The Hong Kong Film Awards is different. The Hong Kong Film Awards are based on local films. There are three conditions for participating in the Film Awards. First, at least 8 people in the film team must be registered in Hong Kong, including: actors, photographers, screenwriters.
Wait. Second: The film director must be registered in Hong Kong. Third: The film has Hong Kong funds injected. If you meet any two of the three conditions, you can sign up for the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Just like later: "The City of Golden Armor" and "The Night Banquet" can be registered for the Academy Awards because they meet the first and third conditions, and "Aunt's Postmodern Life" because they meet the second and third conditions
You can also sign up for the Academy Awards under three conditions.
For example, although "Lust, Caution" has Hong Kong funds injected into it, the director Ang Lee is Taiwanese, and there are less than 8 Hong Kong people in the film team, so it can only be submitted for the Best Asian Film.
Compared to the Golden Horse Awards, the Academy Awards really seem a bit petty. Basically, only factors related to Hong Kong can be selected for the Academy Awards. This is widely criticized. If it were in the past, forget it. In the past, Hong Kong films were the most glorious.
At that time, Hong Kong movies basically represented Chinese-language movies. Ninety-nine percent of the movies that were generally talked about were Hong Kong movies. In East Asia, this was the territory of Hong Kong movies. When Hollywood movies came in, they had to be obedient, but now they are declining.
It means it has declined. In such a declining situation, it is absolutely unpopular to persist in this way.
Although there is intention to stand firm for Hong Kong films, just look at the Oscars. The Oscars do not prohibit films from all over the world from being submitted, and they do not favor anyone in particular. But have Hollywood films lost ground because of this? No, most of the time,
Hollywood movies are still very popular.
Think again about how brilliant Hong Kong films were in the 1980s. At that time, even if films from all Asia could compete, what was the use? Could they still be able to overwhelm the limelight of Hong Kong films at that time?
So in fact, it is the quality of films from a region that supports a film festival, rather than film festivals supporting films from a region. If Hong Kong films do not revive, it will be useless even if the Academy Awards try to restrict the entry of films from other regions.
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Now the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards are important awards in the Chinese film industry. They are both top awards for Chinese films. They are both known as the "Oscars" of Chinese films. The reason why the Academy Awards can still maintain Chinese language
The two major film festivals in the film industry are famous not because his strategy is right, but because the power of Hong Kong movies is still there. The mainstream people in society now are the people who grew up watching Hong Kong movies.
During the glorious period of Hong Kong films, a large number of talents were cultivated, so it is not difficult for many films to meet those three conditions. But in ten or twenty years, the directors, actors, and behind-the-scenes staff who are now supporting Hong Kong films will
When you are too old to walk or make movies, where can you find Hong Kong movies or more than eight crew members in mainland and Taiwanese movies at that time? By then, most Chinese-language movies will not be able to meet the participation requirements.
When it comes to the conditions for the award, the Academy Awards will only become an award that Hong Kong people rank among themselves. From Asia's top awards to awards at Hong Kong's own internal film festivals, this is all foreseeable.
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The only difference between the two film festivals is that the Golden Horse Awards focus more on literary and artistic films, while the Academy Awards focus on commercial films. This can be seen from some nominations. For example, the later "Red Cliff" shined at the Academy Awards, but at the Golden Horse Awards
In terms of awards, it is slightly inferior.
Naturally, Wang Zhengfei has little hope for the Academy Award. Of course, that does not mean that he has no ambition. As one of the two top awards in the Chinese film and television industry, it is of course impossible to say that he has no ambition. It should be said that he is very ambitious. And the film directed by Wang Zhengfei
The only movie that was actually filmed was "Immortality", and it was really difficult to squeeze into the Academy Awards by relying on the elixir of life. Moreover, Star Entertainment had just been established at that time, and even "Immortality" still followed Zhang Yimou.
Lao Mouzi's new picture company was able to be released to the public, otherwise it would be difficult to even release it. In this case, the first thing Gao Yan and Wang Zhengfei can do is to ensure that the company can survive first. As for the Golden Statue, Bonus Horse Award God
Ma's, it's all just clouds, it's still far away. Now that Xingchen Entertainment has finally developed, Gao Yan and Wang Zhengfei have to think about winning awards. For a company, it's useless just to have a box office. If you don't
The corresponding trophy for the top award is just a nouveau riche. Therefore, for many film companies, in addition to such commercial films, they must also shoot a certain amount of meaningful films and then compete for awards, otherwise the trophy display room will not be full at all.
Can't get up.
In fact, Wang Zhengfei and Gao Yan are still very interested in competing for the Academy Awards the year after next, that is, in 2007. Basically, the first part of "Qin Shi Mingyue" is destined to be released during the Spring Festival next year. According to
The selection process will also lead to the 2007 Academy Awards. Among these three conditions, in addition to Wang Zhengfei being a non-Hong Kong director, there are more than eight Hong Kong staff members in the crew. This is too simple.
There are far more than eight Hong Kong employees in "Qin Shi Mingyue". There is also Hong Kong investment, which is even easier. Gao Yan went to Hong Kong to open a leather bag company and then invested. Even if everyone knew there was something fishy, it would be useless.
He only said that there are Hong Kong investors, but he did not say that Hong Kong investors must also be Hong Kong people.
But for the time being, there is no need to think about 2007, which is still too far away. There is still more than a year and a half left. Although there is a long-term plan, it is only a long-term plan and is not the focus of the company's work.
As for the Golden Horse Award, although the conditions are sufficient, as long as it is a Chinese-language film, and of course the films produced by Star Entertainment are Chinese-language films, the Golden Horse Award prefers literary films and focuses on encouraging the creative characteristics of films with strong artistic surnames, resulting in
Some film workers criticized the Golden Horse Awards for being artistic and abstract and not helpful in encouraging the development of commercial films in Taiwan.
Before the Golden Horse Awards ceremony, the famous director Tsai Ming-liang publicly announced that he would boycott participation from now on, expressing his dissatisfaction with the Golden Horse Awards executive committee and jury members.
For this reason, although Star Entertainment has two films that meet the requirements for this year's Golden Horse Awards: "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", they didn't take it seriously. These two films are obviously commercial films.
This is the type that you can figure out with your toes.
And the Golden Horse Awards have always favored literary and artistic films, so Wang Zhengfei simply gave up the idea and thought that the Academy Awards would be more reliable.
But I didn't expect Gao Yan to apply for the two movies "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing" privately.
What's even more outrageous is that both of them were shortlisted. Wang Zhengfei was a little dumbfounded.
"Crazy Racer" was shortlisted for only one award, which was the Best Original Screenplay Award. I don't know if it was because of the hasty application process. On the contrary, "Crazy Stone" was shortlisted for several more awards.
The first one is naturally the Best Original Screenplay Award. The two films in this award are very directly related to Wang Zhengfei. Let’s not talk about “Crazy Stone”, which is completely written by Wang Zhengfei. Although “Crazy Racing” is still
There are several screenwriters, but none of them have the nerve to compete with Wang Zhengfei for this title. After all, Wang Zhengfei provided the creativity, line design and other things. They just copied the same thing, which is nothing. Without Wang Zhengfei, there would be no such thing.
When the script was released, Wang Zhengfei naturally had to take the top spot. There were only four nominees for the Best Original Screenplay Award, and artist Wang Zhengfei had two. The chance of winning was very high. With two scripts, he was nominated for the Academy Award.
Wang Zhengfei, a gold medal screenwriter, is even more famous. I don’t know how many people want to ask Wang Zhengfei to write a script.
The second one is the audience-voted Best Picture Award for "Crazy Stone". Although this award is not very professionally selected by the judges, and it seems to overlap with the Best Picture Award, it is a reflection of the audience.
Favorite fashion trend, to be shortlisted for this award shows that "Crazy Stone" has a very good foundation among the masses.
There is also the most important Best Director Award. No one expected "Crazy Stone" to be shortlisted for this award, because this award is the top priority of major film festivals every year, basically every year.
There are so many strong players. Not to mention winning the crown in the end, being shortlisted is already considered very impressive.
This time, two works under Star Entertainment were shortlisted, which is a miracle for Star Entertainment, a company that has only been in business for two years. Although there are only three awards, it is already good.
The other one who is ecstatic is naturally Ning Hao. Ning Hao can have two films nominated for the Golden Horse Awards. No matter what award he is nominated for, it is enough to increase his net worth several times to more than ten years based on the current basis.
Times, and "Crazy Stone" was actually shortlisted for the Best Director Award, an award he had thought about for a long time but never had the chance to win, or even be shortlisted for.
As a director, the top award he can win in his acting career is the Best Director Award. He originally thought that as long as he could participate in a third-rate mainland film festival and win this award before he turned fifty, he would be satisfied.
After all, he is still too young and still needs a lot of training. He didn't expect happiness to come so quickly.
Wang Zhengfei recalled this year's Golden Horse Awards. He didn't have many impressions, but there were still some things that left a deep impression.