Chapter 235 Tear it up

   The first award to be awarded is Best Supporting Actor.

  The guests on stage to present the awards were the veteran movie star Jack Lemmon, and the actress Mary Tyler Moore who played Hutton's mother in "Ordinary People".

  The other nominees who weren't part of the 'Ordinary People' cast were a bit discouraged by the strong hint. As for the same crew of 'Ordinary People', another actor nominated for Best Supporting Actor sat on the seat with no expression on his face.

  The camera stared at him for a long time before showing a smirk.

   Hutton was very nervous, lowering his head and not daring to look at the camera. The mother sitting next to him comforted softly.

   “The winner for Best Supporting Actor is…Timothy Hutton.”

  The camera shifted to the auditorium, and Hutton and his mother next to him hugged happily. It can be seen that his mother was smiling very happily. Hutton's father, who was also an actor and introduced him to the showbiz, died of illness before.

   Diane sat on the other side of Hutton's mother. As a female companion, she should sit with Hutton, but Hutton's harsh words to the Ronald family before made Diane unhappy and did not ask for it.

  Hutton didn’t lack the attention of female stars at all, he sneered, and simply sat with her on both sides of his mother, and chatted with Elizabeth McGovern, who played his girlfriend in the crew, on the other side.

  The award-winning Hutton smiled and stood up to receive the award. Diane and Hutton's mother also stood up and congratulated Hutton.

  According to the usual practice, Hutton will congratulate each other with the people around him and give enough TV shots. Unexpectedly, he walked to the aisle from the other side, shook hands with the director of the crew Robert Redford, hugged Elizabeth McGovern, and left Diane aside.

   Diane, who was embarrassed, put away her smile and had to sit down.

   Hutton on the stage took over the trophy, seemingly unprepared. Unlike other award winners, he took out the pre-written testimonials and read them, but secretly memorized them at home. The testimonials can be delivered on the spot, as if it was an accidental award, and the feelings came naturally.

   "Thank you everyone, this is the first award." Hutton began to pretend to endorse with a nervous voice.

   "Uh, uh, this is the first award. I'm a little nervous and don't know what to say." Hutton really forgot the content of his speech after drinking too much alcohol last night.

  I'm really nervous now, so I might as well thank the crew and the stars of the same crew, so I can use my relationship in the future.

"Thank you to everyone on 'Ordinary People'. Thanks to Donald Sutherland (who plays Hutton's character's father), to Elizabeth McGovern. And to our great director, Robert Redford, you are the best ,I love you."

   "Eh... Then I want to thank my father, if only he could be here today." Then he ran down the stage with the trophy in the applause of everyone.

  Mary Tyler Moore, who played Hutton's mother in the movie on stage, and his real mother off stage, neither of them was thanked on the spot, and they were forgotten in the acceptance speech that should be memorized.

  The award-winning music sounded, Hutton ran off the stage, and joked with director Robert Redford, wishing him the award.

  Johnny Carson appeared on the stage, "The next winner is not a real person, but a magical machine. Without him, our movie would not have all kinds of wonderful special effects..."

   Of course not really awarded to the machine, but to the three inventors of this amazing machine.

   This device is called an optical printer, and it can reprint several strips of its material onto a single film. Special effects such as big to small, small to big, etc. can be made. The award presenter demonstrated the effect on the spot, and the award presenter became the same size as an Oscar trophy in the TV camera.

  Dian took advantage of the fact that the technical award presentation camera was not aimed at the auditorium, Diane said sorry to the person on the right, ran out of the seat, and looked backward to find where Ronald was sitting.

  She doesn't want to sit with Hutton anymore. There are still more than 2 hours, and it is very difficult to sit next to a narcissist. After discovering where Ronald was in the back row, Diane ran over.

  A handsome man in a tuxedo immediately avoided the camera, squatted on the ground and climbed into the row where Diane was. He hung a sign "Standing Substitute" around his neck. After sitting in Diane's seat, he quickly took off the sign and showed a standard smile.

  The Oscars is a live broadcast of the awards show. When some live viewers go to the bathroom or take a break backstage, there will always be this kind of stand-in to fill in the vacant seats, in case the TV viewers see that there are still vacant seats at the Oscars.

  Ronald was watching the three inventors of the optical printer give a speech in the back row, while communicating with Coleman how to use this machine to achieve real special effects. The best at this kind of thing is James Cameron.

   "Hi, Ronald."

   "Diane, why did you come here?" Ronald found Diane, seeing her a little annoyed, "There is a seat here, sit down and talk about it first?"

  Mr. Cultural Counselor stood up and changed his seat gracefully, giving Diane the vacant seat and letting her sit with Ronald.

   "Hutton is a narcissist..." Diane lay next to Ronald's ear and told his story.

   "Then you can sit here." Ronald laughed. For an actress, the time of appearance is everything.

The next few awards were uneventful, and Ronald noted that the best documentary award went to "Isaac Stern in China," a world-class violinist and educator, the film It records the story of his cooperation with the Central Symphony Orchestra in Huaguo and teaching violin boys.

  The Academy honored Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back with a Special Contribution Award. The best director and best screenwriter of the last A New Hope that year were not awarded to the much anticipated George Lucas.

  In order to re-invite him to attend this time, the academy made some compensations. In addition to the Special Contribution Award, Best Special Effects and Best Sound Effects were awarded to The Empire Strikes Back.

  The next best art direction has another upset. The guest of honor was Natasha Kinski, and the award went to the crew of "Tess."

   Ronald and Coleman looked at each other, this award was a bit unexpected. Is it because of the nationality factor?

The best art direction award is not easy for laymen to understand. Simply put, it is the person in charge of all visual elements in the movie, the aesthetic atmosphere of the movie, what colors to use, how to draw the background board, and even the set and costumes, makeup, props and colors. Texture orientation is an overall consideration for art directors.

   The most popular voice in advance should be Akira Kurosawa's "Kage Warrior". The visual effects of that movie are top-notch, with gorgeous colors, armor, and a large number of horses. The work is elegant and beautiful, and it is generally in line with history.

   "Tess" is also very good at restoring classical Britain, but in terms of quality and difficulty, it cannot compare to Akira Kurosawa's years of painstaking efforts for shooting shadow warriors and the accumulation of color storyboards.

   "Ah... did you find anything?" Diane asked with great interest seeing Ronald and Coleman looking at each other tacitly.

   "Mr. Coleman and I both think that it should be awarded to the 'Shadow Warrior'..." Ronald explained his opinion.

   Akira Kurosawa is from a country that was defeated in World War II. Amerika has a contempt for Japan, and the judges seem to be biased. But on the other hand, all kinds of cheap products from Japan, especially electronic products and cars, are rapidly occupying the American consumer market.

Speaking of this, Ronald glanced at Mr. Cultural Counselor. If the conjecture of national sentiment is true, then "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears" selected by his home country, in the competition for the best foreign language film... that award is the most popular Also "Shadow Warrior".

  Mr. Cultural Counselor also thought of the same question, and then the best foreign language film will be awarded, and the host Johnny Carson has already taken the stage and started telling jokes. Immediately he said to Ronald, "Quick, do any of you speak Russian?"

  Ronald spread his hands and looked at Diane and Coleman. They are also shaking their heads.

"Oh, God. We didn't expect to win the award at all. We didn't bring a translator to attend. Last time in 'War and Peace', the actor who played Natasha came to receive the award, and it was Russian-born actress Natalie Wood who did the Russian translation. "

   "Don't you speak English, Mr. Counselor?" Diane asked him strangely.

   "Yes, but the film bureau of our country generally requires receiving awards and giving speeches in Russian. It is beneficial to the image of our country. Besides, speaking in Russian can my images be rebroadcast by our TV stations."

  The Cultural Counselor passed Diane and said to Ronald, "I will write down my acceptance speech, and you pretend to be a translator who understands Russian. What do you say if I say something?"

"ah?"

   At this time, Johnny Carson had finished telling the joke, "The award for the best foreign language film is the foreign director Franco Zeffirelli from Italy, and the young skinny jeans artist Brooke Shields."

  After the two came to the stage, Brooke Shields spoke first, "I am very happy to present the award with my current boss, Mr. Zeffirelli. This gentleman standing next to me is very nice."

   Zeffirelli took over the conversation, "You made me very good, so you can come to work on the set later tomorrow."

   "How late?"

   "Like, fifteen past six?"

  The audience burst out laughing. Brooke Shields began to announce the list of nominations, "The 53rd Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film are..."

   "It is my greatest honor to receive this very important award." Mr. Cultural Counselor is dictating the award speech.

"On behalf of the director Menshov, the actor Vera Alentova, and the actor Aleksey Batalov, who played Gosha...thanks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." Ronald in his notebook shorthand.

"Thank you so much!"

   After remembering the three sentences, Zeffirelli on the stage just announced the award-winning film.

   "The winner was 'Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears,' USSR."

   "Don't forget to mention New World Productions, go." Roger Coleman urged, slapping Ronald on the back.

  Zeffirelli bowed his head and held a note to read. The one who received the award on behalf of the USSR was, "Mr. Cultural Counselor of the Embassy, ​​and... eh?"

   Ronald felt whispered to Brooke Shields, "New World Producer, Importer and Distributor, and Translator."

  Boji Shields took Zeffirelli's words, "and Ronald Lee from New World Productions, the film's American distributor, will serve as the counselor and interpreter."

   "Huh, huh, huh", the audience applauded.

  The counselor gave an acceptance speech in Russian, then stopped and pretended to wait for Ronald to translate.

  After speaking, he finally said in English with a Russian accent, "Thank you everyone."

   "Tear it up." Ronald said in the Russian he just learned.

   "Do you speak Russian?" Brooke asked Ronald in a low voice while the award-winning music was playing.

   "Just one sentence, we'll talk at the director's dance in the evening."

  Timothy Hutton, who was in the audience, was also surprised at the beginning that Ronald came to the stage to accept the award, thinking that he was really a rich man who came to the film industry to play tickets.

   Later, when he heard that he was just a translator for a production company, he smiled contemptuously. "Diane doesn't know where she went. I'll take McGovern to the director's ball later. Anyway, there is no shortage of beautiful actresses at the ball. Just look at the one who is pleasing to the eye and bring it back to the party. I am the best Oscar in the new department. Supporting actor."

  (end of this chapter)