Chapter 159

Simon is wrapped around Sandra and kisses him for a while. They leave backstage. Coming to the aisle on the side of the hall, Simon stopped and confirmed to Sandra again, "is it really cleaned?"

Sandra gave Simon a disgruntled look. "Of course, do you think I really want to be scratched by Jennie?"

Simon always felt that Sandra's eyes were a little bad. He wiped the corners of his mouth with his hand again, and then walked out of the passage.

The award ceremony is half over, and the best score award is being presented on the stage.

When Simon returned to his seat and sat down, Janet was about to say something to him with a smile. Her eyes blinked. A small hand touched him and pinched him around his waist without hesitation.

Simon took a cold breath and noticed Sandra's schadenfreude expression on the other side, lamenting.

The most poisonous woman.

After all, it was plotted.

Janet pinches it and stares at Sandra through Simon. Then she takes out a tissue and a small mirror from her handbag.

Simon picked up the little mirror and looked at it, with a lipstick mark on his chin that was clearly left deliberately. It's not big, but people like Janet sitting next to him can tell at a glance.

As soon as she wiped off the lipstick without any trace, Sandra came over again as if nothing had happened: "Simon, Douglas has got the hero."

Mary matherine, the best actress of the last Academy Award, gave the name of Michael Douglas in an awkward tone on the stage. The middle-aged actor from a Hollywood movie family won the best actor award for her role as Gordon Gekko, the insider trading tycoon in last year's Wall Street.

Simon actually knew why Sandra would remind himself, but he still pretended to be angry and answered softly, "hmm?"

Sandra didn't care about Simon's posturing at all, as if she had completely forgotten what happened just now. She solemnly analyzed: "Wall Street only has Douglas's best actor nomination, just like Lola Run."

Simon continued to maintain the "I'm still angry" state, just nodded slightly: "well."

Seeing this, Sandra glanced around to make sure that none of the live cameras pointed to this side, so she leaned over. Simon realized that Sandra was going to kiss herself in public. He was startled. He quickly raised his hand and said, "stop, or I'll let Jennie sit here."

Hearing Simon's "threat", Sandra stopped.

Simon was just saying that he didn't dare to change position with Janet in this situation.

This is the scene of the Oscars.

According to Janet's little temper, he's a lunatic who doesn't care about anything.

In case of a fight.

Tut!

However, noticing the "interaction" between Simon and Sandra, Janet didn't let him go. She reached out her little hand and pinched Simon on his waist again. Fortunately, her strength was much lighter this time.

When the two women were quiet, Simon turned his attention to the stage and remembered what Sandra had just said. Michael Douglas can win the best actor, in addition to his impeccable performance in Wall Street, the Douglas family's deep connections in Hollywood can not be underestimated.

As for "Lola Run", after the announcement of the previous nomination, Simon didn't pay much attention to it. Orion and Warner were disappointed when they saw the nomination result, and they didn't spend too much public relations resources. Everyone believed that the nomination result was a downfall of Oscar to Simon.

A little distracted to think about these, the award ceremony has unconsciously come to an end.

I don't know whether it's intentional or unintentional. The best editing award is even ranked after the best director. When Bernardo Bertolucci, who won the best director of the year with the last emperor, leaves the stage, the host Chevy Chase will introduce the guests responsible for presenting the best editing award, Kevin Costner and Daryl Hannah, to the stage.

Feeling that Janet and Sandra had unconsciously mentioned their thoughts, Simon sat up slightly.

On the stage, Kevin Costner, with a pair of black framed glasses, joked with Daryl Hannah, then went to the main topic and said, "they are the most creative and indispensable characters in a film crew. When a film is finished, they need to choose the right lens from tens of thousands of feet of film and combine them through their own hands of miracle Make a perfect movie. "

"Well, it's time for them to be rewarded," Daryl Hannah continued. "The nominees for best editing are:

" Gabriel Christiani, the last emperor. "

"Richard Marx, radio news."

"Michael Kahn, Empire of the sun."

"Peter Berg, fatal temptation."

"Simon westero, Lola Run."

After introducing the nomination, Daryl Hannah, with her long platinum blonde hair dyed, slowly tore open the envelope, took out the card with the winning result and looked at it. Then, many people noticed the obvious surprise on her face. Daryl Hannah even looked up to Simon.Kevin Costner, who noticed Daryl Hannah's pause and became curious, also looked at the award-winning result with an unexpected expression.

The reaction of the male and female guests, together with Daryl Hannah's little gesture of looking at Simon's side, made everyone aware of something. After a brief surprise, Kevin Costner and Daryl Hannah look at each other, smile and read out the result in a loud voice: "the winner is Simon westero, Lola Run."

I thought that a young man was destined to run with me. Many guests were surprised when they heard the result. When the applause around the hall gathered around, the core group at the bottom of the stage remembered to start clapping.

As the applause grew, Simon got up from his seat. Janet and Sandra also got up and hugged him.

Simon and Janet hugged and turned to Sandra. Originally, they were worried that Sandra would take the opportunity to leave a lipstick mark on his face again. Sandra just leaned up to his ear and whispered a congratulation, then released her arms.

Simon takes over the golden man from Kevin Costner, shakes hands with two guests respectively, and then turns to the stage.

Put the little golden man next to the microphone, Simon waited for the applause to fall, then looked at the little golden man in front of him slightly, and said with a smile: "although it feels strange, it's really a surprise."

Even when it comes to movies, Simon is much more famous than an editor in terms of director, screenwriter, soundtrack and producer. But at this time, he was on the Oscar podium as an editor.

Hearing Simon's slightly funny words, accompanied by a burst of laughter, the applause under the stage rang out again.

Simon waited for a moment, then continued: "now I think about it, the past year is still like a dream. Fortunately, the result is not bad. Along the way, too many people have helped me. Here, I would like to thank Bob, Brian and David, who are the executive producers of Lola Run, my agent Jonathan, my girlfriend Jennie, my good friend Sandra, and Catherine, Ron, Keanu and so on. Thank you

Unlike some important awards such as best picture and best director, Oscars stipulate that the speech time for technical awards is only half a minute. Although Simon knows that no one will urge him to step down even if he is overtime, and even ABC, who is in charge of the live broadcast, is likely to want him to stay on stage for a while, Simon does not deliberately delay and leaves the stage soon after giving a short speech.

As soon as they got backstage, Janet and Sandra, who had already slipped from their seats, met Simon. After hugging Simon again, pat Kingsley and Neil Bennett appeared in front of him with a mobile phone.

Pat Kingsley motioned Simon to follow the staff to install the name plate for the little golden man, and said: "Simon, Mike medova just called. He congratulated you and hoped you could attend the Orion party at the Hilton Hotel. Terry Semel made a similar call. Jonathan has left home. He's on the phone asking you where you're going, and he'll be here

Pat Kingsley said this. Her mobile phone was ringing again. When Kingsley stepped aside to answer the phone, Neil Bennett handed it to him and whispered, "Ms. Bigelow is online."

Simon and Janet don't like the bulky mobile phones of this era. They just have one for Neil Bennett and Ken Dixon. Neil Bennett is responsible for driving them here tonight and then staying backstage.

Taking the mobile phone from Neil Bennett, Simon whispered, "Katherine?"

"Well," the other side responded quickly. After a pause, he said, "I just saw you win the prize on TV, so I want to congratulate you."

"Thank you," Simon said, smiling from the corner of his mouth. "How are you doing?"

"You know, it's very busy to prepare the movie and help you and Jenny watch the house decoration."

Katherine's tone has a kind of light tiredness. She is a woman with a very regular life. She is used to going to bed early and getting up early. It's near midnight in New York. If she wasn't waiting for Simon's only nomination, she would have gone to bed.

Simon listened to the woman's voice and said, "why don't you come back to Los Angeles tomorrow?"

"No," Catherine refused immediately, a little flustered, and then said a moment later, "in the future, I, anyway, you will never want to mess around like that night."

Simon immediately nodded, "well, I promise."

"Little bastard," Katherine said softly, obviously incredulous, "you must be very busy over there, aren't you? I'll hang up first. Goodbye. "

"Good night, go to bed early."

Simon hung up the line, handed Neil his mobile phone at any time, took over the little golden man whose name plate had been nailed by the staff, and then came down to the media area surrounded by people.

After an interview with the media, the award ceremony at the front desk officially ended, and the last emperor won the best picture award without any suspense.Although it's early morning on the east coast, it's still nine o'clock in the evening on the west coast, which is the beginning of nightlife for many people.

In the 1980s, Vanity Fair parties didn't appear yet. After the award ceremony, people usually go to the afterlife parties specially held by major film companies. Now that they have made an appointment in advance, Simon and others will go to Beverly Hills Sunset Tower Hotel to attend the party hosted by Warner.

Twenty minutes later, as soon as Simon got out of the car park of the Sunset Tower Hotel, Jonathan Friedman met him.

After another warm congratulations, Jonathan said hello to Janet and others, and then whispered to Simon, "it's a coincidence, Simon. Steve Ross is here tonight. He just wanted to talk to you."

Steve Ross is the chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers, and Simon has always been very interested in the Warner leader with a Mafia background.

Steve Roth made his fortune in New York in his early years by running funeral companies and parking lots. People who pay a little attention to some information basically know that the parking, funeral, engineering, garbage disposal and other industries in this metropolis of New York are usually infiltrated by underground forces.

In the past of America, a few people set up a funeral company. This is not a coincidence or a deliberate mapping. This is the reality. Because it's difficult for the IRS to assess in detail how much money a funeral company can earn by undertaking a funeral. You can say that $10000 is OK, and it's OK to say that $1 million. As for where the extra $990000 comes from, as long as you pay the tax honestly, everyone knows. The same is true for parking lots.

In fact, some of the operational properties of movies are stronger.

Simon and his party entered the banquet hall of the Sunset Tower Hotel, where he was met by Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel, who was accompanied by Mel Gibson, who also attended the award ceremony.

"Simon, Congratulations," Semel said to Simon warmly after congratulating him again, "Mr. Ross has just left. He will be back soon. He would like to have a chat with you. Besides, this is Mel. Let's get to know each other

Simon reached out to Mel Gibson and said, "Hello, Mr. Gibson."

"Simon, just call me Mel," said Mel Gibson, shaking Simon's hand, then gently shaking Janet, who was holding Simon's arm. "You're beautiful tonight, Miss Johnston."

"Thank you, Mel. You can call me Jennie, too. I love Mad Max very much."

"Oh, you can talk to George later. He's here too. We're planning to shoot a fourth sequel."

It's no surprise that Simon feels the natural familiarity that comes out of Janet's conversation with Mel Gibson. The reason is simple. Janet and Gibson are both from Australia.

The Australian gang in Hollywood has always been a very close group. In the original time and space, Mel Gibson's career plummeted because of domestic violence, alcoholism, racial discrimination and other scandals. But now, he is definitely the leader of the Australian gang.