v2 Chapter 500： Best director

"When adapting other people's stories, retaining the spirit of the original and adapting them into a great script requires extremely high talent."

Standing on the stage, Sophia Coppola unhurriedly said the string of words prepared by the organizers, "Very few people have this kind of talent, but this year there are many excellent screenwriters who presented wonderful stories on the screen. on."

As she said, she turned to the big screen, "The shortlisted for the best adapted screenplay are Brolio Mantovani's "City of God", Gary Ross "The Pentium Age", Sally Berman and Robert Passini, "American Glory," Duke Rosenberg, "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," Brian Helgeland, "Mysterious River."

Sophia Coppola opened the envelope, glanced down, and immediately locked Duke, "I am honored to announce that the winner is Duke Rosenberg, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"!"

"Congratulations!" She clapped her palms.

This result can be said to be no accident. The Kodak Theater instantly burst into enthusiastic applause, Duke slowly stood up with a smile, Ivanka first gave him a big hug and kissed him gently on his left cheek.

"Congratulations, dear!"

She let go of her arms, Duke hugged her mother again, claped one by one with the crew members, and quickly walked onto the stage.

"Duke, congratulations."

Seeing Sophia Coppola spread his arms, Duke hugged her tightly again, then took over the second Oscar statuette in his life and stood in front of the microphone.

"First of all, I want to thank Tolkien. There is no great trilogy novel by Tolkien, there will be no Lord of the Rings movie, and I will not stand here. I also want to thank the screenwriter team at the Duke’s Studio. The key to the success of the script. Finally, thank my family and friends. They always encourage me to keep moving forward."

Duke didn't say much. After a brief acceptance speech, under the leadership of the emcee, along with Sophia Coppola, walked into the background.

"Very simple speech."

Entering the background, Sophia said as she walked. "It's shorter than I thought."

Duke laughed, "Because there will be more time to chat with you."

Sophia rolled her eyes silently, and directly exposed, "I think you left your words on the best director."

When he reached the interview area, Sophia did not stop, waved to Duke, and walked directly into the corridor leading to the hall. Duke stayed and accepted the routine interview.

The reporter who interviewed him. It seems that there will be better opportunities later, and the questions asked are more like routine.

Seeing Duke's figure disappearing at the entrance of the backstage, Norman Miller quickly turned back to look at the computer, waited for more than ten seconds, he refreshed it, and the circle of friends was overwhelmed by new information.

"This is the ninth statuette!"

"Nine consecutive years! The 100% winning rate is horrible!"

"I think Duke has a chance to break the record if it can win the next three awards."

"The best original song is not a big problem. "The Last Parting" has a big advantage, and the key is the best director and the best film. If you can't get these two awards, the nine statuettes will also fail for "The Return of the King" ."

The last one is also Roger Albert's thoughts. When the annoying director took over the Golden Man, he tried to adjust his breathing rhythm, forcibly control the blood pressure not to rise, and at the same time comforted himself with the last two awards. He hasn't failed yet, has he?

"Nine statuettes." Megan Ellison frowned and said to his brother, "David, will he be the winner tonight?"

"According to Michael Ovitz's analysis, this is indeed the case." David Ellison sighed. "Although I don't want to see it, Duke Rosenberg is definitely not something film critics can stop, and the **** of professional film critics can't be compared with us!"

David Ellison also looked down on the group of vampires, just like every time Oracle launches a new database software, there are always so-called experts who jump out and sing bad news, as if Oracle Civilization will go bankrupt because of the failure of this software, and finally The result is that the software is selling big, and the experts selectively forget those words.

Duke has returned to the Kodak Theater and handed the Little Golden Man to his mother. Mrs. Leah rarely showed a bright smile. Duke's success is her greatest pride!

"We just got the tenth statuette!"

As soon as he sat down, Ivanka couldn't wait to hold his hand, "Billy Boyd and Howard Shaw won the best original song!"

"This is good news!" Duke nodded.

At this point in the awards ceremony, it was nearing the end. "The Return of the King" won ten statuettes with ten nominations and became the well-deserved biggest winner now.

But Duke knows very well that not being able to get the best director and best film, even with ten statuettes, is still a failure.

However, the three awards closely linked to the best picture—best photography, best editing and best adapted screenplay—have already arrived. There is basically no suspense for the best picture. Now the biggest question is his best director. .

His biggest enemy is that since the birth of the Oscars, no director has ever won the best director with an unrealistic film.

Prior to this, the first to be awarded is the best actor and actress.

"The winner of the best actress is Charlize Theron "The Devil"!"

"The winner of the best actor is Sean Penn's "Mysterious River"!"

As Duke remembers, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron both crowned the actor and queen with their extraordinary roles, and then think of the two best supporting actress and best supporting actor. Personally, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion-it is really very, very difficult to win an Oscar for a character with a normal spirit or appearance!

"It's time for us!"

Ivanka clutched Duke’s hand tightly and seemed very nervous. Mrs. Leah, who was sitting on the other side of Duke, had a serious face. She knew Duke’s character, which was almost the only one he won the Oscar for Best Director. Opportunity.

Since the four major awards were issued, the ratings of Oscars have been increasing. After all, only the best actor, best actress, best director and best film have received the most public attention.

At the Nielsen Company, the number of North American viewers counted reached the peak tonight when the best actress was awarded-43.26 million people!

This is related to Charlize Theron’s personal appeal, perhaps due to Duke. With the "The Matrix" trilogy, Charlize Theron has become a big hit. Among A-level actresses, he is absolutely standing The front position, with her current influence, will naturally attract a large audience at this critical moment of impact on the Oscar.

However, this number did not last long at all. When Billy Christo announced the start of the best director awards, Nielsen's counted North American viewership exceeded 45 million in less than half a minute!

And showing a rising trend!

In the instant sharing circle of friends, there is also a quiet that has never been before tonight. Duke supporters all turn to live TV, where there is still time to share their experiences.

In the live broadcast room of abc TV, Roger Albert clenched his hands into fists, even more nervous than Duke sitting on the scene. He was busy for three years and hindered the opponent in the awards season since 1995. In ten years, success or failure will be announced soon.

Norman Shearer stared at the TV without moving his eyes.

Brad Miller puts his hands together and seems to be praying for the series he likes and the director he likes.

Irene Lauder, who was far away in Paris, also sat in front of the TV, quietly waiting for the moment her friend stepped onto the stage!

Fans of countless Rosenberg-format movies in the United States put down their beer, Coke, burgers and sandwiches. They waited quietly for the celebration time!

On the stage of the Kodak Theater, in the music played by the symphony orchestra, Tom Cruise, who had his hair cut short, walked slowly. His smile was still so charming, but he could not attract people’s attention. At this moment, even if It's Tom Cruise, just a background board for the best director awards.

The moment he saw Tom Cruise playing, Harvey Weinstein immediately felt a bad feeling in his heart. Cruise and Duke had a complicated relationship, but from the beginning of "Chicago", the two became strong. The relationship between the two parties is very close, and there is a gossip that the marriage of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman can persist until now because the other party secretly resolved the many times between them. crisis.

Clint Eastwood frowned, and then loosened it again. Tom Cruise appeared on the scene, which almost meant that his odds of winning the best director were very low, and tended to zero infinitely.

On the crew of "Furious Sea", Peter Will flashed a little bit of unwillingness in his eyes, but he was helpless. The advantages accumulated by the Lord of the Rings trilogy were too great, and the public relations work of the other party was not worse than Miramax. Can only wait for the future.

Under the gaze of countless eyes, Tom Cruise walked up to the microphone in style.

"The finalists for this year's best director come from three different continents." He showed his iconic smile. "Among them are regular Oscar visitors, and some are newcomers. The works produced are closed within twenty days. Even though they are so different, they have one thing in common. They all have great talents for making movies!"

"The finalists for the best director are..."

In line with the big screen, Tom Cruise began to introduce the nominations one by one, "Fernando Merrels-"City of God", Sofia Coppola-"Lost in Tokyo", Peter Wei Er-"Furious Sea", Duke Rosenberg-"Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King", Clint Eastwood-"Mysterious River"!"

He opened the envelope without lifting his head, "The best director is...Duke Rosenberg, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"!" (To be continued...)

ps: Is it luck or luck? It happened to be in the whole chapter.