my movie years

Chapter 150 Winning the Oscar

On the evening of February 26, local time, and the morning of February 27, Beijing time, No.80's [-]th Oscar Awards Ceremony was officially held at the Hollywood & Highland Center.

The domestic penguin video is broadcast simultaneously on Sina.com.

Sina.com also has a live broadcast of the Oscar preview, inviting two well-known film critics to comment.

"Mr. Hou, what do you think is the chance that my country's Oscar-nominated film "The Undertaker" will win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this time?" asked Guo Wei, an intellectual and elegant host wearing a black silk business suit in a skirt.

She is the host of the Six Princesses movie channel, and Sina.com invited her to host this preview program.

Film critic Hou Jianchun replied: "I think being nominated is considered a success, and whether you win an award or not depends on the votes of the judges."

"Mr. Huang, what do you think?" Guo Wei asked another film critic, Huang Qimin.

Compared with Hou Jianchun's position of favoring Zhang Hao, Huang Qimin and Chen Gezi have always had a good relationship. This time, he intends to vent his anger on Chen Gezi, so he is not so polite.

"In my opinion, the Oscars should re-examine their selection criteria. Some films are obviously not eligible for the Oscars, but they can be shortlisted. This is obviously open to discussion."

Although Huang Qimin didn't mention his name, smart people know that he is talking about Zhang Hao and "The Undertaker".

The end of February was approaching the start of school, and Ye Xiaoyi returned to school.

Because classes hadn't started yet, and the internet in the dormitory was not good, she took her girlfriends to an Internet cafe near the school early in the morning to watch the Oscars ceremony.

Hearing what Huang Qimin said, Ye Xiaoyi frowned, and scolded coquettishly: "With such a wretched appearance, I know I can't say anything good."

The best friend at the side was crackling and playing Audition, when she heard Ye Xiaoyi's scolding, she asked, "Xiaoyi, what's wrong?"

"Wenwen, look at this wretched old man who actually said that our Zhang Hao's "The Undertaker" is not eligible for the Oscar." Ye Xiaoyi raised her finger and pointed at Huang Qimin on the screen.

The girl named Wenwen shook her head and said, "Hey, don't worry, he's just jealous. Let me know when the awards ceremony starts."

"it is good……"

At this time, many movie fans in China, if they have spare time, turn on Sina.com or Penguin Video to watch the awards ceremony.

Whether "The Undertaker" can successfully win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, many fans are very concerned.

Even many people who don't usually go to the cinema to watch movies have been reported by the media overwhelmingly. Recently, a young director and his works were shortlisted for Oscars.

Those who know the Oscars, of course, know that this award is the highest honor in the film industry, so they are very surprised.

Even if you don’t know about the Oscars, those around you who know them will act as teachers and explain: “It’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize for movies.”

"Oh~" Those who didn't know it suddenly realized: "That is to say, winning this award is equivalent to winning a Nobel, right?"

"It can be understood in this way!" Although I don't know if this metaphor is correct, but it can only be understood in this way.

There is also a very trendy way of playing live online, called barrage.

Compared with the smoky barrage environment later, in the era when the barrage was first born, everyone's speeches were still very clean.

In the anticipation of movie fans across the country, No.80's [-]th Academy Award Ceremony officially kicked off.

"The Undertaker" couldn't be the finale that year, and the film was not well-known in North America.So within a few minutes of the beginning of the red carpet, the crew of "The Undertaker" boarded the red carpet.

Fans on both sides of the red carpet stared blankly at the unfamiliar oriental faces, but cheered out of courtesy.

At the same time, the red carpet host introduced: "This is the crew of "The Undertaker" from China. The director of the film is only 25 years old this year, but he has already produced four feature-length films.

The leading actors Liu and Zhou are both well-known movie stars in Asia. Welcome to North America and the Oscars ceremony. "

It seems that the crew of "The Undertaker" was too lazy to introduce too much, and the host finished it in just a few sentences.

But North American audiences who watched the Oscars were taken aback: "25-year-old director, my God, this is so cool."

There are very few who know Zhang Hao: "I have seen his "The Prestige", man, that movie is amazing."

Walking on the Oscar's red carpet, Da Mimi trembled slightly holding Zhang Hao's hand, revealing her nervous and excited heart.

Waving to both sides of the red carpet, although the movie fans here don't know her, but thinking of the fame effect brought by walking on this blanket, Da Mi Mi is so excited that she trembles all over.

The short red carpet will be finished soon. If possible, Da Mimi hopes that the red carpet will be one kilometer long, but unfortunately not.

At the end of the red carpet, a host interview was arranged as usual.

Facing the Chinese film crew who came from afar, the red carpet host asked quite standard questions: "This is your first time at the Oscars ceremony. How do you feel?"

Zhang Hao replied on behalf of the crew: "I am very happy to be able to participate in such a grand event, which will promote the exchange of film culture between us."

"I heard that you are only 25 years old this year, and you have already directed four feature-length films." The red carpet host exclaimed, "This is really incredible. How did you do all this?"

"Everything comes from impulsive dreams. When you keep trying impulsively, you find that you are more and more handy, so you become a director." Zhang Hao replied.

After asking two questions, the red carpet host stopped asking questions and let the crew of "The Undertaker" enter the awards ceremony hall.

He is not familiar with the place of life, and the stars around him, except for a few who he knows, Zhang Hao basically can't tell who is who.

The same is true for Da Mi Mi, sitting around Zhang Hao with Andy Zhou Xun, and has no intention of chatting with the surrounding Hollywood filmmakers.

Apart from looking at them with a little interest at the beginning, they stopped paying attention to the crew from China and chatted on their own.

The crew of "The Undertaker" is located in the entire back row, and you can see the seats of the lucky ones.

Zhang Hao looked back, and even saw an old black pointing his middle finger at him.After Zhou Xun looked over, he compared XO's hand gestures.

Zhang Hao shook his head speechlessly, it was quite disgusting to be reasonable, but it was impossible for him to find someone to reason with.

Looking at Lao Hei's size, Zhang Hao weighed himself, and probably couldn't beat him.And the Oscars ceremony, whether it's beating someone or being beaten, tomorrow's news must be very good.

People have to bow their heads under the roof.

Zhou Xun was so disgusted, he turned around and said to Hua Tsai: "Look at that black guy behind, it's too disgusting."

Da Mi Mi asked curiously: "What did he do?"

"Don't look back, I'm afraid you will be disgusted." Zhou Xun turned Da Mimi's head around.

On the contrary, Hua Tsai, with his own temper, and Zhang Hao turned around and gave the old black the middle finger, which made the old black grin his teeth and began to curse.

But because of obstacles, he couldn't make it through, otherwise, with Old Hei's brain, Fake Squid would have come over by this time.

After a little episode, the awards ceremony officially began.

The host of this year's awards ceremony is Billy Crystal, but before he took the stage to host, Morgan Freeman, an old Hollywood drama player and God professional, gave a speech.

This was followed by a short film introducing this year's hit films, before Billy Crystal came on.

As a stable, humorous host, Billy Crystal is a frequent host of the Oscars. This is the ninth time he has hosted the Oscars.

This year, he performed his favorite show again. The short 3-minute opening talk show made all the guests and the North American audience in front of the TV laugh heartily.

For audiences in other parts of the world who do not understand American humor, it is completely confusing.

In order to appear gregarious, the few people from "The Undertaker" who came to the awards ceremony were applauded by others, and they laughed when others laughed.

In short, you can never go wrong with the big slip.

But what Zhang Hao didn't expect was that Billy Crystal actually mentioned Zhang Hao: "I heard that this year there is another film from China that was shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and its director is a 25-year-old young man. Man, his name is Hao Zha.

Is Hao Zha here? "

What is a big fry?Zhang Hao stood up with black lines all over his head, and raised his hand to signal to the surroundings.

Billy Crystal waved Zhang Hao to sit down, and sighed: "It is indeed a very young director, I don't know if you have seen his works, but I have.

"The Prestige" is a very wonderful work, I hope everyone can watch this movie if they have the opportunity. "

Watching Billy Crystal recommending his own film works, Zhang Hao also asked Da Mimi strangely: "We didn't give him money, did we?"

Da Mimi shook his head and said: "Of course not, I guess people have really seen your movie."

The awards ceremony has officially started, and just like the Golden Horse Awards, it is an eye-catching award, the selection of Best Supporting Actor.

Regarding the nominees, sorry for Zhang Hao's ignorance, he doesn't know any of them.In the end, an actor named Christopher Plummer won the award for Best Supporting Actor for "Beginners".

The awards ceremony was held with performances by many European and American singers.

Mariah Carey brought "Titanic" theme song "My Heart Will Go On", and the new generation of European and American male singer Bruno Mars also brought his own top single song.

Most of the time, Zhang Hao and Hua Tsai applauded boredly, and the shots they gave were pitifully small anyway.

The viewers in China who watched the broadcast were a little impatient. Ye Xiaoyi watched the camera pass Zhang Hao several times without stopping, and couldn't help but blamed: "What's the matter with this Oscar's camera? It's not even willing to give a shot."

Wenwen on the side said: "I think, if there is such an award ceremony to participate in in the future, we should send a film crew from China to shoot our own people."

When they are bored and have nothing to do, Da Mimi and Zhou Xun will take a group photo together, and post a microblog full of enthusiasm when they go back.

Finally, the first nominated award for "The Undertaker" is the best original soundtrack for a film.

Zhang Hao was nervous for Joe Hisaishi, but Joe Hisaishi didn't panic at all.His face appeared on the big screen for the first time, but the award went to "The Artist" Ludwik Boss.

"The Artist" is also this year's award-winning favorite, shortlisted for multiple Oscar nominations.

The Best Supporting Actress Award was won by Octavia Spencer for "The Help". Looking at her complexion, Zhang Hao couldn't help but think of what was right afterwards.

After the Best Supporting Actress award, finally came the main event.

The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was presented by Oscar winner Sandra Bullock.

Aunt Sang, nicknamed Aunt Sang by domestic people, is not more famous in China than other Hollywood actresses, so many people ask who this is on the bullet screen in the domestic live broadcast room.

At this time, Brother Danmaku came out to answer questions, and to popularize Sandra Bullock's experience.

"Good evening," Sandra Bullock said generously amidst applause, "I will present the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film tonight.

The organizing committee wants to have something new this year, because this is an international evening.

And China has a huge population of 12 billion, and there are also films from their country shortlisted this year, so they asked me to use Mandarin.Fortunately, my speech is still quite fluent. "

Sandra Bullock played with American humor, and the guests in the audience laughed in unison.

Sandra Bullock went on to play with an American sense of humor: "By the way, my mother taught me German, so my Mandarin has a slightly German accent."

Then, Sandra Bullock said a paragraph in German: "Through the common viewing experience, we can all come together, and the movie condenses the emotions we share as human beings."

English is okay, but Zhang Hao can't understand German at all.

But before Sandra Bullock said to speak in Mandarin, it turned out to be German, and Zhang Hao thought it was very funny.

"Haha, this person is too interesting. This is not Mandarin, it's clearly German." Da Mimi also laughed.

Zhou Xun became curious: "Mimi, do you speak German?"

"I can't, but my cousin can, so I can hear it." Da Mi Mi said.

After making jokes and promoting the internationalization of Oscars, Sandra Bullock introduced the films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars tonight: "I love Chinese, but no matter which country or region it comes from, through fascinating characters and wonderful stories.

What the movie has to face is all audiences.

Tonight's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film comes from.Belgium, Canada, Poland, Israel, China, the nominees are..."

The five shortlisted films were introduced on the big screen:

"The Diehard" (Belgium, Dutch, French) Michel Houscombe.

"Footnotes" (Israel, Hebrew) Joseph Star.

"Darkness Fills" (Poland, Polish) Agnieszka Holland.

"Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada, French) Philippe Farrado.

"The Undertaker" (China, Chinese) by Zhang Hao.

When the screen of "The Undertaker" appeared, the barrage on the domestic broadcast network was completely boiling, and most of them were supportive of Zhang Hao and "The Undertaker".

After the short film introduction was over, Sandra Bullock opened the envelope and read out the award-winning film: "No.80 won four Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film...

Congratulations to China's "The Undertaker". "

Zhang Hao's heartstrings have been tense since the nomination, until the moment Sandra Bullock read out the list of winners, all emotions were liberated.

"Zhang Hao, did we win the award?" Da Mimi couldn't believe it when he heard the name of "The Undertaker" read out from the list of winners.

Zhang Hao said with a smile on his face: "Yes, we have won this award."

"That's great..." Andy Lau and Zhou Xun hugged each other, and winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film meant that there was no need to say anything.

This is a huge career advancement for everyone, and one can imagine how their prestige and status will rise after today.

Previously, only Guoshi's works were shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but they did not win the award.

And "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which won the Oscar for foreign language film, is not a domestic film, although it is a Chinese film.

After that, the first domestic film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was finally born, and that was "The Undertaker".

The moment the name was pronounced from Sandra Bullock's mouth, the news that "The Undertaker" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was sent back to China along with the radio waves.

The viewers who watched the live broadcast began to celebrate with joy, and the news instantly became a trending topic, including Baidu and Weibo.

Most movie fans, ordinary people who don't care about or watch movies, know through various channels that a domestic movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Because it is daytime in China, the media began to report on that day, and then mainstream media and official media began to follow up.

This caused a carnival across the Internet, and countless praises were given to Zhang Hao and his "The Undertaker".

Hua Tsai and Zhou Xun, who starred in the film, and other actors who participated in the film were also mentioned repeatedly, and their reputation has greatly increased.

At this moment, Zhang Hao finally reached the pinnacle of his film career.

This is a height that he never achieved in his previous life, but he has achieved it in this life.

Some people were happy and some were worried. Chen Gezi couldn't help sighing when he saw Zhang Hao walking towards the stage with big Mimi, Hua Tsai and Zhou Xun in the live broadcast, under the applause of the surrounding Hollywood filmmakers.

When exactly did he end up in this situation?

What is it for, that he insists on making trouble with Zhang Hao?
But now, Zhang Hao has completely become popular, becoming the first domestic director to win an Oscar for the best foreign language film. The National Teacher has not done this. What else does Chen Gezi use to suppress others?

With all kinds of flavors in his heart, Chen Gezi was very complicated.

Of course Zhang Hao guessed how lively the domestic public opinion would be at this time, but all of this was not as important as the trophy in Sandra Bullock's hands.

He walked steadily, approaching step by step, and finally got the Oscar statuette that many filmmakers dream of from Sandra Bullock.

"Congratulations, Hao Zha, congratulations on winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film." Sandra Bullock clearly understood the excitement of the big boy in front of her, and gave her a big hug and kiss.

Zhang Hao smiled happily: "Thank you..."

He handed the trophy to Hua Tsai and Zhou Xun who couldn't wait for a long time, and then stood in front of the microphone and delivered his acceptance speech.

"Thank you, thank you to the Oscar judges, thank you to the Academy of Film Arts Committee. This is a fantastic moment for me and the entire crew."

As Zhang Hao said, looking at the magnificent awards ceremony hall and the foreign devils applauding for him, everything felt so unreal.

"For this film, we have put in a lot of hard work. From script creation to shooting to post-production, all of us have put in hard work and finally reaped the results today.

I thank my team, my family and my girlfriend, and the actors for their dedication. Zhang Hao said, pointing to Andy Zhou Xun and Da Mimi who were holding the trophy: "It is their support and selfless help that made this movie possible." "

Then, Zhang Hao did not forget the task arranged by the third master before he came, and said some words of hope: "I hope that this movie can become a bridge connecting us and make a contribution to the integration of Chinese movies into the world.

Also, Miss Sandra Bullock, your Mandarin is so substandard that I can't understand it.

If I can, I will teach you to learn Mandarin. Similarly, I also want to learn what it is like to learn Mandarin in German. "

Zhang Hao's speech was deeply rooted in the essence of American humor, at least the guests thought it was very funny.

After expressing his excitement about winning the award, Zhang Hao finished his short speech and went down with the crew members.

Andy Zhou Xun didn't even get the chance to give an acceptance speech, but showing their faces on the stage also made them feel satisfied.

Later, there will be interviews with reporters, and they will also have the opportunity to express their excitement.

On this Oscar night, some people are destined to be frustrated, but the crew of "The Undertaker" is not among them.

(End of this chapter)