Two Hundred and Seventy-Three-This Year’s Oscar Does Not Belong to Me

By late March, the editing work of "Batman Begins" was basically completed, and Wayne felt a little more relaxed at the same time. The only remaining work was to add the soundtrack, and some simple special effects, dubbing and other work.

Naomi Watts also rushed back from Australia to attend the Oscars as his female companion.

Although "The Return of the Clown" had a high box office and was very popular when it was released, this film is destined to be in the professional awards and can only appear as a supporting role.

After the nominees luncheon, "The Return of the Clown" received three nominations for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Adapted Screenplay. However, Warner Bros.'s public relations work only went so far before they stopped investing resources.

Everyone understands that the protagonists of this Oscar will only be "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Forrest Gump." No matter how much public relations resources are invested in other films, they are destined to not get good results.

The marketing value of the Oscars has always been recognized in the industry. Now "The Shawshank Redemption" has this idea. As long as it can win the heavyweight statuette, this film will immediately return to the spotlight after the awards ceremony. Re-released in the theater market.

In order to increase the chances of winning awards for the film, Castle Rock Pictures and Sony Columbia bought a lot of space in major media such as the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and the New York Times, and continuously published all the information about the film. .

Among the readers of these major newspapers, there must be a lot of Oscar judges. As we all know, almost all of these Academy members do not watch movies. Their votes are almost based on their impressions. Which film left the deepest impression on them? The probability of getting votes is higher.

In order to increase more exposure, Sony Columbia's media is directly advocating that "The Shawshank Redemption" is the greatest film of the year.

However, all Sony Colombia's efforts did not yield the desired results.

The 1st awards ceremony was held at the Holy Auditorium in Los Angeles. With host David Letterman exiting the show again and again, "Forrest Gump" became the biggest winner of the night.

Wayne and Naomi Watts sat in the audience and applauded the winners again and again. This time, he once again came up empty-handed and gained nothing from his trip to the Oscars.

"Forrest Gump" can be said to be the biggest winner of the night, winning six statuettes including Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Change of Script.

Robert Zemeckis also won the Oscar for Best Director for this film, and Tom Hanks won the Best Actor and became this year's Oscar winner.

The final grand prize also did not disappoint everyone. The best picture was also collected by "Forrest Gump".

"The Shawshank Redemption" can be said to have achieved nothing, setting an embarrassing record of zero out of seven.

"What are you thinking about?"

The awards ceremony on stage had come to an end, and Naomi Watts nudged Wayne, thinking that he was feeling depressed because of the lack of harvest, and whispered comfort in his ear.

"It doesn't matter, you are already good enough. In a few years, you will definitely have your own statuette."

"Nami, I'm not disappointed." Wayne looked at the camera and said in a low voice. "It's enough to be nominated. This year's Oscar has nothing to do with me."

Seeing that there was indeed nothing wrong with him, Naomi Watts gently held his hand. When the camera turned around again, she simply closed her mouth.

After the awards ceremony, Wayne and Naomi Watts walked out of the Los Angeles Auditorium together, got in their car and rushed to the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel to attend the party hosted by Vanity Fair.

The lights of Beverly Hills were bright, shining on the palm trees near the hotel. The Rolls-Royce Silver Thorn circled the hotel and stopped smoothly in front of the hotel.

A large number of reporters have been surrounding the hotel ticket. The doorman opened the car door. As soon as Wayne and Naomi Watts got off the car, they immediately surrounded them and pressed the camera shutter frantically towards the two people who had just got off the car. .

"Director Greenberg, you didn't win any awards at this Oscar. Do you think the Academy is discriminating against young people?"

“You didn’t get anything out of ‘The Return of the Clown’. Do you feel you were treated unfairly?”

"Wayne, many movie fans feel that Oscar owes you a Best Director statuette. What do you think?"

Although there were hotel security personnel and Sergey at the scene to maintain order, these reporters still threw questions at them one after another as if they were free of charge.

Every year after the Oscars, major media outlets have the habit of complaining about unsuccessful films, and this year is no exception.

Moreover, Wayne has been very popular during this time. The promotion of "Batman Begins" has not stopped, and they are eager to get some news out of him.

He did not answer any questions from these reporters, and pulled Naomi Watts into the hotel with her head down. Under the guidance of the staff of "Vanity Fair", we took the elevator to the banquet hall where the party was held, and then found a random corner to sit down.

He didn't plan to stay here longer. The production of "Batman Begins" was about to be completed, followed by the film's media preview and fan preview. All the work was in the final stage, and he had no time to think about socializing. .

In Wayne's mind, if he didn't want to show to the outside world that he was actively striving for an Oscar, he wouldn't have participated in today's event.

As he said himself, this year's Oscar has nothing to do with him. Throughout the awards season, "The Return of the Clown" did not win any union awards or any Film Critics Association Awards. This already illustrates too many problems. .

Everyone in the industry knows that the frontline awards for the Oscars are not the Golden Globes, but the major trade union awards and the Film Critics Association Awards. If these frontline awards are not won, then there will be basically no gains at the subsequent Oscars.

The judges of the Golden Globe Awards are the Journalists Association, and the films they vote for have nothing to do with Oscars at all, let alone being considered frontline.

The major trade union awards are the real weather vane, because the judges of the trade union awards have a large overlap with the Oscars, and almost all are members of the academy.

"Hey, boy! I guess it's not a good feeling with empty hands."

Wayne was chatting quietly with Naomi Watts, when suddenly a harsh voice came from behind him. Turning his head and looking behind him, Mel Gibson was holding a glass of whiskey and staring at him with a red face.

"Really? At least I still have a nomination for Best Director." Wayne shrugged and looked at the other person with squinted eyes. "Why can you, a person who has not even been nominated, sneak into the Vanity Fair party? Does the Oscar have anything to do with you?"

Seeing Mel Gibson take two steps forward and about to say something, his agent hurried over, grabbed the client who was obviously drunk, and walked to the rest area on the other side.

"He seems to be very hostile to you?" Naomi Watts looked at the fellow's back, turned around and said.

"Because of Braveheart!"

Bruce Rosenblum came over, sat down and said to Wayne. "The film has been scheduled to be released in May, the weekend after "Batman Begins."

"It doesn't matter, let them do it. I'm never afraid of competition." Wayne picked up the wine glass and clinked it with him.

"The public relations department of the company will handle external matters." Bruce Rosenblum took a sip of champagne and said with great confidence: "Warner Bros. is never afraid of competition."

Wayne also didn't pay attention to this big star who talked nonsense after drinking too much. All his thoughts now were on the film that was about to be completed, especially the subsequent media previews and the theater company's Film viewing experts will be present, which affects the scale of the film's opening.

He knew Mel Gibson. After all, he was so famous for the bad things he did. He was a bastard who played himself to death because of alcoholism.

In Wayne's memory, this Hollywood star was immediately banned by eight major film companies in the industry after directing two films, "Apocalypse" and "The Passion of the Christ," which were both critically acclaimed and box-office hits.

Just because he had a few extra glasses of wine, he was stopped by the police while racing on the Pacific Highway in Malibu. If it was just drunk driving, the matter would not be as serious as it later developed. It would just be a matter of how much money was spent.

But when the police asked him for routine questioning, Mel Gibson, who had drunk too much, shouted his famous saying to the police: "Damn the Jews, they are responsible for the wars around the world, and you deserve to be damned too." of Jews? ’

As soon as this sentence came out, Mel Gibson made the headlines of major media the next day, "Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic remarks", which caused an uproar for a while.

You know, Jewish groups play an important role in American society, and many of them control the American financial industry, IT industry, and military industry.

And most importantly, the American film industry is basically in the hands of the Jews.

The bosses of Paramount, Columbia, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Walt Disney are all Jewish.

Not only the six major Hollywood giants expressed their intention to ban Mel Gibson, but also United Artists and MGM, which were already in name only, also expressed the same intention.

Even after he sobered up, realized the serious consequences and apologized many times in the public media, he still failed to restore his reputation and was banned for a full ten years.

He was also the first Hollywood superstar to ban himself from playing. If it hadn't been for "Hacksaw Ridge" later, no one knows whether this bastard could have turned around again.

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