"Mr. Cruise, our new work has limited investment, so I'm afraid I can't afford you, the big star." Xia Tian smiled, "But you don't need to be disappointed. We still have many opportunities to cooperate in the future."

When Tom Cruise heard him say this, he had to smile and nod.

To be honest, Stephen Spielberg collaborated with Xia Tian, ​​one is the world's top director and the other is a well-known Hollywood screenwriter. The two of them have a strong collaboration this time and are very likely to make a masterpiece.

If it were other actors, they would be willing to work with them even if they were paid or even exempted. Because a successful work is really important to increase the value of an actor.

Just like Sylvester Stallone, if it weren't for that classic "Rocky", he would still be a penniless adult actor.

But Tom Cruise doesn't want to reduce his pay. First, he is very important to money. Almost all the movies he makes are commercial, such as the "Mission: Impossible" series, the "Jack Detective" series, "Edge of Tomorrow" and so on.

In comparison, Brad Pitt, who is also famous for his handsomeness, has more diverse film themes. There are commercial films like "The Smiths" and "The Eleven Arhats" series, comedy films like "The Burning After Reading", "The Stealing and Killing", as well as drama films like "The Seven Deadly Sins", "The Big Short", and "The Strange Things of Benjamin Button".

Compared with art films, commercial films are more generous in terms of pay and dividends, so they have become Tomko's first choice. There is nothing wrong with focusing on making commercial films. But as an actor with aspirations, you should try more roles.

For example, Brad Pitt has played the hero "Troy", the funny "Burning After Reading", the rogue "The End of the Road", the lunatic "Twelve Monkeys", the irritable policeman "Seven Deadly Sins", etc., but Tom Tom has been repeating his acting career all the time, which can be said to be focused on being handsome for twenty years. Of course, they are really handsome.

Second, Tomco is currently a first-tier movie star, and his pay is basically close to the highest point. Even if he starred in Summer, Spielberg's new work further improved his popularity, and there will not be much increase in pay.

In addition, he has been making constant film appointments recently and is not worried about not having a job, so he naturally has no motivation to cut his pay and insists on joining the crew of Xia Tian.

...

As we were chatting, the emcee had begun to award the Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing, Best Audio, Irving Salberg Memorial Award, Best Photography Award, etc.

There is still nothing summer here. However, Columbia Pictures was shortlisted for some awards, but unfortunately, it was not even possible to win a single award in the end.

But summer was not disappointed. First, these awards were all small awards and were not important. The real heavyweight awards have not been announced yet.

Several films by Columbia Pictures have almost all the grand prizes in the following awards, and several awards have been shortlisted for three films, such as Best Director, Best Film, Best Actor, etc. The probability of winning is very high.

As the saying goes, being fat first is not fat, then being fat is overwhelming. Xia Tian is waiting for Columbia Pictures to show its power in the end and win all the heavyweight awards.

At this moment, the Best Foreign Language Award, Best Movie Soundtrack Award, Best Composition Award, etc. Although Columbia Pictures was shortlisted for several of the awards, it was still a pity that it failed to win the award.

"Mr. Xia, don't worry, I think we should win the award next." Long Mayer said to Xia Tian while wiping his sweat.

Although the temperature was not high, he was still sweating profusely. It can be seen that he had missed more than a dozen consecutive awards, which made him really nervous.

"Don't worry, I was not in a hurry." Xia Tian smiled, "The Death Poetry Club, "Rain Man", and "Driving for Miss Daisy" are all excellent works, which have long been well received. It is proof that they have been shortlisted for so many awards this time. Although they have not won any awards now, they are foreshadowing that they may win the grand prize in the future."

There is actually a phenomenon of pork being divided into the Academy Awards. For example, at the 79th Academy Awards, Martin Scorsese defeated the dark horse "The Little Sunshine Beauty" at the time with "Infernal Affairs" and won the Best Picture Award.

But in fact, the story of "Infernal Affairs" originated from the Hong Kong version of "Infernal Affairs". It was just a little change to adapt to the US market. It is not the best work in directorial career of Martin Scorsese.

Because he has excellent works such as "Taxi Driver", "Angry Bull", "Kisser's Last Temptation Or", "Flyer", "New York Black Stick", and "Good Guy".

But because he was old, he was already sixty-five years old when he won the Best Director Award for "Infernal Affairs". If he didn't present him with the award, the old man might retire at any time. So even though "Infernal Affairs" was not his best work, the Oscar judges still awarded him the award.

Since there is a phenomenon of pork split at the Academy Awards, it is natural to have to be evenly matched. For example, Columbia Pictures has been shortlisted for so many awards, and almost every award has the hope of winning the award. If all of them win, other film companies will probably have to get zero eggs, and this result is naturally inappropriate.

So it first awarded the small prize to other companies and awarded the remaining grand prizes to Columbia Pictures. In this way, everyone has the prize and will naturally be harmonious.

Lang Meyer nodded when he heard this, but in fact he thought so too.

...

The awards ceremony then began to announce the Best Original Script Award, Best Adapted Script Award and Best Director Award.

"Mr. Xia, it's your place. I think you will definitely win the award!" Long Mayer said to Xia Tian with a smile.

"Mr. Xia, I think you are likely to win the award." Tom Tsang said to Xia Tian without taking the opportunity.

After hearing this, Xia Tian nodded.

In his impression, "Rain Man" did win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. But this time its competitors are so strong, and it's only a matter of whether they can win the award, so he is also worried at this moment.

At this moment, the award presenter had already taken the envelope, took out the card, and read it loudly, "The one who won the Best Original Script Award is Summer, "Rain Man""

As soon as the words were finished, there was applause from the audience.

"Congratulations to Mr. Xia!", "Congratulations, Mr. Xia!", "So amazing, Mr. Xia!" Everyone around him expressed his congratulations to him.

Xia Tian walked onto the stage with a smile while thanking her.
Chapter completed!