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Louis J Horvitz
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Director
FOR the fifth consecutive year, Emmy Award-winning director Louis J Horvitz will taking the reins (控制) of the Academy Awards telecast. How does he feel about helming the 73rd Annual Academy Awards Show? "I relish (品尝) it."
Without revealing any secrets, how will the Academy Awards be different this year?
"The difference...is inherently based on the nominees...This year, for example, there's a great parity (相同) and variety reflected in the Best Picture nominees - Gladiator, Crouching Tiger, Chocolat, Erin Brockvich and Traffic. There are so many great pictures and great stars - actors and actresses as well as art directors and special effects people - that this year is like an international gala ... and that's what's going to be on the screen, and that's what's going to make this year different from last year or the year before."
Anything can happen at the Oscars. Are you secretly hoping for something unexpected to occur?
"I don't secretly yearn for anything to happen unexpectedly because it's inherent in any kind of a live circumstance that there's going to be ... So, I'm not secretly hoping. I know it's going to happen. I am quite openly anticipating, with great glee in my eye and my mischievous heart, that wonderful moments will unfold and I will be given the grace of God to focus on it and capture it for everyone sitting at home and put it on the screen. "
Where are you during the show? And are you ruining a good tuxedo with sweat stains?
"I don't sweat. And I work out in the parking lot out in a truck. That's what I spent my whole career doing. Working in a parking lot in a truck. But what we're seeing in that little world is beautiful. It's probably the best seat in the house, actually. The pictures are spectacular, the sound is wonderful, and we're making that composite picture that goes out to all the satellites and fibre optic lines to millions and millions of people. So, on the one hand, if you look at the whole scene outside the truck, it would look like a truck maybe came to unload the produce in the morning. But as soon as you walk through that door, you're in a futuristic world. That is where I work. "
In one word, describe your Academy Awards experience.
"Unbelievable. "
(SD-Agencies)
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