The Saturn Awards are very new to China, and most of them only know about the Oscars and Golden Globes.

But in Europe and the United States, the influence of the Saturn Award is actually not weaker than the above two awards.

This film and television award is organized by the American Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, and it can be seen from the name of this academy that the films selected by this award are nothing more than science fiction, fantasy and horror.

And often these three categories are also the most special effects of the film, in today's film more and more rely on special effects, this award is also more and more popular and affirmed.

"The Martian" was shortlisted for Best International Film, the equivalent of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

However, in this year's Saturn Awards, the most important thing is actually "Avatar", which created a global box office miracle in the second half of last year, this work was shortlisted for eleven awards of the size of the Saturn Awards this year, and in the predictions given by the media, "Avatar" was shortlisted for eleven awards, it can win at least eight or more.

The American media is unanimously optimistic that "Avatar" will be the biggest winner tonight, even if its opponents are "Star Trek", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and other hits.

However, Nie Wei doesn't have to worry about encountering "Avatar", the awards he was shortlisted for are precisely the few film awards that Avatar has not been shortlisted, and the main rivals for "The Martian" are "District 9" and "Hurricane Rescue".

For the best international films in the American media, more than half of them are more optimistic about "The Martian", which is due to the fact that the film has achieved very good results at the global box office, and secondly, in terms of word-of-mouth, "The Martian" is also far ahead of other players.

Probably the only threat to The Martian is District 9.

This sci-fi film produced by SONY implicitly criticizes war, so it has received a lot of praise in Europe and the United States, and is considered one of the best anti-war movies of the year.

Although this is Nie Wei's first time participating in the Saturn Awards, he does not only come with an attitude of 'focusing on participation', on the contrary, he is determined to win this award for the best international film.

On the public relations expenses of this award alone, Huayi behind Nie Wei has spent nearly five million US dollars.

This publicity cost is also the second highest cost among the films shortlisted for the Best International Film Award this year, and the first place is "District 9" produced by Sony, according to a media breakdown, Sony has spent more than $6.5 million on public relations expenses.

ON THE ONE HAND, IT IS BECAUSE SONY HAS A LOT OF MONEY, AND ON THE OTHER HAND, IT IS ALSO BECAUSE "DISTRICT NINE" IS INDEED NOT AS WELL-KNOWN AS "THE MARTIAN".

Since SONY wants to make a difference in this award, it is natural that she will have to spend more money to make her film more popular.

Nie Wei will not simply use money to compete with SONY, in Nie Wei's view, everything is worth it as long as it is a reasonable cost, and those irrational expenses are completely unnecessary, and that kind of battle of will not cause much change in the final result of the award.

The awards ceremony starts at 6 o'clock in the evening and the red carpet show lasts for more than an hour, and then the official ceremony is at half past seven and ends at 11 o'clock in the evening.

Nie Wei is also going to walk the red carpet, and his partner is Fan Binbin, who came from China on purpose, and Wang Zhonglei was also agreed to come, but recently because of Nie Wei's matter, Huayi's stock fell and skyrocketed, so he stayed in China to stabilize the morale of the army and did not come to join in the fun.

Fan Binbin is obviously very happy to be able to participate in the red carpet of the Saturn Awards, this woman always likes this kind of high-profile show, and it is no wonder that she will be called a red carpet actress by the media for a while in the original time and space.

Of course, this time Fan Binbin accompanied Nie Wei on the red carpet, which can be regarded as justifiable, after all, she is nominally the heroine of "The Martian", although the heroine's role is pitiful, but after all, she is the heroine, so she is qualified to step on the red carpet, and the organizer also officially issued an invitation to Fan Binbin.

Not to mention Nie Wei, as the director, screenwriter and starring of "The Martian", he is also the representative of the producer.

Nie Wei's customized suit had been flown to Los Angeles from Europe seven days ago, a blue and white plaid British suit, a gentleman and young and energetic, in order to match Nie Wei, Fan Binbin's choice of dress is also a blue and white color-blocked long skirt, plus a million-dollar jewelry, making this woman look dazzling.

The moment the two walked on the red carpet, the reporters were not stingy with the memory of their cameras, and they pointed their lenses at the two and kept pressing the shutter.

The academy even arranged a two-minute red carpet interview for the two, of course, the host mainly focused on Nie Wei, after all, he is the hottest figure in the United States recently.

"The Martian is a script that I wrote very early on, and the inspiration really came from Robinson Crusoe, in the 17th century, people longed for the sea and wanted to explore the world overseas, but now the times are different, people are yearning for space, eager to explore space, and that's the main reason why I wrote The Martian. ”

Later, the reporter also asked about the current lawsuit of Nie Wei.

"We have a lot of evidence, my lawyer team and I also believe in the fairness of American justice, and the framing of Jace and others is nothing to me, and it has not affected my view of the American entertainment industry, this is still the most desirable place for all artists in the world, and it is the most prosperous place for entertainment in the world......"

At the end of the two-minute interview, both sides got a very satisfactory result.

"I thought you'd lash out at those guys. In the passage to the venue, Fan Binbin whispered in Nie Wei's ear.

What she was referring to was naturally the previous host's question about Jace's gang, and Nie Wei's answer was completely evasive, basically not mentioning Jace and others, but praising Hollywood.

"That's pointless, no matter how much I say here, I can't change their imminent unlucky ending, it's better to brush up on the favorability of the American people while I can do more." Nie Wei shook his head with a smile and explained.

In his opinion, talking in the media is the most pointless thing, and the more he grows up, the more he disdains to do such things.

On the contrary, it is advantageous to take this opportunity to show your generosity and kindness.

Even those foreigners who live in China know that they shoot a lot of videos to prove that Chinese food and culture are very popular, so as to gain the affirmation of the local people, so Nie Wei can naturally use the same method to gain the goodwill and love of the local people.

If Nie Wei goes online at the moment, you can see that many American netizens who are watching the live broadcast have expressed considerable enthusiasm for Nie Wei's interview and speech, and have praised Nie Wei for his generosity and friendliness.

Fan Binbin glanced at Nie Wei, his eyes were a little complicated, and he always felt that Nie Wei was becoming more and more unfathomable.

Soon the two walked into the venue under the leadership of the public relations staff, and there were countless artists greeting Nie Wei along the way, most of them were black actors, and it was obvious that the previous events had given Nie Wei a pretty good reputation in this group.

"Hi bro, I'm optimistic that you'll win the prize tonight. ”

"NIE, DO YOU WANT TO GO TO MY HOUSE AFTER THE CEREMONY, I WANT HALF A PATRY, I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS WHO WANT TO KNOW YOU. ”

"Dude, you're very handsome today, just a little worse than me, haha. ”

Fan Binbin looked at the Hollywood stars who greeted Nie Wei one by one, and her expression management was relaxed because of surprise, she really didn't understand when Nie Wei had so many celebrity friends in Hollywood.

You must know that although Nie Wei has a lot of influence in Hollywood, both film companies and super theaters, in the final analysis, he still hasn't fully integrated into this circle, and even most of the movies he makes are looking for Chinese actors, so although Nie Wei has a lot of energy in Hollywood, there are really not many people he knows.

But what is the situation now? Many famous celebrities actually took the initiative to greet Nie Wei, and it didn't seem like they could please Nie Wei, but simply expressed kindness.

Fan Binbin soon didn't have the heart to doubt, because Nie Wei was very interesting, when these celebrities greeted him, Nie Wei would deliberately mention Fan Binbin's name and introduce her to these people.

Maybe it's for Nie Wei's sake, anyway, these stars also greeted Fan Binbin very kindly.

In just less than fifty meters, Nie Wei and Fan Binbin walked for almost five minutes before they arrived at their position, and even sat down to make money, and the stars on both sides deliberately high-fived him after seeing Nie Wei.

It wasn't until Nie Wei finished greeting the surrounding stars that Fan Binbin was surprised and curious and raised his own questions.

"Guy Ritchie, Quentin, Robert Downey Jr., Charlize, Harrison and Denzel, wow, when did you know so many Hollywood stars? ”

"I met recently. Nie Wei replied, but did not explain the reason to Fan Binbin in detail.

After all, these friendships came very suddenly, and they were also very complicated, and the negative news that Jace made could only be regarded as a fuse, the key was that Nie Wei himself was strong enough, so these stars would take this opportunity to take the initiative to make friends with Nie Wei.

Nie Wei's answer obviously couldn't solve Fan Binbin's doubts, but seeing that Nie Wei didn't want to explain more, she naturally wouldn't ask without eyesight, but took advantage of Nie Wei's relationship to have a serious conversation with the stars around her.

At this moment, she was really grateful to Nie Wei for forcing herself to learn English when she was filming "The Martian", and she used it completely at this moment, otherwise if she had such a good opportunity, but she couldn't communicate because of the language barrier, Fan Binbin was afraid that she would fall into deep regret for a long time.

"Do you want to go to the NBA tomorrow?" While waiting, Nie Wei asked Fan Binbin on the side.

Fan Binbin looked at Nie Wei suspiciously, and didn't know why Nie Wei suddenly got involved in the NBA.

"I'm going to sing the opening song for the Lakers tomorrow, and the team gave me some VIP tickets, and I'll give you one if you go. Nie Wei explained.

Of course, singing the opening song is just by the way, Nie Wei's real purpose of going to the Lakers tomorrow is to talk about a deal with Jenny, the president of the current Lakers.

If it goes well, then Nie Wei is likely to become one of the owners of the Lakers.

"Okay, leave me the best spot. As soon as he heard Nie Wei sing the opening song, Fan Binbin immediately supported, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a burst of surprise in his heart, obviously not understanding when Nie Wei had a relationship with the Lakers.

However, Fan Binbin accepted this reality very much, after all, Nie Wei's omnipotence has penetrated into her heart, even if Nie Wei says that she is going to drink coffee with the president now, she believes it.

The award ceremony started on time.

This film and television award includes the world's best science fiction, fantasy, and horror movies and TV series throughout the year, so it seems that the three-and-a-half-hour award ceremony is a long time, but in fact, the pace of the awards is much faster than the general award ceremony.

As expected by the media, "Avatar" is really the biggest winner in terms of movies.

Among the awards announced an hour before the awards ceremony, "Avatar" was shortlisted for four awards, all of which won awards, showing an almost invincible momentum.

However, this did not surprise Nie Wei, just like Apple's mobile phone won all the mobile phone technology awards after it was launched, "Avatar" is for the film market, just like Apple's mobile phone is for the mobile phone market, it is a cross-era change.

Now that "Avatar" has won four trophies, in Nie Wei's opinion, it is just the beginning, and all the eleven items it has been shortlisted for have won awards.

Halfway through the awards ceremony, it was finally the turn of "The Martian" to be shortlisted for the Best International Film award.

In addition to "District 9" and "Hurricane Rescue", the works shortlisted along with "The Martian" include "Rhona's Silence", "The Bat", and "Dr. Parnassas's Fantasy Theater".

A total of six works compete for one award, which is also a feature of the Saturn Awards.

Therefore, the Saturn Award has always been said that it is easy to be shortlisted and difficult to win.

When Nie Wei was listening carefully to Donnie on the stage and began to announce the shortlist, he was suddenly surprised to feel that his right hand was surrounded by a soft warmth, and subconsciously looked down, it turned out that Fan Binbin nervously grabbed Nie Wei's hand.

For Fan Binbin, although this is not an exclusive personal award, as the heroine of this movie, if "The Martian" can really win this trophy on behalf of Huaxia, she will definitely be remembered.

At that time, even if she can only get a small part of the influence brought by the award, it will be enough for her to be infinitely useful.

So at this time, she seemed even more nervous than Nie Wei, and even grabbed Nie Wei's hand subconsciously.

The cameras on the scene focused on the main creators of the six crews at the moment, and as Downey announced the names of the films, the big screen on the stage also had an extra set of shots.

Nie Wei and Fan Binbin are very prominent among these shortlisted people, after all, they are only yellow people.

After announcing the shortlist, Donnie handed the final list of results to his female companion next to him, and she announced the results.

"So which film will be the result, we'll reveal the results now. The female companion was very resolute, opened the envelope directly, and took out the final list of winners.

"Congratulations, The Martian from Huayi Entertainment Group. ”