China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 168 The Battle of the Conferred Gods
On stage, the female award presenter Barbra Streisand began to read:
"The nominees for 'Best Director' are:"

"Katherine Bigelow - The Hurt Locker."

"James Cameron - Avatar."

"Li Mu - "Gravity"."

"Jason Reitman - 'Up in the Air'."

"Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds."

The male award presenter Matt Damon took out the small note from the envelope and read:
"The one who won the Oscar for 'Best Director' is - Li Mu!"

"what……"

"Who? Li Mu?!"

All the people around stood up excitedly, the shouts seemed to drown out everything, Li Mu also stood up with a smile, first he hugged Liu Yifei beside him, then Gong Li, and then Tom Han next to him. Keith shook hands before finally walking to the stage with a big smile on his face.

The award presenter introduced Li Mu and his films to all the staff. Li Mu came to the stage and took over the statuette from the award presenter. Then he began to deliver his acceptance speech:

"Thank you...thank you..."

"This is a movie about exploration and adventure. When I was very young, when I looked up at the night sky, I was deeply shocked by the spirit of human beings to explore the universe. After graduating from university, my parents asked me to stay and work in the museum because of stability and comfort. , but I know that is not my mission, I love science fiction, adventure, and movies, so today I am director Li Mu."

Speaking of which, Li Mu gently raised the trophy in his hand.

Enthusiastic applause broke out from the audience, and Li Mu left the stage under everyone's attention.

After returning to the audience, Li Mu handed the trophy to Liu Yifei. Liu Yifei took it carefully, held it, and observed it. It was so precious.

At this time, the awards ceremony is still going on, and the next thing to be awarded is the last and most important award of this year's Oscars - the Oscar for Best Picture Award!

The award presenter, Julianne Moore, had already begun to read on stage:

"The nominees for 'Best Picture' are:"

"The Hurt Locker, Catherine Bigelow, Mark Bauer."

""Avatar" James Cameron, Jon Lando."

""Gravity" Li Mu."

"District [-], Peter Jackson, Caroline Cunningham."

""Manchester by the Sea" Li Mu."

"Inglourious Basterds, Lawrence Bender."

……

At this time, every time the award-presenting guest uttered the name of a film, the hearts of the people around Li Mu became tense.

Especially Liu Yifei on his right, who is holding the little golden man in his hand tightly, even that hand has become whiter because of too much force, until Li Mu's hand is pressed on her hand, this Only then did her tense nerves relax.

Liu Yifei turned his head and smiled at Li Mu, and Li Mu responded with the same smile, and then he leaned into Liu Yifei's ear and whispered: "Don't be nervous, actually, for me, a big box office is the biggest award. An Oscar is icing on the cake at best."

"Ah."

Liu Yifei nodded, but apparently Li Mu's words didn't have much effect, the eyes of the young lady staring at the stage were still full of apprehension and hope.

At this time, Gong Li, who was on Li Mu's left, hadn't fully recovered from the strong stimulation of having just won the Oscar queen, and immediately fell into a new and highly tense atmosphere.

The best picture is about to be revealed.

She has already won the first Oscar for Best Actress in Asia for "Gravity", and at the same time, director Li Mu also successfully won the second Oscar for Best Director in Asia for "Gravity".

If "Gravity" can still win the first Oscar for Best Picture in Asia tonight, what a sensation and glorious moment it will be! "

"But is this possible? It seems impossible, but I, the Oscar queen, is not equally impossible? But what about the result? Maybe what the reporters said is right. Director Li Mu is indeed one of the best at creating miracles. director!"

At this time, the award presenter finally took out a note with the list of winners from the envelope:

"The Academy Award for 'Best Picture' is - Manchester by the Sea!"

As soon as the award presenter's voice fell, Li Mu fell into a brief moment of silence for no reason—a rather strange silence.

For these people around Li Mu, the most tense string in everyone's mind at the moment is the movie "Gravity".

In everyone's subconscious, either "Gravity" won the biggest award tonight, or other films won the biggest award tonight.Now that the answer is revealed, it really wasn't "Gravity" that won the 'Best Picture Award', is it a pity?Of course!But this result is actually reasonable.

Is Gravity a good movie?of course!
And it’s a great movie with rave reviews!But as a purely Chinese-language film, the probability of winning the Oscar for "Best Picture" is extremely low.

Even if you want to win, at most you will win the "Best Foreign Language Film" award, which is the award that director Ang Lee won with the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

As for the best picture award?
Don't think about it, it's impossible, don't even think about it in 20 years!

So when the award presenter read the name of "Manchester by the Sea", although many people on Li Mu's side were a little disappointed, they were actually psychologically prepared.

Until everyone suddenly found that Tom Hanks had stood up and was still applauding enthusiastically, and then everyone found that director Li Mu had also stood up, and finally the sound was even louder than when director Li Mu won the best director award just now. And loud cheers.

At this time, a flash of inspiration flashed in the minds of most people.

I finally remembered.

The director of the best film "Manchester by the Sea" is Li Mu!

Then everyone's reaction is:
"I'm stupid! Awesome! "Manchester by the Sea" is also a movie directed by Li Mu, I almost forgot!"

"Director Li Mu won another award?"

"Not only is it a grand prize, it's also the biggest prize in the entire Oscar!"

"The first Best Picture Oscar for an Asian director, awesome!"

"Manchester by the Sea" has not been released in China at all, so the crew of "Gravity" and "Inception" have limited understanding of this movie.

Therefore, when everyone suddenly heard that the award-winning film was "Manchester by the Sea", many people had to react before they remembered that the director of this film was actually Li Mu!

At this time, Li Mu had already taken the stage to accept the award with the main members of the "Manchester by the Sea" crew.

The "Best Film Award" is not an award that belongs to the director alone, and Li Mu will not be the only one to receive the award.

Li Mu, the producer, the producer and others came to the stage together, and then Li Mu took over the trophy, and of course he delivered the acceptance speech at the end.

……

In fact, as early as the year before last, when Li Mu was still filming "Inception" in France, four of the top six Hollywood companies sent their vice presidents to France to meet Li Mu in person. In the exchange of interests, the last few companies nodded unanimously and agreed to run the Best Actor Award and Best Picture Award for "Manchester by the Sea".

He didn't expect that it would be done by them in the end. He originally thought that the "Best Picture Award" of this year's Oscars was "The Hurt Locker", but he didn't expect his own film to win in the end. One of the biggest Oscars of the night.

The only regret at present is that the movie "Manchester by the Sea", except that the director is a Chinese, this movie is an authentic American movie.

"It would be perfect if "Gravity" won the award."

"I'm stupid, am I not satisfied?"

"Li Mu, Li Mu, what qualifications do you have that you are not satisfied with? Your movie has already won the best actor, best actress, best director, and even the best film award. What are you still not satisfied with? of?"

"It's already perfect, you know?"

Li Mu completed the entire process of accepting the award in this state of broken thoughts.

And at the same time.

offstage.

Little Li Zi Leonardo quietly looked at Li Mu who was accepting the award on the stage, and he suddenly thought of that afternoon two years ago.

At that time, Li Mu, who was not as successful as he is now, once sent Xiao Lizi a script called "The Revenant". At that time, Xiao Lizi, who was anxious to chat with his girlfriend about life, put the script aside and couldn't wait to read it. Throwing his girlfriend on the sofa.

When someone later told him the great value of the "The Revenant" project, he regretted it, but when he finally contacted director Li Mu, he was told that the project "The Revenant" had decided to invite Tom Hanks starred.

Although he already had some regrets at the time, he didn't take it too seriously.

The script is good, at most it is eligible for an Oscar nomination, as for really wanting to win an award?

How can it be so easy!
But I didn't expect...

Unexpectedly, "Manchester by the Sea" actually won the award, and it also included the best actor award that he had been thinking about for a long time!
And now the movie even won the "Best Picture" award.

Best Director + Best Picture, if he hadn't just kept the script aside...

Tom Hanks actually took advantage of this opportunity that should have belonged to Leonardo, and won an unprecedented third Oscar winner title.You know, in the entire history of the United States, there are only ten people who have won the Oscar for Best Actor twice, and among these ten actors, only Tom Hanks has won three awards since then. A movie king title!
And the most regrettable thing is that I heard that the leading actor of "The Revenant" set by director Li Mu will still be Tom Hanks.

If he can win another award with "The Revenant" in the future, the probability of this is of course extremely low, even almost zero, but if he really succeeds, then he will be the unprecedented four best actor winners in American Oscar history!
impossible.

Thinking too much, won the best actor four times?How can it be? !
……

domestic.

April 3st morning.

Countless netizens across the country are still working, studying, and surfing the Internet as usual. Of course, many netizens are concerned about the situation of this year's Oscars, but for the vast majority of netizens, they really don't have that Focus on relevant real-time information.

However, there are still quite a few people who know that today is the day when the results of the Oscars are announced.

The four major portals, major forums, post bars, and Weibo, which has just been launched not long ago, are discussed by netizens in almost every corner of the Internet.

"This year's Oscar ceremony seems to be today, right? I don't know if the result has come out yet?"

"Not too sure. There is a time difference between the two countries, so I'm too lazy to check."

"It's not interesting. If you want me to say that Li Mu shouldn't have signed up at all, this is the third-largest director in the world in terms of total box office, and he even went to the United States to accompany others. It's boring, quite boring. It's going to be me. , if I knew that there was no hope of winning an award, I would not go at all!"

"How do you know that you have no hope of winning?"

"Do you still need to ask? How many people in Asia really won the award?"

"I'm a little different from what I thought. I think Director Li Mu has a great hope of winning the award this time.

It should be noted that this time Li Mu brought three films to participate in the awards, and the three films were nominated at the same time, so the probability of winning is naturally much higher than others, right? "

"Let's see, I don't bet, but I still stick to my previous judgment: Li Mu will come back with a few technical awards at most this time, such as 'Best Sound Effects', 'Best Sound Effects Editing' and the like, and It’s just that these awards are not very stable, “Inception” and “Gravity” are very strong in this regard, but it’s a pity that this year’s Oscars also has a Kashen “Avatar”!”

Then, the first award that Li Mu won at this year's Oscars was born-the Best Sound Effect Award!

"Look, I already said that "Gravity" is likely to win several technical awards, how about it? I can't even say a single word about the specific awards!" The same netizen said at this time.

Immediately afterwards, the second award won by Li Mu was born-the Best Sound Editing Award.

At this time, the atmosphere on the Internet has become heated.

Then, the Best Actor Award was born-Tom Hanks!

"Buzz!"

The Huaxia Internet world boiled instantly.

Director Li Mu's work actually won the Best Actor Award?

Awesome!
"Who just said that director Li Mu's works can only win a few technical awards at most? It's okay to take two steps!"

"Where did "Manchester by the Sea" come from? Is it really directed by Li Mu? Why haven't I heard of it before? When was it released?"

"It wasn't released in China at all, and it's normal if you don't know."

And then, the Best Actress award finally made its debut.

It turned out to be Gong Li!
"Wow even!"

"Oh oh oh oh oh... Best Actress Award, Oscar actress Gong Li?"

"I'm stupid, I just checked, it seems to be the first Oscar queen in Asia?"

"Awesome! Gong Li is awesome, and Director Li is even more awesome!"

"Hahahaha! Director Li's works can only win a few technical awards in Hollywood? Do you call the Oscar winner and actress a technical award?"

""Gravity" is a god! It's totally reasonable for Gong Li to win the award for her performance in "Gravity"!"

When the award presenter on the other side of the ocean read Gong Li's name, the entire Chinese Internet world was boiling.

At this time, the awards ceremony was still not over, and the two most important awards tonight were still to be announced.

Best Director and Best Picture.

"The winner of this year's Oscar for 'Best Director' is - Li Mu!"

……

"The winner of this Oscar's 'Best Picture' is - Li Mu!"

At this time, Huaxia's Internet can no longer be described as boiling, but crazy!

Even the Weibo platform, which had just been launched not long ago, suddenly collapsed because it couldn't bear the sudden huge traffic.

(End of this chapter)