Among domestic directors, Gu Wenwu is relatively prolific. At least one new work comes out every year www.biquge.info pen "Fun". Even if it is prolific, each of his works is still a big success, with a good box office and good reputation, and he makes a lot of money, which is more annoying. In the eyes of others, Gu Wenwu must be enjoying it. But for Gu Wenwu, as a director, filming is actually a very hard thing, especially the continuous filming. So this year, Gu Wenwu is ready to take a break.

Although in 2007 he had no plans to shoot new works. Of course, this does not mean that he is laid-back. From the post-production of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" at the beginning of the year, to the angry Academy Awards in the middle of the year, the confrontation with the Xiangjiang Gang, to being a judge of the Summer Dragon Award, and the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the opening of the Summer Dragon Awards, plus a lot of things for the company, sometimes it is also busy.

However, with the painting of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Gu Wenwu also became relaxed. Especially after finishing the overseas release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Gu Wenwu has a lot of time to spare.

"Since you have so much time, why don't you think about competing for the director of the Olympics." Wang Shicong saw that Gu Wenwu was so leisurely, so he brought up the old matter again.

He had mentioned this matter to Gu Wenwu before, but Gu Wenwu's reaction had been very flat, and he didn't seem to be interested. But he didn't give up, and the benefits were a bit big.

"Wait, it's still early anyway." Gu Wenwu said. It's hard for him to get involved right now.

The initial selection of directors for the Olympics took place in February '08, and the final selection took place in April, both dates just after the announcement of the Oscar shortlist and the announcement of the awards. Therefore, whether Gu Wenwu is qualified to compete depends on the results of the Oscars.

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For the best foreign language film, the deadline for the Oscars is before October. The latest deadline for other awards is December, which means that the primary selection will not start until December. More than three months is not a long time, but it is not a short time. Gu Wenwu, who was idle, either handled affairs in the company or read books at home in the past three months, and in November, he also received an invitation from Director Li to participate in the first Golden Horse Awards.

Because the Golden Horse Awards have geographical restrictions on the films to be declared, the momentum of the Golden Horse Awards is much smaller than that of the Academy Awards. But fortunately, there is Li Case, the honorary director of the Star Review Association, and there are also many big names in Baodao, so the Golden Horse Award is not so shabby. In short, Gu Wenwu took Tang Wei to be the guest of honor, and took a trip to Treasure Island by the way.

And the Oscars, which he has been paying attention to, finally began the selection of the primary selection in mid-December.

Here I have to introduce you to the selection of the Oscars. The selection rules for the Oscars are similar to those for the Charon Awards, which are divided into primary and final selections, and each member of the jury has the right to vote twice. In the primary election, it is a division of labor voting, and voters can only vote for their own industry, that is, actors can only vote for actors, directors can vote for directors, and artists can vote for artists...... Only Best Picture is for everyone. The top five of each category of these ballots are calculated by a complex formula, known as the list of nominees, which are generally published in January and February of each year. After the shortlist is out, all members can proceed to the final selection.

The final selection method is also simple, that is, each person chooses one of the five names in each genre, and whichever film gets the most votes in the end is the final winner of the award.

And the members of the jury of the Oscars, that is, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The academy here is not the academy that Xia Guo often said, it is not engaged in education and research, but a guild organization in the film industry. The Academy of Cinema has more than 5,000 members, and each member has the right to vote. And these more than 5,000 members are all famous figures in various industries in the film industry, take the Xia Guoren as an example, there are not many Xia Guoren in the Film Art Academy, but each of them is famous, such as Wu Junmei, Chen Kaige, Gu Changwei, Li Case, Wu Yusheng, Wang Jiawei, Yang Ziqiong, etc.

With more than 5,000 members, the possibility of black-box operation is avoided to the greatest extent. Voters can only vote for their own industry, which also guarantees professionalism. After all, every voter belongs to the top-notch category in their own industry.

In addition, the counting of more than 5,000 votes in the primary and final elections was not taken over by the organizers, but handed over to PricewaterhouseCoopers, a well-known accounting company in the United States.

The accounting firm will send two accountants for each nomination category, and all votes will be double-checked at least two or three times. The ballots for the second election were counted by four accountants, who worked back-to-back and were not allowed to talk to each other. The results were reported to the two chief accountants. The two senior accountants were the only ones who knew the results before the award presenters opened the envelopes. This is also the reason why there is an oolong at this year's Oscars. Everyone thought that "La La Land" won the best picture, but when they opened the envelope, they realized that it was "Moonlight Boy" that won the award.

In the early days of the Oscars, there were only five judges, and there was a lot of room for manoeuvre. At that time, there was a scandal that a movie starring an actress was neither popular nor popular, but after the actress invited the five judges to her mansion for a day's tea, the best actress was won so easily. It was precisely because of this incident that the college decided to increase the number of judges to 5,000. After all, no matter how bold you are, you can't accompany 5,000 people.

Although there are 5,000 people, the room for maneuvering is greatly reduced, but it does not mean that it cannot be impossible. If you want to canvass for votes, you rely on nothing more than two magic weapons: money, and charm.

Money doesn't explain it, no one will dislike this thing. As for the charm thing, it depends on the candidate's means. So in the final selection stage, some gatherings in the circle, well-known cocktail parties, you can always see some Oscar candidates shuttling, usually holding the shelf, they put down their bodies at this time, behaved approachable, just to pull a few more votes for themselves.

As a subsidiary of Fox Group, Searchlight Pictures has a network of relationships that ordinary people can imagine. Relying on this huge network of relationships, Searchlight Pictures also won one after another at the Oscars. Of course, if the quality of the movie itself is not good, then no matter how big this network is, it will not be able to support it, after all, no matter how big your network is, it is impossible to include more than 5,000 judges. And now, this company with rich experience in Oscar operation, the main movie of this year's Oscars is called "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".