While Lin Hsiao-chi was still busy filming his new film "The Mummy" in Egypt, in Hong Kong, as mid-February drew to a close, a media feast arrived.

Hong Zuxing looked at a document on the table that was only stapled together with three pieces of 16k file paper, and a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes.

"Old Wu, does ATV mean that you agree that we will set the announcement time of this year's nominations in three days?"

The document in front of him is naturally not on the side, but the list of nominees for the new Academy Awards that Hong Kong and even many East Asian regions are curious about and looking forward to. Compared with previous years, the nominations for this year's Academy Awards were announced at least half a month later. However, this is also Lin Xiaozhi's proposal, he knows very well that in the short term, the Hong Kong film industry is still a circle that pays attention to human etiquette, if you want to be like in previous years, once the nomination is announced, there will always be some flexible people who will invite guests to dinner, and there will be more than one event.

Now after the reform of the new Academy Awards, Lin Xiaozhi has taken away part of the jury's right to speak through the hands of ATV, many of which warn the Directors Guild, the Photography Association, the Screenwriters Guild and other groups with deliberation qualifications not to be too helpful; On the other hand, he proposed to postpone the nomination time by more than half a month, and now after the list of nominees is announced, at most half a month will be the opening time of the new Academy Awards. In such a short period of time, there is media watching, which must also deter some people who want to take shortcuts by relying on favors.

In the final analysis, the current Academy Awards are still a little less professional than the Oscars, and it is conservatively estimated that in the next five years, it will not be able to complete the impact of human affection on it.

Wu Siyuan looked at Hong Zuxing, who was not well-known in the industry before, with some envy, and nodded when he heard this.

Because of the irreversible relationship with the senior management of "Film Fortnightly", in order to increase its voice in the future of the Academy Awards, when the senior management of "Film Fortnightly" initially accepted ATV's proposal to establish the "Academy Awards Association", the first president of the Academy Awards Association they elected was actually him.

It's a pity that ATV contacted Hong Zuxing first, although he has a bad reputation in the industry, but he has been busy with the Academy Awards since its birth, but after he was moved out by ATV, even the "Film Fortnightly" was a little ashamed, and he didn't obstruct it anymore and directly let the veteran hero of the Academy Awards sit in the position of 'the first chairman of the Academy Awards Association'.

However, "Film Fortnightly" is not completely compromised, after determining the first chairman of the Academy Awards Association, they then proposed to set up a board of directors and elect a chairman, and still recommended Wu Siyuan to be the chairman.

I heard that this move also annoyed Lin Xiaozhi, and he even asked ATV to directly warn the "Film Fortnightly", and then play a set of internal power struggles and dumping, he directly bypassed the "Film Fortnightly" to win the Academy Awards and run it himself.

Although the inherent jury group that thinks of the Academy Awards is a little dissatisfied with it, the media generally has high expectations for the new Academy Awards after Lin Xiaozhi's intervention. Moreover, Hong Zuxing also believes that it will be more convenient for the development and dissemination of the Academy Awards after relying on ATV and media predator Lin Xiaozhi, and he will be directly affected by the establishment of another chairman, so he actively moves closer to it.

In the end, the "Film Fortnightly" was forced to relent, and agreed to hire professional managers to be responsible for the day-to-day promotion of the Academy Awards, and although there were seven additional directors under the chairman of the association, the power was greatly reduced.

Wu Siyuan is one of the first seven directors, and his power is relatively large among the seven directors, responsible for liaising with various jury groups to discuss the list of nominees for the new Academy Awards.

Even the chairman of the association didn't know the list of nominees for the new Academy Awards after the reshuffle was introduced, so Hong Zuxing first picked up the document and read it carefully word by word, Wu Siyuan could clearly see that his fingers were trembling a little on the side, and he was not surprised by this, and he was not much better than him before this. Because after this year, the Academy Awards have added the award of "Best Foreign Language Film" just like the American Oscars, which are already in full swing.

Whether there is a 'Best Foreign Language Film' award is undoubtedly one of the best criteria to measure the gold content of a film's highest award, before that, although the Academy Awards were very famous in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, but the influence of the three places began to decline sharply, and then out of Southeast Asia, there are very few people who know it.

But all this will change completely after this year, not only because this year's Academy Awards began to add the 'Best Foreign Language Film' award, but also the first 'Best Foreign Language Film' competition, which has received a positive response from some foreign film companies, as of the end of January, more than 15 films from Southeast Asia and East Asia have applied for the awards, and finally nominated a total of five films, namely "Dumb Girl Ju Xiang" from Singapore, "People's Power" from the Philippines, "Five Sumo Teenagers" from Japan, and Thailand's " "Young Boxing King" and South Korea's "Song of Tragedy", almost every one of them is a wonderful movie.

"Dumb Girl Ju Xiang" is about the life of a beautiful mute girl born to an aunt in a Singaporean Chinese family, the protagonist's seemingly obedient life contains the truth of persuading people to be kind, it is a movie with word-of-mouth and box office, and when it was released in Singapore last year, the box office almost overturned Jackie Chan's "Police Story 3", which is rare. Media Asia has bought out the distribution rights and SVCD publishing rights of "Dumb Girl Juxiang" in Asia, and Lin Xiaozhi intends to test the waters this year and next year to see if it can be released in mainland China.

Since the decline of Japanese films, the Southeast Asian country has had the momentum to succeed Japan in the helm of Asian films, although this statement is mostly seen in media propaganda, but it is not difficult to see that Philippine films have developed very well since the 70s. "The Power of the People" is a political film that has received great success in the Philippines, it features President Obardo Civis and his extravagant wife as the protagonists, and lashes out at the luxurious life of the president's family and the hardships of the people, and finally the people can not bear his tyranny, and when Obado Cives is elected president for the fifth time, mass protests overthrow his rule. The film was banned in the Philippines for a time because it portrayed former President Ferdinand Marcos, but it was a very thoughtful film.

Needless to say, "Five Sumo Boys" is one of the best live-action films shot in Japan in '92. Since the 80s, the development speed of Thai films has also accelerated, and there is a faint momentum to surpass Philippine films. "Young Boxing King" This movie just looks at the name, many people will think that this is an action movie at first impression, but in fact, it is a literary film that dissects human nature, telling the story of Pracia, who was born in the countryside, went to Bangkok alone in order to live the kind of affluent life of city people, but because he had no education and no skills, he finally had to fight black boxing. The whole movie describes the gains and losses of Pracia after repeated setbacks and successes, and the interpretation of human nature is very detailed, the only regret is that it is more than three and a half hours long, and the plot is a bit complicated.

Among the five finalists for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, the most eye-catching is actually "A Song of Tragedy" from South Korea. Not only because the director of this film is Lim Kwon-taek, one of the most famous contemporary Korean directors, but also because his works have been shortlisted for many international film festivals such as Berlin and Venice as early as the early 80s, and he is not only famous in South Korea, but also in the Asian director circle. Of course, the reason why his new work "A Song of Sorrow" has attracted special attention at the Academy Awards is mainly because although the film was filmed last year, it has not yet been released in South Korea.

No matter what the purpose, Lin Quanze sent the film to the Academy Awards for review, and in order to further enhance the influence of the Academy Awards in South Korea, Hong Kong has no reason to refuse. Therefore, although it does not fully comply with the selection regulations of the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the Academy Awards Association still openly included it in the selection list of the 12th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

As early as October last year, when the Academy Awards Association was still in the final negotiations, the media under ATV and Lin Xiaozhi began to advertise for it.

And then after December, the Academy Awards Association, which has received tens of millions of dollars since ATV, changed its tight days in the past and began to be bold, not only in many media in Hong Kong to continue to promote the upcoming event, but also in the mainland, Taiwan Province and even other Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, etc., also began to spend a lot of publicity strategies, coupled with Media Asia's network channels, this is the first Academy Awards after the reorganization of the Best Foreign Language Film Award, there will be foreign people to send the work for review.

On February 21, more than half a month later than in previous years, the Academy Awards Association finally held a press conference and announced the list of nominees for the 12th Academy Awards.

"Who will be the winner of the first Academy Awards after the reshuffle? In-depth analysis of the highlights of this year's awards! ”

""Caged People" has the highest voice, "Ruan Lingyu" has been widely acclaimed, "I Love Twisted Chai" is applauded and popular, who will win the first "Best Literary Film" trophy in the triumph competition?"

"'Best Commercial Film' is a lot of competition, "Police Story 3" has lost its reputation to "Once Upon a Time 2" and "League of Assassins", and director Tang Jili admits that he is not defeated by Lin and Xu, or he knows that he has no hope of being out!"

"The Best Foreign Language Film Award has received support from many countries, and South Korean director Lim Kwon-taek is the most optimistic and is expected to win the first Best Foreign Language Film Gold Cup at the Academy Awards!"

"Although the League of Assassins has greatly innovated, due to the application of new technologies, I am afraid that there is no hope for the 'Best Action Coach' Gold Cup!"

After the press conference, all the media under Lin Xiaozhi went into battle, from ATV to "Ming Pao", "Cheng Pao", "Tiantian Daily", and fully opened the warm-up publicity of this year's Academy Awards, so that in the next half a month, the topic of the Academy Awards has almost become a popular fashion in Hong Kong.