"Dear, our movie has no shortlisted awards, who should we vote for?"

In the living room of the villa, Ivanka looked up at this side. Duke put down the newspaper in his hand and said very irresponsibly, "You're going to make a decision."

"But I haven't seen the nominated movies." Ivanka couldn't help scratching her face.

She took a pen to falsify the ballot, and was obviously very interested in executing the Oscar voting instead of Duke.

Duke picked up a glass of water, walked over and handed it to Ivanka, "Drink a sip of water first, you haven't drunk any water from last night until now."

"I'm going back to New York tomorrow for a promotional event, and dehydration will make me look slimmer..."

Having said that, Ivanka saw Duke's eyes with persistent eyes and had to take the water cup, "Okay, I'll give up the dehydration and weight loss plan."

She blinked quickly and deliberately pushed the votes in front of Duke, "How should we choose?"

While Duke was going to see the votes, Ivanka quickly picked up the water cup, took a very small sip, and put the cup back on the coffee table.

"I don't know who to choose, either." Duke shrugged, "I haven't seen any movies that have nothing to do with us."

In fact, he is also one of the irresponsible judges. Most of the nominated films, except for the few I watched in my previous life, he had no other ideas to watch.

People like Duke account for a considerable number of the 6,000 judges at the Oscars.

A long time ago, Duke became a judge of the Academy, which is one of the nearly 6,000 members of the Academy. According to the regulations of the Academy, the members of the Academy are mainly generated in two ways: one is to receive invitations from the Academy. The other is to automatically obtain an Oscar nomination.

Duke belongs to the second type.

He has been very busy these years, and the so-called fulfillment of the responsibilities of the judges is just a form. In most cases, it is similar to this time. If you choose to vote with your feet, or if you see a name that is familiar and pleasing to the other party.

Not only Duke, this is a very common voting method among many Oscar judges, and public relations and media publicity have the greatest impact on the choices of these people.

The last vote for this Academy Awards is from the announcement of the nomination list on February 14 and ending on February 25 before the award ceremony. After the judges' tickets are mailed back to the college, two PwC accountants will be responsible for counting the votes. The votes are counted and the winners' names are sealed. These envelopes are filled with suspense and expectations. They will not be opened one by one until the Oscars live broadcast.

With the evolution of history, Oscars has undergone many reforms. In recent years, every Oscar has gone through two rounds of voting. All members of the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences are basically affiliated with one of the 14 major branches of the college, such as actors, directors, screenwriters and photography. They vote twice in total, and the first time they select the finalists, and the second time they select the winners.

In the first round of voting, the judges' votes were limited to candidates from their own branches. For example, Duke could only vote for director awards, and after the list of finalists was announced, all nearly 6,000 members could vote for other different categories of awards.

Before the Academy expanded the Academy's best-selling nomination to ten films, a new sorting and check-in voting system has not yet been born, and the voting method is still the typical "one-wheeled voting whoever wins" voting system.

Of course, no matter what the voting system is, the favors generated by many methods such as public relations and lobbying occupy a considerable share and can even determine the ownership of the award.

Members like Duke and his team are basically members of the academy. They are involved in the nomination video work, or their friends are involved, how should they vote? I believe this is not difficult to guess.

In most cases, a person has a preference, and preference will be affected by the surrounding environment.

Ivanka took five minutes to get the voting for awards that had nothing to do with "Return of the King". Duke sealed the votes into an envelope and handed them over to the housekeeper Emma, ​​so that she could pass them out in time. Duke's Oscar voting journey will end here.

As the Academy Awards approached, more and more members of the academy also completed the voting work at hand.

Howard Rodman is the vice president of the Screenwriters Association. He has a significant influence in this organization that represents the rights and interests of Hollywood screenwriters. Facing his friends, he talked about his voting choice without hesitation.

"I will only vote for the kind of movies I have watched." He said. As a busy person, he often watches the most influential films of the year, not to mention that the film does everything for him well. "I will vote for "Return of the King."

His tickets have been mailed, but after get off work in the evening, many of Howard Rodman's friends and subordinates also voted their votes for "Return of the King".

Tony Angelotti is a public relations expert who has supervised more than 250 films and directed publicity activities. He has been a member of the academy since 1975.

"Dad, how did you choose to vote?" In the study, his son Tony little asked curiously.

Faced with the inquiry from his son who was less than ten years old, Tony Angelotti couldn't help laughing, "Dear, watching all the nominated movies is a very time-consuming thing, because some types, such as visual effects, used to have only three shortlisted works, but now they have increased to five, so it's becoming increasingly difficult to watch all the movies."

"So..." He raised his left hand, covered his eyes, and held a pen in his right hand, and placed it about a foot above the ballot. "I make a choice in this way."

After saying that, he let go of his right hand, the pen fell down, and fell on the ballot paper, leaving a black dot on the name of one of the videos.

Tony Angelotti took off his left hand, picked up the pen, and chose that movie for this award.

"Dad, do it again!" little Tony shouted excitedly.

So, Tony Angelotti covered her eyes again...

Peter Bart is the special editor of Variety Show magazine. After a day of work, he returned home. At his wife's reminder, he remembered that the Oscar voting deadline was coming.

Entering the study, taking out the envelope mailed by the college, Peter Bart took out the ballot, and his wife followed in, standing next to her and watching the nominated movie and the names of the personnel.

"Dear, you haven't seen these movies yet."

Hearing his wife's words, Peter Bart shook his head indifferently, "I have read comments and communicated with others. So, even if I haven't seen everything, I know what choice to make."

When it comes to the scale and influence of the comments, no film can match "Return of the King", and everyone around Peter Bart was talking about the movie, and almost all hesitated about it was news about the movie, so he chose "Return of the King" without hesitation.

On February 25, the deadline for the college voting was not known until the award ceremony on the 29th. Panny Kellis, who is responsible for Duke's public relations, has quite confidence.

"Based on the feedback," she remained calm. "Duke, your chances of winning are close to 80%. "Return of the King" can guarantee seven to nine awards."

Standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, Duke withdrew his gaze from the sea, "This is already very good."

No one can guarantee 100% of the award. To achieve what he thinks in his heart, "Return of the King" not only requires all kinds of work, but also a little bit of luck.

Luck is invisible or touched, but it is sometimes very important when all work is done well.

For example, some judges who are used to voting with their feet often don’t even know where their feet will fall.

"How are your preparations doing?"

As the last person to serve before retirement, Panny Kellis has gained huge profits from Duke and has also invested all her energy. She is now just serving Duke alone.

Ivanka took over the words, "The dress is ready, we just wait for the award ceremony to begin."

Pany Kellis nodded and asked Duke again, "Where is the award speech I have prepared for you?"

"Don't worry, Pani." Duke raised his hand and pointed at his forehead, "I have already remembered it in this."

Although he is not an actor with excellent acting skills, it is not difficult to make a performance with both sensuality and sensation after winning the award.

On the Oscar stage, you can always see the winners who are excited or moved by the awards, but more than 80% of these are performed, especially the most important awards. People will definitely be excited after winning them. However, the exaggerated expressions, movements and words of the actors, perhaps only they themselves know how long it takes to practice in private.

On the Oscar stage, which is well received by the whole United States and even the world, what you say and do is not easy to say or do. The award speech is never written by the winner himself. A seemingly ordinary award speech must be formulated and reviewed by their respective public relations and agents in advance.

Many celebrities are people who act casually and speak nonsense. If they say something wrong at the Oscars, it may even affect their personal future.

For example, my views on many issues such as war and homosexuality...

Duke's acceptance speech came from the hands of him, Panny Kellis and Nancy Josephson. It was all from individual awards to group awards, and even subdivided into which awards and what should be said.

Public relations has always been a profound science, and in some ways, the award speech is also a kind of public relations.

In short, Duke is ready and just waiting for the 76th Academy Awards ceremony to kick off. (To be continued)

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