The Saturn Award was founded in 1972 by the American Academy of Science Fiction and Horror Films.

It aims to reward and promote the science fiction and horror masterpieces in the film and television field of the year, as well as the outstanding works with breakthrough and innovative significance.

Compared with the Oscars, which have a cold attitude and are very unfriendly to science fiction and horror films, the Saturn Awards can be said to be the base camp of these two genres.

It can even be said that the Saturn Award is the result of the two major commercial film practitioners huddling together to keep warm when they are ignored by the Oscars.

Compared with some Oscar-winning works, especially acting awards, which are very unfamous before winning the award, the award-winning works of the Saturn Award tend to choose more well-known commercial works.

To put it simply, the Oscars make the winning works famous, and the Saturn Awards select the famous works to win.

From this point of view, the Saturn Award is not as good as the Oscars.

But on the other hand, the Saturn Awards are not prone to the situation that many audiences are unfamiliar with the nominated winning works.

Of course, in general, the distance between the Saturn Award and the Oscars is still very large.

However, this is the closest award to Charlotte.

In fact, the 67th Oscars that ended before, producer Mr. Westwood also operated for the crew of "Happy Death Day".

At that time, he applied for several awards, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Actress, but he didn't get the last nomination.

Mr. Westwood was angry at the time and said that it was the Oscars' habitual discrimination against horror films, but Charlotte thought it was normal.

After all, 1994 was the year when a large number of famous films such as "Forrest Gump", "The Shawshank Redemption", and "Vulgar" were born.

It's a super Oscar year.

In a year like this when it's competitive and incentive, it's good to get a nomination.

And the crew of "Happy Death Day", from the director to the actors, everyone has very little qualifications, the production and distribution companies behind it are not strong, and the investment in public relations costs is low, so it is normal to do nothing.

In contrast, Charlotte has some expectations for the Saturn Awards, which focus on commercial films.

And it turned out to be exactly what he expected.

Nominations have been announced for the 21st Saturn Awards, scheduled for June 26, 1995. There are several of them related to Charlotte

Among the nominations for Best Horror Film, "Happy Death Day" squeezed in, but it's hard to say how it went;

Charlize was nominated for Best Actress because her performance in Happy Death Day was really good;

In the Best Director nomination, Charlotte got a place because of "Happy Death Day", but considering that the same group is full of big names like Cameron and Robert Zemeckis, don't think about it;

Nominated for Best Screenplay, Charlotte was strongly nominated for the unique infinite loop structure of "Happy Death Day". He has the heart to fight for this award;

Among the Best Special Effects nominations was "Fatal Bend", which was really beyond Charlotte's expectations, but think of the unprecedented second-brush special effects......

Now, Charlize has come to Charlotte to discuss these nominations

"Sally, are you a little nervous about being nominated for an award for the first time?"

In the face of Charlotte's quips, the girl rarely did not fight back.

"Looks like it's true!"

Faced with a girl who rarely showed such an expression, Charlotte couldn't help but reach out and rub her head,

"Actually, the previous Golden Globe Awards also had the People's Choice Award, if "Happy Death Day" could be released earlier, we should have a chance. ”

"It's a pity that the Christmas release, although it has crushed the entire Christmas schedule, has left us too little time for public relations awards. ”

Of course, this statement is actually relative.

For those films that have been aiming to win awards since the establishment of the project, this is actually not a problem. They will start public relations from the time of release.

Actually, that's what is done in general art films.

Most of them will choose to be released in December, and often use the on-demand mode, just to get closer to the time of the Oscars.

After all, even if a movie released at the beginning of the year or mid-year performs well, by the time the Oscars are selected at the beginning of the following year, the judges' memories are blurred.

How can this come out with the tail of the year, and the film that is being screened in the cinema at the time of the award is more likely to be remembered by the judges?

It's just that this kind of screening strategy must be used simultaneously with the public relations plan of the awards.

If you wait for the audience's word-of-mouth of the movie to come out, or even the box office harvest is almost over, and then you think of going to public relations to win the award, then there is basically no hope.

This is the dilemma that "Happy Death Day" faced during the awards season at the beginning of the year.

In the final analysis, this is also related to the fact that "Happy Death Day" is a three-way film project.

Whether it is New Line, Orion or Jodie Foster's "Egg", the three companies have an attitude of not seeing rabbits and not scattering eagles when they are not happy to die.

This attitude was okay in the early publicity, after all, it was negotiated. But in the later stage, everyone has a little bit of a "borrowing the east wind".

As a result, the three monks had no water to eat, and "Happy Death Day" became completely transparent during the awards season.

Of course, as a youth campus horror film, "Happy Death Day" was not originally eaten by awards. The three companies did not win the award, perhaps because they had too much understanding of this.

As for personal PR on the awards?

That's just no joke.

At the beginning of 1995, although "Happy Death Day" was a big hit, the relevant balance payment could not be received for a while.

At that time, both Charlotte and Charlize were in a state of poverty and whiteness, where did they get the money to hire a publicist?

Anyway, Charlotte didn't have that mind.

However, now, after the share of "Happy Death Day" is in hand and her pockets are abundant, Charlotte's mind has also changed

You must know that although the Saturn Award is not as good as the Oscars, it still has some weight in the hearts of lovers of sci-fi adventure horror films.

"Sally, you know what? Compared to the Oscars, which were confusing before the draw, the Saturn Awards can be said to be completely transparent. ”

Charlotte began to give Charlize an analysis,

"Their awards require PR, but they're much simpler. It can even be said that to a certain extent, it can also be said that they can also be public relations because they will always choose the most famous works. ”

"Is that so?"

Charlize was a little incredulous. To this, Charlotte shrugged her shoulders,

"Actually, I can't say it well. After all, it's also gossip from me. In short, Sally, your best actress, the opponent is very strong. ”

He explains,

"Sandra Bullock in "Life and Death" and Jamie Lee Curtis in "True Lies", these two can be arguably your biggest opponents. ”

"Purely competing for influence, "Happy Death Day" can't compare to them. ”

Charlize is well aware of this.

"That's right!"

Charlotte nodded,

"However, you are the absolute protagonist in Happy Death Day, unlike them, who are just vases in their respective films. It's your advantage, but it's not clear if you can win the award. ”

"However, if your agent, Pat Kingsley, has any ideas, you might as well let her try. ”