Chapter 717: The Most Romantic Thing
As an actor, Hugh Jackman is versatile, Matthew has seen him sing opera programs, and has hosted the Oscar Tony Awards in the theater several times, and now it is not much of a challenge to guest host the Oscars, and from Hugh Jackman's choice, it can also be seen that the college is aware of the potential crisis of the Oscars and wants to use the strong appeal that Wolverine itself has.
Today, even the most stubborn and conservative members of the Academy's Executive Committee cannot deny that the Oscar ratings have reached a point where they must be saved.
Think about the situation when "Titanic" swept the Oscars, with an average of more than 50 million views, setting a record for the Oscars.
Looking at the current sessions, the average audience of more than 30 million viewers has declined too much.
The Oscars are the signature of the college and the college's largest source of business income.
In Matthew's view, the way to solve the ratings problem is actually very simple and straightforward, to fill the shortlist with real popular films, but it is very difficult to get conservative colleges to make this choice.
Therefore, Oscar can only start from other aspects, such as unexpected and so on.
Different from the previous practice of announcing in batches, this year's Oscars firmly "tightened" the list of award presenters, and until the last minute, a name will not be revealed, and even guests like Matthew did not come to the rehearsal, in order to create surprises.
The first award for Best Supporting Actress was evident in this change.
The presenters are no longer the traditional winners of Best Supporting Actor in the past, but Eva Marie Siron, Goldie Horn, Angelica Houston, Whoopi Goldberg and Tilda Swinton, the five female stars who have won the Best Supporting Actress award in the past, and when they walked out of the big screen with their respective avatars, they did bring some surprises because the program team did a good job of keeping secrets in advance.
Of course, that's all there is to the surprise, and the rest is to talk about strings, introduce the list of nominees, and award the Best Supporting Actress Golden Man. The winners will announce their feelings about winning the award......
Matthew was a little bored after watching Penelope Cruz receive the award, just Anne Hathaway left and went backstage to prepare to dance with Wolverine, and now there are people on both sides who don't know each other, and there is no one to talk and chat to pass the time.
According to past experience, an Oscar ceremony takes 3 and a half hours or even 4 hours, and he doesn't have to think about going to the toilet like those actresses, but it's actually quite boring to watch movies that he has never seen here and win one award after another.
It is estimated that the audience lost by the Oscars has the same feelings as him.
When he used to live on the other side of the Pacific, he also watched the Oscars on the Internet, but he lost after watching it for a long time, because the nominees were all films that he had never heard of, which was naturally not interesting.
Fortunately, Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman's singing and dancing were very exciting, especially when Hugh Jackman sang "I am Wolverine" at the end, Matthew couldn't help but laugh and applaud.
After this singing and dancing, the atmosphere of the scene suddenly became solemn, and it was time for the award of the Best Supporting Actor.
As everyone thought before, there was no suspense in this award, and with the advantage of hanging up, Heath Ledger won the crown for Best Supporting Actor without any suspense.
This is the Oscar, and there are many ways to get an award, which is also a very unusual one.
If he were still alive, it would be difficult for Heath Ledger to win Best Supporting Actor, which is not difficult for anyone who knows a little about Hollywood, and it is not difficult for anyone who knows a little about Hollywood to figure out whether he starred in a big-budget commercial film or a comic book superhero movie......
Most of the Oscar judges have deep-rooted discrimination against this type of film or character, but they can deal with the living, but like the public, they are extremely tolerant of the dead.
Matthew joins the rest in a standing ovation, the Joker is bound to become a timeless classic, and Heath Ledger is over.
This is Hollywood, and even without James Cameron, it can still operate as usual.
A staff member came over to remind Matthew at this time and asked him to go backstage to prepare, Matthew left the guest area, went around the passage on one side, walked into the backstage, and just saw Anne Hathaway coming out.
"Annie. Matthew gave her a thumbs up, "Very good performance." ”
Hearing this, Anne Hathaway smiled widely, and nodded in thanks, "It's good that nothing went wrong." ”
Matthew patted her arm lightly, "You're great." Then, he pointed backstage, "I'm over." ”
Seeing Anna Hathaway nodding, Matthew strode forward, and Paul Walker, who was the awards partner, was already waiting in front, but the expression on his face was a little strange.
Coming to Paul Walker's side, Mark Lawrence, the director of the party, came over to give a few words of advice, and handed Matthew the card with the string of words written on it, so that he and Paul Walker could be taken to the exit of the stage.
"What's wrong with you, Paul?" asked Matthew in a low voice as he walked, "You look a little strange. ”
Paul Walker gestured to the card in his hand, "Just look at it." ”
Coming to the exit of the stage, it would be a while before it was time for the Best Animated Feature Film awards, Matthew hurriedly watched the guest crossing, and after watching it, his face was as wonderful as Paul Walker.
"Which writer wrote this string of words?" Matthew shook his head, "It's so irresponsible." ”
Paul Walker smiled, "Thankfully, the best part is in your hands." ”
Matthew was still shaking his head, "The problem is that I never planned to work on animated feature films, nor did I work with DreamWorks Animation Studios. ”
"It's just a joke. Paul Walker's string of words was relatively simple, he had already memorized it, tucked the card into his pocket, and said, "It's not a big problem." ”
Matthew nodded, "It's not a big problem, but the grudge between Jareif Katzenberg and Disney has been entangled for more than ten years, and his company's animated feature films are used to ridicule Disney's works, which is probably not happy." ”
He looked at the director, "Katzenberg isn't a generous person, maybe I'll talk to him about tonight's crosstalk at any time." ”
Matthew and Paul Walker don't care much, fools know that the strings of the award presenters are all arranged by the program.
It is estimated that the director is ingenious, after all, there are few people in Hollywood who don't know the grievances between Jareven Katzenberg and Disney, probably trying to use these to create a burst effect, right?
Of course, things may not be as he thinks, and Hollywood people are still relatively tolerant of jokes in the show.
Ten minutes later, director Mark Lawrence came over, handed Matthew the envelope with the award for Best Animated Feature Film, and cooperated with the host Hugh Jackman at the front desk, reminding the two to play.
To the sound of music, Matthew and Paul Walker crossed the stage, stood in front of the microphone, and began an awkward conversation.
"Matthew, I heard you're ready to start your own animated feature film career?" asked Paul Walker.
"yes. "I plan to work with DreamWorks Animation Studios in the next few years to be involved in the dubbing of their animated feature films." ”
"Then, I'll bet on Pixar to win all the Best Animated Feature Awards on the Las Vegas market." ”
As soon as these words came out, laughter erupted from the stage, and Matthew could see the lens of a camera in front of the stage and turned to the side of Jerry Katzenberg.
At the end of the awkward conversation, Paul Walker duly said, "Now let's take a look at the films that were nominated for Best Animated Feature." ”
Matthew and Paul Walker both turned to the big screen, a brilliant cut from past animated feature films.
Cutting through the garbage-strewn sky, the camera zooms in to the ground, where Vali slices through a pile of rubbish and discovers two items that it is curious about - a videotape and an Oscar-winning statuette!
Picking up the golden figure in his left hand and the tape in his right hand, Vali hesitated for a moment and chose the tape, throwing the golden figure away like garbage.
Back home, Vali plays a videotape of a panda and a dog.
This fast-paced cut is about the three animated feature films nominated this year – "Robot Wall-E," "Lightning Dog" and "Kung Fu Panda."
After the video was played, Matthew opened the envelope, looked down, and announced directly, "The winner of the best feature film is ...... "WALL-E the Robot". ”
There was a round of applause from the audience, and there were no surprises with the award, and Paul Walker then presented the golden man to Andrew Stanton, who took the stage, and this is the end of Matthew's work tonight.
Subsequently, "Slumdog Millionaire" began to highlight its dominance at this year's Oscars, and they won many awards such as Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Dubbing, Best Sound Editing and Best Original Song, which can be called the biggest winner.
Especially in the four most important awards, "Slumdog Millionaire" won two statuettes for Best Director and Best Picture.
Of course, the acting award is not about this film.
The Best Actor goes to Sean Penn, and in the Best Actress attribute, Anne Hathaway is destined to be disappointed, because it was Kate Winslet who won the actress.
After Ruth had the weight to sink the ship, she finally won the crown of the actress.
Matthew also took a special look at Leonardo DiCaprio and sounded the "You Fat, I Fat" meme again.
I guess Jack is fast too, right? After all, Jack's weight is about to sink the ship.
He suddenly thought of a possibility, maybe one day Leonardo DiCaprio waves are enough, Kate Winslet is tired of playing the marriage and divorce game, and the two will come together?
There's a song that doesn't sing like that - the most romantic thing I can think of is to slowly gain weight with you.