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Chapter 764 Awards, Best Foreign Language Film
After climbing the two-story steps, you will arrive at the front hall of the theater.

Looking around, the grand and spacious hall is full of people, full of well-dressed Hollywood male and female stars, there should be no less than 500 people.

The Dolby Theater covers 180000 square feet and seats 3400, so it's less than one-sixth full now.

Wearing a black suit with a severed beard and a black bow tie, the handsome uncle Xiaoli was nominated for the best actor; Bell, also in a black suit and with his wife, was also nominated for the best actor; Twelve Years" is booming, and the black actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who was also nominated for Best Actor...

There are other Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress nominees Cate Blanchett, Jenferne Lawrence, and Will Smith and his wife who are not under the pressure of awards, 'Thor' Chris, with his pregnant wife ...

Zhou Xia saw so many 'recognized' stars with just one glance, and there were many more that he didn't notice. The stars were really shining and dazzling.

Suddenly, a short white-haired old man in a blue suit and a white bow tie next to Xiao Lizi turned his head. It turned out to be director Martin Scorsese, who won the best director nomination for "The Wolf of Wall Street".

This is a director Zhou Xia likes very much. He likes many of his works: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Good Guys, Gangs of New York.

Zhou Xia was a little excited, and was about to walk over to get acquainted, but found Tangtang holding his arm and standing there in a daze.

Zhou Xia couldn't help turning her head to look at her, and said in a low voice, "Tangtang, what are you still doing by grabbing my arm?"

Tangtang came back to her senses, and quickly let go of Zhou Xia's arm: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, you and Yang Tianzhen go around and meet some people, Peter, let's meet Director Martin and Leonardo."

"Oh, yes." Peter quickly agreed.

There is still an hour to go until the awards ceremony officially starts, so the stars who walked the red carpet are all socializing and chatting in the lobby and lounge.

Don't look at such a public occasion, sometimes directors will find suitable actors and actresses, and the same is true for actors, who can know and appreciate their directors.

Zhou Xia and Peter walked towards Director Martin. Yang Tianzhen and Tangtang couldn't speak English well, so Zhang Zhao took them and waited not far from Zhou Xia.

I got to know Director Martin, Xiao Li, Bell, and Smith. After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Zhou Xia saw her eldest cousin Jenferne Lawrence, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. The two executives stopped to chat.

Then several other executives and producers from Hollywood giants such as Disney and Fox came up to him to get to know him. Some of them directly mentioned to him about the release of "New Detective" and the mutual cooperation with Xia Hua Film and Television.

Zhou Xia really did not expect that the executives and producers of these Hollywood giants would be so enthusiastic about him.

In this kind of communication, four or ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

After walking the red carpet, the stars all went to the front hall and lounge of the theater, which was already crowded, and some people first entered the audience hall and balcony to sit and wait for the awards ceremony to begin.

Zhou Xia and the others didn't delay any longer, and walked into the auditorium according to Hollywood's arrangement, and then went to the second balcony near the left side of the stage.

If you want to accommodate more than 2000 audiences, you need to make good use of the space. Most of the audience halls have drop-down seats and balcony seats, which are typical designs of grand theaters and cinemas.

The best location is the audience area facing the stage, the VIP area in the front row is even better, followed by the balcony seats near the side of the stage, and then the audience area behind the front of the stage, the boxes and seats in the balcony on the second and third floors are even better. Worse.

Zhou Xia, Tangtang, Zhang Zhao, etc. are the main creative team of five people, and they don't have much fame and influence in Hollywood. Like the Oscars, where big names gather, spit can splash several big stars. The VIP area is not arranged enough at all, so how can there be a place for them.

But they were nominated, so they were arranged in the second balcony. Even the six main creators of the film "Captain Philip", which won multiple nominations such as best picture, best supporting actor, and best adapted screenplay, are the same as them, On the side balcony.

Only Xiao Lizi, Bell, Cate Blanchett, Jenferne Lawrence, etc. were nominated, and Hathaway and other big names of the new generation of awards sat in the VIP area in the front three rows.

Other veteran Hollywood superstars such as Tom Hanks, Will Smith, etc. Zhou Xia was familiar with but couldn't remember their names were also sitting in the so-called audience area at the back.

"Zhou Xia, look, Julie and Pete came in, why are they sitting in the fourth row?"

Zhou Xia was standing and looking at the stars in the audience area below, Tangtang suddenly tugged at his sleeve and whispered.

"Oh, what's the matter, they didn't get nominated again." Zhou Xia looked away and sat down on the seat.

"Look at how good they are. Everyone is envious of their talent and beauty. Don't you envy them?"

"There's nothing to envy, you'll have to leave sooner or later." Zhou Xia couldn't help complaining, Tangtang's hint was too obvious.

"Tch, Julie has had her breasts removed, but Pete still loves her, so you know nonsense and curse her."

"Okay, okay, I don't curse them, I hope they grow old together, that's okay." Zhou Xia didn't bother to say much.

Tangtang wanted to say something else, but at this moment the lights in the entire arena were dimmed, and everyone consciously kept quiet.

As the lights changed and the music sounded, Ellen DeGeneres, the current host of the Oscars, also known as Ellen, the host of the Ellen Show, stepped onto the stage.

She is easy-going and humorous, and she tells the nominated films and the main creators this time in the way of jokes, making the audience laugh out loud from time to time.

Zhou Xia didn't quite understand some of the jokes and jokes, so naturally he couldn't get into them. Tangtang and Yang Tianzhen were dumbfounded and didn't bother to listen. They got together and paid attention to the big directors and superstars in the audience .

Fortunately, Hollywood awards are always very concise and direct, there are no leadership speeches, and there are not many song and dance performances.

The host looked forward to this year and looked back on the past. After 3 minutes, the first award was presented directly: Best Supporting Actor Award.

The host of the last Oscar awards show, with short hair, married Anne Hathaway went on stage alone, directly announced the list of winners, and then presented the award to the 'beautiful' woman in a white suit with long blonde hair Jared Leto.

He played Wren, an HIV-infected and drug-addicted transgender guy in "Dallas Buyers Club."

"Dallas Buyers Club"...

Thinking of this movie, Zhou Xia couldn't help but feel moved. Isn't the extremely popular "I'm Not the God of Medicine" in 2018 somewhat similar to this movie.

One is AIDS, the other is leukemia. They both searched for alternative drugs, gathered a large group of patients, and then fought against big drug companies... But the endings are very different.

The so-called "Dallas Buyers Club" is actually an organization of HIV patients, and this movie is also adapted from real events.

Zhou Xia kept this matter in mind, stopped thinking about it, sat upright, and paid close attention to the announcement of other awards.

Jim Carrey presented a second award shortly afterwards: host of "Screen Heroes" segment; followed by Kelly Washington for best original song nominee "Happy"; Emma Watson for best visual effects for "Gravity "...

Next, "Gravity" won four awards for best editing, best photography, best sound effects, and best sound editing, but the best animation was awarded to "Frozen" and best costume design. It went to The Great Gatsby.

After "House of Cards" star Kevin Spacey introduced the Oscar Honorary Award and the Jane Hersholt Humanitarian Award, it was finally the turn of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Watching the short highlights of the five shortlisted films on the screen, as the award presenters Viola Davis and Ewan McGregor came out, Zhou Xia couldn't help but get nervous.

Although I really didn't expect to win an award, but now that I am so close to winning an award, it is inevitable to have more thoughts.

(End of this chapter)