Chapter 251 Aftermath
With the ups and downs caused by the Best Soundtrack Awards, the 61st Academy Awards Ceremony also entered the final stage without realizing it.
When Anne Archer introduced the last nominated Best Picture of the Oscars, "Working Girl", Kurt Russell and Gotty Han took the stage together and began to award the Best Actor Award.
Behind the stage, behind the scenes, inside and outside the court, people who had just experienced a wonderful "confrontation" held their breath and concentrated again.
On the stage, after giving some joking speeches, the Russells took turns to say: "The nominations for this Oscar for Best Actor are Gene Harcourman, "Mississippi is Burning", Tom Hanks, "Flying Over the Future", Dustin Hoffman, "Rain Man", Edward James Omos, "A Messenger", Robert De Niro, "Death Poetry Club."
As the introduction sounds, the camera's live broadcast lenses were aimed at the five nominees in the audience.
Kurt Russell opened the envelope and snatched everyone's appetite with Gotty Han. The couple finally announced at the same time: "The winner of Best Actor is Dustin Hoffman, "Rain Man". Congratulations, this is Dustin's second Oscar."
Wow.
The applause from the audience rang out. When Dustin Hoffman walked onto the stage, some people stood up and the applause became even more intense. Driven by those people, the remaining people in the hall also stood up one after another, and the applause lasted for more than a minute before finally falling.
Dustin Hoffman hugged Russell and his wife, took the Little Golden Man from Kurt Russell, came to the microphone, looked at the people who stood up from the audience, and said, "Thank you, thank you everyone." As he said this, after the applause stopped, everyone sat down again, Hoffman shook the Little Golden Man in his hand and continued, "To be honest, it's really not easy to win this award."
Everyone in the awards hall heard Dustin Hoffman say this, but I don’t know if he was intentional, but many people laughed 'understanding'.
"First of all, I want to thank Mr. Michael Orwitz, the president of CAA. Without him, there would be no "Rain Man". This script has been prepared three years ago and has almost no support during this period. Whenever we think this project is about to be completely stranded, Michael will always express his strongest support, and finally everyone can see the movie on the big screen. Secondly, I want to thank Barry, who took over the script of "Rain Man" after many directors withdrew one after another. He created the movie, and Tom, he is a great partner..."
Compared with the short speech time of the technical awards, Dustin Hoffman talked for more than three minutes and told the entire "behind-the-scenes story" of "Rain Man", which mentioned it from Michael Orwitz to Barry Levinson's editor. To sum up, it is how difficult the main creator of the film is, how bumpy the birth of this project is, and how many people he mentioned have made contributions to "Rain Man".
Although Dustin Hoffman looked at the sky from time to time, as if he was not in a state of freedom, during the entire speech, he accurately bypassed all the information related to Daenerys Entertainment.
CAA has won a large number of top Hollywood stars in recent years. Most of these stars themselves are judges of Oscar actor awards. In addition, their complex relationship networks, CAA's potential influence in actor awards is much stronger than that of the old WMA, let alone Daenerys Entertainment, which has only been established for less than three years.
Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment everyone had already expected the current results.
However, listening to Dustin Hoffman's speech on the stage, Amy and others' faces were still a little ugly.
Everyone in the circle knows that if Simon hadn't given the green light to "Rain Man", the project might have been in a state of nowhere until now. Now, all the credit seems to have fallen on others in Hoffman's words.
When Dustin Hoffman finally finished his speech and came to the backstage, everyone from the CAA group immediately surrounded him, but Daenerys Entertainment just watched coldly, and both sides were too lazy to make polite reckless.
In the end, there were only three major awards: Best Actress, Best Director and Best Picture. Ella Deutchman whispered to ask Amy if she wanted to leave early. The Best Actress Award had nothing to do with Daenerys Entertainment. As for the other two, after the Best Actor Award, Deutchman, whose confidence was hit hard, no longer thought there would be any special changes.
But Amy just shook her head, held her arms and looked at the live TV screen in the backstage, quietly waiting for the final result.
The farce of the Best Actress "Three-Yellow Egg" at the Golden Globe Awards two months ago will naturally not happen at the Oscar. Judy Foster won his first Oscar for "The Rise of Pear Blossoms" like in the original time and space. This Hollywood actress, who was born in a child star, finally achieved great success after experiencing the major changes that year.
WMA Vice President Jonathan Friedman, who always waited in the backstage to wait for the award results, looked at Judy Foster, who delivered his award speech on the stage, and was also in a depressed mood.
Judy Foster was also a WMA client earlier.
The decline of WMA in recent years has not been reversed because of his discovery of Simon Westeros, a talented Hollywood boy, and WMA customers are still losing.
Judy Foster was also poached ICM when another WMA vice president Ed Limato led Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington, Michelle Pfeiffer and other stars to change jobs early last year. Then, in just one year, Judy Foster changed her lukewarm career state in previous years with "The Rise of Pear Blossoms" and won the Oscar winner at the age of 25.
While thinking, Jonathan Friedman couldn't help but clench his fists secretly.
Fortunately, this situation will not continue soon.
WMA President Norman Broca will leave soon.
In recent years, many of WMA's agents have lost their ace customers. Only Jonathan not only defended big-name customers such as Brian de Palma, Robert Duval, Billy Cristo, and successfully signed big names like Robert De Niro, but also trained first-line stars such as Sandra Brock and Matt Dillon. Simon's rise in Hollywood is even more dazzling.
Therefore, Jonathan is almost the next presidential candidate for WMA, and he also takes this for granted.
This time, if the old men in the upper class continue to play with power and hand over his position to others, Jonathan feels that this talent agency that has lasted for more than half a century is about to decline completely, and he will choose to leave without hesitation.
In the live footage, Dennis Quaid and Michelle Pfeiffer took the stage and Friedman took his thoughts back.
Even though they no longer had too many expectations, Amy and others still stared at the TV screen intently.
This is the penultimate award tonight, Best Director.
"An excellent director is like an excellent captain. He is the core and soul of the crew team. Without the captain's guidance, no ship can sail to the right distance."
"I am honored to recommend to everyone the five 'captains' tonight. Of course, no matter any of them wins the award, they will lose the light of others."
“The nominations for this Academy Award for Best Director are:”
"Mike Nicholson, "Working Girls";"
"Charles Cricketton, "A Fish named Wanda;"
"Barry Levinson, The Rain Man;"
“Allen Parker, Mississippi is Burning”;
"Peter Will, The Death Poetry Society."
After introducing the five nominees in turn, Michelle Pfeiffer, who was wearing a big red V-neck evening dress tonight, looked at the bottom of the stage with his eyes flowing, but his hands were not paused, and he slowly but skillfully "blindly unpacked" the envelope, and took out the card with the list of winners, and then bowed his head.
Seeing the award results, a glimmer of surprise flashed across the face of the charming girl who had been discharged just now, but she quickly smiled and showed the envelope to Dennis Quaid beside her.
Dennis Quaid made his debut in the 1970s, and his career gradually began to improve when he was middle-aged.
After spending many years in Hollywood, I naturally know all kinds of gossip in the circle.
Looking at the award results handed over by Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Quaid did not show a surprised expression. Instead, he took the envelope and took it in his hand and looked at it carefully. He made a gesture and swayed everyone's appetite. Finally, he finally announced to the microphone that many people had speculated but were unwilling to believe the award results.
"The best director of this year's Oscar is Peter Will, "The Death Poetry Club."
In the hall, after a brief silence, applause rang out.
Backstage of the ceremony, although Deutchman was not as rude as he was when the best soundtrack was presented this time, he still raised his hand and clenched his fists, and tacitly met with Amy and others.
In the hall, Peter Will, who was overjoyed, walked quickly to the stage.
Although the cameras of the five candidates were cut out, the live camera shots swept to Barry Levinson, director of "Rain Man", and successfully captured Levinson's obvious unwillingness to be lost and even anger.
This is Barry Levinson's first best director nomination and is obviously the most promising award.
Everyone was not optimistic about "Rain Man", but the film unexpectedly made a comeback, and the counterattack caught people off guard, which was enough to prove the strong uncertainty of the film production.
Missing this most promising opportunity to win the award, it is hard to say whether Barry Levinson can win the Oscar again.
You should know that both the media and the audience often compare their previous works when evaluating a filmmaker's works. Obviously, "Rain Man" is already the pinnacle of Barry Levinson, and he is destined to find it difficult to produce a better film than "Rain Man".
He cannot produce works that surpass "Rain Man". Even if he can get nominated again, the possibility of winning the award is slim.
Calm down and listened to Peter Will's excited speech on the stage. Whether in the hall, in the ceremony backstage or waiting for the results, media reporters who were waiting for the results, after a while, they gradually realized that the reason for Peter Will's award was actually traceable.
Peter Will has been nominated for Best Director for the Oscar for "Witness" in 1985, and there is an advantage over Barry Levinson. Therefore, although the award results are somewhat beyond everyone's expectations, they are not abrupt.
"Rain Man" is a phenomenal movie, which is true, but "Death Poetry Club" is also a very outstanding and excellent film. Moreover, Daenerys Entertainment has spared no effort in the public relations offensive launched by this awards season.
"Rain Man" is not very outstanding in terms of camera, editing and other technologies, so it is natural to miss previous technical awards. However, under the attack of a group of veteran top musicians, Simon Westero's Best Soundtrack Award actually proves the public relations effectiveness of Daenerys Entertainment.
As for the "loss" in the best actor, it is mainly because Daenerys Entertainment has no other powerful public relations partner in this regard.
Robert De Niro, who won the Best Actor nomination for "Death Poetry Club", has won two Academy Awards for Best Actor twice before, which is a limit for Hollywood actors. Unless De Niro can produce another super phenomenon film that even surpasses "Rain Man", under normal circumstances, if he wants to win his third Oscar, he will have to wait at least ten or twenty years later.
On the other hand, it is beyond doubt that Dustin Hoffman's performance in "The Rain Man" is as impeccable as the film itself.
Therefore, although Daenerys Entertainment has diluted Hoffman's votes by setting the PR target on De Niro, it is impossible for De Niro to win the award when the other three candidates besides De Niro are not strong enough, so the final award is taken for granted.
In this way, Dustin Hoffman's award cannot be considered a failure of Daenerys Entertainment.
Now, Peter Will of "Death Poetry Club" won the Best Director Award. After many people carefully savored it, they immediately discovered that the secret battle between Daenerys Entertainment and CAA in this year's Oscars, Daenerys Entertainment is still better.
Dustin Hoffman just won an award that he was very easy to win.
What Peter Will has now won is the award results after a fierce confrontation between Daenerys Entertainment and CAA. You should know that CAA, who has been operating in Hollywood for more than ten years, is strong in actors, and its connections in the director field should not be underestimated.
In comparison, the disadvantages of Daenerys Entertainment, which has a shallow foundation, are very obvious.
In such adversity, he can still win awards, and the previous best music Little Golden Man by Simon Westeros himself is enough to prove the great success of Daenerys Entertainment's public relations strategy this year.
The news that Peter Will won the best director with "Death Poetry Club" spread quickly. In the Grand Hall of the Holy Citizens, the award ceremony continued, but it also entered the final end.
The best film was presented by Xueer, the winner of the previous Best Actress.
This can once again show the differences in details of this year's Oscar. In addition to not having a host, the award presenter did not award the best actress and the best actress according to the traditional model of "The Best Actor" being awarded and the Best Actor being awarded the Best Actor".
The final award result did not have any suspense, and "Rain Man" successfully won the 61st Academy Award for Best Picture Little Golden Man.
Daenerys Entertainment has applied for two producers, one is Barry Levinson's personal producer Mark Johnson, and the other is the spokesperson of Daenerys Entertainment itself. Through this arrangement, Daenerys Entertainment will receive a small gold man, displayed at the company headquarters as a permanent glory.
After the Best Picture, the 61st Academy Awards Ceremony ended successfully.
However, the aftermath of all this has just begun.
Chapter completed!