At the end of November, the Gotham Independent Film Awards announced the list of nominees, and the Hollywood film awards season officially kicked off. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Murphy and "Dark City" did not win this award, and the reason can be seen from the name of this award, "Dark City" is a standard mainstream commercial masterpiece, not an independent film, and the Gotham Independent Film Awards are basically independent films that have not been released in mainstream theaters in North America, and the boundary between them and mainstream commercial films is very clear.

Then, as the time entered December, nominations for various awards were announced, and at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and the Chicago Film Critics Circle Awards, "Dark City" won four important nominations for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress without exception!

Immediately afterwards, the American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards also announced the list of nominees, and like the Film Critics Association Awards, "Dark City" once again became the big winner in the list of nominees, winning a series of awards such as Best Director, Best Feature Film, and Best Actor and Actress.

With the announcement of the nominees for the awards, Murphy can also see which of the strongest competitors are this season – "12 Years a Slave," "The Great Gatsby," "Gravity," "Blue Jasmine" and "Dallas Buyers Club."

The awards season has also entered the hottest stage of publicity and public relations.

Like other industries, the film industry also pays attention to the collation and summary of the year's results, and the awards season is the product of this collation and summary, which is the "annual summary" of Hollywood.

If it wants to be the big winner at the Oscars, "Dark City" has to beat them.

As soon as the Golden Globes announced the list of nominees, the CAA, representing Murphy, negotiated a series of conditions with the Los Angeles City Hall, and then Murphy signed a formal agreement with them, and the two sides held a joint press conference the next day to announce the landing of the Murphy Stanton Film Memorial in the City of Angels.

The two sides jointly announced to the news media that Los Angeles will invest $1 billion to build the "Murphy-Stanton Museum of Art" in Exposition Park, which will house a large collection of films carefully left behind by Murphy himself and Stanton Studios.

The 25,500-square-metre art museum, designed by renowned Chinese architect Ma Yansong, will feature more than 10,000 paintings, illustrations, costumes, cinematic artworks, digital artworks, and more, including but not limited to Murphy's Hard Candy, Saw, Terror Planet, Sin City, Deadpool, Game of Thrones, Gone Girl, Man of Steel, and more......

Of course, in addition to the things that have been preserved by Murphy and Stanton's studios, there will be a large number of exhibits about the film on display in the museum.

Despite the $1 billion investment, the Los Angeles City Hall is not going to make a loss-making deal, and they have done enough research to believe that with the terrifying appeal of the Murphy Stanton brand, the art museum will bring at least $200 million to $300 million a year to the local area, and the return is also very large.

"The construction of the Murphy Stanton Museum of Art will be a very meaningful move for Los Angeles."

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said at a press conference, "As a director who grew up in Los Angeles, director Murphy Stanton has achieved great things and is an outstanding representative of the citizens of Los Angeles......"

In short, almost praising Murphy.

On this occasion, Murphy naturally can't help but say a few words in front of the media.

"This is a great honor for me, and it has also fulfilled one of my wishes, I hope that more people can like film art, understand film art, love film art, and even become people who create film art......"

It's a great opportunity to pitch yourself during awards season, and Murphy certainly won't let it go, "Hollywood is already at the forefront of world cinema, and if you want to stay at the top of the world, you need more talented people to join in." ”

"In addition to providing exhibits for art museums, I will also set up a film foundation in the name of the Murphy Stanton Museum of Art to provide study grants for those who are interested in joining the industry!" ”

There was a round of applause at the press conference.

A successful director who has not forgotten to bring the future can be made, which will win the favor of many people.

After the press conference, when Murphy walked out of the press room and was surrounded by reporters, they asked questions about that.

"Director Stanton, what advice do you have for new directors, especially those who, like you, want to develop their own style?"

Hearing this question, Murphy stopped and said briefly, "Don't think about personal style when making films, style is for people who don't have style to worry." ”

He thought for a moment and said, "Let's put it this way, I don't really think about personal style. When I think of personal style, the so-called intellectual and psychological barriers arise, and personal things cannot be brought into play. ”

Another reporter asked, "Is there anything else you would like to say to newcomers who want to enter this industry?" ”

"The only thing in this world that can withstand the destruction of time is talent." Murphy came to the car, opened the door, and said the last sentence, "People who make movies don't need encouragement, and people who need encouragement can't make movies." ”

With that, he got into the car, and Gal Gadot, who was sitting on the other side reading the newspaper, whispered to the driver, "Go back to Beverly Hills." ”

Murphy turned her head to look at the newspaper in her hand, saw that it was a copy of The Hollywood Reporter, and asked, "Are there other films doing PR promotion?" ”

The Hollywood Reporter is the most important publicity front of the awards season.

"Leonardo DiCaprio has been so generous that he has bought six pages, and this is the second installment in a row." Gal Gadot handed the newspaper to Murphy, "It seems that he is bound to win Best Actor." ”

"He's got enough seniority." Murphy flipped through The Hollywood Reporter, "If the job is done properly, maybe the college will really give him a golden man." ”

Looking at the report on the Hollywood Reporter, it's all about the hype of Leonardo DiCaprio.

Just as the Oscars are always influenced by external factors these days, these touts are not limited to the film aspect, Leonardo DiCaprio's team is clearly aware of the development trend of the Oscars.

Best Actor is also an award that "Dark City" and Murphy want to strive for, so he took a closer look.

"Hollywood's best actor, Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental career is more exciting than his personal film history!"

Just by reading the title of an article, Murphy had to praise the ingenuity of Leonardo DiCaprio's team, which, like liberalism, is one of Hollywood's most concerned and self-labeled slogans.

This article provides a detailed report on Leonardo DiCaprio's contribution to environmental protection.

"On July 14, 2011, Leonardo DiCaprio's Foundation announced that it would donate approximately $9 million to several wildlife conservation and conservation groups, saying: 'The Earth is being destroyed at a pace that we cannot afford to ignore and cannot ignore, and we have a responsibility to create a new future, and we should not threaten the planet's living environment.' Since February last year, Leonardo has donated more than $12 million, and in the statement, he added: "I am very honored to support these organizations as they work to solve the toughest challenges facing humanity. ’”

On May 13, 2013, Leonardo held a charity auction at Christie's Auction House in New York to raise funds for environmental and wildlife conservation, raising $38.8 million for 33 artworks. In November, Leonardo turned his birthday party into a charity gala, with proceeds donated to his environmental fund, which included a batch of champagne and raised $3 million on the spot. ”

In May 2007, the Cannes Film Festival screened Leonardo's 11th Hour, an environmental documentary that examines the state of the global environment and discusses solutions to the planet's problems. The documentary counts the impact of human activities on global warming, highlighting how vulnerable our planet is in the wake of the recent spate of natural disasters. In the film, 12 experts discuss a series of issues such as whether human society will disappear if global warming continues. ”

Seeing the times listed in the report, even Murphy was somewhat convinced that Leonardo DiCaprio was really an environmentalist.

Unfortunately, as a Hollywood insider, he knows very well that, like the so-called United Nations titles, this is just a way to provide its own style.

To put it simply, these are no different from the red carpet, they are all shows.

As for the real money and silver donated, it is all fundraising, and it can't cost the star himself a few dollars, so why not?

In September 2012, Leonardo DiCaprio, as an activist concerned about climate change in Hollywood, participated in the climate summit on the morning of the 23rd local time with many diplomats, national leaders and scientists and other climate experts from around the world, and made a thought-provoking personal speech at the meeting, calling on everyone to take action together to organize climate change. In his speech, Leonardo said: "Now I stand before you, not as an expert, but as a citizen who cares about this matter, as one of the 400,000 people walking the streets of New York and others everywhere who want to solve the climate change crisis. ”

Seeing this, Murphy put down "The Hollywood Reporter", and now that the Oscars are becoming more and more seriously influenced by the outside world, Leonardo DiCaprio is indeed a very clever means to play such an environmental protection card outside the movie, maybe he can change the fate of the escort.

Whether it's for James Franco and "Dark City", or for the original feud, Murphy doesn't want to see him win an award.

"Don't go home yet." He said to the driver, "Go to Century City." ”