The Oscar may be just a glamorous gossip term for ordinary movie fans, but it is a supreme honor for every filmmaker, and almost all actors, directors, and behind the scenes have fought for it for life. 【Reading.com】

Because this award is not just an imaginary title, it represents only one meaning - "champion", in this whole year, the honor that can only be won by the strongest in the film and television industry in the world, which has nothing to do with the gossip of stars, nothing to do with the box office, only measured by the quality of the film itself, selected by 6,000 filmmakers in the industry.

Think about it, your peers are enemies, and when your competitors are willing to vote for you, that sense of identity is speechless.

For a filmmaker like Gao Xiaosong, who is a halfway monk, the Oscar is more like a distant goal that cannot be reached, and if he, who is a Chinese pop musician, can really be shortlisted for the Oscar tonight, it will feel like he has won the five million lottery.

Zhang Shuping, who was in charge of art design next to him, also nodded: "It's not easy to be shortlisted, there are too many other masters." ”

For their Hollywood counterparts in the United States, mainland filmmakers have an inferiority complex from the bottom of their hearts......

Compared to them, Zhou Yunfa is much calmer, he really feels that the quality of "The Undertaker" is extremely high, and it is not strange to be shortlisted for some technical awards, anyway, the actor award is not wanted, and it is impossible to be shortlisted for the actor award if he speaks Chinese.

"It's started~" Gao Yuanyuan, who had been staring at the curtain, shouted with a smile, and everyone who was eating on the grass stopped their hands almost at the same time, and stared at the projection screen with displeasure.

On January 22, 2009, at 7:38 a.m. West Coast time, in anticipation of fans around the world, CBS began to broadcast live the announcement of the nominees for the 81st Oscars in Beverly Hills.

Sidney Gannis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and actor Forest Whitaker announced the finalists in front of the cameras at the Samuel Goldwin Theater in Beverly Hills.

At this time, in China, the time is 11:39 p.m., but there are countless people sitting in front of the TV and computer, waiting for this scene to come, and many people are nervously clenching their fists.

Everyone only cares about one thing, that is, whether Gu Xiaofan, China's "billion-dollar director", can be shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

If it were usual, for example, if Zhang Yimou's film was going to be shortlisted for the Oscar foreign language film, everyone would not care so much, after all, mainland films were shortlisted, but winning awards is becoming more and more hopeless year by year.

As the saying goes, once you go for a while, you will be exhausted, and fans are watching the momentum of mainland movies to hit the Oscars every year, and they don't look forward to it, and naturally they don't care.

But this time, Gu Xiaofan released early when "The Undertaker" was filming, and he said that he wanted to teach "Americans to make movies", and at first everyone thought that Gu Xiaofan was just talking nonsense and propaganda, and they didn't take it to heart.

But as soon as "The Undertaker" was released in the United States, although the mainstream media in North America collectively banned it, and various film review websites did not have the score and review report of "The Undertaker", but the news from all aspects of the people showed that the reputation of "The Undertaker" was very good.

If Gu Xiaofan goes to North America for the first time and can really win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, what a wonderful story it will be!

You must know that Gu Xiaofan is only 22 years old, and his talent for speech has already expressed that he has enough English skills to break into Hollywood.

Chinese actors are not without being able to break into Hollywood, but it can be traced back to Bruce Lee who pioneered the genre of Chinese action movies as a Chinese actor, and then Chen Long and Li Lianjie all developed in Hollywood along the path of this predecessor.

And even Zhou Yunfa and Zhang Ziyi in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are considered action actors by Americans.

Although Zhou Yunfa's acting skills are superb, he has passed the peak of his actor's age when he became famous, and he can't take over mainstream movies and can no longer create his own era.

Gu Xiaofan is different, if he can advance into Hollywood, with his mature acting skills at the age of 22, can the world accept a yellow-skinned superstar actor?

If Gu Xiaofan can create his own era like Bruce Lee, maybe in the next 20 or 30 years, Hollywood will have a chance to become a stage where whites, blacks, and Asians can all become the protagonists?

Every Chinese person who sits in front of the TV and watches this live broadcast wants to hear the name of "The Undertaker" read out of the mouths of these two foreigners, whether it is the students in the university dormitory, or the white-collar workers in the apartment, or even the netizens gathered together in the Internet café, they are silently repeating in their hearts: "The Undertaker" ...... "The Undertaker" ......", looking forward to it and praying.

By this time, Sidney Gannis and Forest Whitaker in Beverly had already begun to announce the finalists for each award.

The films shortlisted for Best Short Film at this year's Academy Awards are, "On the Subway Line", "Toy Island", "Newcomer" ...... "Manon on the Road......

The shortlisted for this year's Best Documentary Short Film are "The Last Inch", "Witnesses to the Balcony of Room 306", "Smiling Pinki", ......"

As is customary, the reminder is that from the unpopular to the popular announcements, at the beginning are some fringe awards, and the awards are all behind, and every time Oscar chairman Sidney Gannis reads out the list of nominees for an award, there will be many shortlisted films cheering in front of the TV, and there are many more who are not selected to cover their faces, disappointed and sad.

When the best costume design award was announced, there was no name of "The Undertaker", Zhang Shuping, who was on the grass of the Ramada Hotel, couldn't help but shake his head depressedly.

Seeing that Gu Xiaofan and the others were looking at him with a gaze that they didn't know what to do, Zhang Shuping waved his hand and laughed at himself: "It's okay, there is the best art director in the back, compared to the costume, it is only a small award." ”

The open-mindedness of the Hong Kong art director made the atmosphere at the scene seem a lot more relaxed, and everyone shook their heads, yes, this time I actually didn't expect "The Undertaker" to get any nominations.

At this time, the sunlight became more and more dazzling unconsciously, Liu Shishi took out a small parasol and opened it, and couldn't help whispering to Gu Xiaofan:

"Look at you, I bragged too much before, and I got Mr. Zhang Shuping into it, which disappointed everyone one by one, in fact, the Oscar was not shortlisted, and we also showed enough strength this time, I believe that Hasen's side will cooperate with us, don't be blind."