Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

Because Max Films participated in the investment and production of "Inception", this time it is finally eligible to officially compete for the major awards of the Saturn Awards, and it has received great recognition for its first official appearance.

Ten nominations, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Actor and Actress, two Best Supporting Actor, as well as Best Special Effects, Best Soundtrack, Best Art Direction and Best Costume.

Less than five minutes after Nie Wei checked the news, his cell phone rang. Nie Wei picked up the phone and saw that it was Zhang Ziyi calling.

As soon as the call was connected, Zhang Ziyi's excited voice came over.

"Nie Wei, have you seen the list of nominees for the Saturn Awards online?"

"Sister Ziyi, congratulations on being nominated for Best Actress." Nie Wei smiled and congratulated.

Hearing Nie Wei's congratulations, Zhang Ziyi on the other end of the phone could no longer hide the message in her heart and smiled happily.

Zhang Ziyi is an award-winning actress in China. So far, she has won the Best Actress Award at the Huabiao Awards three times, and she has been nominated for the Best Actress Award at the Golden Rooster Awards four times and won once. She has also been nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards four times and won twice, and she has been nominated for the Golden Horse Awards four times and won once...

She is one of the only two actresses in China who have won the three major awards in the Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Interestingly, the other actress who has won the Grand Slam is also in Huayi, that is, Zhou Xun. However, Zhou Xun won the Grand Slam many years later than the original time and space, because Zhou Xun was supposed to win the Best Actress Award for "If Love" that year, but because of the appearance of Nie Wei, Shu Chang snatched it.

Fortunately, last year with "Ghost Blowing Light", Zhou Xun finally won her own Golden Horse Best Actress trophy, becoming the second Grand Slam winner of the three major awards after Zhang Ziyi.

It is worth mentioning that, among male actors, only Nie Wei has achieved the Grand Slam of the three major awards.

"Nie Wei, I'm so happy. You may not know that I have a close relationship with the Saturn Awards." Perhaps because she was nominated for the Saturn Awards for Best Actress, Zhang Ziyi was too excited. She seemed to have endless things to say in her heart, and she wanted to tell Nie Wei.

"Didn't I play "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000? I was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress at the Saturn Awards once for Yu Jiaolong."

"I really didn't know that." Nie Wei responded with a little surprise, and then asked with some confusion: "What's the matter with the supporting actress?"

For the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", basically everyone mentioned the male and female protagonists in the impression that they were Li Mubai and Yu Jiaolong. Although Yu Xiulian, played by Yang Ziqiong, was nominally the first female protagonist, in fact, whether it was the role or the focus of the film, the actual female protagonist should be Yu Jiaolong.

So in Nie Wei's opinion, even if the crew reported it at that time, they should have reported Zhang Ziyi for the Best Actress award.

"At that time, someone reported the Best Actress, so I could only be the Supporting Actress." Zhang Ziyi replied with a smile.

This answer was very straightforward, and Nie Wei understood it immediately. The struggle between actors in the same group has always existed and is very common. Yang Ziqiong was an internationally renowned Kung Fu actress back then. Although Zhang Ziyi also won the Hundred Flowers Award and filmed many popular works, she was far less famous than Yang Ziqiong.

It was reasonable for the crew to choose Zhang Ziyi to compromise between the two.

Nie Wei quickly looked up the Saturn Awards in 2000, and Yang Ziqiong was indeed nominated for the Best Actress, but unfortunately, neither of them won.

"Let's not talk about that." Zhang Ziyi quickly changed the subject. Obviously, that incident still bothered her. Although Zhang Ziyi also understood that even if she applied for the Best Actress, the chance of winning the award was extremely low, she just felt uncomfortable.

"In addition to that time, I was nominated for the Saturn Award once in 2005, and this time I was nominated for the Best Actress." Zhang Ziyi quickly changed her mood and happily boasted to Nie Wei.

"I know, House of Flying Daggers." Looking at Zhang Ziyi's personal information on the Internet, Nie Wei replied with a smile.

"That's it, but it's funny to say that it's a science fiction award, but those foreigners actually regarded our martial arts as science fiction movies. But this time I was really nominated for the Saturn Award again as an authentic science fiction movie heroine. It is said that things never happen more than three times. I have missed the Saturn Award trophy twice. This time you say I should get it, right?" Zhang Ziyi said happily.

"I don't know, I can only say that the chance is not small." Nie Wei said with a smile.

Nie Wei can't guarantee whether he can win the award, especially this kind of thing that has not happened in the original time and space, Nie Wei can't guess the result. There are many factors that affect a person's winning, including the quality and influence of the film, his own acting skills, the fullness of the character's shaping, and even the actor's own popularity and skin color.

But judging from the shortlist, Zhang Ziyi's chance of winning this year is really high.

Because the performance of "Inception" is so dazzling, the ten nominations have proved this from the side. In addition, there are not many famous actors in the list of best actresses in this year's Saturn Awards. The most likely opponent of Zhang Ziyi is Jennifer Lawrence, but compared with "The Hunger Games" and "Inception", her influence is much smaller.

On the contrary, the competition is fierce here for Nie Wei.

Although Nie Wei alone won four individual awards, the opponents of each award are not simple.

For the Best Director, Nie Wei's first opponent is Li An, who is also a Chinese director.

In addition to the 600 million box office in the world, "Life of Pi" also made director Li An's fame reach a peak. In addition, director Nolan also released "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" this year, which is known as the most classic work of DC comic adaptation movies.

There are also "The Avengers" directed by Joshua and "The Hobbit" by Peter Jackson, which are powerful opponents with the potential to compete with Nie Wei for the Best Director.

It can be said that none of the five nominees for the Best Director this year is simple. The lowest score of the five movies on the Fanxing Film Review website is 8.1 points, all of which are works with good reputation and box office.

If Zhang Ziyi's Best Actress competition is a normal difficulty, then the Best Director competition is undoubtedly a nightmare difficulty.

"Forget it, forget it, you just know how to perfunctory me, but I am very happy to be nominated again. Director, thank you, I will treat you to dinner if you are free." Zhang Ziyi smiled.

"I'll hold a celebration party for you when you win the award." Nie Wei's answer made Zhang Ziyi feel better. The two chatted for another ten minutes until Nie Wei arrived at the company and hung up the phone.

Nie Wei and Zhang Ziyi talked lightly, but the fact that "Inception" won ten nominations at the Saturn Awards really shocked the entire Chinese entertainment industry.

The media reported it extensively, and the implicit meaning was that Nie Wei won glory for the country.

After all, from the root, Nie Wei can be regarded as a "native" mainland director, and getting ten nominations at the Saturn Awards, a world-renowned science fiction film award, is naturally a very proud thing in everyone's eyes.

Not long after Nie Wei hung up the phone with Zhang Ziyi, someone else called.

Zhou Xun, Cheng Kun, Huang Xiaoming, Jiang Xin, Alan who was far away in Japan, Zhang Liangying who was attending the fashion week in France, and even Fan Binbin who had left the company, all called to congratulate Nie Wei.

Some people who were not so close also sent congratulatory text messages. In just one afternoon, Nie Wei's personal mobile phone received hundreds of congratulatory messages.

Nie Wei naturally couldn't reply to hundreds of congratulatory messages one by one, so he edited a universal thank-you text message and sent it to everyone.

When Nie Wei returned home in the evening, he saw a big cake on the table in the living room when he entered the house.

Before he could figure out why the cake appeared, two "bang" and "bang" explosions sounded in his ears, and Nie Wei's vision began to become colorful.

"Congratulations, brother!"

"Congratulations, husband!"

Shu Chang and Zhou Duoduo each held a small salute, and it was obvious that the two explosions just now were their masterpieces.

"Brother, you are too calm." After congratulating Nie Wei, Zhou Duoduo threw the salute aside, and then pulled Nie Wei's arm and complained.

She had originally discussed with Shu Chang to scare Nie Wei, but she, the one pulling the salute, was frightened by the noise, while Nie Wei was like a piece of wood, not affected at all. This made Zhou Duoduo, whose prank failed, feel very frustrated.

"You are just a trick, and you still want to scare your brother." Nie Wei looked at Zhou Duoduo with disdain, and then stretched out his hand to give Zhou Duoduo a head bang, but the latter had been hit so many times that it had become a natural reflex. Seeing Nie Wei stretching out his hand, Zhou Duoduo's head began to dodge.

Unfortunately, no matter how fast Zhou Duoduo reacted, it was not faster than Nie Wei. This head bang was only less than 0.1 second slower than usual, and it still hit Zhou Duoduo's eyebrows accurately.

"Ouch, sister-in-law, my brother bullied me."

"Ouch! Sister-in-law, you bullied me too." Zhou Duoduo wanted to find Shu Chang to complain, but who would have thought that Shu Chang also gave her a head bang. Zhou Duoduo was caught off guard and was hit again without any surprise.

"Wife, good job." Nie Wei and Shu Chang clapped their hands lightly, both with a tacit understanding.

After a while, the three of them came to the living room, and Nie Wei cut the cake.

This cake was naturally to celebrate Nie Wei. The news that "Inception" was nominated for ten Saturn Awards spread all over the company in the afternoon, and it was not surprising in the practice room. After Zhou Duoduo knew the news, she immediately called Shu Chang.

Shu Chang knew that she was happy for Nie Wei, but she didn't call Nie Wei to congratulate him immediately. She knew that Nie Wei must be very busy at this time, with endless calls and text messages.

So Shu Chang simply asked Zhou Duoduo to treat half of the day and come home to help her prepare a celebratory gift for Nie Wei.

And this gift was naturally a cake.

The cake was a very ordinary cream cake, with some fresh fruits on it at most. The special thing was that this cake was made by Shu Chang and Zhou Duoduo together.

Nie Wei tasted it and found that the craftsmanship was very good. The cake was soft, the cream was sweet, and the fruit was sweet and refreshing. In short, it was delicious.

"How is it, not bad, right?" When Nie Wei was eating, Shu Chang was staring at him. When he saw Nie Wei take a bite, he asked impatiently before Nie Wei swallowed it.

Nie Wei showed a satisfied expression and nodded to Shu Chang. After thinking about it, he felt that it might not be enough to express his satisfaction, so he raised his hand and gave Shu Chang a thumbs up.

Shu Chang smiled happily, while Zhou Duoduo rolled her eyes. What she couldn't stand the most was that her brother and this sister-in-law always showed their affection. Is there so much affection to show? Really, she wanted to fall in love.

After eating the cake, Nie Wei asked Cheng Zimo to take Zhou Duoduo back to the practice room.

Nie Wei went upstairs to take a shower, then returned to the bedroom to turn on the computer and check the news online.

After half a day, the news about "Inception" being nominated for ten Saturn Awards has not cooled down, and the number of people discussing this news online has exceeded 100,000.

Most of them are comments congratulating Nie Wei.

"Nie Wei never lets us down, awesome!"

"Congratulations to Inception for being nominated for ten awards. Does this break the record for Chinese films being nominated for the Saturn Awards?"

"Congratulations to Nie Wei and Li An. I hope the two Chinese directors can join hands to sweep the Saturn Awards in April and show the world that we Chinese can also make excellent science fiction films."

"Inception is such a classic, and it deserves to be nominated for ten Saturn Awards. This is definitely the best science fiction film I have seen in the past ten years."

"After reading today's news, I am looking forward to Nie Wei's new movie more and more."

Of course, if you like something, you will inevitably complain about it. For example, some jealous people commented on this news online, thinking that being nominated for ten Saturn Awards is nothing, and they have the ability to be nominated for ten Oscars.

Some people also think that being nominated does not mean winning, so there is no need to exaggerate too much.

However, these words are not mainstream after all. The overall trend is obviously supporting Nie Wei, but Nie Wei also understands the truth that the higher you praise, the worse you fall.

Even though it seems that everyone is proud of Nie Wei now, and the media has praised him to the sky, if Nie Wei and "Inception" do not win enough awards when the Saturn Awards are presented, many of those who praised Nie Wei at that time will definitely turn around and criticize Nie Wei.

So Nie Wei did not have the slightest pride in his heart, and was even a little cautious. He was ready to call the company in a while to control the heat of the news.

It was completely unnecessary for Nie Wei to brag at this time. He would have the confidence to brag after winning the award.

After closing the news webpage, Nie Wei was about to take out his mobile phone to call the company, when the door was pushed open. It was Shu Chang who came in, and brought two cups of hot milk and handed one cup to Nie Wei.

"Honey, let me tell you something." After Shu Chang handed the milk to Nie Wei, he did not sit quietly beside Nie Wei as usual.

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