I Technically Won An Oscar
Summary
TLDRIn a humorous quest to win an Academy Award, the YouTuber embarks on a challenge to secure an Oscar without the traditional Hollywood route. By leveraging his creativity and determination, he sets out to win awards in stage, television, and film, ultimately aiming to surprise his former teacher with the prestigious accolade. Through a series of entertaining and strategic challenges involving other award winners, he manages to secure an Oscar, a BAFTA, and an Olivier, showcasing the power of perseverance and creative thinking.
Takeaways
- 🎬 The speaker aspires to win an Academy Award, despite not being recognized by Hollywood.
- 🤔 The challenge is to win an Oscar without being a traditional nominee, by betting it with an Oscar winner.
- 📝 The speaker has a strong desire to thank their teacher for igniting their creative journey.
- 📊 The speaker acknowledges the difficulty of winning an Oscar, referencing Leonardo DiCaprio's long wait.
- 🎥 The speaker has a plan to win an Oscar by challenging an Oscar winner to a game and betting the Oscar as the prize.
- 🔍 Extensive research is conducted to find Oscar winners and their contact information.
- 🏆 The speaker successfully wins a BAFTA and Olivier award through various challenges.
- 🎭 A riddle is solved to win the Olivier award from Henry Lewis, who is known for his work in theater.
- 👗 The speaker's quest leads to Jenny Beavan, a renowned costume designer with multiple Oscar wins.
- 🎲 A custom 'Guess Who' game featuring characters from Beavan's films is played to win an Oscar.
- 🏅 The speaker accomplishes their goal of winning an Oscar, BAFTA, and Olivier awards, and presents them to their teacher.
Q & A
What was the speaker's initial goal in the video?
-The speaker's initial goal was to win an Academy Award, or Oscar, to thank their teacher who started them off on their creative journey.
How did the speaker plan to win an Oscar?
-The speaker planned to win an Oscar by challenging an Oscar winner to a game and convincing them to bet their Oscar as the prize.
What was the first award the speaker won in their quest?
-The first award the speaker won was a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts award).
Who was the first person the speaker challenged to a game, and what was the game?
-The first person the speaker challenged to a game was James, a BAFTA-winning writer, and the game was to write the longest word using Alphabetti spaghetti.
How did the speaker manipulate the game to their advantage?
-The speaker removed every single vowel from James's Alphabetti spaghetti before the game started, making it difficult for James to make words.
What was the riddle given to the speaker to win the Olivier award?
-The riddle was, 'When I'm young I stand up tall, when I'm old I'm very small.' The answer was 'a candle.'
Which Oscar-winning costume designer did the speaker eventually challenge to a game?
-The speaker challenged Jenny Beavan, who won Oscars for Best Costume Design for 'A Room with a View', 'Mad Max: Fury Road', and 'Cruella'.
What game did the speaker play with Jenny Beavan to win an Oscar?
-The speaker played a custom version of 'Guess Who' with Jenny Beavan, using characters from movies she had worked on.
Which character from a movie did the speaker correctly guess to win the Oscar?
-The speaker correctly guessed that the character was Dame Emma Thompson from 'Sense and Sensibility'.
How did the speaker use Adobe Creative Cloud tools in their quest?
-The speaker used Adobe Photoshop's generative fill feature and Premiere Pro's green screen effects to create a pitch video to attract Oscar winners.
What did the speaker do with the awards after winning them?
-The speaker showed off the awards to Mrs. Hunter, their old teacher who had encouraged them 25 years ago.
Outlines
🏆 The Unlikely Oscar Quest
The speaker expresses a desire to win an Academy Award, acknowledging the difficulty of the task. They plan to become the first YouTuber to win an Oscar by challenging an Oscar winner to a game and betting the Oscar as the prize. The speaker is motivated to win an Oscar to thank their teacher who started their creative journey. Despite the challenging plan and not knowing any Oscar winners, they embark on this quest, listing Oscar winners and their contact information online.
🎭 Winning the Olivier Award
The speaker recounts their journey to win an Olivier Award, the top prize for professional theater in London. They successfully win the award by solving a riddle posed by Henry Lewis, the award recipient. The speaker then shifts focus to their ultimate goal of winning an Oscar, acknowledging the difficulty of contacting Oscar winners. However, they manage to connect with Jenny Beavan, a renowned costume designer with multiple Oscar wins, and challenge her to a game of 'Guess Who' with one of her Oscars at stake.
🎉 Triumph in the Unlikely Oscars Pursuit
The speaker successfully wins an Oscar from Jenny Beavan by correctly guessing her character in the custom 'Guess Who' game. They celebrate their victory, having won not only an Oscar but also a BAFTA and an Olivier Award. The speaker then visits their former teacher, Mrs. Hunter, to present her with the Oscar as a token of gratitude for her support and belief in their potential 25 years ago.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Academy Award
💡YouTuber
💡Creative Journey
💡Oscar Winner
💡Alphabetti Spaghetti
💡Adobe Creative Cloud
💡Guess Who
💡Olivier Award
💡Creative Process
💡Costume Design
💡Recognition
Highlights
The narrator's desire to win an Academy Award and recognition in Hollywood.
The unique plan to win an Oscar by challenging an Oscar winner to a game and betting the Oscar as the prize.
The narrator's motivation to win an Oscar to thank their teacher who started their creative journey.
The humorous and challenging process of trying to contact Oscar winners and their agents.
The narrator's ambition to win awards for stage, television, and film, aiming for an Olivier, BAFTA, and Oscar.
The creative strategy of using Adobe Creative Cloud tools like Photoshop and Premiere Pro in the quest for an Oscar.
The entertaining writing game challenge with BAFTA-winning writer James, involving alphabetti spaghetti.
The clever tactic of removing vowels from the alphabetti spaghetti to gain an advantage in the word-writing challenge.
The surprising and humorous acceptance speech prepared by the narrator.
The narrator's realization of the need to reach out to unsung heroes like best engineering effects Oscar winners.
The unexpected connection through Jenny Bevan, an iconic costume designer with multiple Academy Awards.
The custom Guess Who game created for Jenny Bevan, featuring characters from her movie works.
The clever riddle posed by Jenny Bevan and the narrator's process of elimination to solve it.
The triumphant moment when the narrator wins an Oscar from Jenny Bevan by correctly guessing her character.
The heartwarming visit to Mrs. Hunter, the teacher who inspired the narrator, to present the won awards.
The emphasis on the importance of Adobe Creative Cloud in the narrator's creative process and video production.
Transcripts
I've always wanted an Academy Award but
Hollywood has never quite recognized my
cinematic talents how you doing so I'm
going to take things into my own hands
and become the first YouTuber ever to
win an Oscar Oscar Oscar Oscar this
isn't going to be easy but I love a
challenge here on the maxos YouTube
channel come on this is the story of how
I convinced an Oscar winner to bet their
award also I could give that Oscar to
the teacher who cast me in my first ever
play there we go but there's one big
problem I am such an idiot why on Earth
would any Oscar winner bet their most
prized possession I think you find keep
their mind this video has been sponsored
by
Adobe I need to win an Oscar mainly
because I want to thank my teacher that
started me off on this creative Journey
that is now weirdly my
job so that one of her pupils is an
Academy Award winner we all know it
takes ages to win an Oscar in the normal
way just ask Leonardo Dicaprio and if
you're under the age of 25 he'll
probably reply so we all know I'm not
going to win an Oscar from the academy
but I might be able to win an Oscar from
an Oscar winner so this is my plan I'm
going to find an Oscar winner I'm going
to challenge them to a game and I'm
going to convince them to bet their
Oscar as the prize and so if I win I can
then say I have won an Oscar making me
Max fos Oscar winner there is one
gargantuan problem with this plan I
don't know anyone who's won an Oscar yet
so over the next few hours I made a list
of Oscar winners their agents and any
contact information that I could find
online but if you thought I'd stop at
just trying to win an Oscar you'd be
dead wrong back in the day I was pretty
much a triple
threat so I wanted to do something that
very few had ever done win an award for
stage television and film an Olivier a
baa and an Oscar and after a couple of
weeks of ad admin I was on the way to
win my first award um so with a baa
Olivier and an Oscar I would have won a
boo sorry to frighten you I haven't
heard back from the any of the Oscar
winners but right now I'm on the way to
collect my first
award the ba hello James very smart I
thought I'd dress up for the occasion
good to see you and you oh careful for
the flex that's yours is this is James
he's a ba awardwinning writer and I
wanted to win award off him did you have
this with you at all times Well the
reason I've got it is because you said
you wanted to borrow it no I want to win
it I did indeed want to win it and as
James was a writer I thought I'd play
him at a writing game okay the challenge
who can write the longest word
using alphabetti spaghetti ah okay fine
and if I write a longer one than you I
can have your B on your marks get set go
it's a really unpleasant experience this
thanks Max I think I might have got a
funny tin struggling for vows yeah
interesting I think I know why I wasn't
coming here to lose so before starting
I'd removed every single vowel from
James's alphabetti spaghetti good luck
making words now Jimbo do you need some
vowels you got how long have we got 10
seconds oh you're joking three two one
stop what have you got I've got five
yeah I've got three okay which under the
circumstances was pretty good going Got
Boobs have you yeah well I've just just
got
poo I think you've won the ba
temporarily no won the borar I've won
the B are you going to make like an
acceptance speech or something like that
oh that's a good idea um God what do you
say in these things I'd like to thank my
mom and dad my agent and Adobe and
Creative Cloud Adobe is incredibly
important in my creative process and I
use various different tools such as
Premier Pro and Photoshop to make these
videos and you may have seen me editing
some unusual stuff with Photoshop before
like this thumbnail this was all made in
Adobe Photoshop oh no the reflection in
the Fishbowl is covering up my ears
using photoshop's generative fill and
leaving the prompt Space Blank it will
automatically fill in what it thinks
should be there in the background but
more importantly this video has been
made using Premiere Pro the whole thing
it's also going to help me on my quest
because just yet we haven't quite found
ourselves an Oscar winner so I'm going
to use a combination of photoshop's
generative fill feature and Premier
Pro's awesome effect for green screens
Ultra Kia to make a pitch video to
hopefully snag me that Oscar I'm just a
man standing in front of Award winner
asking them to do something really silly
also do you have an Oscar I'm going to
be sending this off to more Award
winners to see if I can get a nibble
make sure you check out the link in my
description and download Adobe Creative
Cloud today so you can start creating
I'll bring this back in 24 hours
suddenly got a lot of Chester one award
in the bag batter secured I still had no
word back from any Oscar winners next
award please but in my weeks of
messaging and research I did have
another lead but yet again not for an
Oscar this was Henry Lewis hi hi hi good
to meet Max and this is his Olivier
award the top prize for professional
theater in London that yeah what did you
win it for uh for the play that goes
wrong fantastic writer produced it act
it star on it that's right yeah sing the
theme tune I didn't write the theme tune
no I can't say that credit olier I would
like to win it you like to win it okay
do you have anything within your brain
which is full of fantastic wonderments
that could prove to you that I do indeed
am worthy of winning the Olivia from me
okay it's got to be a riddle right if
you can Sol the riddle it's yours okay
when I'm young I stand up tall when I'm
old I'm very very small what am
I I mean my immediate thought is Danny
DeVito but it's a tricky one give me a
clue it's not not alive so Dan dito
obviously alive would be danito this is
remarkably embarrassing but you know
it's for the
Olivia is it a candle a candle is
absolutely right yet when it burns down
of course it's small congratulations
it's all yours I'd like to thank my mom
no we don't have time we don't have time
Olivier award won I had now officially
won two major entertainment Awards but
one still remained just Out Of Reach now
time for the big one the Oscar if I was
going to get my hands on an Oscar I was
going to need to go back to the drawing
board this might be already quite common
knowledge for you but I am such an idiot
I've won an Olivia and I've won a baa
really cool but I don't have an Oscar
which was my goal all along in this
whole process I've been trying to find
Oscar winners from the people who were
on screen y meril streets and
unsurprisingly she hasn't got back to me
but of course there are so many other
categories that you can win an Oscar for
best engineering effects I should have
been reaching out to The Unsung here
Heroes they are by definition quite sung
because they have one an oscar but you
know what I mean and this had a bit more
luck a few days later I'd heard back
from someone who knew someone who knew
someone's auntie's dog who knew someone
else who knew an address for me to show
up at the next
day hello this is Jenny bevon she's an
icon a costume designer extraordinaire
and perhaps the nicest woman I've ever
met in a long time I love clothes I'm
telling stories with but in real life
I'm majorly uninterested so do you keep
them all in kind of one place I know
they're quite a lot of them bit
ridiculous they're oh she's also won
quite a few things with Academy Awards
for Best Costume design for a room with
a view Jenny Mad Max Fury Road and
Cruella and that's just to name a few
these are ems that's the Olivia so i'
I've gone around London trying to find
ba Olivia with winers I could have just
come here the whole time and after
hearing about my plan to surprise my old
teacher she was willing to put one of
her Oscars on the line so Jenny this is
what what we shall be playing yeah for
one of your Academy Awards okay are you
familiar with the game of guess who okay
I used to be quite good at it I'd
prepared a custom guess Who board game
for Jenny made up entirely of characters
from movies she herself has worked on
but could I beat her at her own game I
think they should go right here to have
a good look at the GU who absolutely one
starts by choosing your character y okay
I am I'm locked in right okay so do I
ask like is is your character wearing a
hat my first question may be if I was to
wear this at Sainsbury's would I get any
odd looks well I don't think that's a
difficult question you would with all of
them if you turned up Sous yes so I
think that Haley Atwell is gone D Lewis
although it would be quite in character
I would look out of place if I turned up
as Colin F in the King speech okay AB
did I enjoy working on this
film I think you I think you did enjoy
working on this film for one very
specific reason he's right would I be
able to fit into your individual's
costume yes oh okay so I think amelda ta
is quite small I don't think I'd fit
into Emma Stone's Cruella I didn't say
it wouldn't be Clos I think you could
fit after some back and forth I knew my
only chance of winning was to take a
shot at a guess I think I'm going to
make my final guess here is your person
Dame Emma Thompson
correct well paid you win honestly you
win you know what's also funny my
character was also d
I had done it i' had now officially won
not only an oscar but a baa and Olivier
as well thank you I'll be
back I think you're find to don't own no
I've just won it okay thank you give
them to your gorgeous thank you and all
that was left to do was to show them off
to Mrs Hunter the woman who started it
all 25 years ago look who it
is look look
there we go look that's what you did I
did this yes with this you very much saw
something in me at the very beginning at
the very beginning 100% And so what I
have done is that I wanted to go out and
I wanted to be a decorated actor I've
always want to be a decorated actor so
what I've done is I have actually oh
here it comes I have actually got you
here this this is an actual
Oscar I won it off of a costume designer
who won it for M Max Bey Road just such
a privilege pride of place where should
I stick
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