Fireflies used to storm the Olympics this year originally had two films, "Interview with the Vampire" and "Pulp Fiction".

However, after the Oscar nominations were released, Eric found out that although "Interview with the Vampire" had a good industry review and made Firefly a lot of money at the box office, vampire movies were not loved by the Oscar judges like comedies, although Firefly did a lot of work for the Oscar PR of the film, and finally only got inconsequential nominations such as Best Makeup and Best Sound.

In the end, the responsibility of the Firefly to impact the Oscars fell to "Pulp Fiction".

Although Eric jokes with Kapoor that he is likely to fall asleep at the awards ceremony, the Oscars are often ridiculed for being too long. However, except for those who are old and lack of energy, it is difficult for most people to feel trapped in the tense and fiery atmosphere of the Oscars.

I have to say that it was quite interesting to watch this award ceremony that was very different from the original time and space.

The original "Schindler's List" was advanced by a year, and in addition to "Pulp Fiction", this year's more popular nominated films include "In the Name of the Father", "Piano Farewell", "The Intersection of Life" and several others, and Eric was also a little surprised to find that there were two Chinese films in the films shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film this year, one called "The Wedding Banquet" and the other called "Farewell My Concubine", but the Best Foreign Language Film award finally fell to Penelope's "Belle Epoque".

In addition to this, Eric also noticed Jane Campayne, who was nominated for Best Director for "Piano Love", and the female director from Australia stopped at a nomination without suspense. Although it has not been learned in detail. But Eric also knew. There are very few women in Oscar history who have been nominated for Best Director. It shouldn't have been in the last decade or so. This will be a big variable for next year's Oscar for Best Director, and if Catherine is nominated for Best Director again as a woman for "Saving Private Ryan", then the Oscar judges will likely have to consider the risk of ignoring female directors for two years in a row.

After winning no awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress in a row, Quentin also lost the competition for Best Director to Robert Altman of "The Intersection of Life" without any suspense, and Robert Altman, who is good at shooting Masaharu satirical films, has been nominated for Best Director three times before, although he lost to Steven Spielberg in the original time and space, but this time, there is really no one who can guide the Oscar of this veteran director.

When Robert Altman and award presenter Clint Eastwood leave the stage. Standing backstage, Eric already had a hunch that this Oscar, "Pulp Fiction" may still only win one Best Original Screenplay Award, but Eric doesn't care about this, as long as "Pulp Fiction" gets enough box office.

Hearing the announcer call out his name, Eric walked towards the stage with an envelope containing the best film results, and as soon as he appeared, there was a very enthusiastic applause from under the stage.

Eric smiled and walked to the microphone, expecting that the applause would fall there, but the applause from the audience showed no signs of stopping. Instead, it became more and more enthusiastic.

The Oscars are actually a gathering where everyone cheers each other on, as the host ridiculed at an awards ceremony. A game in which a group of millionaires award each other. Eric's popularity and power in Hollywood have grown in recent years, and it's not too surprising to receive such treatment.

The applause rang for half a minute, and Eric pressed his hand, glanced at the audience, and said with a smile: "In fact, when I received the invitation to this award ceremony, I was personally very scared. ”

Although there was no obvious laugh in this sentence, the audience still cooperated with a light laugh.

"I always thought that such an important award should be at least 60 years old to be a guest of honor, but the director immediately retorted and said, you have done all the things that others can do until they are 80 years old, and you can already go to the awards, so I came up. ”

With the laughter from the audience, Eric said seriously: "But don't expect anything, even if this award is presented by me, the little gold man will definitely not be pure gold." ”

The audience knew that this was Eric's ridicule of his personal wealth, so there was another burst of laughter, Eric cleared his throat and said: "Of course, the best picture represents an honor, and it is the affirmation of the value of a film by more than 6,000 professional judges of the academy, which is definitely not something that money can replace, so let's take a look at the excellent nominated films this year." ”

Eric gestured to the screen and walked to the side.

Clips from the five nominated films, "Pulp Fiction", "Intersection of Life", "Farewell to Love", "In the Name of the Father" and "Farewell to Love" appeared on the screen one by one.

Eric looked at the clips of these films, unsure who would win the best picture this year.

Compared with the awards such as Best Director and Best Actor, which are relatively small in size, the best film is unanimously selected by more than 6,000 judges from various jury associations, which means that the attribution of the best film can be reflected to a certain extent in the previous best director, best actor and actress.

But this year is a complete Oscar year, and no film is the big winner that everyone expects. Best Director went to Robert Altman for "The Intersection of Life", Best Actor went to Daniel Day Lewis for "In the Name of the Father", Best Actress went to Holly Hunter for "Piano Love", Best Original Screenplay was taken away by "Pulp Fiction", Best Supporting Actor and Actress also belonged to different films, the largest number of jury associations made completely different choices, and it seems that the result of the best film will depend on private public relations.

Although it is not yet known who the flowers will be, Eric is sure that after this year's Oscars, the media commentary will definitely be much more lively than before.

The introduction of all five films is over. Eric walked up to the microphone again. I opened the envelope in my hand and took a look. Glancing at the audience, his eyes quickly found the location of a crew, and then his eyes couldn't help narrowing, because he saw two acquaintances around the crew, Elizabeth in a white dress and a big fat man surnamed Weinstein.

Because of Eric's brief hesitation, everyone in the Los Angeles music hall followed Eric's gaze, and some people made soft noises.

Eric quickly retracted his thoughts and said, "So." The 1993 Oscar for Best Picture will belong to "Piano Love", Jane Chapman. ”

With the applause, a short-haired woman about forty years old stood up from the crew of "Piano Farewell", hugged the others one by one, and then walked towards the stage with an excited face.

"Congratulations, Ms. Chapman," Eric handed the golden, gave him a polite hug, and stepped aside.

While Jane Chapman was giving her acceptance speech. Standing next to him, Eric looked down the stage again, and the Oscar-winning picture in this era had not yet been as crowded on stage as the whole crew did later. The crew members of "Piano Farewell" are still sitting in the same place.

Noticing Eric's gaze, Harvey Weinstein nodded politely at him, while Elizabeth raised her chin a little smugly, and unabashedly stretched out her finger to draw a 'C' in front of her, and then made a gesture of disillusionment with her five fingers into a fist and suddenly spread out.

Even if Elizabeth hadn't given these prompts, Eric would have been able to guess what Niko meant. Jane Campayn's female identity is both an advantage and a disadvantage, and if it weren't for Robert Altman, who has accumulated several Oscar nominations, with Weinstein's public opinion manipulation and award public relations skills, coupled with News Corp.'s huge media support, Jane Campayne might really be able to make Jane Campayn the first female director to win the Oscar for Best Director.

But because of Robert Altman, Weinstein knew that he had little hope of winning Best Director, so he turned to public relations for Best Picture and successfully launched a female producer, which is obviously paving the way for next year's "Braveheart".

In this way, if Catherine is nominated for Best Director for "Saving Private Ryan" next year, the academy will have enough reason to distinguish if she does not receive this award, since they presented such an important award of Best Picture to a woman this year, the media will have no reason to accuse them of sexism.

Now that he has decided to support Elizabeth in his heart, and deliberately pushed Fox to acquire Miramax, of course Eric will not be angry with the girl's caution, anyway, no matter who becomes the big winner next year between "Braveheart" and "Saving Private Ryan", in Eric's opinion, it is just the difference between the left and right hands, otherwise Eric would not have postponed the production of "Forrest Gump" by a year, not to mention that compared to "Saving Private Ryan", "Braveheart" obviously needs the blessing of awards to recover more profits.

Eric planned to go back to rest immediately after attending the awards ceremony, but thinking of "Forrest Gump", it happened that Tom Hanks also attended the awards ceremony, Eric planned to talk to Hanks about it first, and left the Los Angeles Music Center with everyone to go to the "Vanity Fair" Oscars dinner at the Hilton Hotel, although Eric has changed the history of Hollywood, but the Vanity Fair party still appeared on time, but Eric has not been able to participate in the past few years.

In the lively party hall, Eric and Hanks go to a quiet corner and briefly introduce Hanks to the plot of Forrest Gump.

Hanks listened attentively to Eric's analysis of the plot, nodded and said, "Eric, since it is the script you like, of course there is no problem, I will ask my agent to turn down those invitations tomorrow." Well, this story sounds interesting, maybe I should find the original book and read it. ”

Eric hurriedly shook his head and said, "The original story is a somewhat absurd satirical novel, and I don't recommend reading it before you read the script." Because I plan to adapt it into an inspirational film that shows the history of the 50s and 70s in the United States, the main character Forrest Gump represents a simple and sincere attitude to life, if you read the original book in advance, it may have a bad impact on entering the character, people's first impression bias is very serious. ”

"Okay, just let me know when the film starts," Hanks smiled and nodded, as for things like the salary, of course, he didn't have to negotiate with Eric personally, these things are usually negotiated by the producer and Hanks's agent now.

The two chatted casually and then separated, Eric greeted some acquaintances, casually dealt with a few guests who came forward to talk, saw Penelope and Kate, and planned to secretly take the two girls to leave the party early, but just as they were about to walk towards the two girls, Elizabeth led a group of people from the crew of "Piano Farewell" over.

"Eric, this is Miss Jane Camppen, and Miss Jane Chapman......"

Eric smiled and shook hands with each other one by one, everyone knew the relationship between Elizabeth and Eric, and after greeting each other, they dispersed.

After the crowd dispersed, Elizabeth asked, "Why don't you ignore me, you won't really be angry?"

Eric smiled and said, "Seeing that you are surrounded by a group of people, I am afraid to come up and block your light." ”

Elizabeth snorted softly, but realizing that Eric didn't mean to be angry, she relieved herself and asked, "What were you talking to Tom Hanks about?"

"A movie, I'm going to let him play the leading role, say hello in advance," Eric didn't mean to postpone the production of "Forrest Gump" to ask the girl, and said simply, noticing Penelope and Kate looking at him, he gestured to the two women, motioning for them to wait outside for him.

Elizabeth followed Eric's gaze and just noticed the backs of the two girls leaving, and teased in a sour tone: "Those two seem to be the heroines of "Breaking Bad", why don't you get the three girls into bed together?"

Eric laughed, "I'm too busy, so I've only managed to get two of them, and I'll take my time with the remaining one." ”

"You just mess around," Elizabeth said with a slight kick in Eric's leg to show her displeasure, and remembered something, "You said you were going to help Julia prepare the script, when will you take it out?"

"At least when the matter in New York is over," Eric casually put the goblet in his hand in the tray of the passing waiter, leaned over and kissed Elizabeth on the face, and whispered, "If nothing else, I'll go first, I haven't slept well for a whole week." ”

Elizabeth shrunk her neck, she really had something important to talk to Eric about, but the two were so close, she also noticed the faint dark circles on Eric's face, and thought that there was no rush in this matter, so she nodded and let Eric leave the party. (To be continued.) )