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Chapter 491 The Youngest Oscar-Winning Director

The Best Picture award has been presented, and this year's Oscars ceremony has come to an end.

Some are happy, some are disappointed.

Nothing in the world is perfect.

Anyway, Wang Shu was in a good mood.

He rushed to catch up with the 81st Academy Awards, and with the help of the global economic crisis, he finally shook up the old men in the Academy and successfully won the Academy Award for Best Director.

It's a pity that it didn't win the Best Picture award.

But, who could blame the fact that the film that won the Academy Awards this year was "Slumdog Millionaire", the "favorite son" of the old men in the academy?

It is not easy to tear off a piece of meat to eat when the old men in the college love this film so much.

You should know that "The Reader", which gave birth to this year's Oscar-winning actress, and "Milk", which gave birth to this year's Oscar-winning actor, are both among the nominated films.

In the original time, "Slumdog Millionaire" was able to win eight golden statues under such circumstances, which shows how difficult it was for "The Wolf of Wall Street" to win a Best Director Award for Wang Shu.

If the old guys in the academy love The Wolf of Wall Street, then there's naturally nothing much to say.

But the fact is, the old guys in the academy don't like this movie, and some of them even dislike it.

If it weren't for the huge pressure from the outside world, which forced Wang Shu to consider carefully, he wouldn't have gotten anything out of it.

However, Wang Shu was in a hurry to prepare for the filming of this movie, and he was just trying to make a fuss about nothing.

During this financial crisis, it would be great if The Wolf of Wall Street could win an award.

If you don’t get the award, keep trying.

Anyway, you are still young and there is plenty of time in the future.

Fortunately, this rake really helped him to get something and won the Oscar for Best Director.

I felt relieved all of a sudden.

Because he knows clearly that if he doesn't win the award this time, he will definitely need to gain experience in the future.

Unless there is success in private equity, you will have to wait until the end to gain experience.

Backstage at the Oscars ceremony, Wang Shu was being interviewed like many other award winners.

"Shu, as the youngest winner of the Best Director Oscar in history, what do you want to say?"

The reporter looked at the new best director winner of the Oscar and felt quite amazed.

22 years old!
He is a director from China.
He is so young and just arrived in Hollywood, but he won the Academy Award for Best Director!

Unbelievable!

If the reporter had not known about Wang Shu's achievements before and was aware of the chances of The Wolf of Wall Street winning the award, it would have been absolutely unbelievable.

Although the director in front of us is young, he has already won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival and has won awards at the Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival.

All these achievements prove that he is not just bragging, but a genuine and talented director!

In addition, since "The Wolf of Wall Street" was highly favored to win the award, Wang Shu's winning of the Best Director Award was not a surprise, but something that many people had expected.

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Even though I expected it, it was still incredible when I saw with my own eyes that this 22-year-old young director actually won the Academy Award for Best Director.

Only 22 years old
Many people haven't even graduated from college, but this guy has already won the Oscar for Best Director.
Facing the camera, Wang Shu maintained an innocent smile and said, "Perhaps in the future there will be Oscar-winning directors younger than me."

"How do you feel?" the reporter asked immediately after seeing Wang Shu so calm.

"Very excited." When Wang Shu said this, he immediately looked quite excited.

The reporter was speechless when he saw this, thinking that the other party was, after all, the best director at the Venice Film Festival, and had won awards at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals, and had even won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

Yes. It is reasonable for you to be so calm.

"What's next? What are your plans?" the reporter asked again.

Wang Shu smiled and said, "It should be the work on the play Life of Pi."

"Will this film be completed this year and compete for the next Academy Awards?" the reporter continued to ask.

There have been a lot of news about Wang Shu being confirmed to direct "Life of Pi" and that the project has already started and is being raised. It is not uncertain.

"I hope so." Wang Shu responded, "If the filming goes smoothly, maybe we can make it to the next Oscars."

"If there is any delay, it's not so certain."

The reporter nodded and continued to ask: "If you can catch up with the Oscars, are you confident that you can be nominated and win the award again?"

"Of course!" Wang Shu replied without comment, "I have always had confidence in myself."

The reporter was also somewhat infected by Wang Shu's confidence and said with a smile: "Shu, I believe you can be nominated and win the award again."

"See you next time!"

As is customary, after the annual Oscars ceremony, winners, nominees, award presenters, etc. will be invited to attend the Governors Ball and Dinner.

Wang Shu had just arrived in Hollywood and had won an award, so he felt bad not to go. He attended the party as usual. At the party, Wang Shu was considered one of the handsome guys, and producers often came up to him to chat and hand him their business cards.

Today, he is not only an Oscar-winning director, but the movies he makes also do very well at the box office.

Directors who make movies that are both box office hits and award-winning are naturally highly sought after by producers in Hollywood.

In just a short while, many people expressed their intention to cooperate with him.

Wang Shu neither agreed nor refused.

After all, he will be directing a film called "Life of Pi" next, which will take at least half a year to complete.

It is too early to talk about future cooperation now.

"Shu, congratulations on winning the Oscar for Best Director."

Kate saw from afar that Wang Shu had just finished socializing with many producers and had some free time, so she walked over quickly.

The person following her was her husband Sam Mendes.

Sam Mendes also smiled politely and said, "Congratulations, you are the youngest Oscar-winning director in history."

Wang Shu heard this and responded politely, then smiled and said to Kate: "Congratulations on winning the Best Actress Award."

Kate shook her head and said, "I'm far behind you. It's been 12 years since I was nominated for an Oscar, and I finally won the Oscar now. On the contrary, you won the Best Director Award when you first arrived in Hollywood."

Because he won the Oscar for Best Director, the poor Best Adapted Screenplay award was not even mentioned and has been forgotten.

As for Kate's last Oscar nomination, it was in 1998, when she was nominated for the 70th Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Rousi in the world-famous movie "Titanic".

Although the movie was a hit and she became famous all over the world, she failed to win an Oscar.

Over the years, she has starred in many films, but has never been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress again.

Now, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the second time and finally won the golden statue.

Then he sighed: "I am 34 years old this year, and you are only 22 years old."

34 years old. Became an Oscar winner. Why did Wang Shu feel that there was some Versailles meaning in it?
As we all know, if you want to win an Oscar for acting, it’s not enough to have good acting skills, you also need to have a lot of experience.

Even though it is much easier for actresses to win awards than for actors.

But it is an Oscar after all, and winning the award is not that easy after all.

It is undeniable that the youngest actress to win the Academy Award was Marlee Matlin, who won the award at the age of 21.

But this congenitally deaf actress won the Oscar for playing herself in "A Fall from Grace".

The second youngest person to win an Oscar at the age of 22 is Jennifer Lawrence, who is only 19 years old and has only been in the industry for two years.

In short, these are special cases or minority situations.

Becoming an Oscar-winning actress at the age of 34 is already a relatively young age.

When Wang Shu heard this, he looked at Sam Mendes beside him with a helpless look on his face.

Even though Sam Mendes looks like he goes out on a prairie trail every day, he is also a director who has won an Oscar for Best Director.

Moreover, at the age of 35, he had already won the Academy Award for Best Director.

Prior to this, he was the third youngest person in Oscar history to win the Best Director Oscar.

Moreover, the other two directors who were younger than him have already passed away.

Therefore, Sam Mendes is not only the youngest living person to win the Oscar for Best Director, but he is also only 44 years old and is still in the prime of his directorial career.

It's really awesome.

However, it is precisely because of this that Kate chose him.

Because Sam Mendes has the ability to help her catch up with Leo, so that she will not be left far behind by Leo, who has endless high-quality resources in his career.

Now, the title of the youngest person alive to win the Oscar for Best Director has been snatched away by Wang Shu, who is also the youngest Best Director in Oscar history.

In the past, others would compliment him by using the title of the youngest Oscar-winning director, which greatly satisfied his emotional value.

Now, the smile shifted to Wang Shu. Having lost the honor of being the youngest person to win the Oscar for Best Director, he naturally felt a little uncomfortable.

Especially Kate's last thoughtless words made Sam Mendes' face darken.

To Sam Mendes, this was like him winning the Academy Award for Best Director at the age of 35, and was not as good as Wang Shu, who won the Academy Award for Best Director at the age of 22.

The so-called youngest Oscar-winning best director is nothing in front of Wang Shu.

Although Kate did not say it explicitly, her sigh was expressing that her winning the Oscar for Best Actress at the age of 34 was far inferior to Wang Shu winning the Oscar for Best Director at the age of 22.

These words immediately sounded harsh to Sam Mendes, who had previously been complimented as the youngest Oscar-winning director.

He simply stopped talking and stood aside in silence.

(End of this chapter)