidence to hit it.
After a brief speech, Eric walked backstage with Goldie Hawn.
After sitting for two hours, Eric was not in a hurry to return to the auditorium. After ordering the nameplate for the statuette, after a short interview, Eric came to the lounge.
There were also many guests in the lounge who were lazy and did not rush to the auditorium. Oscar had a special seat filler, who occupied the original seats when the guests left, so as not to make the empty seats appear abrupt.
After Eric appeared, everyone eagerly gathered to say hello. After all, Eric's current identity is not just a director, even if he is familiar with him, he will get unexpected benefits in the future.
Eric had just chatted with Al Pacino when he thought of a soft female voice behind him.
"Hey Eric, congratulations."
Eric turned around and saw that Madonna, who was still performing "You Must Love Me" on the stage just now, had changed into another dress in such a short time and was standing behind him with a smile.
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However, plus now, standing on the Oscar podium twice, the awards Eric won have nothing to do with the best director, which has to be said to be a very interesting thing.
While delivering his acceptance speech, Eric couldn't help but think of the joke he made with the girl during the fitting two days ago, whether he would really win the Oscar's corner awards, although the performance awards, Eric definitely doesn't have much hope, and he is not very interested in these awards, but in addition to best screenplay, best soundtrack, best editing and other technical awards, he still has the confidence to hit it.
After a brief speech, Eric walked backstage with Goldie Hawn.
After sitting for two hours, Eric was not in a hurry to return to the auditorium. After ordering the nameplate for the statuette, after a short interview, Eric came to the lounge.
There were also many guests in the lounge who were lazy and did not rush to the auditorium. Oscar had a special seat filler, who occupied the original seats when the guests left, so as not to make the empty seats appear abrupt.
After Eric appeared, everyone eagerly gathered to say hello. After all, Eric's current identity is not just a director, even if he is familiar with him, he will get unexpected benefits in the future.
Eric had just chatted with Al Pacino when he thought of a soft female voice behind him.
"Hey Eric, congratulations."
Eric turned around and saw that Madonna, who was still performing "You Must Love Me" on the stage just now, had changed into another dress in such a short time and was standing behind him with a smile. (To be continued.)