If they’re anything like most Oscar winners, the team behind The Artist will have spent the first day of the rest of their lives conforming to Hollywood’s grandest and most lucrative conventions.
He woke up, laughed at himself, and assured that – oui! – It was really a gold statue on their bedside table, the newly-crowned movie stars of France are likely to devote their waking hours to thinking about two pressing questions: how to change that debilitating hangover, and what career options should they pursue suddenly on their horizon?
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The first will not be easily answered. Looking to refresh at the Governor’s Ball, the team that won five Academy Awards Sunday — including best picture, best director and best actor — adjourned to a packed party hosted by their film distributor Harvey Weinstein at the Mondrian Hotel in Hollywood.
They then walked through Vanity Fair, before continuing to the Chateau Marmont hotel, where at around four in the morning several members of their entourage entered the swimming pool, fully clothed.
The second question after Oscar requires even more caution. Like any winner of the biggest award in show business, The Artist’s front man Jean Dujardin, director Michel Hazanovics, and producer Thomas Longman will be inundated with potential job offers for now. But, as any Hollywood agent will tell you, too much choice doesn’t always make for easy decisions. Take advantage of the success
On a purely practical level, history suggests that all three can, if they wish, capitalize on an artist’s success in financial security. The film has already grossed $76 million worldwide and is now expanding to more than 2,000 theaters in the United States, looking to further capitalize on its Best Picture status.
As well as the “back-end” income from this package – which must also be sunk by the charming Weinstein – they are entitled to use their model status to secure significant salaries.
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