« More Action, Less Shine »: Stanislava Ivy talks about her way to the red carpet of the Academy Awards
Before Dnevnik, Stanislava Ivy tells how to reach the most anticipated ceremony and what happens beyond the splendor of the red carpet. « No matter what the event is, it is usually a big battle to get to it, and subsequently with experience you learn the exact rules and the right things you need, » she says. Especially for the Oscar, he explains that an application for accreditation is being applied much earlier, the deadline for it being the end of November, ie. Four months before the event.
| « It is very important to follow their rules and in order to approve you, you must be part of a media that, for one reason or another, matters. |
In the case of « Nova TV » broadcasts the ceremony for Bulgaria. However, we are a small market and we cannot have such a huge budget as they require from most televisions that are in the better positions of the red carpet, « says Stanislava Ivy.
« We are also there, we are just not in the biggest action. My inclusions are just before what, on the one hand, gives me peace of mind to tell and show more things, » she said. Therefore, there is access to the stars in the so -called « interview room », where the winners in the different categories are led and where it is possible to watch the ceremony itself. They can ask them a few questions there, but they have no right to shoot. « They give us a video of the answers to all the winners, » Ivy adds.
All things that can go wrong
The rules must be followed is something that emphasizes several times, although some of them have studied over the years. « For example, the badges they give us should not go into the frame, including for photos for social networks. The microphones we need to use must necessarily be cable. They cannot be wireless because they give disturbances. So you just learn discipline, » says Stanislava Ivy. The fact that she was already twice at the Academy Awards and has created a scheme of work, somewhat gives her peace of mind now that she will be there again.
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« I went to the awards before, but I had no access, because if you were not part of the media, you could not have access to the red carpet. Excluded. » He admits that the first time she went to Los Angeles to reflect the ceremony, he was the most intense, then she had the most problems. « Maybe the biggest problem is that you can't immediately judge all things that can go wrong, and they can go wrong.
He explains that Dolby Theater is generally a large mall, but for the days before the Oscar, restrictions are introduced, on the streets around it – too, and all this gives prerequisites for delay if one does not judge his time.
| « Yes, logistics are quite complicated, but if you fall on the carpet itself, everything is fine. » |
« I love a pie » or (not) casual meetings in Hollywood
Beyond the red carpet, however, Stanislava Ivy can long talk about the planned and unplanned meetings in Hollywood. He still remembers the conversation with Hristo Grozev, when the Navalny documentary in which he appeared, won the Oscar.
Last year, for example, she decided to make reports from different places in the city, including the Academy Museum, where many of the events around the awards were made, and Rodeo Drive, where she was asked on a bus if she was not known. « And the bus was actually the one to make a tour of the stars houses. They asked me where I was and I replied: » Bulgaria. « Then a girl said: » I love pie. «
| Last year, he also visited the Bulgarian conductor Maxim Eshkenazi and the school where he teaches and where he has a children's orchestra. |
As there are themed parties around the Oscar awards in Los Angeles, she herself often came across different, one of which was listened to actor Dennis Quaid and his group live. « These are things like that can happen in LA at any step that you can't plan. » However, among the planned things this year for Stanislava Ivy is a visit to the places that were affected by devastating forest fires.
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« I know a few people who have lost their houses and will meet them. I will also present several successful Bulgarians who live there, but I will not betray more, » she says, adding that there are no restrictions introduced because of the fires. « Absolutely everything is a lot. In them, the situation, unfortunately, is » the show must continue « because they cannot cancel things that make money that will help the city. »
However, Stanislava Ivy has already met some of the Oscar nominees on the red carpet of European film awards at the end of 2024. A ceremony for which she receives an invitation every year and during which she is her favorite red carpet. This time he manages to meet Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rosselini, Emilia Perez Director Jacques Odiar, Carla Sofia Gascon, and Coral Farja director. « I am very glad that she was nominated for a director because » the substance « for me is one of the boldest films of the year, » says Ivy.
Although Farja has been able to talk to Corally for a long time, he states that being on the red carpet does not guarantee that you will interview one of the stars on him. Moreover, when you are a representative in a smaller market like the Bulgarian one. « Every red carpet star goes together either with a manager or with one of the event organizers who ask if you want to talk to her or him, » says Stanislava Ivy.
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But usually the bigger stars pass quickly, smile and enter the hall. « If there is time, it will come back. There have been such cases. But on the red carpet it is a madhouse and it is not the most enjoyable, because the tension is big and sometimes it is very frustrating because you are fighting a lot, and in the end you may have nothing, » she adds.
| Two years ago, he managed to reach the red carpet and the BAFTA awards, when celebrities such as Angela Basset, Colin Farrell, Brandon Fraser, Rita Wilson and others pass through it. |
« But every red carpet has different rules, » Ivy says. She prefers those who accompany smaller events and with more enjoyable memories a few years ago, she returns from one in South Africa when she manages to interview Kevin Spacey and William Defoe. He also remembers how he also manages to meet Ansel Elgort on a red carpet in London.
« It was still crazy, he had to enter the hall very quickly. At that moment, however, one of the fellow journalists next to me told me, » Wait because they sometimes go in, present the movie and go out because they watched it. » Otherwise, she would not say that there is a special collegiality between journalists in all this action and more often more obstruct than they help each other.
Her favorites for « Oscar »
If she could hand out statuettes in the main and most contested categories, to whom would you give them? « For the movie of the Year, he has to take the » Brutalist « , though I am a huge fan of Emilia Perez because Jacques Odiar has done wonders with this movie. » According to her, the director's award will go to Brady Corbett, although she would give her Coral Farja not only of female solidarity, but because she likes the « substance » very much.
« Adrian Brody will become the best actor and Demi Moore will be the best actress. Zoe Saldana will deserve the award for a supporting role, and Kiyran Culkin is again deserved for a supporting role, » adds Stanislava Ivy at the end of the conversation.
