Chapter 620 takes the lead
As the two major winners of this Oscar, the crew of "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Barton" were arranged in the center, and the crew of "The Legend of Milk" was placed on the left hand side of the crew of "Slumdog Millionaire", and the two sides were very close to each other.
As the ratings of the major awards ceremonies in the entertainment industry this year have dropped to an all-time low, the organizers have come up with various ways to increase the ratings, not only inviting Hugh Jackman, the sexiest man, to host the song and dance, inviting nominated actors to perform on stage, but also bringing Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Pett's ex-wife Aniston together to play the gossip card.
Before the Oscars, it was rumored that Brad Pitt's ex-wife Aniston would walk the red carpet with her singer boyfriend, in fact, Aniston did not walk the red carpet, but secretly entered the theater through the back door with her boyfriend John Mayer, avoiding Brad Pitt and his girlfriend Angelina Jolie, who showed affection on the red carpet.
But the Oscar organizers couldn't easily let go of this "gossip", Pete and Julie were seated in the middle of the first row, and Aniston and Mel sat diagonally behind them, which was the first time that Aniston and Brad Pitt had appeared together since their divorce in 2005.
And even if they don't look at each other, it doesn't matter, Aniston and "Kung Fu Panda" voice star Jack Black present the awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short Film, with Aniston standing in the center of the stage to present the awards, and the two sides will always face each other.
However, it is estimated that this time it will not be like the scene of the award ceremony when the marriage change was just experienced in 2006, Aniston stood on the stage expressionlessly and read the list of winners, ignoring the winners who were going crazy, and stuffed the little golden man into the winner's hand, turned around and left, not only embarrassed by the winners, but also embarrassed by the audience.
Afterwards, the TV station's funny show also made an embarrassing meme of the winner, accompanied by the words "I did something wrong." ”
Although the organizers promised that this year's show would change the style of previous years, as the first non-comedian Oscar host in more than 20 years, Jackman did not have a bold performance at first, and inherited the banter and humor style of previous hosts at the beginning, he first laughed at Kate Winslet's German English in "The Reader", Robert Downey Jr. as an African-American in "Tropical Thunder" can be shortlisted for awards, but he, an Australian, starred in the Australian film "Australia" But he was not favored by the little golden man, and the disappointed look amused the audience.
First, he laughed and sang "Hollywood has the most stories of getting rich overnight" in front of the quiz set of "Slumdog Millionaire", and then combined with "The Dark Knight", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", and "The Reader" movie plot show dance, and finally walked off the stage to pick up Anne Hathaway, and the two took the stage to imitate the question and answer of the movie "Foster Versus Nixon", and danced together.
Jackman did not forget to show the basic skills of a Broadway opera singer in the middle of the show, I saw him wearing a top hat and a tuxedo, and performing the popular musical movies "Youth Musical" and "Mama Mia" with music diva Beyoncé Knowles, and the audience gave him a standing ovation after the dance, giving the highest recognition to his superb performance.
Seeing such a scene, the organizer should be gratified, the audience gave the host a standing ovation, such a scene is not much, it is finally a good start.
A short video was played on the spot, which showed the moment when the previous supporting actress won the acting award, and then the best supporting actress award was awarded, and the award-winning actors were reviewed over the years, and finally Swinton, who won the award last year.
This year's Oscars are also affected by the economic crisis, and the funds are seriously insufficient, so the decoration and gift packages are far inferior to last year, in order to maintain the topicality, so they invited a luxurious lineup of award presenters, and the five Best Supporting Actress winners presented awards to the new generation of winners, which is a gimmick.
This year's Oscar awards are provided to the finalists and award presenters, each worth 4,000 US dollars worth of watches, in addition to high-end watches, there are also glass artworks, a full set of top skin care products, all the gifts add up, each person can take away at least 8,000 US dollars worth of gift bags.
Five actresses who have won Best Supporting Actress took the stage to introduce the candidates for this year's Best Supporting Actress, and the five former Best Supporting Actress winners introduced Best Supporting Actress nominees Taragi J. P. Hansen, Penelope Cruz, Viola Davis, Amy Adams, and Marissa Tomei, among others.
As a result, Spanish national treasure Penelope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for "Midnight in Barcelona", which was his first collaboration with Woody Allen, and Penelope was the second Spaniard to win an Oscar after her boyfriend Javier.
The original Javier was busy filming on the set and didn't come to the awards ceremony, but who would dare to play a big name when Mark was here? He hugged his girlfriend passionately and then asked her to go on stage to accept the award.
In previous years, it has always been the last year's winners who received the New Supporting Actress Award for the male and female supporting actor awards, but this year the method has changed and it looks more interesting.
Penelope was very excited, no matter which actor it was, standing on the pinnacle stage of the entertainment industry, he was so excited that he couldn't help himself: "Has anyone ever fainted on stage? I think I might be the first." Thank you Alan (Woody Allen) for giving me such a beautiful role, and thank you for writing so many great character ...... for women over the years. ”
Penelope Cruz thanked Woody Allen for such a wonderful role, and she especially thanked Harvey Weinstein, who she said was worried about the long list of thanks, and ended with a thank you in Spanish.
If there is a bad review at each Oscar, it must be one of them if it is too long, this is the pinnacle stage of life! Who doesn't want to stay for an extra minute, many people are excited, they get carried away, I don't know the time, the winner's speech time is clearly limited to 45 seconds, from the speaker speaks, a large display screen starts a 45-second countdown, to 10 seconds when the number turns yellow, 45 seconds after the background turns red.
As soon as Penelope's speech began, the screen began to time, but she completely ignored it, and the speech went on and on until she thanked the people who should be thanked and thanked the audience again and again, and then went backstage.
ABC started to insert commercials, this is a modern car commercial, there is a way, economic crisis? Oscar is not having a good time.
Tina Fey and Steve Martin took the stage, Steve Martin introduced himself twice, laughter rang out at the scene, the two seemed to be talking cross talk, and the guests of the Best Original Screenplay Award were introduced in the form of typing.
Nominees for Best Original Screenplay include Dustin Lance Black for "Milk", Andrew Stanton for "Robots", Courtney Hunter for "Frozen River", Mike Lee for "Carefree" and Martin MacDonald for "No Vacation for Killers".
The big screen began to show the wonderful moments of these five films, and finally the avatars of the five nominees.
Finally, Dustin Lance Black won the Best Original Screenplay Award for "The Biography of Milk"!
"The Biography of Milk", which has eight nominations, took the lead and won this relatively important award, whether it is Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay, it is the weather vane of Best Director and Best Picture.
Moving on to the Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, Steve Martin said to Tina Fey: Don't fall in love with me. The scene laughed.
The nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay are: Eric Ross for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, John Patrick Stanley for Child Abuse Suspicions, Pete Morgan for Foster Versus Nixon, Simon Beerfoy for Slumdog Millionaire and David Hale for The Reader.
The highlights of the five films and the portraits of the nominees were displayed on the big screen.
Simon Beufoy won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Slumdog Millionaire", which is the second time he has won the screenwriting award, and the last time it was "The Six Heroes of the Light Pig", a real Oscar old bird.
Simon and Mark warmly hugged and congratulated each other, as one of the leaders of Mark's direct department, Simon regarded himself as Mark's cronies.
The film has gone all the way and has achieved quite good results.
Despite winning the Toronto Film Festival's top award, "Slumdog Millionaire" is an independent film that didn't attract much attention in 2008, when blockbusters were in full swing, but a good film can't escape the keen sense of world-class film critics, and sooner or later it will surface and get the praise it deserves. In this way, the film was thrust into the spotlight at the end of 2008.
On November 30, the new film "Slumdog Millionaire" directed by "Deadly Magic" director Nuo Yan swept the 11th British Independent Film Awards, winning three awards: Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Newcomer.
On December 4, the National Society of Review Awards, known as the "Oscar Weather Vane" along with the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and the Golden Globe Awards, announced the results of the 80th awards.
Three days later, "Slumdog Millionaire" once again won the 7th Washington Film Critics Circle Awards, winning four awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Breakthrough Performance.
On December 9, Noah won the Best Director award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Awards.
In just ten days, the independent film seemed to be poised for its brightest shine at the end of 2008, followed by the Golden Globes and then ten Oscar nominations.
Today it stands on the Oscars and is on the verge of victory, winning its first nominated award.