Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 246 Best Phone Disease
"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

Flashes of light kept flashing in front of Tang De's eyes, accompanied by the sound of reporters pressing shutter buttons, making it extremely noisy.

However, Tang De and Scarlett were already used to this kind of scene, so they walked and waved to everyone without changing their expressions.

Scarlett was wearing a red strapless sequined long dress today, which was inlaid with various diamonds, making her look sparkling.

With her hair tied up at the back of her head, she looks like a noble lady.

Tang De was wearing a black suit and had a neat short haircut, looking energetic.

The reason why he walked the red carpet so high-profile with Scarlett Johansson this time was mainly to announce the movie "Lucy".

So for this reason, Scarlett finally experienced the feeling of standing with Tang De.

The two people walked into the auditorium and sat down.

However, as soon as Tang De showed up, the stars came to him and started chatting with him.

Didn't leave until the award ceremony was about to begin.

Tang De could clearly feel that his status was different from before. If many stars used to regard him as an art film director with great vision and ability, now he was a top-notch director in charge of commercial blockbusters.

Billion-dollar club, the appearance of the movie "Inception" alone is enough to make Tang De one of the most influential individual voices in Hollywood.

Not to mention that he himself also represents capital, and the various companies under his control combined are more important than ordinary stars and directors.

In fact, these top stars and directors are tied to various interest groups. They either set up their own companies or are partners of a film company.

However, there are very few people like Tang De who started from scratch and listed their film companies. They are rare.

So these stars are now very humble when speaking to Tang De, because they see a future movie godfather rising up, and they never know when there will be a chance for cooperation, so they absolutely will not offend Tang De.

After dealing with these stars, Tang De sat in a chair in the front row and watched the beginning of the Oscar Awards ceremony.

Everything was not much different from before. The host teased each nominee with interesting words and applauded when the winners appeared.

Tang De followed suit and clapped many times, some for others and some for himself.

"No Country for Old Men" was nominated for five major awards including Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and successfully won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award.

"Inception" was nominated for seven major awards including Best Cinematography, Best Sound Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Score.

It also won two awards: Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.

As the award ceremony progressed, the heavyweight awards that everyone had been looking forward to appeared.

"Best Supporting Actor: Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton; Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie's War; Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men; Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jake Tapper."

Applause immediately broke out at the scene. Under everyone's gaze, the award presenter opened the card and looked at the nominees: "Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men!"

"Wow!"

Suddenly the applause became much louder.

Javier Bardem walked onto the stage with short hair, stood in front of the microphone and said, "I think this award should go to Anton in the movie."

As he spoke, he took out a wig from his arms, which was exactly the hairstyle of An Tong in the movie.

The audience immediately exclaimed, and the director gave many close-ups of the stars' expressions at the right time.

After Javier Bardem put it on, he said expressionlessly: "Thank you to the Oscar judges, thank you to Director Tang De, thank you to the other staff, and thank you to those who were killed by me... Thank you for your efforts. So let me toss a coin? Heads or tails, to decide your life or death?"

"Hahahaha!"

The audience couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, let's get back to the topic. I'm really grateful to the director. Although this hairstyle is very ugly, seriously, at least it is not in vain." Javier Bardem laughed, showing his signature smile in the movie.

Javier Bardem finished his thanks and left the stage amid the cheers and applause of the crowd.

After that come some more important awards, such as Best Actor, Best Actress, etc.

But this has nothing to do with Tang De’s movie.

Looking at the figures on the stage introducing the Academy Awards for Science and Technology, Tang De suddenly remembered that if Jessica had not been pregnant and turned down the invitation to the Oscars, that place would have belonged to her.

Extending from Jessica, Tang De thought carefully and realized that he had changed the lives and work of many people.

This is really amazing. I used to be a spectator of history, but now I have become a participant in history and have changed the original history beyond all recognition.

To be honest, it feels pretty good.

As he was thinking, the award ceremony entered its final stage. With only two of the most important awards yet to be given out, the host invited Martin Scorsese to present the Best Director award.

The best director of the previous session will present the award for the best director of this session.

The old man was wearing a black suit and classic black-framed glasses. He walked onto the stage very nimbly and came in front of everyone.

"I'm very happy to be back here and have the honor of presenting the Oscar for Best Director. Believe me, this award means a lot to the winner." He paused for a moment, without too much small talk, and directly announced the list of nominees.

"The nominees for Best Director are…"

The movie started playing on the big screen, and golden fonts flashed by.

“Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood.”

"Donald Norton, No Country for Old Men."

“Julian Schaubel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.”

"Tony Gilroy, 'Michael Clayton'."

"Joe Wright. Atonement."

Unlike the previous life, since "Juno" was released in 07, it was not included in the best film of 08 and was directly replaced by "Atonement".

But this is not important. What is important is that this is the first time that Tang De has been nominated for Best Director!

Although the directors and stars at the scene applauded every time a nomination was announced, they gave the warmest applause when Martin Scorsese said Donald Trump's name.

"Wow, your dad is nominated for Best Director! I knew he could do it!" Jessica hugged her daughter Elena in front of the bed and couldn't help but kiss her.

Elena also means a token of promise, which is the name that Tang De and Jessica gave to their daughter.

After being kissed, the little guy looked at his mother blankly. When he saw her smiling face, he also raised his mouth and smiled.

Then he looked at Tang De on TV, opened his mouth, babbled, and waved his hands.

"Baby, are you blessing your dad? That's great, maybe with your blessing, your dad can really win the Best Director award!" Jessica said and continued to look at the TV.

Compared to other nominees, Tang De's heartbeat was very stable at this time and his expression remained calm.

Because he never takes success or failure too seriously. Even if he doesn't win the award this time, the worst that can happen is that he can come up with another amazing work in a few years.

But that would be a pity.

But perhaps it was little Elena's blessing that really worked. When Martin Scorsese opened the envelope in his hand, he was very surprised when he saw the name.

"The winner of the Oscar for Best Director is..."

Several nominees appeared on the big screen, and then Martin Scorsese announced: "No Country for Old Men, Don Norton!"

"Wow!"

"what!"

Applause, screams, and whistles sounded at the same time. The sound waves far exceeded all the previous ones and were simply unbelievable.

Tang De stood up amid the applause of the people around him, buttoned up his clothes, and walked towards the stage.

Standing in front of the microphone, Tang De just lowered his head when he was interrupted by another burst of enthusiastic cheers.

Tang De had to reach out his hand to curb everyone's enthusiasm and said, "Thank you. To be honest, I am flattered to receive this award."

"My dream since childhood has been photography and film. Last year, I successfully held my own photography exhibition. Today, I successfully won this award. Thank you for your recognition of me."

There was thunderous applause.

“I also want to thank everyone in the crew. Although I often scolded them, they still did a good job and presented this work perfectly.”

"Thank you for allowing my childhood dream to continue."

After Tang De finished speaking, he stood up and walked off the stage with the trophy amid the cheers of the audience.

After this, it is the last grand prize.

Oscar for best film of the year.

The award presenter was Denzel Washington, one of the most famous black actors in Hollywood. He stood on the stage and said: "A total of 79 excellent works were selected as the best film at the Oscars."

"Now let's take a look at what the 80th Best Picture nominee is..."

“There Will Be Blood.”

""Old Men"."

“Michael Clayton.”

“Atonement.”

""Inception"."

When the last name came out, the audience was almost boiling.

This is the first time that a science fiction film has been nominated for Best Picture in many years, which is of great significance.

Not to mention that two of the five best films were produced by Tang De, which is incredible.

All the surprises of the audience tonight were given to Tang De. Now it depends on whether Tang De can create another miracle and win the Best Picture award.

After Daniel Washington announced the nominations, he went straight to announcing the winners.

“No Country for Old Men, producer Greta Gerwig!”

Tang De applauded the film for winning the award again, and Taylor Swift in front of the screen also cheered and jumped up from the sofa.

"Taylor, stop jumping around, you're a big girl."

The mother's voice came from the kitchen. The family was preparing a midnight snack, and only Taylor was sitting in front of the TV watching.

"Tang is really outstanding." Although the producer was the one who received the award, Taylor still gave all the credit to Tang De.

Because she knew that Tang De was the backbone of the movie, not anyone else.

If nothing goes wrong, she should be able to see these awards the next time she goes to Tang De's office.

After the last major award was presented, the Oscars officially came to an end.

Tang De attended the cocktail party as usual and turned on his mobile phone.

Just now during the Oscars ceremony, he turned off his cell phone.

As soon as he turned on his phone, he saw more than a dozen missed calls, all from his mother Carmela. "Hey, Carmela, did you know that I'm attending the Oscars... what?"

After hearing the voice on the phone, Tang De's brows furrowed into a deep frown, an expression he had never seen on his face before. He was filled with the depression before a storm.

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

Tang De looked at the Vanity Fair where people were toasting not far away, and turned away without looking back.

"Tang, where are you going?" Scarlett, who was walking nearby, was very confused after seeing this scene.

"Sorry, I have something urgent to do."

But Tang De didn't say much to her.

Seeing Tang De leave, the stars at the party became confused. They had originally wanted to communicate with Tang De about their feelings.

It seems there is no chance now.

After Tang De walked out of the hotel, he got into Tom's car and headed straight for the airport.

"What's wrong?" It was the first time that Tom saw Tang De's expression so solemn, and he couldn't help but ask.

"Annie, she fell down... F**K!" Tang De rubbed his brows heavily: "I told her not to move, and to let other people handle anything, but she just wouldn't listen!"

He loudly vented his anger, then his tone gradually calmed down and turned to worry: "I wonder how her health is."

"What about the child?" If it were Jimmy or Carl, they would definitely not dare to ask this question.

But Tom is different. Being direct is both his strength and his weakness.

But Tang De didn't care. He was silent for a while, and when he saw the airport approaching, he said, "The doctor said that he might not be able to be saved."

"Damn it." Tom said what Don De wanted to say.

"It's okay." Tang De, on the other hand, was very open-minded: "As long as no one is injured and there are no sequelae, it's fine."

He is still young, and Anne Hathaway is still young too, so they can have children in the future if they have the chance.

Tom stopped talking and drove in silence.

The two rushed back to New York and went straight to the hospital, where they saw a worried Carmela.

"How is it?" Tang De asked.

"The operation is over, but Annie is not in good condition. You can go in and see her." Carmela shrugged and asked Tang De to go to the ward.

"Okay." Tang De walked into the ward and closed the door gently.

There was no other sound in the ward except the occasional noise of the machines. The white walls were decorated with wood color, which looked very high-end.

In addition to an independent bathroom, the room is also equipped with a TV, computer, treadmill and other equipment.

As long as you have money, the facilities in private hospitals can be more luxurious than you can imagine.

Tang De walked around the curtains and came to the bed.

Anne Hathaway was lying on the bed at this time, her face pale, looking out the window not far away.

It was pitch black.

Tang De sat down beside the bed and held her hand: "We will have more in the future..."

"Her name is Tiffany..." Anne Hathaway suddenly interrupted Tang De.

"Her name was supposed to be Tiffany...It was me, I lost her." Anne Hathaway's eyes turned red as she spoke.

Tang De leaned over, put his arm around her shoulders, and patted her back gently to comfort her.

"I should have been more careful..." Anne Hathaway closed her eyes and two lines of tears slid down from the corners of her eyes.

Tang De wiped her tears, and then both of them fell silent.

"You don't have to stay here with me..." After crying, Anne Hathaway said expressionlessly: "Jessica deserves your company more."

She was a smart woman and basically knew Tang De's current situation, but she had always kept it hidden in her heart.

"She is she, and you are you." Tang De replied.

"But I don't have any children anymore. You can go to Jessica and hold your child instead of crying here with me." Anne Hathaway looked at the night scene outside the window again.

Tang De straightened her face and said, "I'm not with you because of the child, Annie, you know."

"Then why do you want to be with me? To satisfy a momentary desire?" Anne Hathaway said sarcastically.

"If I want to abandon someone, I can do so at any time." Tang De said seriously, "But I have never thought about it this way."

Anne Hathaway looked at Tang De's serious eyes and couldn't help but lower her eyes and avoid his sight.

After that, she didn't say anything weird and seemed to have calmed down a lot.

Tang De peeled the apple for her himself, and she ate it obediently.

"So what's his name?" In the silence, Anne Hathaway suddenly asked Tang De again.

"What?" Tang De didn't know who she was talking about.

Anne Hathaway pursed her lips: "That child..."

"Her name is Elena." Tang De answered truthfully.

"She? A girl too?"

"Yes, a girl." Tang De nodded.

"That should be cute."

"so cute."

"That's great..." Although Anne Hathaway didn't say the rest, Tang De could see that she was very envious.

There was another moment of silence.

Anne Hathaway closed her eyes and seemed to fall into a deep sleep.

Tang De also lay beside her and closed his eyes.

The next moment, a tiny voice suddenly sounded in the silent room: "Can I go and take a look?"

Tang De opened his eyes and smiled: "Of course."
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Anne Hathaway was discharged from the hospital on the fourth day.

Then, under Tang De's arrangement, she went to Jessica's home as a friend with Cindy and Kayden.

Looking at the little girl Elena in Jessica's arms, Anne Hathaway couldn't help but ask to hold her.

Jessica didn't refuse and agreed with her.

Then Anne Hathaway held the child, looked at the little guy stretching in her arms, with his adorable chubby appearance, and instantly burst into the brightest smile in recent times.

"She is so cute, so cute." Anne Hathaway praised her again and again, and was even reluctant to let go.

After the party, Anne Hathaway successfully became friends with Jessica.

For a while afterwards, she often went to Jessica's house to accompany her and Elena.

Before long, she became little Elena's godmother and teased the little angel every day.

Seeing that her emotions had finally stabilized, Tang De couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, before he could relax for long, his heart was hanging in the balance again.

Because something happened to someone close to him again.

This time it's Avril.

She is in hospital after she developed severe headaches and a rash while on tour in California.

After Tang De got the news, he flew to her side and met her in the apartment she rented.

But compared to her lively appearance before, Avril now looks particularly haggard, and she didn’t even put on her favorite smoky makeup.

"You're here..." After seeing Tang De, Avril was no longer in the mood to blame him. She just rubbed her head with a helpless expression.

"How are you feeling? Sit down quickly." Tangla held her arm and sat on the sofa, rubbing her head.

Avril said weakly: "I don't know, I don't know why I am like this."

"So what did the doctor say?"

"The doctor said there's nothing wrong with my head and I'm in good health." Avril shrugged and just as she raised the corners of her mouth, she was interrupted by a headache.

"Let's take a rest."

Tang De let her lie on his knees.

Avril looked at Tang De's face and smiled: "I watched Oscar, you are so handsome, no wonder so many bitches want to find you."

She is still so rude.

"So how is that bitch Hathaway doing now? Is she living a happy life?"

Tang De shook his head: "No, her child is gone."

"What?" Avril raised her body despite her headache.

"She...had fallen before, and the baby is gone."

Avril was stunned, then she lay back on Tang De's knees and muttered, "Who told her to move around while pregnant..."

This is the first time she didn't call Anne Hathaway a bitch.

Perhaps because this matter was a little sad, the air in the room became heavy.

It wasn't until Avril's stomach started to growl that Tang De asked, "You didn't eat?"

"Yeah, I have a terrible headache every day, how can I have the energy to do it..."

Tang De looked up and found that Avril's house was in a mess. It seemed that she had been suffering from headaches during this period.

"Then let me do it for you."

Tang De touched Avril's head and got up to cook for her.

Without much effort, a plate of steaming spaghetti with meat sauce was placed in front of Avril.

"Eat it." When Tang De put down the plate, he crushed a small insect beside him to death.

There is so much trash in my house that it has started to attract bugs.

But just after Avril took a bite of noodles, Tang De looked at the dead insects on the table in a daze.

"What's wrong?" Avril looked at him while rubbing her head.

"Avril..." Tang De seemed to remember something and said solemnly, "Let's go to the hospital for another checkup tonight."

(End of this chapter)