When a layman mentions the best foreign language film, the first reaction is "What?" "Since the current mainstream films around the world are still English-language works, the difficulty of further promoting foreign-language films has increased exponentially, and for most ordinary moviegoers, they may not necessarily watch a foreign-language movie in a year. △↗，

But when insiders mention the best foreign language film, their eyes are full of gold and it's hard to get excited, even for professional fans who are dissatisfied with the increasingly commercial Oscars. Because they all know very well that the competition for the best foreign language film is tenfold or hundredfold higher than that of the best films in which American and British films play the leading roles.

Every year, the best foreign language films will gather more than 100 countries around the world to select works, especially as a natural hotbed of art films, the European continent is a natural hotbed of art films, just the competition in European countries is already extremely fierce, and after the Golden Globe Awards, British Academy Awards or Oscars, more than 100 works with different styles and excellent quality are only selected for only five finalists, and then the final winner is selected. It can be said that the best foreign language film is truly one in a hundred.

In the eyes of truly experienced professional film fans, the best foreign language film not only has a higher gold content, but also the quality is almost impeccable. There may be a controversy like "Shakespeare's love history" for Best Picture, but there is never a Best Foreign Language Film. Therefore, those directors who can win the best foreign language film are definitely real and famous in history.

Ingmar-Bergman has won numerous international awards as a Swedish national treasure, but inexplicably, he has never been able to win the top prize, winning only one Golden Bear at three major European film festivals, and above the Oscar for leading English films. He won three awards for Best Foreign Language Film, and his status as a master is unshakable.

Federico-fellini is an absolute Italian master, creating many classics that will go down in history, and although he never won the Golden Bear, he won four Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, plus the Palme d'Or and two Silver Lions. But it has become the brightest stroke of his career, and no one has been able to surpass it so far.

It can be said that although the best foreign language film is only an award, it is enough to compete with the best picture and best director, and this award is often the most competitive category. Even winning the nomination is a huge win.

"City of God" has received critical acclaim since its launch at the Sundance Film Festival, and its box office stellar performance, coupled with its unique way of promoting it, has been seeded for the best foreign language film of the year-end awards season early in the first half of the year. Although after entering the second half of the year. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of awards season, the name "City of God" has been gradually forgotten, and the comments of Roger Ebert and Lawrence Topman seem to have been a step slow and failed to awaken the memories in time; But even so, "City of God" was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

As a rookie director, Reims achieved the biggest breakthrough in Brazilian cinema since "Central Station", which caused a sensation in an instant.

"City of God" will compete with Germany's "Goodbye Lenin", Canada's "Barbaric Invasion", Russia's "Return" and Afghanistan's "Maiden Osama" above the Golden Globes. Among these five works. There is no one who is weak.

"Goodbye Lenin" is the biggest winner of this year's European Film Festival and the German Film Awards, and it swept across Europe; "The Return" is the winner of the Golden Lion in Venice; "Savage Invasion" won Best Screenplay and Best Actress at Cannes. He went on to win trophies at the César Awards in France and the Toronto Film Festival. "Teenage Osama" also won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

Comparatively speaking, the "City of God", which only won the Sundance Jury Prize, was the weakest.

Of course, the competition for the best foreign language film every year is extremely fierce and sparkling, and the nomination for "City of God" is still well deserved.

However, although it is said that "City of God" still won the place for the best foreign language film. But this is the only nomination for the "City of God" at the Golden Globes. What's more, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is not very high, and the annual focus is generally not high, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association still focuses more on American productions - this is one of the important reasons why the Golden Globe Awards have been criticized, which also makes the news of the "City of God" nomination not received enough attention. Soon it was drowned in the waves of "Cold Mountain", "The Lord of the Rings", and "Lost in Tokyo".

If it weren't for the reawakening of Roger and Lawrence's fans of "City of God", many people would not have realized that "City of God" actually won the Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

And that's the most interesting part – as the debate about the Golden Globe nominations slows down, the City of God unexpectedly takes over the attention of many people, especially the Academy judges and veteran fans who are interested in the awards season. Roger and Lawrence's film review may seem a little slower, but is that really the case?

In any case, even if the topic of "City of God" is revived, there is still no comparison with "Lost in Tokyo", and the gap between the two is like the difference between lightweight and heavyweight, one is in the spotlight and the other is limited; One is born out of thin air and leads strongly, and the other is thrilling to enter and strong opponents. Not to mention the company-level comparison, Chaos Pictures is still an independent production company with no name, while Diorama Pictures has ushered in a heyday with the momentum of "Troy", "Elephant" and "Lost in Translation".

Looking back on the twists and turns that have occurred in the past year, first Lance sabotaged the cooperation between Diorama Pictures and Warner Bros. at the funeral, and even almost led the "Lost in Translation" project to Ryan's fingertips, and finally Ryan spent a lot of effort to negotiate a partnership with Focus Pictures; Then the action of interfering with the crew of "City of God" failed to succeed, but instead made "City of God" unexpectedly become a hot spot of media attention, laying the groundwork for the success of the later film; Once again, because the post-production zuò of "Lost in Translation" was not completed on time, it missed the Sundance Film Festival, and "City of God" won the Grand Jury Prize......

Later, because of the quagmire of the Iraq War, Diorama Pictures had to be cautious, and when the whole circle was in turmoil, Ryan and they could only watch the "City of God" achieve an incredible box office victory with the help of the east wind; At one time, Lance was infinitely close to works such as "Troy" and "King Arthur", and any slight difference could lead to a reversal of the situation between Diorama Pictures and Chaos Pictures. In the end, because of the head-on conflict between Lance and Gawain, the entire office of Diorama Pictures was in a mess, but he had to swallow his anger......

Just one Lancelot-Strello disrupted the entire development plan of Diorama Pictures, and when they had an absolute advantage, they encountered so many dangers that they almost stumbled all the way to the present. The grievances in their hearts can't be described in words, and everyone, including Ryan and George, held their breath fiercely, hoping to teach Lance a good lesson, and then really straighten their backs and raise their chins in front of Lance, showing their superiority and arrogance.

Now, the day they've been waiting for has finally arrived. Diorama Pictures swept away the decline in the first half of 2003!

After "Elephant" landed in Cannes in May, it gradually regained its advantage in the confrontation with Chaos Pictures, and then the "Troy" press conference ignited the enthusiasm of the entire North American film market, and relied on the strong momentum of the awards season to widen the gap. Not to mention Tucker Toure and Jason Berkeley, even Ryan Kavalaug and George Clooney have their own smiles.

The head-on collision between "Lost in Translation" and "City of God" achieved a huge advantage, and everyone was relieved in their hearts, and the strings that had been tight for more than a year could finally be loosened a little, which made Tucker a little carried away, and after the list of Golden Globe nominees came out, he even came up with a bold idea to let George take the initiative to go to Yorance for dinner, and then they planned to pretend to be a chance encounter and humiliate Lance in person.

Ryan and George did not object to this move that might expose George's identity as a spy, and after laughing and scolding Tucker, they acquiesced for the first time! This shows the pent-up anger and grievance in their hearts.

But unfortunately, George took the initiative to ask Lance twice, but he was unsuccessful. After returning from Montreal, Reims threw himself into the post-production and trailer editing of "The Day After Tomorrow", pouring all his energy into the work without leaving home.

This really disappointed Tucker.

However, Tucker's disappointment will not last long, as the 61st Golden Globe Awards officially kicked off on January 25. "Lost in Translation" was the favorite, and Ryan, Tucker and Jason were all invited to attend, not to mention George, which will also be the perfect opportunity for Diorama Pictures to come to the stage for the first time after getting rid of the shadow of Lance.

"How's that, how's that?" Tucmo looked at Ryan who hung up the phone, and at the moment they were sitting in the stretched Lincoln car, less than fifty yards away from the Hollywood Hilton Hotel, where the Golden Globes were held.

Tucker's mood couldn't help but rise, and his eyes flashed with excitement, "What did George say?" When did Reims arrive on site? I've already figured out my opening remarks—" With that, Tucker straightened his bow tie with a stern expression on his face, "Congratulations to 'City of God' for being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, the only one and only one." Then Tucker looked up and laughed, and Jason, who was sitting across from him, rolled his eyes speechlessly and looked out the window.

Ryan didn't laugh this time, his expression was a little playful, "Lance won't be there today." (To be continued.) )

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