The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 366 "The Return of the Great Sage"

After Chen Jingxing finished recording the last episode of "Director", he boarded the transoceanic flight non-stop, because the Golden Globe Awards were about to open.

Accompanying them were Qin Zhonghe, the chief producer of "Gravity", Jiang Ming, the chief conductor of the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra, and You Zuorong, the director of the screenwriting team of "Matrix".

"Gravity" was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Score, and "The Matrix" was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

Originally, Xu Wenshen and Penguin Video wanted the leading actors of "Gravity" and "Matrix" to also go-Penguin Video urgently won the right to broadcast the Golden Globe Awards.

On "The Birth of a Director", Huanshiwang took the lead, and moved very quickly for the Golden Globe Award Penguin video, and won the only live broadcast right in the mainland.

The copyright of the live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards is not expensive. In the past, there were not many media in China who were willing to spend money to win the broadcast. Even if they were influential, most people would just watch the results of the Golden Globe Awards the next day.

But isn't Chen Jingxing nominated for two films?As a result, the attention of Huaguo audience has increased by N levels, and Penguin Video is the online media with the quickest eyes and the fastest hands.

Huanshi.com was caught off guard by Penguin Video. Naturally, they would not let Oscar go. The two major video platforms wanted to snatch the broadcasting rights of Oscar in the mainland. Unexpectedly, the National Propaganda Department would end the show directly. After communicating with the two major streaming media, let CCTV Movie Channel has become the only institution in the mainland that can broadcast the entire process of this year's Oscar Awards Ceremony live.

You must know that it is not common for CCTV to broadcast the Oscar ceremony, but who made Chen Jingxing break the record and won 14 Oscar nominations with two domestic films?
Even though this shocking news has spread for several days, the heat has not subsided, and even the heat and topic discussions overseas are still in full swing.

Hua Guo's directors are all sci-fi films, and they almost swept the nominations. This has never happened in the history of Oscars, not to mention that domestic netizens have never seen it, and neither have foreign netizens.

It can be said that this has completely become a social issue. Even the middle-aged and elderly people know that Huaguo has produced a talented director who has won more than a dozen nominations for the highest award in the American film industry, the Oscar. , breaking records or something.

It is conceivable that the ratings of the broadcast of the Oscar awards show should not be low, and it was during the Chinese New Year, there were no programs or TV, only reruns of the Spring Festival Gala and cross talk sketches over and over again, the Oscar broadcast may attract many people to watch.

Penguin Video naturally hopes that the leading stars of "Gravity" and "Matrix" will appear at the Golden Globe Awards. Domestic audiences will definitely love to watch them, and the actors themselves must also hope to come.

However, Chen Jingxing rejected it after repeated consideration. It is better to wait until the Oscars. The Golden Globes really don't need such a big show.

The actors did not object either, the Oscars naturally had more big names than the Golden Globes, and the Oscars were nominated for best picture, so the actors could stand up logically.

In fact, it stands to reason that Chen Jingxing only needs to be the leader of the Golden Globe Awards. Even if the best foreign language film is awarded, only the director needs to be on stage to accept the award. After some communication, DreamWorks decided to let the titular chief producers of "Gravity" Qin Zhong and Mr. Qin lead the team in person.

After all, in case there is any accident at that time, for example, some people publish some sensitive and inappropriate content on stage-this is not unfounded. Some people want to gain fame. There are many filmmakers in Hollywood who like to express political opinions. Especially when the two Huaguo movies are so popular, it's hard to prevent someone from getting their brains hot.

If such an unexpected situation occurs, with Qin Zhonghe in charge, he will withdraw from the meeting at that time, and there are rules for protesting, and Qin Zhonghe can also take this responsibility.

"Your "Director" show was a big deal, and I saw that the debate on the Internet was quite heated." Qin Zhonghe chatted with Chen Jingxing as soon as he took his seat.

Chen Jingxing quickly complained: "It's not my fault, the rules of the program never say that award-winning directors can be selected as the director of "Black Mirror", Huanshi.com made me miserable."

In fact, according to his original intention, there is no need for audience votes at all, and there is no need for gold and silver awards. He just selects five directors from among them. As a result, Huanshi.com decided to add a director after a long time for the number of broadcasts. Audience voting for awards.

Then he found out that the five directors he selected had nothing to do with audience votes, which naturally sparked controversy.

Of course, there is a difference between the director Chen Jingxing needs and the works and directors that the audience likes. The five stories of "Black Mirror II" have been determined, with different styles, and different types of directors are needed to direct them. Different directors have already thought about which episode to correspond to.

Of course, netizens re-discovered the rules announced in the first episode of the program afterwards, and they did find that the rules were written very clearly. It was never said that the award-winning director would become the director of "Black Mirror".

So the debate among netizens was not that Chen Jingxing violated the rules or anything, but that Chen Jingxing didn't know what to do, and their favorite director couldn't direct "Black Mirror", and then they defended the candidate they supported.

It even extended to whether some of the selected directors were related to DreamWorks, whether they used the back door or not.

However, this kind of debate is similar to that in many talent shows, where the respective supporters argue over the ranking of the contestants, and it is also a normal topic of discussion.

Qin Zhonghe exposed Chen Jingxing with a smile: "What's your name Qu? I think you are happy to see this, last time Mr. Tian from Jianghe Culture told me that DreamWorks is the best at network marketing he has ever seen. movie company."

Chen Jingxing smiled without saying a word.

Is it not good to have controversy in "The Birth of a Director"?Of course, isn't this the promotional video for "Black Mirror II"?The more many viewers are dissatisfied with the results of "The Director", the more they will pay attention to the filming and launch of "Black Mirror II".

Seeing Chen Jingxing's reaction, Qin Zhonghe knew what was going on, laughed a few times, skipped the topic, and talked about the two film awards that he was going to hit during this trip.

He said with a lot of emotion: "I didn't expect to see our domestic films and filmmakers hit the Oscars again before retirement."

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000 was produced by a company under the National Film Corporation, and Qin Zhonghe had just become the helm of National Film Corporation at that time, so he also experienced the brilliant achievements of that movie in Hollywood.

Therefore, he also became obsessed with Oscars. Afterwards, many major directors in China also promoted the blockbuster costume films that were obviously aimed at the Golden Globes and Oscars.

After the domestic film market became more and more popular in the past few years, Qin Zhonghe's thoughts gradually faded, and he focused on commercial blockbusters and industrial films with all his strength.

And he never expected that Chen Jingxing would give him such a big surprise.

Although he fell in love with this talented young man very early on, and even temporarily added Chen Jingxing's name to the study exchange class in the United States in 14, the main reason was that the sci-fi themes shot by Chen Jingxing were considered new genres in China and were rare films. .

Qin Zhonghe's high hopes for Chen Jingxing are actually good seedlings who can shoot excellent industrial films.

Afterwards, Chen Jingxing exceeded his imagination step by step, especially with the release of "Source Code", "Gravity" and "Matrix" made him only amazed.

But even so, he never thought that this day would come.

Guoying is also the producer of "Gravity", so Qin Zhonghe naturally knew that DreamWorks and Universal decided on the PR awards, but he definitely did not think about the PR awards.

Thinking of this, Qin Zhonghe looked around, they were in the first class cabin, there were no other passengers, and the flight attendant was also sitting behind the curtain, so he asked the question he couldn't wait to know in a low voice through the corridor: "I'm sure ?"

Even Jiang Ming, the chief conductor of the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra in the back row, and You Zuorong, the head of the screenwriting team of "Matrix", stretched their ears.

Of course Chen Jingxing knew what Qin Zhonghe was asking, "Are you sure?" was definitely not a literal meaning.

He pondered for a while and said, "The Golden Globes are a little more certain, but the Oscars are basically not sure. You know the voting system and the number of judges for the Oscars, so it's hard to be sure."

Qin Zhonghe was a little disappointed, but he also nodded. Although he is not an Oscar judge, he also knows something about Oscar.

There are too many voters for the Oscars, which is the first difficulty.

The biggest feature is that the nomination and award rules of most Oscar awards are quite complicated. The single transferable ticket system, the sorting multiple selection system, and the iterative weighted scoring voting system make simple voting beyond human expectations and control.

For example, there are N positions on each ballot, and the name of an actor or movie needs to be filled in each position, just like the first choice and the second choice.

If the No. 50 tally doesn't show up as a choice that gets a simple majority of votes -- it usually doesn't, because there are thousands of votes and it's very rare for a movie or actor to get more than [-]% of the votes at No. [-].

First, remove the film or actor with the last number of votes in the first place, release this part of the ballots, and then allocate them to the film with the second place in the ballots. Which film has more than 50% of the votes? win.

If there is still no movie with more than half of the votes, the movie with the No.2 last number of votes will be removed and distributed according to the second place of these votes, and so on, until the cumulative number of votes for a movie exceeds 50%.

So this kind of situation often happens-the film with the most votes in the first place cannot win the award, but the film with the most votes in the second place is more likely to win the award.

This is why the Oscars are criticized, but movies that don't lose are more likely to be favored.

The comparison may not be who is the most popular, but who is more popular, or who is less annoying.

Even though the structure of the Oscar judges has undergone major changes, this voting mechanism is still difficult to grasp.

Chen Jingxing could only make decisions based on people, and the success of things depends on heaven.

At the same time as Chen Jingxing flew to Los Angeles, DreamWorks was not idle. After all, it was also a contestant in the Spring Festival file. The highly anticipated 3D animation movie "The Return of the Great Sage" in the animation circle was going to the final stage of publicity and release.

Therefore, DreamWorks held a spot screening for "The Return of the Great Sage", which made the outside world smell a little ambition of DreamWorks. Obviously, it is not like many media predicted that DreamWorks gave up this year's Spring Festival because of "Tang Detective".

Because DreamWorks has not held a screening for a long time.

(End of this chapter)