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Well.
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Tonight we are honoring for best motion
picture drama, Chinatown...
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...The Conversation, Earthquake,
The Godfather: Part II...
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...A Woman Under the Influence.
And the winner is...
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And the winner is...
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...Chinatown.
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Robert Evans of Paramount Pictures...
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... will accept
the Golden Globe Award for Chinatown.
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Chinatown.
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It wins every award
you could ever think of.
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To this day, I believe it's considered the
quintessential private-eye film of its time.
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It's a hell of a way to meet Catherine
Deneuve, I'll tell you that. It certainly is.
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This is the second award,
and I'm only a small part of it...
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...that I've won in my life.
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The first one was for the Most
Promising Newcomer of the Year.
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It was the Photoplay Award, 1957.
And were they wrong.
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The attention the picture
got caused an uproar...
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...with every creative bit
of talent in the studio.
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"How can Evans run the studio, be involved
with our pictures and make his own?"
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They were all fucking jealous.
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If the picture had flopped, it wouldn't
have made a difference. Confrontation time.
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I was given two choices.
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To continue running the studio,
with a much-increased deal by the way...
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...or go out with my own
banner and make films.
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It was a tough choice, but I was just tired
of working 18 hours a day...
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...eight days a week,
to make everyone else rich but myself.
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With that in mind, I said,
goodbye, studio. Hello, producer.
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And went out on my own.