Bono, Bullock and Spike Lee’s cup of tea: My 20th Oscars
BBC correspondent Colin Paterson is heading to LA to cover his 20th Oscars for BBC Radio 5 LiveThis week, I am heading to Hollywood for my 20th Oscars. To put it crassly, I am now only one behind Meryl Streep.
Over the years, I have broadcast as Danny Boyle danced for joy with the cast of Slumdog Millionaire, congratulated Kate Winslet on no longer being the "Colin Montgomerie of the Oscars" after winning for The Reader, following five defeats in a row, and, in 2011, I witnessed a truly extraordinary encounter involving GMTV's reporter and Tom Hanks.She was mid-interview with him, live on TV, when Colin Firth started to walk by, brandishing his Oscar for The King's Speech.
I thought that would never be beaten as the biggest Oscars story I would cover, but I was wrong. As wrong as a G.I. Jane joke about Jada Pinkett Smith.at last year's ceremony, with "the slap heard around the world". On 2 March 2014, the Russian President Vladimir Putin received unanimous approval from the country's parliament to send troops into Crimea.
Today's presenter, Jim Naughtie, threw live to me in LA, where the red carpet was a melee of movie stars. The thing that people forget is Bono did come back. Unfortunately, all he said was, 'I don't want to talk about what Nelson Mandela meant to me." Not an answer worth seven shouts of anyone's name.Sandra Bullock with her Oscar for The Blind Side at the 2010 Vanity Fair Oscars Party
The huge surprise was that she turned up to collect her Razzie, receiving a standing ovation from the very people who had voted for her awfulness. My job was to go to the Oscar party of celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck. The guestlist was not quite as A-list, so few of my interviews made it to air.
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