Chapter 308 Best Foreign Language Film
The annual Oscar season is quietly approaching again. In the second round of candidates for the Best Foreign Language Film, the Chinese mainland film "Aftershock", the Hong Kong film "Time Thieves" and the Taiwanese film "Monga" were all eliminated in advance.

Netizens were somewhat disappointed. After all, she had been nominated before, but now she is not even nominated anymore.

"Earthquake is not as good as Under the Hawthorn Tree. In my opinion, Under the Hawthorn Tree should be the first to be shown."

Zhang Weiping took the opportunity to say sarcastically, "Feng Xiaogang is not worthy of winning the award. His place has been wasted."

Zhang Weiping's speech this time actually received support from many netizens. Those who did not go are always the most promising. It seems to be the same in any industry.

Facing Zhang Weiping's sarcasm, Feng Xiaogang responded sharply, and the two of them went back and forth, making the conversation very lively.

Along with the second round of Oscar foreign language film candidate lists, there are also two animated films nominated by Tomorrow Star Pictures, "Despicable Me 2" and "Frozen".

Both animated films were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, competing fiercely with forty-four other animated works.

As in previous years, Ryder, head of Rising Star Pictures, will attend this year's Oscars as a film producer. After all, these two films were produced by Disney and DreamWorks, and the directors and voice actors of the two animations will also attend.

After this news came out, it also diluted the topic of "Earthquake" not being shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

"Frozen has grossed over $1 billion and has a great chance of winning the Best Animated Feature Film award this year."

"The most popular movies at the moment are Frozen, Despicable Me 2 and Toy Story 3. Director Gu's company has two of the three, so they have the best chance."

Some careful people analyzed it and listed the data such as box office, reputation, and reviews of several animated films.

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In Gu Wei's home, the living room is brightly lit.

Liu Yifei snuggled on Gu Wei's shoulder, her right hand and Gu Wei's left hand interlocked, and the two watched TV together.

After attending the annual meeting and celebration banquet, the two stayed in the villa for the past two days. After finishing the film editing, Gu Wei did not go to the company and took a rare rest.

After the two watched the TV series for a while, Liu Yifei took out her notebook and started browsing the entertainment news online.

Gu Wei continued to watch the TV series "Palace" on TV. As the opening drama of the new year, this drama has just been aired.

Perhaps because of the novel subject matter, the show received positive reviews from many netizens as soon as it was broadcast. The leading actors Yang Mi and Feng Shaofeng also accumulated a large number of fans thanks to this TV series.

In fact, when it comes to costume time-travel dramas, the 01 "A Step into the Qin" can be considered the ancestor, and in 03, there was "Love Across Time and Space". This "Palace" can be considered the ancestor of Qing Dynasty time-travel dramas. Compared with Tangren Film and Television's "Startling by Each Step", it has a time advantage.

"Senior, take a look at what someone posted online. It says that if you want to win an Oscar, you must meet these conditions."

Gu Wei stared at the TV, and heard the young lady's voice in his ears. Then Liu Yifei handed the notebook to him.

"Analysis of the three major factors that have contributed to the Oscars' success!"

The big headline was announced on Weibo.

The only factors written below the title are awards, fame, and background.

The North American distribution company is the backstage. If you don’t have it, then before entering the Oscars, you’d better win something at the three major international film festivals, Berlin, Cannes, and Venice. If you don’t have any of these, at least the director must have the title of master, so that the judges will be more patient and watch it.

Without these things, it would be almost impossible to be nominated for an Oscar.

You know what, there is something to it. At least as far as Gu Wei knows, all the Oscar winners over the years have done some public relations beforehand.

Unfortunately, our Chinese are best at socializing, but this is not reflected when we go abroad. I really don’t know what the directors who submit the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film every year are thinking.

"Senior, is everything here true? Every movie needs PR?"

Liu Yifei on the side asked.

"Well, that's about right!"

Gu Wei said this calmly, but Liu Yifei continued to ask, "Then was your last nomination for the Best Actress at the Oscars also due to PR?"

Gu Wei did not explain these things in detail to Liu Yifei. He thought the young lady would understand. He did not expect that the girl was also careless and only reacted now.

"Don't overthink it. Even if it's PR, you still need to have the ability to qualify. It's not something that can be solved simply by spending money."

Seeing that the young lady's expression had changed slightly, Gu Wei hurriedly explained.

This girl has been a little unstable since she finished filming "On the Beach at Night Alone", so don't let her get irritated.

Liu Yifei wrinkled her nose and said, "Well, I hope this movie will have a good result, and I hope my fans can see my acting skills."

Hearing this, Gu Wei thought for a moment and said, "No matter what the result is, don't feel pressured. If one film doesn't work, just keep doing the next one and hone your acting skills slowly."

Hearing Gu Wei's words, Liu Yifei blinked and extended a hand to him.

"what?"

"Let's work hard together."

Meeting Liu Yifei's smiling and energetic eyes, Gu Wei stretched out his hand and shook her hand tightly.

They looked at each other, and the only thing that appeared in each of their eyes was the other's figure.

The two of them stayed together for a while, and Gu Wei wanted to take the girl to exercise, but Liu Yifei insisted on continuing to browse Weibo and finish reading the previous post. …

On the other hand, after the Weibo post came out, Feng Xiaogang felt even more uncomfortable.

The meaning of this statement is probably almost clear: if the director of "The Great Earthquake" was Gu Wei or Zhang Yimou instead of Feng Xiaogang, it might have worked.

"Unfortunately, in Hollywood's eyes, they only have a few big directors like Gu Wei, Li An, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and Wong Kar-wai. Others are dispensable in their eyes."

There were comments from netizens below, and many people said that this was indeed the case.

Because the preliminary selection method for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is to watch each film for 20 minutes first. When the time is up, if no one raises a sign to request to watch more, the film will be considered rejected.

Therefore, many films only have the opportunity to be 20 minutes or at most 40 minutes.

The problem is that the first 20 minutes of many good films may be really boring. At this time, if your film participates in the three major film festivals and even wins an award, the judges' patience with you may be 60 minutes or even longer, rather than just 20 minutes.

However, after the argument with Zhang Weiping, Feng Xiaogang was now in a difficult situation. After some analysis in the circle, more and more netizens outside the circle criticized him.

Netizens also feel disappointed, after all, it has been so many years and no one has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Feng Xiaogang, who was staying at home, was cursing in his heart after reading the post. Who doesn't want to win an award? Zhang Yimou has such a high status, it's just that he has won many awards. Especially Gu Wei, who won the Oscar for Best Director and is now the first person in the country to do so, with a higher status than Zhang Yimou.

The box office of Feng Xiaogang's movies is no worse than others, and is many times higher than that of Chen Kai, but his status is somewhat low, isn't it just because he hasn't won any international awards?

Alas, this is a vicious cycle.

"It would be best if I could win an award, but not winning an award won't affect my mentality. Earthquake has already won once at the box office, so it's reasonable that I lost an award."

Finally, Feng Xiaogang posted a message on Weibo and gave a simple explanation.

But any discerning person could see that he had been criticized to the point where he had no more words to say and could only use the box office as an excuse.

Not only movies are joining in the fun during the Spring Festival, but TV dramas are also targeting this day of family reunion, which happens to be the winter vacation.

In the office of Tangren Film and Television Company, Cai Yinong has always had a gloomy face recently, which has made the employees who come to work silent and afraid to make mistakes.

"Alas, it's all because of that drama 'Palace'. Mr. Cai has lost his temper several times."

"Palace Lock Heart Jade", which is said to be the first domestic drama set in the Qing Dynasty, has cooperated with Mango Satellite TV and is currently being broadcast on Capital TV and Mango TV.

Nowadays, costume themes are gaining popularity again, and time-travel themes are favored by many producers.

Yu Zheng's "Beauty's Rival in Palace" is a huge hit, and the palace-fighting dramas "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "The Imperial Concubine" are also being filmed in Hengdian, all wanting to get a piece of the pie.

In addition, Cai Yinong was overtaken by "Palace", so it would be strange if he was in a good mood.

"They are a bunch of shameless guys."

Cai Yinong doesn't have many good solutions now except being angry. They have already quarreled several times in the early stage. Making a fuss now will only make "Palace" more popular.

She would definitely not do such a stupid thing.

“We have to speed up the production of ‘Startling by Each Step’. If we can’t release the first part, we have to at least keep the reputation of the second part.” Cai Yinong thought to himself and then called his assistant.

"Boss Cai, what do you want to talk to me about?"

The assistant pushed open the office door and asked cautiously. As the New Year was approaching, everyone had a lot of things to do. In addition, the person in front of her was in a bad mood, so she had no choice but to serve him carefully.

"We announced the completion date of "Startling by Each Step" and then did some publicity from the production of our TV series."

"What should be done specifically?"

Seeing that Cai Yinong's face did not look too bad, the assistant continued to ask about the specific method.

"They'll make a fuss about the quality of the TV series and the selection of the right people, and then spread some gossip to attract the audience's attention..."

At this moment, Cai Yinong was ready to try out all the methods he had used recently to get along with others.

On the other hand, Yang Mi is now having a smooth journey. At the beginning of this year, "Palace" was a big hit, and she has also received a lot of scripts recently. It can be said that everything is going well for her.

However, looking at the script in her hand, Yang Mi was a little worried at the moment.

"Are there no other scripts?"

Yang Mi asked Zeng Jia, the scripts in her hands were basically not well-known, and the directors were not big names. She could tell that some of the scripts were bad movies, and they would definitely be criticized if they were filmed.

"These are the ones I carefully selected. The others are worse."

Zeng Jia was also a little helpless. There were always a lot of people watching the movies of big directors in the circle, so it was not easy to get them.

"Well, let's take a look first. If it doesn't work, change the agency."

Hearing Yang Mi mention this again, Zeng Jia nodded slightly. Ever since entering this circle, the person in front of him has been ambitious, and every step he takes has a clear purpose.

But this is a good thing for a celebrity artist. After all, a female star's blooming period is very short and there is no room for wasting time.

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(End of this chapter)