Information of the 68th Academy Awards Ceremony

Gilbert Cates, a veteran film director, decided not to be the producer of the 67th Academy Awards hosted by david letterman. 1995165438+1October, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hired Quincy Jones, a music producer and winner of the Jane Herzot humanitarian spirit award, as the producer of the 1996 award ceremony. Jones immediately decided to invite actress and comedian whoopi goldberg as the host. In an interview with Susan King, a writer of Los Angeles Times, Jones said that she chose Goldberg as the host because she can keep the show elegant and dignified while being very interesting, and she knows street culture and has a wide range of knowledge.

At the award ceremony, the nominated works for the Fashion Design Award were displayed in the form of elaborate fashion shows, which were produced by fashion photographer Matthew rolston. Many models including Cameron Alpo Alpozian, Tyson Beckford, Tyra Banks, Marcus Schenkenberg and Joel West participated in the live catwalk in various costumes of five nominated films. At first, the college intended to invite actor Jack Nicholson to lead two models, naomi campbell and claudia schiffer, but he refused the invitation, and then another actor, pierce brosnan, accepted the task.

In addition, many people participated in the production of the award ceremony. Jeff Magris is the director of the show, and oprah winfrey, the actress and talk show host, interviewed many nominated filmmakers and guests on the red carpet show at the beginning of TV broadcast. The program lasted about 7 minutes. Composer and saxophonist tom scott is the music director of the party. Jamie king, the choreographer, supervised the nomination of the original song award and the arrangement of two dance performances. The protagonist Baby Pig and Miss Pig participated in a comedy sketch performance together. Christopher reeve, an actor paralyzed by a horse riding accident, unexpectedly appeared on TV, calling on filmmakers to make films on the most important issues facing the world. Tonight's party won positive comments from most media. The New York Times film critic Janet maslin praised: "Mr. Jones turned this year's award ceremony into a show of Hollywood stars." She also praised the host whoopi goldberg's opening monologue, saying that it "set a clear standard for this year's gag paragraph". Dzhanis Min, a columnist of People Weekly, wrote, "The most shocking crime at the 68th Academy Awards on March 25th was-Oh, my God! -that endless elegance and high taste ... this is the highest joke! " . Howard Rosenberg, a TV commentator of the Los Angeles Times, praised Goldberg's performance, pointing out that her "confident performance" ... symbolized the amazing progress after the 1994 award ceremony.

Some media have a bad opinion of the party. Steve Johnson, a film critic of The Chicago Tribune, lamented that Goldberg's performance was unremarkable, which made the program as long as david letterman's unpredictable imagination. He also said that the performance of the works nominated for the Fashion Design Award as the opening ceremony was the stupidest since Rob Lowe and Snow White sang "Proud Mary" at the 6 1 Academy Awards. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly lamented the dominance of Braveheart, the winner of the best film award, and thought the night was a bit annoying because it lacked fashion charm. The award ceremony was broadcast live by ABC in the United States, with an average audience of 448 1 000, up 9% year-on-year. However, according to Nielsen ratings survey data, the party attracted 30.3% of American families, less than 32.5%. At the age of 18-49, the program audience rating was 18.6%, which was not as good as 2 1.7% in the previous year.

1In July, 1996, the award ceremony won seven nominations for the 48th Primetime Emmy Award, and two months later, it won a TV broadcast lighting design and director award for Greg brenton.