This director needs to apologize

Chapter 175 Awards Season Golden Globe Awards

Chen Yiming never knew that there were so many film awards in North America.

Seeing the award ceremony and reception itinerary laid out for him by Warner Bros. and Shen Pengfei, Chen Yiming's first reaction was to turn around and return home immediately.

It is too exaggerated!
There are fifteen or six trade unions under various names. If you don’t go to Hollywood, you don’t know how powerful the trade unions are.

Editors and sound effects editors are divided into two unions, photographers and camera operators are two unions, and costume designers and makeup and hair designers are also two unions.

Even casting directors and music producers have specialized unions.

"1951" was not nominated for all trade union awards, but Chen Yiming from the two photography-related trade unions went to support Paul.

He was invited by the Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers Guilds, and he had to attend in place of Lin Xiao from the Art Directors Guild.

"1951" has not yet been released on a large scale, so several audience-voted awards can be skipped, but there are countless Film Critics Association awards that cannot be skipped. The absence of any one of them is an offense.

When Chen Yiming watched it from beginning to end, he lost count. There were almost fifty or sixty of them.

In fact, when it comes to the Oscar Sentinel Awards, overseas awards such as the British Film Academy Awards and the Kangaroo Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards are also of great significance.

It's just that "1951" has not yet been officially released outside North America, so Chen Yiming is spared the trouble of traveling.

At the beginning, Chen Yiming was still a little fresh. With curiosity, he attended several award ceremonies in California such as the San Diego Film Critics Association, the University of Southern California Screenwriters Association, and the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Association.

Then he completely lost interest in awards season because it was so boring.

There are endless red carpets to walk, endless photos to take, endless names to sign, and endless cold dishes to eat.

That was all he could remember, but the last one was particularly unbearable.

It's not very cold in California in December, but it's not like eating cold dishes all the time, and the amount is so small that it's not even enough to stuff between his teeth.

At every awards ceremony, Chen Yiming would sit in the venue for two or three hours, using his poor hearing to act stupid.

He is always slow to respond to the host's cold jokes. Some media have noticed this phenomenon and started to make fun of him.

What's even more tiresome is that at various awards ceremonies, there are always the same groups of people going back and forth, and the contenders for the same award are always the same old ones. By the time everyone who comes on stage applauds is tired.

Take Best Picture as an example. Although the number of nominations varies, from three to five to seven, there are only three films that are truly competitive and take turns taking the top spot.

The first one is based on the biographical film "The Voice of the King" based on the British king. The protagonist is the stuttering patient George VI, Princess Lily's real father.

History, biography, World War II, once you watch BUFF, you will know that this is a movie tailor-made for Oscars.

The second one is "125 Hours", which is adapted from a true story. It tells the story of a middle-class white man who was crushed under a boulder while climbing a mountain, and then had his own leg amputated to bravely save himself.

The one-hour and 1-minute one-man show has basically reserved the Best Actor award for the entire awards season.

The third is the contemporary biographical film "Social Network War", which tells the story of the early success of the Nut Internet tycoon.

It’s either a biopic or a real life story. It’s considered that Hollywood filmmakers have figured out what the Oscar judges like.

In addition to these three, there are several other films that have made their way into the nomination list and come and go at the awards ceremony.

There's "Going West," which is a remake of a classic Hollywood western, "It's All Good," which talks about the emotional entanglement between a lesbian family and her father who donates money, and "The Cold," a 17-year-old girl who searches for her father, a drug dealer who has run away from home to prevent her younger siblings from being adopted. Biting Ice".

and "1951."

Chen Yiming looked around and saw that every competitor was full of BUFF, and "1951" really had no chance of winning.

This is indeed the case. Among the various best picture awards awarded in December, "The Voice" swept away half of the awards, "The Social Network" won half of the remaining half, and "12 Hours" took over the rest. .

The only one that slipped through the net was the Utah Film Critics Association Award, which awarded Best Picture to "Better Than Ice."

For the Best Director Award, Chen Yiming is still competing with the directors of the previous films. In addition, Darren Walofsky, the director of "The Understudy" is also added.

This award is not as popular as the Best Picture. It is basically a melee between multiple parties. You sing and then I appear. The young man Chen Yiming appeared on stage twice.

Once in Dallas and once in Phoenix, which sounds similar to a certain performing artist's Houston movie queen.In the Best Actor selection, Liu Dongjun didn't have much of a presence. He only received a few nominations here and there, but he was always on the sidelines. Fortunately, his decision to take a leave of absence was firmly stopped by Liu's father.

The Best Supporting Actor Award is not set up in every award ceremony. Duan Yining simply refused to come to Nuts for a walk, even though he won the INDIEWIRE Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor No. 2.

The biggest advantage of "1951" is the Best Cinematography Award.

The combination of Paul and Sanpin swept the Photographers Guild Awards and most of the Film Critics Association Awards, highlighting a highly anticipated film.

The only person who could put some pressure on the two of them was Roger Deakins, the director of photography of "Westward".

By mid-January, although the four major Oscars and the four major Sentinel Awards have not yet been awarded, and the Oscar nominations have not been officially announced, Chen Yiming already knows the rewards of "1".

There will probably be 2-3 nominations. Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography are [-]% guaranteed, Best Picture and Best Director are evenly split, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor are [-]% out of the picture, and there is little hope for Best Original Screenplay.

While Chen Yiming was running around, Xiangrui spent nearly a month to finally revise the script and create a detailed storyboard and production schedule.

Except for the handsome boyfriend, the characters in the play are all model workers, and they get paid to play two roles.

Xiangrui listened to Chen Yiming's suggestion and labeled the four-person group in the laboratory.

The real leader and traitor number one, Ross Greene, was changed to a programmer of Asian origin, traitor number two Joe was a middle-aged white male elite, the centrist Guerrero was changed from Latino to African-American, and the good old guy Matt was changed to Chinese. .

Except for the black man who is trying to be right, the other three are typical nutty Silicon Valley people.

Chen Yiming contacted Lin Xiao and asked him to ask Lei Datou that if there is a schedule before March, he should come over as soon as possible to try out the mirror and go through the process.

This can also be regarded as the original team of "Holiday" joining hands again. When this B-level movie is introduced to China in the future, won't it be a publicity stunt?

On January 1, Chen Yiming joined Liu Dongjun, Duan Yining, and Ma Yunteng, who arrived in Los Angeles the day before, and went to Beverly Hills to attend the 16th Nut Film and Television Golden Globe Awards.

Although it is known as the Oscar benchmark, the Golden Globe Awards is an "outlier" among many awards in the annual awards season. Its award judges, standards and style are incompatible with the Guild Awards and the Film Critics Association Awards.

The initiator of the Golden Globe Awards, which is also the jury, is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. As the name suggests, it is an association of foreign journalists whose main business is reporting on Hollywood in Nut.

The association was initially founded by journalists from the British media, and later joined by reporters from many other countries. However, as the years have changed, this association, like the Oscar Academy, has become a nursing home that you can only enter but cannot leave.

Compared with the Oscar Academy, which has tens of thousands of members, the Hollywood Reporters Association is more closed and has always maintained a size of about 90 people. New members and senior members have veto power, resulting in extremely slow updates.

As an award selected by journalists, the Golden Globe Award is inherently weak in terms of professionalism.However, it may be due to the genes of reporters who are good at hype. The Golden Globe Awards are not inferior to the main Oscars in terms of popularity. They are crushing professional awards such as the Guild Awards and treating them like sons every year.

As a result, the Golden Globe Awards, which is more widely sold and more expensive than the Oscars, has now become the second king of the annual awards season.

Due to its non-professional nature, dark horses often stage counterattacks and overturn the usual victors in the awards season. This is also a major reason why movie fans like to watch the live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards.

For this year's awards ceremony, CCTV [-] also purchased the broadcast rights. Before Chen Yiming went on the red carpet, he unexpectedly ran into an old acquaintance, Miss Lan Yu.

"Hello Director Chen, we met again. I feel like you disappeared for a long time after the release of "1951". Can you tell us what new projects you are preparing?"

Chen Yiming smiled and waved his hand, "No, no, I'm just taking a rest and staying at home while traveling."

Lan Yu rarely caught Chen Yiming and asked him a barrage of questions regardless of the inappropriate location.

"Director Chen, Director Chen Huaikai recently made some remarks about competing films at the same time. He believed that Hollywood blockbusters are just a collection of special effects and lack creativity. You are in Hollywood now. What do you think of this?"

In the end, Director Chen was determined not to cancel the project. "A Generation of Stars" was double-teamed by "Ark" and "Pandora". With an investment of 1 million, the box office was just over 5000 million. It died an extremely tragic death.

Director Chen must be unhappy that his biological son, who had been raised in dormancy for six years, ended up like this. It is understandable that he said a few excessive words.

Chen Yiming replied seriously, "I have read Director Chen's original words online. I think they are very sincere. There are many dimensions in evaluating movies. As long as they are sincere comments from the heart, I respect them."

After saying that Chen Yiming was about to leave, Lan Yu stepped forward, stopped halfway, and asked, "Director Chen, there are rumors that Warner intends to invite you to direct the new version of Batman. Fans are very concerned about it. Will you stay in Hollywood to develop? ?”

Chen Yiming turned his head in surprise, most of the fart rumors were made up by you, right?I've been hanging out in Nuts for more than a month, and people from Warner often see it, so why have I never heard of it?
"I have no plans to be a director in Hollywood. Everyone knows that my foreign languages ​​are terrible."

(End of this chapter)