Chapter 171 Hero!

"Chen, I heard that this is your first time as a producer and you won the Oscar for Best Picture, becoming the first Chinese director to win this award. Do you think this is a groundbreaking moment?"

When Chen An heard the reporter ask this, he just thought you were so arrogant.

In your eyes, is Oscar already so great?
Chen An answered without thinking: "It is indeed a major moment, but it cannot be called epoch-making. Of course, it would be true if we win all the nominated awards."

If they win both Best Director and Best Picture, Chen An wouldn't mind bragging about it for them.

"How do you feel about Traffic losing the best director award, which was the most popular award?"

"What's the feeling? The more this happens, the more I want to get it!"

Chen An smiled, took a puff of his cigarette and said.

Of course I feel unhappy, I want them all.

"So is your next goal to win the Oscar for Best Director?"

Facing this question, Chen An thought for a while before saying, "The goal is to make better movies. Not only Oscars, but also Berlin, Cannes, and Venice. I want to try and see if I can win them all."

At present, there are only three directors who have won the three grand slams, and none of them has won the Oscar for Best Director.

There are actors who have achieved the Grand Slam, such as Sean Penn, but no director has achieved this result.

If Chen An can really complete the Grand Slam, it will be truly epoch-making.

And according to Chen An's estimation, he would have to win the Oscar for Best Director first before he could proceed. Robert Altman, one of the three Grand Slams, was stuck at this point after winning all three.

He was nominated six times but didn't get a single award.

Faced with Chen An's ambitious answer, the reporters quickly wrote it down. After drinking, the tone of the answer was different and it was much louder.

After that, the reporters asked a few questions and then turned to ask the heroine, Charlize Theron, who won the title tonight.

"Ms. Theron won the Best Actress Oscar for the first time she was nominated, getting rid of the title of one of Hollywood's vase actresses. Is it Chen that you want to thank the most?"

Charlize Theron, holding the Oscar statuette in front of her chest, stood on the left of Chen An. She picked up the trophy with her right hand and said:

"Yes, just like I said on the podium, thank you Chen for giving me this opportunity, allowing me to play her and helping me win this award."

The news of Oscar night spread quickly.

Although Chen An, who was the most popular candidate for Best Director, did not win the award, he defeated what the media described as the few blockbusters with an epic feel and won the Best Picture award.

Although she won the Golden Globe, Theron, who was still less popular than Julia Roberts, defeated her again and won the Oscar for Best Actress!
There were so many surprises that it caused quite a stir.

The role of the Oscar statuette was also successfully demonstrated.

In the fifteenth week after the awards ceremony, the movie box office dropped by one million compared to the fourteenth week, and only achieved a box office revenue of 800 million.

But in the following sixteenth week, the box office rebounded to 1348 million, returning to the top three in the box office chart!
The box office revenue for the next two weeks totaled $2136 million.

After winning the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor, in just three weeks this movie, which had already exhausted its potential and was about to be withdrawn from theaters, saw another surge in box office revenue, earning over 30 million!
Only after that did Warner begin to reduce the number of theaters and increase overseas releases.

As the Los Angeles Daily News said, the Oscar statuette is indeed a little angel protecting the box office. After the award ceremony, Chen An accepted interviews with some magazines.

Variety, the top entertainment business magazine in the United States, also made Chen An’s interview photo its cover!
This variety interview magazine, which was founded in 1905 and is the ancestor of Hollywood or even the United States, is known as the 'Hollywood Bible'.

Here, Chen An was also asked by the interviewer: "Why did you come to Hollywood to develop your career?"

Just like on the cover, Chen An sat on the sofa and said:
"That's a good question. Everyone thinks that coming to Hollywood is a natural thing to do, and I think it's the same for coming here, but the reason I came to Hollywood was completely due to an unexpected encounter. I just met Jerry, my partner, who has always been my film producer."

"Maybe it's because I'm too old that many people only remember me, but his efforts can't be ignored. I didn't originally plan to come to Hollywood. At that time, I even needed a translator to talk to Jerry."

"It was his invitation that gave me the idea to come to Hollywood, and it was his unreserved support that made my ideas come true."

No matter what, Jerry is undoubtedly his mentor. Although Chen An usually doesn't express his gratitude, he always remembers it.

The Oscars are broadcast live on television, so there's no need to wait for news to come back.

You can directly see the award results.

The news that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Million Dollar Baby" won the awards immediately set off an entire country!
Li An’s Chinese-language film not only won four awards, but also won the first Chinese-language Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!

After winning the Best Original Screenplay last year, Chen An won the highest awards of Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Best Picture this year!
Each one is a Chinese-language film, an unprecedented breakthrough for Chinese directors, just like Zhang Yimou won the Berlin Golden Bear, one of the three highest awards in Europe, for the first time in many years!
It directly triggered all major media outlets, and they rushed to report it so that it could be seen everywhere!
'Chinese-language films and Chinese directors have once again made an unprecedented breakthrough, with Chen An and Taiwanese director Li An winning Hollywood's highest awards, the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film, respectively!'

'The last top international award has been won! Chen An won the Best Picture Oscar, and Taiwanese director Li An won the first Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for a Chinese-language film! ! '

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Zhang Yimou looked at the newspaper brought to him by his partner Zhang Weiping.

The news that Chen An and Li An won the grand prize respectively appeared on it, and Zhang Yimou's wrinkled face looked even more depressed.

Best Foreign Language Film and Best Picture.

He didn't have any thoughts about the Best Picture, but after seeing Li An win the Best Foreign Language Film, he could no longer suppress the urge in his heart.

The two of Europe's top three were neck and neck with each other, and one of them was awarded to him by himself, but now he is one step ahead of himself.

His own films had applied for the Olympic Games several times, but failed every time. Now that the other party has won the first one, he, who originally didn't care much about the award, couldn't help but think of the martial arts script he had been preparing for a long time.

I want to try it myself too.

"I have already discussed with Yimou Investment. You can rest assured that I will help you get the funds even if it is a loan." Zhang Weiping has been with him for such a long time and has some understanding of each other.

I brought this newspaper here specially because I don't believe you can resist it.

The script was ready, but the two had conflicts over the production. Zhang Yimou did not plan to increase the cost, but Zhang Weiping saw the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Time and Space Clues" which Chen An had previously planned to shoot, and felt that the cost should be increased.

Invite various big stars to join and sell to North America!

Zhang Yimou looked at the script with the word "Hero" written on it with his deep and cloudy eyes. After an unknown amount of time, he finally nodded and said, "I'll listen to you, Wei Ping."

(End of this chapter)