Chapter 169: The First Major Award

This time walking the Oscar red carpet, it wasn't the whole film crew walking together, but the actors walking the red carpet individually.

Johnny Depp, who was nominated for the Oscar Best Actor.

Anne Hathaway, who was nominated for the Oscar Best Supporting Actress.

Mark Ruffalo, who was nominated for the Oscar Best Supporting Actor, the guy who played the Hulk in *The Avengers* later, they all walked the red carpet individually and didn't walk with Cao Yang.

Since Eastwood's *Mystic River* was shelved and not filmed, it is unknown who will win the Best Supporting Actor this year.

According to Luo Bote, don't look at the fact that Mark Ruffalo's fame isn't big, but his agency is very good at campaigning for awards.

Especially after *The Bad Milk* won the Cannes Palme d'Or, his agency felt this was a good opportunity, so they started to layout, gave up on attacking the Golden Globes, and spent a lot of time and money on the Oscar public relations.

"Cao Dao, hello, look here."

Cao Yang originally didn't think about staying on the red carpet for too long and was about to walk through quickly, but he didn't expect to hear familiar words halfway through.

He looked up at the place where the camera was set up and saw a familiar logo.

Damn, CCTV-6 Movie Channel is still rich and powerful, being able to set up a camera in this place must cost a lot of money, right?

"Cao Dao, hello, I am a reporter from the Movie Channel, congratulations on getting ten nominations, say hello to the audience in front of the TV."

Cao Yang smiled and waved, "Hello everyone, I am Cao Yang, here is the Oscar scene, thank you for your support all along."

Here you can only say a simple hello and say a few words casually; otherwise, you will be reminded.

"Cao Dao, come on, good luck, win a major award, and win glory for the country."

The reporter shouted.

"Thank you."

Cao Yang waved again and continued to walk the red carpet.

As one of the big favorites for the Oscars this year, red carpet host Maria Menounos definitely introduced him a few more sentences.

"The genius great director from the East, who has won the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, wow, this is a very, very remarkable achievement.

And even more astonishing is that he is very, very good at cultivating actors.

He has cultivated a Berlin Best Actress, a Venice Best Actress, and a Cannes Best Actress, and also won the Golden Globe Best Director, and also cultivated a Golden Globe Best Actor; he is Cao Dao Yang, welcome."

What the foreigner said, although it was all facts, combined with her exaggerated tone and body language, it was a bit of a fuss.

"Hello Director, I am Maria Menounos, a host, a reporter, and even more an actor; I want to ask, what do you think of me? Can I also win a European Best Actress?"

Maria Menounos hugged Cao Yang, which was considered very special today.

Most of the time today, she only shook hands with stars with big names, and only hugged Nicole Kidman alone, and now added Cao Yang.

Cao Yang subconsciously looked at Maria Menounos's low-cut dress; it wasn't too big, but it revealed three-quarters, and it seemed a bit sagging; it shouldn't be, she is still so young...

Can this dress be worth 25 million USD?

"I don't look at acting skills when choosing actors, as long as they fit the role positioning; winning a European Best Actress is actually not difficult."

Cao Yang looked up and responded with a smile.

Although the dress is very valuable, it is a global live broadcast; you can't be lecherous; looking at everything must be generous, and then there won't be any problems.

"Wow, I was recognized by an international great director; I can also win a European international Best Actress, so happy."

Maria Menounos exaggeratedly covered her face, then hugged Cao Yang again, "Looking forward to cooperating with you, handsome Director, I am waiting for your call at any time, good luck."

"Thank you."

Cao Yang walked to the end of the red carpet, entered the Kodak Theatre, was guided by the staff, and found his seat.

He sat in the third row by the aisle, with Luo Bote on his right, and Depp in front.

Mark Ruffalo, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, sat in the first row.

Anne Hathaway, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, also sat in the first row.

Cao Yang didn't know how the seats were arranged; the first row was mostly female actors, the second row had more male actors, and the third row seemed to be mostly directors and producers; Gu Changwei's position was in the fifth row.

Depp turned his head, squeezed out an exaggerated smile on his face, and greeted: "Director, I stayed up late these few days to read your novel *District 9*, it's very exciting, I like this story very much."

Before Cao Yang could respond, he turned his head and sat down, and after a while, turned his head back again, continuing to say: "Artistically I like *District 9*, but creatively, I like another novel called *Inception* more."

Then, Depp turned back again.

Cao Yang was a bit confused; you turned back and forth so quickly, what are you doing?

Creatively like *Inception* more?

I also like *Inception* more!

After I become a "distinguished" director in the eyes of the seven majors, I will film this movie; this movie, in a sense, can be considered a great sci-fi masterpiece, both critically and commercially successful.

However, didn't this guy have to attend banquets every day at night these days? He actually had time to finish the novel; it seems he really stayed up late to read it as he said.

It seemed that seeing Cao Yang was a bit confused about Depp's quick turn, Luo Bote whispered an explanation: "The live broadcast inside and the red carpet outside are switching back and forth; actors need to pay attention to their image." Being an actor is really tiring; even a bad kid like Depp has to pay attention to his image in front of the camera.

But thinking this is a global live broadcast, and there are more than two hundred countries that bought the broadcast, he was relieved.

At 5:30 PM, when the time was up, the awards ceremony officially began.

The first to appear was Sean Connery, who had won the Oscar Best Supporting Actor and played the old version of 007, reviewing the development process of the film, first engaging in a wave of sentiment.

The Oscars also like to engage in sentiment; this set is universal all over the world.

Next, the host of this session, Billy Crystal, appeared.

A very special way of appearance; one can see that in order to have this appearance, the Oscars also spent a lot of effort.

On the big screen on the stage, Billy Crystal appeared in every nominated film, and all appeared in a funny way, taking about four minutes.

Then it was this guy going on stage, using the teasing way unique to the Oscars, saying that everyone who was nominated for an Oscar for the first time should give him a tip.

He first named Charlize Theron, praising her beauty, but she was so terrifying in the film, scaring people to pee their pants.

He also named Johnny Depp as the sexiest person in the world; the camera gave it to Depp, and this guy actually felt shy; what's the situation? You also feel shy?

Then he said that low-cost production entering the Oscars is a good thing, for example, *The Lord of the Rings 3* which received 11 nominations...

!

Next, he suddenly named Cao Yang.

"As everyone knows, Cao Dao Yang's films can make people win Best Actress; three films, three international Best Actresses, the fourth film, and he made Depp win the Golden Globe Best Actress... oh, sorry, I remembered wrong, he won the Golden Globe Best Actor."

The people below started to laugh and applaud, and the camera switched between Cao Yang and Depp, and Depp also smiled and applauded.

"Depp, you know Cao Dao Yang is very good at cultivating Best Actresses; actually, you shouldn't have applied for the Oscar Best Actor, you should have applied for the Oscar Best Actress, I would definitely vote for you."

Was this teasing the fake male gay role Depp played? Or was it teasing the Milk character Depp played who would do anything for votes?

Cao Yang didn't understand the humor of the foreigners; anyway, everyone was laughing, applauding while laughing, and laughing very loudly, as if they all understood the meaning.

Then, the topic turned back to Cao Yang.

"Cao Dao Yang, for the next film, you can consider letting me be the female lead; if you can help me win an Oscar Best Actress, I can go to the backstage now and steal the Best Director Oscar for you."

The camera gave it to Cao Yang again; he appeared on the big screen on the stage, smiling and applauding with everyone.

Cao Yang felt that the Oscars gave him a lot of shots today; is it normal or showing favor? Or is it compensation?

Do the Oscars also play this compensation set?

"And Miss Anne Hathaway, so young and beautiful."

The camera gave it to Anne Hathaway; she was also wearing a low-cut dress today... alright, female guests attending the Oscars like to wear low-cut dresses, probably to attract eyeballs.

It can indeed attract a lot of eyeballs.

Billy Crystal talked about Anne Hathaway and turned the topic to Cao Yang again.

"Cao Dao Yang, you made a wrong decision; Miss Anne is so young and beautiful, you shouldn't have let this guy Depp be the male lead, it's a bit too cheap for him; you should have let me go... next time there is such a good opportunity, you must call me."

The camera switched to Cao Yang again.

This time Cao Yang understood; this kind of straightforward words were still very easy.

Anne Hathaway had a large span of passionate scenes with Depp in the film, the kind that used hands and mouths, almost all three points were exposed.

Billy Crystal's teasing, men all understand.

Finally, this guy didn't forget to tease the conservative president, saying that the economy was at its worst.

After saying so much, it wasn't over; Billy Crystal used songs to tease the films again, singing a song for each film.

This set took seventeen minutes; no wonder the Oscar awards ceremony is very long, almost three or four hours.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome last year's Oscar Best Supporting Actress winner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, to reveal the Best Supporting Actor of the night for us."

The first award presented at this year's Oscars was the Best Supporting Actor award.

Catherine Zeta-Jones was wearing a red waist-cinching long dress, with long wavy hair, in the prime of her life, still very worth watching.

She didn't talk much when she came up, said a few words, and went straight to the topic.

"The nominees for Best Supporting Actor are..."

The big screen behind started playing the clips of each nominated actor appearing in the film, accompanied by commentary.

"Alec Baldwin *The Cooler*, Benicio del Toro *21 Grams*, Djimon Hounsou *In America*, Mark Ruffalo *The Bad Milk*, Ken Watanabe *The Last Samurai*."

"Then..." Catherine Zeta-Jones started to open the envelope.

The five candidates and Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared on the big screen together.

"The winner is: Mark Ruffalo *The Bad Milk*."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 170 =====