When January arrives, the night scene in Hollywood is suddenly much brighter. For Hollywood people, during these days, visiting friends, parties, gifts, and watching movies will be ...... It seems that all kinds of activities have increased all of a sudden.

Oscar is just around the corner, and it will make it impossible for many people to keep their cool anymore. For them, this is the time when it is possible to make the biggest difference in their careers. Being able to get an Oscar nomination, or even an award, has a great impact on people. The Oscars are held in March, but in January, people are already going crazy.

Of course, this is also because before the Oscars are released, there will still be all kinds of sentinel battles. These small awards can often affect the final perception of the judges, which is one of the reasons why filmmakers are crazy.

And in January, the most important outpost battle is naturally the Golden Ball. Although it is not as worthy of the Oscars as it claims to be, it still carries a lot of weight.

And among this award, this year's biggest harvest is none other than Nicholas. Levy.

Double nominations for Best Feature Film, Best Director Infernal Affairs, Double Nominations for Best Screenplay, and at the same time, Best Actor in a Feature Film, Pitt and Bill Murray were both nominated, and Theron was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Other than these, there are no other nominations for the film. The Golden Globes don't involve technical personnel, and some other awards, such as Best Original Music, are not up for Levy's films - although his films are indeed musically good, the music of the two electronic music is almost not original, so naturally there is no such treatment.

Even so, the two films, with a total of eight nominations, can be described as an astonishing achievement. With eight nominations, the Oscars are nothing — a lot of technical awards. A good director always gets a few technical nominations. However, the Golden Globes are all aimed at films, directors, actors, and scripts, and it is incredible that they can get eight nominations.

Of the nominations this time, only Soderbergh can compare with Levi - this is because of this year's Golden Globe Awards, where eight films were nominated for best drama at once.

This kind of accumulation competition has made many media make various comments. They are all predicting how this competition will end this year.

"If this year's awards for actors are a competition for the best, then the director's award can be said to be a two-man competition."

The media made their judgment in this way.

Of course, they say this because of this year's award predictions, it is not the competition for best director that will be the most interesting - this is the battleground between Levy and Soderbergh. What people pay the most attention to is the prediction of the best actor.

This year's cast has a lot of actors with excellent performances. Rassell. Crow, Tom Hanks. Javier. Baden, Ed. Harris, of course, could not be ignored. and the male lead in two of Levy's films. Bill. Whether it's Murray, or Pitt and Edward Norton in another movie, they all performed very well. So many good actors competing for five nominations also caused a controversy.

At this time, there are also many people who want to ask Levy's opinion: these two movies, three actors, were brought out by him, so these actors are better, and he should know best.

"I don't want to sway other people's opinions, everyone's comments on acting are different, and what you want to think of this year's awards, that's the judges' business."

Levi was not interested, and spoke at this time. He said who was the best, and he would offend the other two, and he wouldn't do that kind of thing. In the competition for awards, they have to fight for themselves, and this Levy doesn't want to help.

Levy refused to speak, which also made the comments on the award even more confusing. And what is surprising is that even on the day of the awards, people's doubts are still not dispelled.

"Best Director, Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!"

When the presenter called out the name of the winner, a smile appeared on Levy's face, who was sitting below.

The Golden Globe Awards came on time. It's just that Levy didn't expect that the Golden Globe Awards would be so interesting.

This time for the Golden Globe Awards, people originally thought that the best director would inevitably be produced between Levy and Soderbergh, and this competition has been warmed up by the media for a long time. The movies of the two people are not bad, and there are many stars in the movies of both people, so it can be said that both of them have extremely strong strength to compete for this award...... But in the end, the Golden Globe Award was awarded to Ang Lee.

Of course, it can't be said that Ang Lee's level is poor - the shooting level of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is also quite good. However, everyone knows that Ang Lee is shooting a foreign language film, and it is also a Chinese film, and he will definitely not get a lot of support at the Oscars, and it is impossible to win the Oscars, so awarding the award to him is not an outpost at all, but a kind of evasion of responsibility.

They are tantamount to awarding their awards to two people who will definitely not get the awards, leaving the suspense to the Oscars.

This gameplay made Levy smile a little wryly.

In fact, it is not only the best director, but also the best actor.

The award for Best Actor was very fierce this time, but the Golden Globe Awards awarded their own awards to Tom. Hanks - In the rest of his life on a desert island, Hanks's acting skills are indeed amazing, and he deserves to win awards, but on the Oscar side, he has won two awards in a row, making it difficult to award him again, so it is a little speechless.

"These guys are deliberately playing tricks to avoid attention."

This time the competition can be said to be tense,

This also reminded Levy of his PR some time ago - it seems that the effect of his PR is really a bit poor.

"You don't have to say anything about sending CDs to all the judges, right? This is a must-do. Also, help me throw a couple of private parties and bring in the judges. Also, let Bruce and Leslie help out, contact them, and take a multi-pronged approach to make the relationship better......"

In the mystery company some time ago, Levy can be described as busy. Of course, he is busy, not to shoot a new movie, but to canvass for votes.

Although the two films of this year were well acted, Levy is still not sure if he won 100% of the awards. Although he instructed Alexander to do it, in his heart, he still couldn't rest assured, and he had been paying attention to this canvassing process.

In fact, the canvassing process itself is not difficult: it is nothing more than sending some movie CDs to the judges to ensure that the jury sees their own films and will not exclude their own films before they have seen them - sometimes, there are hundreds of films competing in a year, and some judges are too lazy to watch them. Jackson has done things to let his maids and cooks watch movies and vote for him. At the same time, it is necessary to get closer to the judges, hold some parties, watch the film or something, invite the judges, and explain the production concept of the film to them in detail to ensure that they can understand the film.

If you just look at it this way, Oscar canvassing is a very literary activity, but in fact, inviting people to a party or something also requires some small gifts. For example, a red envelope of $100,000, or some souvenirs of similar value...... These are indispensable.

The judges' discipline has always been very low, and it is said that many pirated copies in Asia are the CDs sold by the judges.

Levy's PR does the same. It's just that when he did it, he also added some care.

"Beware of other people's tricks, if you are yin, it will be very troublesome......"

Levy kept telling Alexander to do the best he could.

There are also rules in the process of canvassing for Oscars. Generally speaking, you can only say good things about yourself, you can't insult others, you can only get close to the judges, and you can't directly ask the judges to do anything, these things are necessary.

Of course, sometimes, someone will break the rules. For example, when "Soul Catcher" was competing for the best screenplay, the crew of "Perfect" once let off steam, saying that Matt. Damon's book was copied. And when "Bomb Disposal Unit" was competing for the Oscar, Weinstein, who strongly promoted "Inglourious Basterds", also asked people to question the unreality of the filming of "Bomb Disposal Unit" during the competition - although the rules are not allowed, but for some people, the rules can be violated.

"Don't worry, what is there to worry about?" Alexander didn't care about Levy's worries, "With Bruce's relationship with the media, with Leslie's relationship in the points circle, plus the connections we have accumulated in the film industry over the years, do we need to be afraid of others playing tricks?" ”

No matter how ruthless the trick is, it will also score people. For the mystery company's tricks, you have to be careful of the mystery company's revenge. Although the mystery is not a big company, but behind them, there are media, TV networks, and long-term cooperative film companies such as Columbia, and most importantly, Levy, as a director, does not care about a failure, even if he fails once, he will have a chance in the future, what is the benefit of offending such a person?

"You don't have to think about anything now, all you need to do is go to all kinds of parties and tell people that you think you can deserve an Oscar - trust me, at this time, your words can make an impact on anyone!"

Now it seems like a bit of a big deal, these guys obviously don't want Levy to be destroyed, but want to leave the suspense behind...... The discipline of these guys is really not trustworthy.

Turning back and looking around him, though, Levy smiled again - at least on one issue, they didn't give themselves nonsense.

For Levy, the most important award has already arrived. Theron, who was sitting next to Levy, was now holding the trophy for Best Supporting Actress.

At least, they didn't fight themselves on this issue. (To be continued......)