"I really liked a lot of movies this year, but the Golden Globes chose me, which is a surprise for me, and I am really grateful to the judges. I would also like to thank everyone who worked hard and helped with this film. Thank you! Thank you!" Zhang Ran finished his acceptance speech, raised the Golden Globe trophy in his hand, and walked off the stage.

When he came down from the stage, Zhang Ran felt a gloomy gaze staring at him, and when he looked up, he saw Harvey Weinstein sneering at him. Zhang Ran showed a disdainful smile, ignored him, and walked to his seat.

Now that the awards season has progressed, almost everyone thinks that "One Man Shines" and "The Social Network" are the big favorites for this year's Oscars. But Zhang Ran knew that Harvey had not yet made efforts in public relations, and he remembered very well that in the previous life, "The King's Speech" was also unsuccessful in the sentinel battle, and "Social Network" swept all the way. Many people thought that "The Social Network" would have the last laugh, but after "The Social Network" won the Golden Globe, the situation took a turn for the worse, and finally lost to "The King's Speech" in the Oscar race, and only won three awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score and Best Editing.

Back at his seat, the main creator of the crew hugged Zhang Ran again, and Hu Jun took the Golden Globe trophy from Zhang Ran for the first time, and looked at it over and over again in his hand.

Zhang Jingchu looked a little excited: "The four weather vanes have won two, if you win the Best Director Award from the Directors Guild and the British and Austrian Games, this year's Oscars may really be able to create a miracle and win the Best Director Award." ”

Zhang Ran shook his head with a smile and said: "The saying that the four weather vanes are pulled out by good people, and what really has an impact on the Oscars are the various union awards, as well as the British Academy Film Awards! The Golden Globe Awards are organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and there are more than 90 members, none of whom are judges of the Oscars, and they have almost no influence on the Oscars." Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars for Best Actress, but she didn't win a Golden Globe once, do you know why?"

When Zhang Jingchu heard that Katharine Hepburn hadn't won a single Golden Globe, she was surprised and asked, "Why?"

Zhang Ran explained with a smile: "Because she refused to attend the awards ceremony, the Golden Globe itself has no authority, and it is very much in need of celebrities and stars, and it is often difficult for stars who do not attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony to win awards." ”

Zhang Jingchu was stunned and said: "If you don't give an award, wouldn't it be the same as the Golden Rooster Award?"

Zhang Ran smiled: "So, the Golden Globe Awards itself is a party, just eat and drink, there is no need to take it to heart." ”

Zhang Jingchu suddenly laughed: "I didn't expect the Golden Globe Award to be so watery, so I'll call it the Water Polo Award from now on!"

When everyone in the crew heard Zhang Jingchu say this, they all smiled, and the domestic media and some film critics blew the Golden Globe Awards into the sky, but it turned out to be nothing more than that.

Zhang Jingchu remembered what Zhang Ran said just now, and said with some curiosity: "Then why do the various union awards and the British and Austrian have an impact on the Oscars?"

Zhang Ran explained with a smile: "Many of the members of these unions are Oscar judges, for example, there are almost 1,700 actors in the Oscar judges, and these people are members of the union! If you win the Best Actress Award from the Screen Actors Guild, it means that most of the actors in the entire union support you, and you have a great chance when you compete for the Oscars." Other guilds are not as good as the Actors Guild, but there are basically hundreds of people, and nearly 500 of the judges of the British Academy Awards have the right to vote for the Oscars, which can also have an impact on the outcome of the Oscars!"

Everyone present suddenly realized that this was the case.

Zhang Ran looked up at Harvey, who was sitting not far away, when "The King's Speech" was in public relations, Harvey didn't pay much attention to the film critics, he knew that the film critics had very little voting power in the Oscars, and the sentinel battle would not have much impact on the belonging of the Oscars. Harvey did not waste his energy on film critics, but on the judges, plus "The King's Speech" is the story of the British royal family, and it is a British local film, most of the British in the judges will definitely support it, and the victory of "Shakespeare in Love" over the British vote of "Saving Private Ryan" played an important role, so it is not surprising that "The King's Speech" can achieve a big reversal.

Zhang Ran also knew that film critics would not have much impact on the Oscar attribution, so when Summit Entertainment promoted it in major film critics associations, he didn't participate in it once, and even took Zhang Jingchu to Hawaii for a vacation. If he can personally attend the viewing activities of the major film critics associations, the sentinel battle will definitely be better.

However, although there are few votes from film critics, there are still some of them, and the general crew does not dare to play like this, and will honestly organize members of film critics' associations around the country to watch the film and build momentum for the promotion of the film. Ang Lee once said, "Chicken in Los Angeles is like plastic, and we joke that this 'plastic chicken feast' needs to be eaten at least 25 times to win an Oscar." For the sake of the staff, no matter how unpalatable the 'plastic chicken' is, you have to swallow it. The Screen Actors Guild and the Film Critics Association have to pull relationships, they can't talk nonsense, and they have to go step by step to win the Oscars. ”

The Golden Globe Awards are very professional, and they don't pay attention to professional things, and there are no awards for editing, art, makeup, photography, etc., but because there are many stars on the scene, their influence in the public is still very great.

After Zhang Ran won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director, the scale of the release of "One Man's Lantern" in North America increased from 228 to 293. "One Person's Lights" has been released for more than 2 months now, and the box office is only 8.5 million, but for a foreign language film, this result is quite good. Now that "One Man Lights Up" has won the Golden Globe Award, the scale of the screening has expanded, which can play a certain role in promoting the box office.

After the news that Zhang Ran won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film spread to China, it naturally attracted crazy cheers from fans.

"Wow wow, Golden Globe Award for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film, the boss is amazing!"

"I'm not surprised that the boss won the best director. The sentinel battle swept all the way, and if you don't win a prize, then it will be unreasonable!"

"Gardeners, don't worry, the Golden Globes are just beginning, and we look forward to the boss being crowned at the Oscars!"

"If you want me to say that even the best picture should be the boss, it's just that the Yankees can't give the best picture to foreigners, just like Ang Lee's "Broken Arm Mountain", which is obviously much better than "Crash", but it just lost!"

"Yes, it is impossible for them to give an award like Best Picture to a foreigner, no matter how good your film is, it is impossible to give it to a foreigner!"

While fans and fans celebrated the victory, the media was not to be outdone and reported it as soon as possible.

In the early morning of January 15, Peking time, the 68th Golden Globe Awards ceremony closed at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Zhang Ran's work "A Person's Lanterns" won two awards: Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film. ”

""One Person's Lights" topped the Golden Globe Awards, and Zhang Ran completed the impossible task!"

"The suspense of the 68th Golden Globe Awards was announced, and Zhang Ran won the best director!"

Zhang Ran's life has not changed because of the Golden Globe Awards, in the next few days, he still took the crew of "One Man Lights Up" to travel around various award ceremonies, constantly accepting exclusive interviews with various media, building momentum for the film, and he also walked on the podium again and again, holding the trophy high. At the same time, Zhang Ran noticed that under Harvey's strong public relations, the momentum of "The King's Speech" also began to rise.

Although Zhang Ran kept attending various award ceremonies, his mind was always on the acquisition of Motorola. According to the information gathered by the acquisition team, two companies have been identified as involved in the merger, one is Videocon, India's largest consumer electronics company, they have hired Merrill Lynch as the exclusive financial advisor, and Deocon had proposed to acquire Motorola in 08, but it was not successful for various reasons. This time they are making a comeback, and the chairman of the company has said that he must take Motorola.

The other is China's Lenovo, which has joined forces with Alibaba and submitted a letter of intent to Motorola. Ma Yun himself has the ambition of making a mobile phone system, and he developed the Alibaba Cloud system in his last life, and this time he and Lenovo jointly acquired Motorola, which must be to make a difference in the mobile phone system.

Microsoft and Google, which Zhang Ran regards as their biggest rivals, have not moved at all, but he believes that these two companies are definitely not without action, but they have done a particularly good job of secrecy and have not shown the slightest trace, which also reflects the importance that the two companies attach to this acquisition from another level.

Zhang Ran feels more and more that the acquisition of Motorola by the peak of the century will be a tough battle!

It was January 24th, and about 400 journalists from around the world, including many Chinese journalists, gathered at the entrance of the Goldwin Theatre in Beverly Hills. Because today is the day when the Oscar nominations are announced, the Chinese media are very concerned about this list, and everyone wants to know whether Zhang Ran can really reproduce the glory of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" ten years ago.

There is a 3-hour time difference between the east and west of the United States, and in order to make the announcement of the Oscar nominations happen in the morning in the eastern part of the United States, every time the Oscars announce the nominations, it is around 5:30 a.m. local time in Los Angeles.

At the same time, there are also a large number of fans in China waiting in front of the computer, waiting for the release of the Oscar nominations in Tieba, Weibo, and various graphic live broadcast rooms.

The clock was fast approaching 5:30 a.m., and Academy President Tom Sherak and last year's Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress Monique took the stage to jointly announce the list of nominees.

The nominees for Best Sound Editing include Richard King for "Inception", Skip Rives for "Earth Thunder", Tom Myers for "Toy Story 3", Addison Teague for "Tron: Chronicles", and Meng Peicong for "One Man Shines on the Lights". ”

"The nominees for Best Foreign Language Film include Denmark's "Better World", Canada's "Scorched Earth City", Algeria's "Outlaws", Mexico's "American's Mistake", and China's "One Person's Lights"!

"The nominees for Best Film Editing are: Kirk Baxter for "The Social Network", John Harris for "127 Hours", Tariq Anwar for "The King's Speech", Andrew Westbrough for "Black Swan", and Zhou Xinxia for "One Man Shines on the Lights"!"

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The process of announcing the nominations was very fast, only about a quarter of an hour, which can be described as a quick decision.

Five minutes after the nomination ended, all major domestic portals updated the same news as soon as possible.

At 9:30 p.m. on January 24, Peking time, the Academy of Film Sciences and Arts announced the list of nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards. Directed by director Zhang Ran, "One Man Shines the Light" shined and won eleven nominations for Best Picture, Director, Actress, Foreign Language Film, Cinematography, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Original Song, Film Score, Sound Editing, Film Editing, Second only to the twelve nominations of "The King's Acting", and at the same time broke the record of ten nominations set by Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".