"Haha, of course you know, Mr. 'Youth Clint'. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info," the male reporter said with a smile.

"Well, I just don't believe anyone would say that." Sid said with a smile and a shrug.

After a few words of greeting with reporters, today's best dressed red carpet award is Nicole Kidman!

"Oops, what a shame." The female reporter smiled and said to Lindsay.

"It doesn't matter, Nicole is really beautiful today, and I like it too." Lindsay's smiling answer couldn't help but make the scene happy.

After talking to reporters, Sid and his party finally entered the temple auditorium. Although there was no fixed venue for the Oscars at this time, the Academy still made great efforts to hold the New Millennium Awards ceremony in the Temple Auditorium this time.

In other words, a lot of money and talent have been spent.

This time, the academy not only invited a new producer, but also invited the veteran host Billy Crystal to host again, which is his seventh Oscar host.

Producers Richard Senak and Lily Finney Zanuk promise to bring a more extravagant and ambitious Oscar than ever before.

In order to show the technological aspects of the new millennium, art designer Bob Keane designed an ambitious technology stage for television broadcasting. The floor of the Grand Stage is also adorned with flashing lights, a symphony orchestra playing music under the stage steps, and a massive 35-foot high-definition display larger than last year's AMA Music Awards.

These displays, when the presenters take the stage, will be used to show the footage of the award-winning films, as well as the expressions of the nominees.

In addition to these technical improvements, this year's Oscars will see more people, with Peter Coyot as the announcer and more musicians involved in the creation of live music.

But without further ado, as night fell, the 72nd Academy Awards in the auditorium of the temple officially kicked off amid the sound of music!

Announcer Peter Courtote took to the stage, and of course the audience burst into applause, not only for him, but also for the Oscars.

"Welcome to the 72nd Academy Awards." Peter Cajoot, a middle-aged actor with a bit of a horse face, touched his chin after his opening remarks, and said: "It's been a fun year, at least the last few weeks, because Hollywood has attracted a lot of attention, from focusing on whose movies are the most popular, to caring about what they should take home if they win an award?" ”

Well, it's standard American joke in public again, this time in the fun of the lost goldinone in the academy.

After the news curtain, there is an annual spoof skewer film. If there's one thing that's different this year, it's that as the start of the new millennium, spoof skewers are no longer limited to the films of the year, but include films from the entire 20th century.

From Hitchcock's "Psycho" to Chaplin's "Gold Rush", Billy Crystal played a man for a while, a woman for a while, and met ET by chance.

If he hadn't known that this was the Oscar scene, Sid would have thought he had come to some lively flea market.

After a brief opening, Billy Crystal once again began his signature singing and dancing opening presence, "Oscar, who will win?" ”

"The five films selected for Best Film-" As Billy Crystal spoke, cheerful music began to play, and Brother Billy began to "rap" to introduce the first of the shortlisted films: "This is a movie about death row prisoners, and that is "Miracle on the Green Mile"! ”

"(Tom) Hanks was there, but he couldn't get on the trumpet, and when he went on patrol at night, the tall, handsome black brother grabbed him by the crotch."

Okay! The host of the Oscars, Brother Billy, is also an old driver, and he drove with the actor Hanks as soon as he came up. This immediately drew laughter from the audience.

"You know what? Vice President Al Gore especially likes to watch "Miracle on the Green Mile" because he wants to know why the electric chair can't be powered by solar energy. "After Vice President Billy Kristona opened the shabu-shabu, he followed up with another special opening of the year.

"We had a great group of guests today, and there were a lot of new faces coming here for the first time. Let's take a look around, there are a lot of wonderful stories and characters. With that, Billy Crystal walked to the left side of the stage.

After introducing a few new and old, present and absent characters, "of course, don't forget, Hilary Swank, who gave a wonderful performance. She was nominated for a new award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. ”

This year, with "Boys Don't Cry", the young actress who was nominated for the Oscar for the first time in the starring role smiled shyly, and did not look as masculine as in the film.

After another round of jokes about the loss of the Oscars, Billy Crystal turned his attention to the young actors: "Another thing worth mentioning this year is "The Sixth Sense"! And the brilliant young actor Haley Osmond! ”

The camera immediately hit the 11-year-old Xiao Zhengtai, although he did not receive any nominations, he still received an invitation to the Oscars, and even went on stage as a special guest for a while.

In the applause of everyone, although Xiao Zhengtai was a little nervous, he still sat on the camera with a smile.

"He's only 11 years old, and oh my god, he's shorter than some movies have been made." Billy Crystal's complaint caused people to laugh again, "Actually, when I heard that Haley Osmond was going to participate in the Oscars, I wondered, what would Lindsay Lohan think if he found out that his record as the youngest guest was broken? ”

Following Billy Crystal's words, the photographer who was crouching next to Sid and Lindsay immediately pointed the camera at Lindsay, and Lindsay's fairy-like appearance immediately appeared on the big screen behind Billy.

Lindsay pretended to be puffing out, exhaling up and down, and her cute appearance immediately caused the stars on the scene to laugh.

Sid, who was next to her, immediately picked up his hat and fanned her.

"Oh, and this gentleman, how did you get in?" Amid the laughter of the stars present, Billy Crystal pointed to Sid next to Lindsay.

The photographer immediately turned the camera to Sid, and as soon as Sid's face appeared on the big screen, it immediately caused a burst of laughter from the stars in the audience.

It turned out that Sid was on his lips at this time, wearing two upturned mustaches, still in the western style!

"Oh, it's Sid Leonhardt. I'm wondering why you were nominated for Best Director this year, but it turns out that you have plastic surgery. Billy Crystal's serious words made the audience laugh even more joyfully.

But Sid didn't let them go, he immediately touched his mustache, and then shook his head in ecstasy.

"Poof!" At this moment, even Billy Crystal burst out laughing.

As for the stars present? Hilary Swank, who was participating in the Oscars for the first time, leaned forward and leaned back with laughter, and Julian Moore clapped his hands and laughed, tears almost bursting into laughter.

"OK, OK, I know you're proud of your beard, who wouldn't? It earned you an Oscar nomination after all. Billy Crystal reacted quickly to the "unexpected scene" and said with a smile and tried to pull back the topic.

But Sid hadn't let him go, his head tilted, his eyes bulged, and he raised a thumbs up in the direction of the camera, apparently following Billy Kristol's words, quite satisfied with his beard!

At this moment, the scene immediately erupted in laughter that resounded through the auditorium of the temple, which obviously surpassed Billy Christo's opening laugh just now.

The stars in the front rows were laughing crookedly, Kevin Spacey blocked his mouth with one hand, and slapped his thigh with the other and laughed. Nicole Kidman clutched her stomach and laughed on Tom Cruise's shoulder.

Billy Crystal had no choice but to wait until everyone was laughing before he said "hatefully", "I knew I shouldn't have given Sid Leon a shot." ”

Billy Kristol's words drew chuckles from the audience, and the image on the big screen changed back to the image of the golden man.

Billy Crystal nodded with satisfaction: "Well, it's much better now." ”

His words made the celebrity audience laugh, and then Billy Crystal sang and sang as he strung together the remaining best films — from "The Sixth Sense," a ghost who sees a dead man, to "American Beauty," where a 40-year-old man meets an adolescent girl.

Of course, there is also the violent little Lori who chases the murderer for thousands of miles and can't be provoked, especially the 40-year-old uncle "Earth Thunder".

After Billy Crystal sang and danced, talked and laughed at the opening, the main drama of the awards ceremony finally began!

The first batch of award presenters were the beautiful trio - Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. Obviously, they are interpolating advertisements for this year's "Thunderbolt Baby"!

Who said that foreigners don't play the drama of advertising.

They presented the award for Best Costume Design, and the shortlisted films were "Anna and the King", "Guillotine Valley", "The Genius Prailly", "Earth Thunder" and "Song and Play".

From the perspective of future generations, the first four films are more or less well-known, and "the award-winning film is - "Singing and Playing", Lindy Hemming! As Lucy Liu opened the envelope, she read out the results.

There was immediately a cheer in the middle of the left side of the audience, and a middle-aged aunt stood up with an incredible expression on her face amid the shouts of the surrounding people.

The result of the defeat in the first game seems to foreshadow today, and it is indeed not the home field of Sid and others.