Los Angeles.

The 46th Golden Globe Awards ceremony held on January 28 has become a complete joke in the eyes of many people.

Although there is no clear rule, it has been a long-established practice that the selection of film awards is usually one award with five nominations.

However, this year's Golden Globes have completely let themselves go.

Best Picture in a Drama category, seven nominations, Best Director, six nominations, Best Supporting Actor, six nominations, and even Best Original Song in the Technical category, six nominations.

The film awards of the Golden Globe Awards are not as comprehensive as the Oscars, and there are four unconventional nominations at one time, which makes the organizers of the Golden Globes, who have been criticized for various scandals over the years, even more unprofessional.

If the barrage of unconventional nominations was just ridiculed, the final chaotic award result completely made the Golden Globes the target of a large number of media attacks.

Double yolk eggs in film awards are not uncommon, and the competition between two films of equal strength is too fierce, and the judges score the awards, and sometimes it becomes a good conversation.

But, three yellow eggs, have you ever seen it?

Five nominations, three people won, how can this make the other two embarrassed?

This happened at the Golden Globes.

Counting the TV awards, there were a total of two 'three yolk eggs' and three 'double yolk eggs' at the 46th Golden Globe Awards. When the three actresses, Sigourney Weaver, Jodie Foster and Shirley McKellen, who also won Best Actress in a Drama Series, stood on the podium together, the audience was laughing awkwardly in the live camera shot.

Then a series of three-yolk eggs and double-yolk eggs came one after another, and everyone was embarrassed to numbness.

Moreover, the results of the award were completely unconvincing.

The best film in the drama category was awarded to the biopic "Fog Lock Danger" starring Sigourney Weaver, "Dead Poets Society" unfortunately failed, and the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards have already clarified that "Rain Man" did not apply for this year's award, which is quite reasonable.

"Fog Lock Danger" is indeed an excellent movie.

However, the Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category went to "Working Girl", which surprised everyone.

At the initial nomination stage, the nomination of Mike Nichols, the former director of "The Graduate" and "Spirituality**", has already caused a lot of controversy when it was nominated. "The Graduate" and "Spirituality**" are both classics, but "Working Girl", a business war film that clearly followed last year's "Wall Street", is very mediocre, and the nomination is completely undeserved.

Compared to "Wall Street", which is highly professional but by no means obscure, "Working Girl" just tells a very old-fashioned workplace story.

Junior clerk Tessie (Melanie Griffith) offers a business plan for her female boss, Catherine (Sigourney Weaver), who claims that the plan is ineffective, but in fact wants to take over the idea. Tessie accidentally discovers the truth, pretends to be her boss and goes directly to contact the target company, and meets Jack (Harrison Ford), an executive of the other company. Tessie and Jack sparked, and with Jack's help, Tessie was promoted and Catherine was expelled.

Above.

"Wall Street" has professional business confrontations, fierce deceit, and Gordon Gage's 'greedgood' that shows the greedy nature of capital. As for "Working Girl", probably only Mike Nichols won the Oscar for Best Director for "The Graduate" twenty years ago.

The other four films nominated in the same period, in addition to Universal's not-so-remarkable "Midnight Run", the other "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "A Fish Named Wanda" and "Flying Over the Future" are all clearly better than "Working Girl". What's more, there are Daenerys Entertainment's "When Harry Met Sally" and "Steel Magnolia", both of which obviously also qualified for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category, but they didn't even get a nomination.

In the face of strong controversy, the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards could only publicly explain that "When Harry Met Sally" also did not apply for nominations. As for "Steel Magnolia", the jury considered the film to be more drama-oriented, so it did not give a nomination to the musical comedy category.

Balabala.

Daenerys Entertainment didn't go home empty-handed at the Golden Globes, which some people obviously pushed too public relations this time, and the Best Director of "Dead Poets" and "Magnolia" Best Supporting Actress awards have met Simon's expectations, and he has no complaints.

In Simon's view, a film award that can be manipulated by influence is a good award. If it's too fair, it's going to be troublesome.

Of course, this kind of indifferent attitude must not be expressed.

Not only that, in order to put pressure on the upcoming Oscars, Daenerys Entertainment also launched a public opinion offensive at the right time to complain about the company's films that suffered unfair treatment at the Golden Globe Awards.

This strategy is usually very effective.

Just like in the original time and space, because there were no black people nominated at a certain Oscar, someone jumped out and shouted a few times, so the next year immediately gave an all-black production team of the best film, and all the director and actor award nominations also appeared black, and also took away a few small gold figures, the proportion is staggering.

Immediately after, Wednesday, February 1.

The nominations for the 61st Academy Awards have been officially announced.

Daenerys Entertainment's "Rain Man" won 8 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.

Moreover, Simon's name also appeared in these eight nominations, and the nomination award was for best soundtrack. Because he couldn't find Hans Zimmer, after taking over the later stages of "Rain Man", Simon personally completed the soundtrack of the film according to the version in his memory.

"Dead Poets Society" also successfully won two nominations for Best Director and Best Actor.

In order to avoid competition with "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily gave up the application for the best picture of "Dead Poets Society", but the other application for the best original screenplay was not shortlisted.

In addition, the company also applied for three nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for "Steel Magnolia", but only Julia Roberts received the Best Supporting Actress nomination, and the other two nominations were also missed.

Calculated to be a total of 11 nominations for Daenerys Entertainment at the upcoming Oscars.

This is not a remarkable achievement, and Warner has received a total of 19 nominations through six films: "Dangerous Liaisons", "Unexpected Traveler", "Fog Lock Danger", "Rookie Parker", "Beetle Juice" and "Nothing Happens".

However, except for "Dangerous Liaisons", in which Sandra participated, which was featured with 7 nominations, the other films basically received non-core nominations.

On the other hand, because Orion still focuses its public relations on "Mississippi is Burning", "Vulgar", which has the copyright in the hands of the other party, only received one John Travolta Best Actor nomination this time, one less screenplay nomination than the Golden Globes.

As the winner of last year's Cannes Palme d'Or, "Vulgar" has no doubt about its reputation and box office.

After the Golden Globe Awards returned empty-handed, they were ignored by the Oscars, and many media couldn't help but complain about the film. Because of this Oscar nomination, Mike Nicholson's "Working Girl" still won a lot, with a total of six nominations including Best Picture and Best Director.

After the Oscar nominations were announced, a film critic of "Variety" magazine sharply criticized the Golden Globes and Oscar organizers for forcibly downgrading a super 'big year' with a large number of excellent films such as "Rain Man", "Vulgar", "Dead Poets Society", "A Fish Named Wanda", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "When Harry Met Sally" and so on into a mediocre film "Little Year" through its own insider award selection.

The critic also unabashedly pointed the finger at the Writers Guild of America.

It is not difficult for careful people to find that in addition to the long-awaited "Rain Man", other films such as "Dead Poets Society", "Steel Magnolia", "When Harry Meets Sally" and especially Simon himself's "Vulgar" produced by Daenerys Entertainment have not been nominated for screenplay awards.

Simon Westeros, as the best young screenwriter of the outgoing eighties, didn't even have a nomination for two years in a row, which is nothing short of a joke.

The judges for the Oscars are basically members of the Writers Guild of America.

Daenerys Entertainment's hit reality show "Who Will Be a Millionaire" almost wiped out last year's strike by the Writers Guild, and although the strike was eventually settled, the deal reached was also severely curtailed.

Under such a profound contradiction, the screenwriters' union did not ignore "Rain Man", it was already leaving room for itself. "Vulgar" and other films under Daenerys Entertainment naturally don't expect any nominations.

Of course, as the strength of Daenerys Entertainment further increases, the contradictions between the two sides will gradually be resolved.

At the end of the day, the relationship between a screenwriter and a film company is always one of employee and boss. When it comes to their own jobs, whether they want to or not, most of the time people have to choose to forget or pretend to forget, and then compromise.

The turmoil in the Japanese financial market has not affected Daenerys Entertainment's operations.

After the Oscar nominations were announced, Elado Ichman began the final stage of sprint PR.

At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment also released the first film of the new year on February 3, Catherine's second theatrical feature film "Thunderbolt Blue Angel".

Compared with blockbuster films such as "Rain Man", which is still steadily harvesting the box office, "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" has a good film review reputation, with an average score of 7, but the box office is a little lackluster. In its first week of release, "Thunderbolt Blue Angels" grossed only $3.81 million on a total of 1,121 screens in North America, and is expected to total only about $8 million in China.

The final production cost of "Thunderbolt Blue Angels" was $10 million, and the publicity cost was about $3.5 million. The $8 million North American box office, including other distribution revenues, is also doomed to a loss of millions of dollars.

Simon and Catherine have a special relationship, which is no secret in circles.

Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment didn't care too much about the failure of this movie. Even, it seems to be a good thing to sell out for a whole year, and occasionally lose one or two films.

The world can't go on forever.

On February 17, after more than a month of financial audit, Daenerys Entertainment's 1988 financial report was finally released.

For the year ended December 31, 1988, Daenerys Entertainment Group's total revenues reached $708 million.

Because Daenerys Entertainment is still in the early stage of development, the company's revenue from various departments is not too finely divided, and is only divided into three major business segments of film, television and comics for the time being.

In the three major business segments.

Total revenue from the film business was $276 million, which included all genre revenue from a series of Daenerys Films and revenue from New World Entertainment Films' theatrical and videotape channels.

Daenerys Entertainment invested a lot of money in film production, publicity and copyright procurement last year, and films such as "Rain Man" and "Dead Poets Society" did not bring revenue to the company before December 31, 1988, and the income of various films under New World Entertainment was very meager.

Excluding various costs and taxes, the net profit of Daenerys Entertainment Film Business is only $67.72 million.

In comparison, Robert Iger's television business has a revenue of $361 million, of which "Who Will Be a Millionaire" alone contributed $196 million. Other reality shows such as "Survivor" and TV series such as "The Age of Innocence" left over from New World Entertainment have brought in huge payouts.

Due to the ultra-high profit margin of "Who Will Be a Millionaire", the net profit of the TV business unit is still as high as $165.75 million in the revenue of $361 million, excluding all costs.

Finally, the Marvel Entertainment comics business, which was separately accounted for, had a revenue of $71.32 million and a net profit of $5.26 million.

In fact, since 1975, Marvel has maintained a stable profitability under the management of Stan Lee and James Gold.

Although the North American comic industry has been shrinking in recent years, and Marvel's net profit margin of less than 10% seems a bit low, if it weren't for the bankruptcy and liquidation of Marvel's parent company, Candace Industrial Holdings, in 1986, the comic company would not have been sold easily.

As a result, the annual net profit of Daenerys Entertainment Group in 1988 reached $238.73 million.

With a net profit of $238.73 million, not to mention Hollywood's second- and third-tier film companies, even if it is the seven major studios, only Warner, Paramount and Disney can compare with Daenerys Entertainment. Among them, Warner calculates the performance of the entire Warner Bros. company, not just the simple Warner Bros. Pictures.

As for the rest, Columbia and MGM lost money last year, Universal only had "Brother Dragon" at the end of last year to support the film performance of the last two years, and the entire MCA Group made a profit of less than $200 million in 1988, and Barry Diller's business focus has been on the expansion of the television network, and Fox Films is only barely maintaining.

In fact, the current situation is not because the Hollywood studios are not strong, but mainly because Daenerys Entertainment is too good.

Even if it expands to other companies in North America, according to Forbes' revenue and profit data of the top 500 companies in the United States, the statistics of 1988 have not been completed, but referring to 1987, Daenerys Entertainment's profit of $238 million is enough to squeeze into the top 70 of the local top 500 list.

In this era, in addition to Ford Motor, General Electric and other few companies whose profits can reach the level of 1 billion, more than 95% of the companies on the North American top 500 list have annual profits of less than 1 billion US dollars, and only about 150 companies have net profits of more than 100 million US dollars.

Therefore, when this financial data, which will definitely make too many people blush, came out, several executives of Daenerys Entertainment unanimously decided to keep it as secret as possible.

There have been various speculations about the scale of Daenerys Entertainment's profits in 1988, and most of the media's analysis is also very accurate.

However, as with many well-known deep cabinets in Hollywood, as long as a star does not come out publicly, even if there are more traces of his homosexuality, fans who are often reluctant to face reality are still happy to believe that this is not the case.

By the same token, as long as Daenerys Entertainment does not disclose detailed financial data, other Hollywood studios will only subconsciously ignore this matter.