Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Ronald didn't have much time to think, as the Best Picture award was coming soon.

Barbra Streisand, the most beautiful Jewish actress, wore a shawl of blonde hair and swayed on stage in a black dress with a large slit. Because the previous awards timed out, her movements were extremely fast.

Ronald has two films nominated as a credited producer this year. The Unresolved Love between Man and Ghost and Dances with Wolves. In terms of contribution to the film, Dances with Wolves may be more important. After all, a different director may not have made it possible, but without his support, Dances with Wolves might have died on the way.

"Oh, God." When Ronald saw it was Barbra Streisand, he couldn't help but think of the several times he had commented on how ugly she was in front of others. It would be embarrassing if I won the prize tonight.

"This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of film, so it is very appropriate to end today's awards ceremony with an award that represents the highest honor of the film festival."

Barbra Streisand spoke quickly, finished naming the five nominated movies, and immediately opened the envelope.

"The Oscar goes to..." Barbra Streisand smiled through her hump-nosed smile, as if she had a look I'd always known she would, "Dances with Wolves! Ronald Lee and Kevin Coster." Accept”.

The meaning of Streisand's smile is unclear. I don't know if it's jealousy or the sequelae of plastic surgery. It makes people feel weird. She didn't announce the winner loudly enough, leaving Ronald stunned for two seconds as if to make sure he was the winner.

"Ahhh..." Diane had already started cheering and pinched Ronald's arm subconsciously, obviously even happier than him.

Ronald stood up and kissed Diane. Then he stood up, ran quickly to Kevin Costner, and hugged him.

Costner was obviously dazed with joy and was in a state of confusion. He had just returned from the backstage and immediately received another heavyweight award. It felt like he was dreaming.

After Ronald hugged him, he realized what he was doing and quickly ran onto the stage behind Ronald. The assistant next to him was already gently reminding him to hurry up because the broadcast time was about to time out.

"Well..." Barbra Streisand didn't say much to Ronald. She just gave him the statuette and then hugged and kissed him on the cheek as usual.

When he presented the award to Costner, he discovered that he was so nervous and excited that he forgot to put down the Best Director statuette and was still holding it in his hand.

There was a rush, and Kevin Costner held the two statuettes and laughed loudly.

The camera moved away from the two men standing on the stage and gave a close-up of Costner's wives, Cindy and Diane respectively. Cindy bit her lip and had tears in her eyes. Diane's smile was as bright as a flower, and she had the most beautiful smile of a professional actor.

Ronald stood in front of the microphone and waited for the applause to subside before he began his acceptance speech.

He gave up the idea of ​​teasing, because the previous Best Director was unpopular, and any jokes at this time were not good, so he just went to the most classic one to thank everyone.

"I want to thank the Academy, I want to thank the judges. I want to thank Daydream Pictures, Disney, and Kevin Costner and screenwriters Michael Black, Graham Greene, Mary McDonough, and everyone involved in this film. The cast and crew of the film. I would also like to thank the National Association for the Preservation of Indian Culture...etc. for their strong support. Finally, I would like to thank my wife, my family..."

Routine remarks, of course, routine applause. Kevin Costner came up to take over. His other director award winner, Ronald, helped him get it. He put the Best Picture award on the table and took out another card from his pocket, but the words on it were that he had won the Best Director award just now. Already read it.

He had no choice but to turn the card over and pretend there was a Best Picture speech on it. In fact, he was just buying time to organize his words.

"Hahaha..." The audience let out a burst of good-natured laughter.

"I want to express my gratitude to you..." Kevin Costner simply put down the card, he was still quick-witted, "I will never forget tonight, my family will never forget tonight... South Dakota The Sioux tribe will never forget tonight..."

During the "Dances with Wolves" theme song, Ronald and Costner walked down the exit door together.

"Ronald, I heard what you said about me." In the exit aisle, Barbra Streisand said to Ronald with a smile, making a gesture to sign a message into her ear.

"Oh? I'm actually your fan..." Ronald now had no feelings for words of this magnitude.

"If there is a chance, we should collaborate on a film"

"Have the opportunity."

"Oh, God, we actually won seven awards." Costner was still very excited when he got backstage.

Dances with Wolves was already the big hit tonight, and it was widely believed that the film was likely to win five or six statuettes. However, Best Director and Best Picture are not within the prediction range. Instead, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress are all included in various predictions.

"Kevin, do you have anything else to say?" Backstage after winning the award, everyone had a short period of time to be interviewed by the media.

Those reporters had just finished interviewing Costner for Best Director, and now they wanted to interview Costner for Best Producer.

"Like I said, it was a surprise, but I think our film deserves this award."

"Ronald..." The reporter remembered that there was Ronald and asked him about his thoughts, "I heard that you almost took over as the director of this movie?"

Ronald looked at Costner, what he said was interesting. Why do reporters ask this? Although the two signed an agreement at the time, if Costner encountered obstacles in filming, Ronald had the right to replace him and take over as director.

"I just said that you provided a lot of help in the filming of the movie. I don't know where they got the news." Costner whispered a few words in Ronald's ear, then turned to the reporter and said, "Without Ronald's optimism, This movie would never have been as successful as it is now." He spoke like an old-school white man, giving people a very honest impression.

"Kevin is a very talented director who always has his own unique ideas. I saw the finished film earlier than you, and I always feel very lucky to be able to feel the scenery and the majesty of the indigenous Indian tribes. "Of course Ronald denied it. This credit is not easy to grab.

After dealing with the reporters, the award ceremony over there was also over. Ronald and Kevin Costner, screenwriter Black, and two nominated actors, all gathered together. When Diane and Costner's wife, Cindy, arrived, they were ready to leave for the after-party.

While waiting for the bus, Ronald happened to see Martin Scorsese.

"Why do you have two?" Scorsese's mood has improved, or he has deeply hidden his dissatisfaction.

"Ah, there is also Kevin's Director Award. I enjoyed it very much. I really didn't expect..."

"Everything in the world is unpredictable. It reminded me of the situation ten years ago. It was exactly the same..." Seeing Ronald's appearance, Scorsese could only give him a wry smile. The two of them share the same problem. If he knew that this movie would win awards so easily, Ronald would definitely grab it and direct it himself.

"Ronald!" Diane called him over there, and Ronald had no choice but to make an appointment with Scorsese, "We'll talk again in two days."

"What did Marty mean when he said ten years ago were exactly the same as today?" Ronald said to himself in the car.

Ten years ago, it was the 53rd Oscars in , and Scorsese seemed to have been nominated.

"Hey, he lost to Robert Redford of Ordinary People that year." Diane was deeply impressed by the Oscar that year, and Ronnie met him at that time. "Oh..." Ronald suddenly realized, and the floodgates of memory opened.

"Normal People" back then was also killed by Robert Redford in one hit when Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" was the favorite for Best Director and Best Picture.

Moreover, Robert Redford is also a white director, and "Ordinary People" is also his debut film.

"Raging Bull" is also a story about lower-middle-class Italians, and Joe Pesci was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Of course, he didn't win that time, only Robert De Niro won the Best Actor.

It seems that no matter how outstanding an Italian film is, there is only one important award and there is always a quota.

This quota was taken by Joe Pesci, who has been ignored several times. Maybe the judges thought Scorsese could wait.

When I thought about it, I suddenly became enlightened. "The Godfather", which was all the rage that year and ranked first in reviews and box office all year, only won Best Actor and Best Picture. Coppola lost Best Director to Bob Fosse of "Cabaret". All three nominees for Best Supporting Actor also lost to Cabaret actor Joel Grey.

Only The Godfather II gave Coppola the Director Award because of the big controversy when Coppola didn't win the award for the first film. In this way, Al Pacino, who was nominated for Best Actor, did not win, and only Robert De Niro won Best Supporting Actor.

The car soon arrived at the awards party. Ronald got out of the car and took the two statuettes with him to the place where the base of the award was engraved. After many years, engraving has become an on-site job and can be taken back at night.

"Hey, where is my director's statuette? Who has seen my director's trophy?"

As soon as he got to the queue, Ronald saw Kevin Costner wiping his sweat. He only had a Best Picture trophy in his hand. I was looking around anxiously and kept asking my wife and companions.

"I think you forgot this..." Ronald handed the statuette into his hand.

"Oh, God, I thought I lost it. I thought it would be on the headlines tomorrow..."

"Well, that's a good title. New Oscar winner. Best Director lost his trophy."

Ronald smiled and retracted the hand holding the trophy and made a hug gesture, "If you don't want it, just give it to me..."

"Hahaha..." The colleagues in the Dances with Wolves crew all laughed happily. Even Graham Greene, who was depressed after not winning Best Supporting Actor, smiled for the first time.

"I don't know what they think, but in my eyes, you're the best. And you, Mary, you too."

As a producer, Ronald also had to say some words of relief to the two supporting actor nominees who did not win.

"I think I played the Indian really well." Graham Greene didn't say much tonight, but he was very moved when Ronald said this. The Oscars are a vanity fair, and I didn’t win an award. It’s really uncomfortable to watch this kind of scene.

Ronald looked at the two of them, sometimes it was interesting. Kevin Costner is a winner. If he were to say this to these two people, it might have the opposite effect. It's more comfortable to be the same loser myself.

In contrast, Mary McDonough was taken lightly. She was a shy, beautiful and capable actor. When he acted in Dances with Wolves, he was already thirty-seven, and he played father and daughter with Graham Greene, who was only ten months older than him. No one would have felt discordant if they didn't say it.

……

"This is interesting. It reminds me of the last emperor a few years ago."

When he got home, Ronald did not go to bed immediately. Instead, he found the entire Hollywood yearbook of the 1980s and began to look at the past Oscar winner lists.

"What do you mean?" Diane put on her pajamas and yawned.

"The Last Emperor swept all the nominated awards, except for the two leading actors and actresses. The same goes for Dances with Wolves. There was not a single acting award among the nominations."

"It's true..." Diane calculated. It is true that films that show the stories of ethnic minorities can win awards, but acting awards are extremely difficult.

"And this, my God, many well-known directors were nominated ten years ago." Ronald flipped through the list of the year when "Ordinary People" won the award ten years ago.

Robert Redford won the best director award, which caused a lot of controversy that year. The media generally believed that this was stealing Scorsese's Best Director Award. This movie has also been criticized, saying it does not live up to its reputation.

In addition to Scorsese, there were also David Lynch, Richard Rush, and Roman Polanski.

Ronald read the list carefully. There seemed to be some important rules in it. If you want to win an Oscar, you need to study them thoroughly.

Let Diane go to bed first, and Ronald studied alone for a long time, but he still got some clues.

Among the Oscar judges, actors have an overwhelming advantage. Martin Scorsese's two highly requested nominations were unanimously recognized by famous directors and critics, but not by ordinary directors and ordinary actors. And they are the largest group of voters.

This year's Coppola's The Godfather Part III is not really capable enough to win the award, but they don't want to give it to a few other people. "Goodfellas" is about the bottom of the gang, "The Debt" is about a husband who was suspected of murdering his wife after she fell into a coma and was eventually acquitted, and "The Fatal Bet" is about a family of liars, and in the end the male protagonist is dead.

These most popular judges are actually not the kind of people who have a deep understanding of film art. You can think of them as people with ordinary audience aesthetics and some professional abilities.

Anyway, those movies didn't suit their taste. Only the performance of the best actor, Jeremy Irons, they thought was understandable and well acted. So when it comes to the Best Director and Best Picture awards that they don't understand, the actor judges all voted for "Dances with Wolves". Anyway, it sounds good to vote for this movie.

Ten years ago, it was the same story. Roman Polanski is surrounded by scandals, David Lynch's film is a deformed person, and Richard Rush's film is an inexplicable story between a stuntman and the director. Anyway, they will not cast it.

And Scorsese's "Raging Bull" is another loser's story. In the end, the boxing champion can only make a living as a commentator. Still shot on black and white film, interspersed with some color images taken with everyday home cameras.

People who know the art think it’s brilliant, but I’m afraid most of these actor judges commented: “I can’t understand!”

Anyway, I don’t want to vote for Scorsese and others, so I will vote for a director who can understand the film and is the largest white group in Hollywood. In addition, these two white directors have switched careers from actors...

After thinking about these things, Ronald fell asleep.

"Richard came to see you..." It was noon the next day, and Diane woke Ronald up.

"What's the matter?" A sleepy-eyed Ronald stood up quickly.

"Several newspapers have published rumors that the most exciting scenes in Dances with Wolves were not directed by Kevin, but were directed by you..." Richard put several newspapers in front of them.