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B-Roll – Governors Ball – Oscars billboard, shots around assembling red carpet, posters, Wolfgang Puck interviewing

Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck
And then on Saturday or Sunday on Sunday we cook them, so everything is really done at the last moment. We don’t cook anything really in advance because it’s not necessary but we have to get all the food in by Friday to make sure that we have everything in our kitchen, in the refrigerator so that they our cook can start prepping everything so it’s really a mixing of organization because we have like 50 people doing just the orders and the appetizers and things like that and you have your whole group doing the main course and another group doing the salad, so it’s really how we organize everything.

Sound Bite: Michael Westrick – Vice President of Winemaking – Sterling Vineyards
Sterling Vineyards is thrilled to be here. This is our 6th year providing wine for the Oscar ceremony. We have 3 wines for the Governors Ball which follows the Oscar ceremony. We’re providing a gold standard reserve chardonnay, a red carpet cabernet sauvignon, and new this year, a muskat cannelli dessert wine.

Sound Bite: Michael Westrick
I hope they’re collectables, certainly. They’re labels, they’re exclusive to this occasion so they’re very uh special occasion bottles.

Sound Bite: Michael Westrick
The Red Carpet Reserve that Sterling produces this year keeps mind again the Asian theme that Wolfgang is working with and so I’m looking for a blend that produces a wine that’s rich caseese and black cherry. There’s also an underlying Asian spice that goes through this wine that really pairs well with his braised short rib.

B-Roll – Governors Ball – shots of Sterling Vineyards wines, guy pouring a glass, a woman taste testing the wine an d she tastes it, pouring the chardonnay and showing bottle

Sound Bite: Whitley Bouma Herbert – Communications Director – Moet & Chandon
Well this is the first year that Moet and Chandon is the exlusive champagne of the Oscars so we are so proud to be a part of t his monumentas occasion. Um it really celebrates glamour and style and elegance.

Sound Bite: Whitley Bouma Herbert – Communications Director – Moet & Chandon
Well we have several different marks from Moet & Chandon. For instance at the Governors ball, guests will be celebrating with Moet & Chandon White Star, Moet & Chandon Rose Imperial, and Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage 2000. That’s one of our top champagnes that we offer at the house.

B-Roll – Governors Ball – Moet display and the 1929 bottle, Herbert interviewing

B-Roll – Governors Ball – little Oscar salmon and Puck with salmon caviar hours de vours

Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck
You can take the desert home, bring the box home, and everybody gonna get their chocolate Oscar. 24 karat gold, too. Yeah you can eat it or put it on the mantel piece, just don’t turn on the heat.

Sound Bite: Wolfgang Puck
Well I think you know we have kobe burgers so they’re most important thing is that they’re really delicious. Pizzas with black truffles is really as good as it can get. Smoked salmon and caviar is not bad either. How much better can you get? And I remember a lot of people prefer our smoked salmon Oscar or our pizza with black truffles than people give them some other fancy stuff, so I think this is really elegant but simple and I think that’s the way we want to go this year you know have a lot of flavor, make it look elegant, but not over the top.

B-Roll – Governors Ball – shots of Puck’s food

B-Roll – Governors Ball – Blinn making blueberry vodka drinks with Puck

Sound Bite: Ed Blinn – Commercial Director – Ultimate Vodka from Patron
We’ve been involved with the Academy for about 20 years and every year we’ve been kind of delegated to make up the specialty cocktail for the Oscars and the last couple of years we’ve been able to make up 2 different cocktails and the cocktails will be served as people come off the red carpet walking up into the Kodak um before the show, during the show, and then afterwards when they go to the Governors Ball. So Wolfgang Puck and Sheryl Gicetto who runs the ball and I sat down every year at Spago and we decide how we’re gonna make a cocktail and Wolfgang brings out some fresh juices so on the Ultimate Vodka side this year we use our vodka which is called Ultimate Vodka which is from Poland which is made from wheat, rye, and potato, and we get some fresh, organic blueberry juice. We get fresh, organic mango juice, put it into a shaker, shake it up, get really cold, and Sherry ? who is the pastry chef designs all the pastries for the Governors Ball. She actually made a silver sugar and we rimmed the glass with silver sugar, strain it, put it into the glass, and then we get some fresh organic blueberries which we just got this morning and that goes into the drink.

Sound Bite: Ed Blinn
Well the thing that kind of starts out is is um we use wheat, rye, and potato where a lot of vodkas use wheat and rye, some use just straight potatoes, so we’ve got the blend of the 3 which gives it the smoothness when you finish it. we use a hydro-selection process which um distills the vodka at a certain proof and then we filter it 4 times. So we have 4 times distillation, 4 times filtration. And then we use this thing, this process called candlelight filtration, so it goes through these filters when candles look at the impurities and we take all the impurities out through this filtration process and then we uh what’s the end result, a smooth clean, and then its made all from natural products.