944. Chapter 944 The 944th battle against Oscar
"Well..." Li Xiaole was not at all pleased by Kathryn Bigelow's comforting words, because he knew that in the original history, "The Hurt Locker" defeated "Avatar" and won the best director and best picture.
, this sounds incredible, but it is the truth. No matter how great a movie is, it must be lucky to win the Oscar. For example, "The Shawshank Redemption", which is known as one of the greatest movies, also lost to "The Shawshank Redemption" that year.
"The True Story of Gan".
This makes Li Xiaole feel a little uneasy. After all, he has James Cameron and Nolan competing side by side at the box office. In terms of awards, he also has Kathryn Bigelow, the most talented female director in Hollywood, who competes all the way and wins every award.
It was extremely difficult, and he could only sigh once again that this year was indeed a well-deserved year for movies.
The 67th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony has just come to an end. There are 24 film and television awards, and 13 movie awards are divided among 8 films. It can be said that there are flowers everywhere, among which "Avatar" leads the most with 3 awards (
3/7), followed by "Monkey King" with 2 entries (2/6). However, the popular "The Hurt Locker" failed to show any results. It is not an exaggeration to call tonight's ceremony a "controversial film night"
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This has also led to various controversies among everyone as to why the results of "Avatar", "Monkey King" and "The Hurt Locker" are so different in different film awards.
In fact, everyone involved in the vote counting knows clearly that whether it is the Golden Globe Awards or other awards, large and small, the votes for the three films this year are very close to each other in terms of Best Director and Best Picture. In many cases, the difference is only single digits.
Count, it’s no surprise who wins the prize.
With the emergence of these awards, a large number of news topics and commentaries have also been generated: "Can Bruce Lee defeat James Cameron and his wife?", "The Golden Globe Awards predicts the coronation of "Avatar"?", "Oscar Prospect Analysis",
""The political and sensitive themes of "The Legend of the Great Sage" made the judges feel bad"...
Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and other news agencies rushed to publish; "Los Angeles Times", "New York Times", "The Times", Yahoo Entertainment, Hollywood.com, NBC News Network, Fox News Network, Sina, Tengqi
News, QIMO and other global media reported on it.
Although the three major directors each took the lead in different awards, most of the focus was on Li Xiaole, the young Chinese who is unparalleled in the limelight this year.
Regardless of whether he wins or loses, Li Xiaole's news exposure rate is as high as that of live TV. It can almost be said that the whole world revolves around him! But when the flashlight is focused on a certain place, it is naturally because of people's attention. The media have long discovered that as long as they go to
Adding "Lee Jesus" to the title no matter how good the singing is
, or badmouthing, the click-through rate will skyrocket, so they are also willing to cooperate with Li Xiaole's screen-swiping activities. When he is in the banquet hall and on the stage, he is the protagonist. When he comes to the back stage to take a group photo of the winners, Li Xiaole is still the protagonist, no matter what
Film and television winners, men, women and children of all ages are vying to take photos with him.
The time has come to the evening of February 2, when the sky-breaking "Monkey King" and "Avatar" exceeded the global $2 billion mark. With the eager anticipation of movie fans around the world, they also received good news.
At 8 o'clock sharp on the west coast of the United States, the new president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tom Schelek and Hollywood star Anne Hathaway jointly announced the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
"The nominees for best picture include "Monkey King", "Avatar", "The Hurt Locker", "Inception"; "District 9", "Inglourious Basterds", "Up", "Inception"
"Cloud", "Serious Man"~"
"The nominees for Best Director include Bruce Lee's "The Monkey King"; Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker"; James Cameron's "Avatar"; Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds"; and the Coen brothers' "The Hurt Locker"
Serious man"~~"
As the 82nd Oscar nomination list is being announced! Bruce Lee fans all over the world are not disappointed. Watching "The Legend of the Monkey King" receiving nominations one after another, they exclaimed happily "Great!"
Awesome!!" "yeah!", "cool!", "great!" sounded!
Of course, it is impossible for the Academy Awards judges to ignore this epic blockbuster that has grossed US$2 billion in global box office. It is of course leading the list of nominations, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction,
Nine nominations including Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Score.
As arranged by the film academy, James Cameron's "Avatar" also received 9 nominations, which are exactly the same as Li Xiaole's selected projects.
Chinese movie fans who were watching the live broadcast of Pirate Channel in front of the screen cheered every time a nomination for "Monkey King" was announced, until it was announced that "Monkey King" was nominated for the best picture instead of the best foreign language film.
Talents jumped up from the bench. Even Han Sanpin from China Film Group couldn't help but waved his fist when he heard the news. Finally, a mainland film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture!!
"Li Xiaole, Li Xiaole!! Come out and see, what are you doing? We are the leader with nine nominations~~" Li Xiaole, Lei Ting, and Ha Jiwon, who had just finished the meeting, were eating dinner in a Chinese hotel in Los Angeles and were in the bathroom.
Seeing the live video on her mobile phone, Ha Ji-won jumped up and down excitedly, rushed to the dinner table and shouted: "Nine nominations~~!"
Li Xiaole and Lei Ting were lying on the table eating, and they said "oh" without any surprise.
"Huh? You already knew this?" Ha Jiwon looked at the two of them in surprise.
"Todd Hardy called yesterday~~" Li Xiaole said calmly: "He has told us the news in advance."
"Real or false? Then can he tell us the results of the judges in advance?" Ha Ji-won's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked expectantly.
"He can't do anything about this... Before that night, only a few old antiques from the academy knew about it, and there was nothing he could do about it." Li Xiaole shrugged.
"Then it's over... I definitely can't choose. When Americans choose movies, they must choose movies from their own country." Ha Ji-won pouted and said in frustration.
"Don't worry, we have a chance." Lei Ting continued to drink a bowl of tomato and beef soup without raising her head, "It has been widely spread in the industry that we did not suppress "Avatar" this time.
The attitude of the association has changed a lot. The Screenwriters Guild and the Screen Actors Guild both support us. In addition, our 'lobbying firm' hires top-notch people. The combination of all these factors will offset the bias caused by nationality."
"Huh...that's good~~" He Zhiyuan took a deep breath, looked at Lei Ting and asked curiously: "Speaking of which, Miss Lei, have you controlled your figure? You seem to be eating more recently.
I used to have a lot more... and I’ve gained some weight, so you’d better show some restraint and let’s wear nice clothes together at the Oscars~~”
"If you are fat, you are fat. I am going to wear fur. Only men who want me will want me if I am fat. I am also worried about how to get myself married!!" Lei Ting looked a little strange and snorted coldly. She turned around and left as if she was angry, but she left.
Halfway through, Yu turned around, picked up the unfinished bowl of beef soup, and shouted to the waiter: "Take it away!"
Both Li Xiaole and Ha Jiwon were stunned... What happened to Sister Xiaolei recently... This self-destructive style is really weird.
"I know!" Ha Ji-won clapped her hands in sudden realization and said: "As a producer, she was shortlisted for the best picture. It's because she was too stressed out by her nervousness and excitement, so she ate like crazy..."
"I don't think so..." Li Xiaole shook his head and murmured in his mind, could it be that Lei Ting has been lonely for too long and really wants to work hard to gain weight and get married...?
While movie fans around the world are looking forward to the Oscars, the multi-year box office battle is not over yet. "Monkey King" and "Avatar" continue to monopolize the top spot in the global single-week box office rankings. After the Oscar nominations were announced
, two popular works once again stimulated the movie-going craze. In the week after the nomination, it rebounded 22.8% against the trend and continued to lead the weekend box office with a box office of 43.89/42.78 million US dollars.
In the next month before the Oscars, people watched these two movies set new records one after another, refreshing the limits of people's minds every day, 2.1 billion... 2.2 billion... 2.3 billion... until
At the end of this month, all movie fans gasped when they saw the final statistics. The global box office of "Monkey King" was 3.057 billion U.S. dollars, and "Avatar" was 3.098 billion U.S. dollars...!! This result put
The top executives of all the film companies were so shocked that they did not react for several days...
You must know that the total box office of all movies in the world last year was only 21.7 billion US dollars... This is an achievement created by the combined total of 12,754 movies around the world, and the two movies "Monkey King" and "Avatar" only made 7/7 of last year's box office.
The total box office of 1... This number is really incredible.
At this time, both movies have begun to show signs of fatigue. "Avatar" leads by a slight margin with a total box office of 40 million U.S. dollars. It seems that the possibility of "Monkey King" catching up is no longer high, but
The time has come on March 7, 2010, Pacific Time Zone
On the same day, the 82nd Oscar ceremony is about to open. According to the practice of winning the Oscar for Best Picture, the winning film will start a new craze in theaters... Everyone realizes that the final result of this "Battle of the Two Kings" completely depends on it.
The results of the Oscars.
Chapter completed!