"Best Picture, nominees: Peter Yates "The Make-up Artist", Lisa Anzus "Mother and Daughter", Bernardo Bertolucci "The Last Emperor", Philip Hopper "Tender Mercy" ......"

"Best Actor Nominees: Michael Caine in "Ordinary Woman", Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercy" ......"

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"Best Supporting Actress Nominees...... "Mother-Daughter Love" Sophie Marceau ......"

"Best Director...... Bertolucci ......"

"Best Original Screenplay ......"

"Best Adapted Screenplay...... "The Last Emperor" Bertolucci/Marc Papro/Xiao Sui......"

Xiao Sui sat in the venue, next to Bertolucci's director and investor, Princess Caroline, and Vittorio, the cinematographer of "The Last Emperor".

In addition to her, there was only one other Chinese in the venue, a representative of China Film Co-production, surnamed Na, a middle-aged man about forty years old, who appeared as a joint venture with Princess Caroline. As for this person's position in the relevant cultural department, it is inconvenient to disclose.

Listening to the announcements one by one, Xiao Sui's mood fluctuated greatly. When she reported for the eighth item of "Best Adapted Screenplay", the stone in her heart fell to the ground.

Although it was not until the time of "Adapted Script" that "The Last Emperor" had only reported 3 nominations, less than half of the goal, the others had little to do with Xiao Sui's personal honors.

It's not that she's selfish and only cares about personal honor and doesn't care about national honor. It's just that everything has a first time, and once a person is nervous and past the peak, he will be numb when he goes downhill.

At this moment, she just wants to rush out of the field first and share her honor with her boyfriend.

Compared with Xiao Sui, another Chinese in the scene, the representative of the Chinese photo, reacted more violently, he almost kept his heart in his throat and heard the last.

"I applied for nine nominations, and after seven! seven!" The representative clenched his fist so hard that he didn't know where to put his hand.

After being dazed for two seconds, I wanted to shake Xiao Sui's hand as a sign of encouragement in the same way that the leaders inspected the work and comforted the people. However, before he could stretch out his hand, he realized that Xiao Sui was Gu Ao's girlfriend, and he didn't dare to encourage him to borrow a few dares.

"Classmate Xiao, rejoice, rejoice. "It means rubbing your hands together as if you were shaking yourself.

"That means you're too polite, it's the original book and the material itself, and I should thank the organization for giving me the opportunity to adapt the script. Xiao Sui's answer was very decent, as if he was used to this kind of social occasion.

On the sidelines, a group of reporters from CCTV, including an interview reporter and two photographers, although they did not have a good shooting position, they also used two long barrels as much as possible to aim at the table of the "Last Emperor" crew and the rostrum. Capture all these precious shots.

The female reporter who read the narration to the camera almost cried as she read it.

In the environment of 84, it is not easy for the Chinese media to get an interview and filming position at any ceremony related to the Oscars, after all, this circle will not take you to play. The Oscars are only domestic film academy awards in the United States, and they are not first-line international film festivals, and people are not obliged to entertain foreigners.

After the luncheon, the group suppressed their emotions so as not to be rude, and walked out seemingly calmly.

Gu Biao was outside the venue, chatting with a person sent by the relevant cultural departments who was inconvenient to reveal his identity, and looked very calm.

"I applied for nine items, and after seven, the nomination pass rate is very high!" Xiao Sui was afraid of being embarrassed in front of people, so he just took the lead in saying a word to Gu Biao.

"It's only seven, haven't you ever passed those two?"

Gu Biao realized that the two items that were lost should have been lost because the years were advanced and the global penetration layout of the Chinese style element was not enough.

"The costume design and original music may be that I don't think the Chinese style is authentic enough. Xiao Sui explained, and then the conversation changed slightly, "What kind of attitude do you have! Why aren't you excited at all? It's already good to have seven items! ”

The representative who took the photo on the side also complimented him very playfully: "Director Gu has really seen the world, and such a major piece of good news can collapse without moving." This contribution, that's really ......"

At this point, the representative paused slightly. Because after all, he is only a person who co-produced Chinese films, not people from relevant cultural departments, so it is not good to talk too much about meritorious deeds.

However, the person next to Gu Biao who was inconvenient to reveal his identity from the relevant cultural departments took over the conversation very consciously: "Director Gu, this time, the leaders owe you a big favor." We are all looking at it, and when we first came here, the Americans were very suspicious of our attitude.

In such a short period of time, you have been able to convey to the Americans the new atmosphere in the country after the chief's speech went south. ”

"Don't say that, if you're not in your place, you can't do anything. I'm now in the Ministry of Electronics Industry, and I'm just helping to make connections, and I can't talk about the credit. Gu Biao has always been so modest, "What's more, today is just a nomination, and I don't know how many awards I can win." ”

People who are inconvenient to reveal their identities have been completely satisfied: "No matter how many awards there are, they are all history-making, and they are all zero breakthroughs." Our country now lacks the bargaining chips and weather vanes to prove to the outside world that we are integrated into the international family. ”

In 1984, a foreign film with a Chinese historical theme won the Oscar, which was completely different from winning it again in 88.

Especially for the participants, there are also significant differences in the size of the credit and the symbolic meaning.

Not to mention anything else, let's take the most intuitive example: later generations know Xu Haifeng, but basically can't name several other Olympic gold medalists in the 80s and even early 90s, at most there is Li Ning.

Why? Just because Xu Haifeng made a contribution to the 84 Olympic Games and achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the New China Olympic Games, people are lucky. If the shooting competition schedule is not so high, the popularity is obviously someone else's.

By 88, it is not too rare for Chinese to integrate into various international competitions and win the highest awards, but 84 years is absolutely rare. Gu Biao helped win the Oscar this time, and it was before the Olympics, and the current gold medal list in China's Olympic history is zero.

Since ancient times, there has been no separation between culture and sports, and after this wave of operation, the relevant cultural departments have obviously made much greater achievements in the field of international exchanges than the relevant departments of sports.

Therefore, those people in the relevant departments patted their chests against Gu Biao and Yan Yuese, and they made friends, which is not an exaggeration.

After blowing each other fiercely, it was inconvenient for people to reveal their identities to invite Gu Biao: "Director Gu, why don't you stay for a while until the award day, and it's okay to deal with some emergencies in terms of tickets." When the time comes, we will get you an identity and attend the award ceremony. ”

Gu Biao didn't love the stack at all: "I'll stay for a few more days, but the work is done in advance, and there is nothing to do when it comes to the last day." The public reason for my visit this time is to reach a new cooperation with Motorola, and it is difficult to avoid suspicion if I really leave it until the award day. ”

Everyone was surprised: "Director Gu, you really don't want to share the glory of the scene, don't you want to attend the Oscars in person?"

Gu Biao: "Next time, maybe one day I won't work for the ministry anymore, there will be opportunities in the future, I'm still young." ”

The group of people were completely stunned by Gu Wei's Gao Feng Liangjie.

The realm gap, the rare opportunity that seems to others to be so valuable, in Gu Ao's eyes, it turns out to be a long time coming.

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Gu Biao stayed in Los Angeles for about a week, and on April 1, April Fool's Day, he quietly left Los Angeles under the pretext of cooperation with Motorola.

It was thanks to him that he picked the day of April Fool's Day, and the rest of the people in the company thought he was joking, and it took two days to react.

However, the homework that should be done to help, Gu Biao has done it solidly. For the rest of the follow-up work, he also strictly instructed Harvey to handle it personally, and report any problems remotely in a timely manner.

On April 9, as scheduled, Xiao Sui attended the awards party with other production companies, distribution companies and relevant departments.

The process, and even the ups and downs of the group's mentality, are similar to those at the nominee's luncheon, and they will not be repeated.

The final award result, in a word, was to mention six out of seven, except for one innocuous minor award for best acoustics, which missed, and the other six main awards were all won.

The surprise of the group, as well as the contrast with the previous tension, were naturally more ups and downs than when they were nominated, and several Chinese participants were slightly shocked, and the drama of pinching acupuncture points and taking quick-acting heart-saving pills appeared.

After the awards, Xiao Sui didn't rush out of the party theater, but directly found a corner in the venue, dialed the Motorola 1G cellular mobile phone in his hand, that is, a mobile phone, and informed Gu Biao of the good news.

As an aside, mobile phones were commercialized in the United States in 1984, and there is only one brand of mobile phones on the planet today, and that is Motorola. Moreover, Motorola's infrastructure team has just covered the network signal to the largest cities in the United States, and only San Francisco and Los Angeles have signals in California.

In the Northeast, there are only a handful of Chicago, Detroit, New York, Watsonton, Philadelphia, and Boston. Less than 10 cities in the U.S. have signals, and a mobile phone sells for $24,000.

Of course, Gu Biao and Xiao Sui's mobile phones were not bought with money, but were given by the boss of Motorola and the Galvin family.

"Husband, six out of seven! Except for the sound effects, all the others have won awards!"

"I'm so glad for you, I knew you could do it. Gu Biao didn't say "as expected", but to the extent that a straight man could think of, he touted his woman as gently as possible.

However, Xiao Sui knew him too well: "Actually, you still feel 'unexpected' in your heart, right?"

Gu Biao smiled on his mobile phone: "No, it's me in the past few days, I have more important things, and I'm just busy at the bone, please go back and celebrate, or you can fly to the east as soon as you have time." ”

"You're always so busy," Xiao Sui smiled helplessly and hung up the phone.

The way she played on her mobile phone also made several Chinese at the same table look envious.

"This is the legendary mobile phone, right? Director Gu is in Huaxing Communications, I don't know when we Chinese will be able to build our own mobile phones." ”

"In the end, it is the person who does great things, and the credit for our cultural exchange is just an appetizer in the eyes of others. ”

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(I know it's a bit of a running account, but everyone understands it in March.) In fact, the progress has also been accelerated. Originally, it was going to be expanded, but people with higher levels can't have villains, so let's push it over in a friendly way. Soon there will be a foreigner villain later, so you can write a little more conflict. )