Chapter 457 Oscar Awards Ceremony
At the end of February, the 70th Academy Awards was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA. Link attended with his girlfriends including Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore.
While walking on the red carpet, he was once again stopped by enthusiastic reporters, who asked him if he had confidence in winning the Best Director Award.
Link said that you will get it when the time comes, so there is no need to rush.
Los Angeles Times reporter Al Simmons loudly asked him how many children he had now. It was rumored that he had more than 20 illegitimate children. Was it true or false?
Link said frankly that there were 8.
Al Simmons asked him how many children he planned to have.
Link said the more the better.
"100?"
ABC TV reporter asked.
“That’s possible.”
Link shrugged.
Winona Ryder, Julianne Moore and Angelina Jolie couldn't help laughing nearby.
"Director Link, last year, the two films "Fight Club" and "Evita" that Guess What Pictures and Miramax Films collaborated on all suffered losses. There are reports that this was your plan and that you wanted to bring down Miramax Films in this way. Is this news true?"
shouted the New York Post reporter.
"That's fake! Fight Club and Evita haven't finished showing yet, so the claim of losses is not true. Secondly, both movies are classics and received extremely high reviews after they were released, which also shows that the cooperation between the two companies is very successful, and there is no conspiracy."
"Mr. Link, there is news that Miramax Films is facing bankruptcy due to losses. What do you think about this?"
The USA Today reporter raised his hand and asked.
"Miramax Films is a subsidiary of Disney. You should ask President Ovitz and President Eisner about this question. They must have the answer you want to know."
"Mr. Link, according to the Japanese Kyodo News, your overseas investment company earned more than 1 billion US dollars during the Asian financial crisis last year. Is this figure true?"
The reporter from American Express shouted.
"Fake news. Affected by the financial crisis, my company has also suffered huge losses. The claim of making a profit of over one billion US dollars is pure nonsense. Okay, everyone, the interview time is over."
Link waved to his fans and left with his girlfriends.
"Mr. Link, don't go. There is news that you are planning to acquire MGM Pictures. Is this true?"
"Director Link."
The reporters were relentless and kept shouting behind him.
Link didn't answer.
"My dear, you are so popular. Whenever you appear, reporters always get excited."
Sophia said with a smile as she took his arm.
"There's so much news about Link, he's like a treasure trove. If I were a reporter, I would pester him and ask him questions non-stop."
Angelina Jolie laughed.
"So now I don't like to appear in public. It's annoying to be asked questions by reporters."
Link smiled softly and pulled Winona Ryder into the Temple Theater, where the Oscars ceremony was held.
"Haha, Director Link, it's great to see you here."
Leonardo, Tom Hanks and others came over to say hello.
Link was once again surrounded by filmmakers at the scene. Everyone congratulated him on receiving so many nominations for his Guess What Films and wished him more Oscars.
Even director James Cameron found him and talked to him about the promotion of "Titanic" and jokingly mentioned his acceptance speech. Director Cameron said that if "Titanic" won the Best Director Award, he was going to say that "Jack" stood on the bow and shouted "I am the king of the world", and asked him what he thought?
Link smiled and said it was a nice speech.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the 70th Academy Awards ceremony officially began.
This year's awards ceremony was pretty much as predicted by the media. "Titanic" became the biggest winner, winning 11 awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, etc., tying with "Ben-Hur" as the film with the most Oscars in film history.
When receiving the Best Director Award, Director Cameron shouted out the line from the film "I'm the King of the world" as he wished, but Link felt that he was lacking in energy.
"Saving Private Ryan" only won three awards: Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound Editing.
Link received an Oscar as executive screenwriter.
Winona Ryder also won the Best Actress Award for "Girl, Interrupted", becoming the first Oscar-winning actress born after the 1970s.
"L.A. Confidential" won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress.
In the Best Foreign Language Film category, "Zheng Chenggong" unfortunately lost to the Dutch film "Role".
After the Oscars ceremony, the media commented on this year's Academy Awards, saying that "Saving Private Ryan" was the most wronged film in the history of the Academy Awards, even more wronged than "The Shawshank Redemption".
"Saving Private Ryan" is of extremely high quality and is extremely groundbreaking in terms of filming techniques and art. It would have won the Best Picture and Best Director awards at any Academy Awards.
It's a pity that it encountered the phenomenal movie "Titanic" and finally only won three insignificant small awards. This is really a pity.
Link is also considered by the media as one of the most wronged directors in Oscar history.
Since 1993, Link has shot many high-quality films, including "Seven Deadly Sins", "The Sixth Sense", "The English Patient", "Network" and "Saving Private Ryan". He has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director four times, making him the person with the most nominations for Best Director in the past decade.
Unfortunately, he lacked some luck in the Oscar selection. Every time he was about to win the Best Director award, he would encounter unexpected situations, which made him miss the Best Director award.
"Hehe! In the past, everyone said that Link was very lucky and blessed by the goddess of luck. Now it seems that this is not the case. If he was lucky, how could he not win the Best Director Award?"
Harvey was smoking a cigar and grinning, looking quite pleased.
"That's nothing. Link has made great progress in the past few years and can produce high-quality films every year. As long as he keeps doing that, even if he doesn't win it next year, he will win it the year after. He should be the director closest to the Oscar for Best Director."
Bob Weinstein said.
"Damn it, why do you always speak for that bastard Link? Are you like those snobs who want to join Link when they see him become powerful?"
Harvey stared and questioned in dissatisfaction.
Bob shrugged his shoulders. "I'm telling the truth. Link's movies are not only profitable, but also of high artistic quality. He's only 26 years old, and is in a period of rapid development in his career. Given his situation, he has a high chance of winning the Oscar for Best Director in the future."
Harvey snorted coldly and didn't want to talk anymore. He continued reading the newspaper.
Affected by the awards season, the exposure of films under Guess What Pictures has greatly increased, and there has also been a significant increase in box office revenue.
"Titanic" has grossed $415 million domestically and $832 million overseas, bringing its global box office to $1.2 billion, setting a new global box office record.
"Saving Private Ryan" has grossed $392 million domestically and $417 million overseas, bringing its global box office to $809 million.
In addition, the box office of films such as "Girl, Interrupted", "The Legend of 1900", "Evita" and "Fight Club" also increased slightly, but the increase was not large. "Evita" and "Fight Club" still failed to make back their investments.
Harvey looked at the box office data of Big Ship and Big Soldier, $1.2 billion and $800 million, and then looked at several films of Miramax Films, whose total box office did not even reach $200 million.
He gritted his teeth, jealousy making him unrecognizable.
(End of this chapter)
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