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[Text/Christie]The 96th Academy Awards came to a successful conclusion on the 10th. This year, the organizer of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences carefully arranged five performances, a memorial video and several surprise Easter eggs, plus a fast-paced and smooth progress. The ceremony attracted 19.5 million viewers in the United States, an increase of 4% from last year. This is also the highest ratings since 2020. The overall performance is remarkable. However, some aspects still aroused heated discussion among the audience. When the Oscars producer Molly McNearney (she is also the wife of Jimmy Kimmel, the producer and host of “Jimmy Night Live”) was interviewed by foreign media, Shared behind-the-scenes production stories and answered the audience’s questions.
Behind-the-scenes revelation 1: John Cena’s nude awards ceremony was “carefully planned”
This year’s conference arranged for John Cena to present the award completely naked as a “tribute” to the streaker who crashed into the ceremony in 1974. Since the program will be broadcast on television, it must comply with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), similar to Taiwan’s NCC) regulations, at first the TV station executives were very scared and worried about this proposal, but the producers repeatedly assured that there would be absolutely no exposure, and that they would abide by the rule that there should be no “lower body protruding, or butt cracks exposed” on the screen, and after full communication Finally find a way that satisfies both parties.
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The producer made a special “protective cover” for John Cena, and the award card was glued to the protective cover, so even if John Cena’s hands slipped, there would be no accidental exposure, and a closed place was found beforehand. Conduct rehearsals to ensure there are no surprises in this surprise segment. After the awards ceremony began, this “highlight” became a hot topic on the Internet. Everyone was asking “Did John Cena go on stage naked?” Producer Molly said with a smile: “This is the effect I wanted! “
Behind the Scenes Secret 2: The scenes of dog Messi clapping and peeing were all pre-recorded!
Messi, the French border collie who performed superbly as a dog actor in “The Truth”, which was nominated for Best Picture this year, was definitely the cutest guest at the ceremony! At the ceremony, the scene where Messi applauded Robert Downey Jr. for winning the award aroused even more discussion. However, the producer revealed that this scene was actually pre-recorded, and the flapping hands were also props and prosthetic hands controlled by the puppeteer. They were just shot in a borrowed position. This scene was originally rehearsed for the conference, but Messi did not understand the instructions well during the rehearsal. Barking loudly, in order to avoid any accidents when the ceremony officially started, it was changed to pre-recorded. Messi peeing on Matt Damon’s star logo on Hollywood Boulevard was also pre-recorded and then broadcast.
Behind the Scenes 3: The most exciting performance “I’m Just Ken” was prepared for several months in advance
The most exciting performance highlight this year was Ryan Gosling taking the stage to recreate the song “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie”. This performance mobilized a 40-piece orchestra, 62 dancers, and more than 24 A giant Barbie avatar, as well as 4 “Kenny” and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash. The producers revealed that they contacted Gosling very early and began active preparations a few months ago. Greta Gerwig, the director of “Barbie”, was also involved. They hoped to make this song a reality from the beginning. The song became a performance where the whole audience danced and sang together, and we did exactly that. “During the rehearsal, you could feel Ryan Gosling’s powerful performance energy.”
In addition, one of the heroes behind the enthusiastic response was the backup dancer Simu Liu. Before the performance of “I’m Just Ken”, he picked up the microphone and asked everyone present to raise their mobile phone flashlights and follow along with the song. Swing and sing, turning the award ceremony into an exciting concert scene instantly.
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Behind the Scenes Secret 4: It’s not his fault!Al Pacino didn’t even think about Best Picture nominees before announcing them
When Al Pacino announced the Best Picture award for the finale, he did not read out the titles of the 10 movies as usual, but suddenly read “Oppenheimer”, which made many people feel Weirdly, some netizens criticized him for “disrespecting the shortlisted films”. However, producer Molly jumped out and explained that this was not Al Pacino’s fault, but that it was arranged in advance that the nominees would not read for Best Picture. “This is a bold decision we made. We were originally worried about the ceremony. Timeout, and the introduction of the 10 Best Picture shortlisted films has been arranged during the ceremony. I think people just wanted to know who won the award at that time, and I’m sorry to put him in trouble.” She admitted that this arrangement has a real effect. Not as expected, “But that’s the fun thing about live TV, you never know what you’re going to get!”
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Behind-the-scenes revelation 5: Is host Jimmy Kimmel’s attempt to choke Trump unscripted? !
The scene where host Jimmy Kimmel choked former U.S. President Donald Trump before awarding the Best Picture also aroused heated discussion, but this segment was not actually in the speech script. The reason is that this ceremony went very smoothly, and there was more time for Jimmy Kimmel to say a few words. At the end of the ceremony, a writer from Jimmy’s team told Jimmy Kimmel that Trump had just Jimmy Kimmel posted a slanderous post about him on a social networking site, so Jimmy Kimmel had the idea of responding back on stage. Although the producer, who is his wife, objected, “I don’t want Trump to appear at the Oscar ceremony.” But he still couldn’t resist. Jimmy’s determination to do this.
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Jimmy then quickly convened a meeting with the writing team, and together they came up with a concise sentence: “Is your sentence not over yet?” to satirize Trump’s sentencing by the court. The producer later admitted that the joke worked really well and Jimmy Kimmel’s intuition was right. Even if she thought it was inappropriate at first, “this is what makes him attractive.”
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