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“Gravity” is in many ways the success story of the year, winning the most Oscars, with seven, and amassing a monumental worldwide box office tally of more than $700 million to date.
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The prize was handed to him by Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier, and Cuaron loved the symmetry that he saw in one of his presenters. He first offered the starring astronaut role in “Gravity” to Jolie, who had to turn it down because of other commitments.
“The fact that Angelina was there presenting, when she was one of the early persons who read the screenplay, it was like full circle,” he says. “I told Angie, ‘You know how beautiful this is?’ She said, ‘I get it. I understand.’ Everything closed in a beautiful way.”
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Cuaron’s Oscar journey began six months ago, at the end of August, when “Gravity” screened publicly for the first time, opening the Venice Film Festival. Cuaron recalls how the film had been struggling with low audience test scores, and then all the doubt began to fade as journalists and critics started raving about it.
Cuaron spent most of the time in that Venice theater studying the audience. “They were really glued to the screen, bracing themselves — or you could see them almost hyperventilating.” Even after a rapturous standing ovation, Cuaron wasn’t sure if the movie would be well received in multiplexes. “You never know, because it’s opening night,” Cuaron says. “You don’t know if it’s politeness.” The next morning, Warner Bros. sent him all the reviews. “I was like, ‘OK, these are the good ones, give me the bad ones,’ ” Cuaron recalls. He was told they didn’t exist.
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http://variety.com/2014/film/feature...rs-1201125502/
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