Chapter 196: Coronation (4/5)
Michael Douglas, who was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer the year before last...
The Academy, citing humanitarian considerations, asked him to award the Best Director award.
The Oscars have a regular pattern, for example, last year's Best Actor awards Best Actress, and the same goes for supporting actors...
Best Director and Best Picture are usually presented by popular superstars or those with status...
"Michael Hazanavicchius β The Artist, Shen Mengxi β The Hunt, Martin Scorsese β Hugo, Woody Allen β Midnight in Paris, Terrence Malick β The Tree of Life..."
Michael Douglas opened the envelope, glanced at it, didn't raise his head, and read the result: "Shen Mengxi, "Hunting"!"
Xiao Lizi was the first to stand up and applaud, and then the audience stood up...
......
"it!"
Ji Huifu, who was drinking water, almost spilled the cup...
Out of love for Shen Mengxi, he studied the North American awards season, studied the taste of the Oscars, studied public relations...
In his opinion, the probability of best director is about eighty percent - after all, it is not too famous without Harvey, and if you think about it, even the short and tight reproduced the glorious record of Harvey that Nancy found someone to write, which shows the degree of circulation of this thing...
At this moment, a text message from Hiroki Mu Haifeng came: "Is it there? Mengxi won the award, Oscar Best Director, awesome!"
"I'm watching a live stream..."
After a while, Hiroki Haifeng's text message came again: "I'm going to do "Manchester by the Sea" tomorrow... Do you do?"
"Why don't you do 'The Hunt'?"
β... Nonsense, it's only going to be released tomorrow, where does the material we edit come from?
"You can edit the trailer more, the fourth version of the trailer..."
It's a matter of wool...
Hotel, Liu Shishi saw Michael Douglas announce the results, and was a little incredulous: "Really won the best director?"
Yang Xiaomi nodded while wiping nail polish: "Hmm... That's amazing, it's Oscar!"
"He spent at least $25 million on PR!"
"Give you 30 million dollars, you get me the best actress!"
Liu Shishi glared at her and began to find fault: "... Don't wipe it, no one will look at it!"
Yang Xiaomi didn't raise her head, and continued to brush her toenails: "Don't you think it's sexy?"
"What's the use of being sexy..."
"Shen Mengxi has a foot fetish!"
β... You're not giving up..."
"Think about it?"
It's the fish in the fish pond...
Firm.
Zhao Jinsong and Song Hang smiled...
Shen Mengxi won the best director, and there were too many follow-up influences, such as the release of "The Great Wall", and the theater chain will schedule more films, for example, the stocks in the secondary market have risen wildly...
The online media hurriedly sent the prepared manuscript, and the fastest was Tencent News: "Shen Mengxi won the Best Director Award at the 84th Academy Awards for "Hunting", which is the first time a mainland director has won the Oscar Director Award, and it is also the second time that Shen Mengxi has been nominated for the award, and the last step was nominated for "Manchester by the Sea"..."
I didn't pay attention and created a record in film history!
......
took the little golden man and put it on the mat, it was quite heavy, Shen Mengxi took a deep breath, and then spoke: "Thank you..."
Quickly converted into English: "This is a night worth remembering for a lifetime, thank you to the academy for this award!"
"Thank you to all the creators who worked on this film. Filming "Hunting" was a very unforgettable experience for me, and it is very good to win this award, which is an affirmation of our work!"
"Thank you Leonardo, Matthew for the great performance, thank you David... Thank you to my fiancΓ©e Liu Yifei, I love you!"
"Finally..." Shen Mengxi changed to Chinese: "Thank you to all the fans who support me, I love you!"
"Whoa!"
In a round of applause, Shen Mengxi went backstage for an interview...
A minute or so of Q&A time, very hurried, because the best picture is about to be announced, and "Hunting" was also shortlisted for the best picture, in case it wins the award, it will be embarrassing if the director is not on the scene...
"How do you feel right now?"
"I feel quite calm, I was very excited before, because the media was very hot, there were surprises, but it was okay, and I was still confident in my work. β
"What does the Oscars mean to you?"
"It means a commendation... After all, it is an award that is of great concern to the whole world. β
A mainland reporter asked: "You won the award for the first time and thanked Wang Jiawei at Cannes, why didn't you thank you this time?"
Shen Mengxi smiled bitterly: "There are always times when people are young and frivolous, they were ignorant at that time, can they still be ignorant now?"
"Do you have any plans to make a movie next?"
"Not yet, but I'll write a few scripts..."
"What about the focus?"
When the time came, the staff urged Shen Mengxi to enter, and he replied: "... I'm definitely biased towards the country..."
Back in the hall, Tom Cruise is announcing the winner of Best Picture.
β... What are you crying about?"
Shen Mengxi looked at the young lady who was already crying, took out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes...
Then, the whole face became even more ugly - makeup.
"Haha..."
It's not pretending, Shen Mengxi really doesn't care much about the best picture, anyway, his personal honor is already full.
As a non-white person, it is already a great honor to win Best Director once at a film award that is controlled by a white race.
"Brokeback Mountain" won the Golden Lion that year, swept the best film of the two important local film critics' associations in Los Angeles and New York, and then won the Golden Globe Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards and even the Guild Award, singing all the way to the Oscars, but unfortunately losing "Crash" in the best picture...
The reason is because the other 60% of union members - clothing, sound, photography, music, special effects, etc. tend to be more conservative, and even openly say on TV that 'you just can't vote for a gay movie'!
So, according to Oscar's urine - he wants to share the cake, so he divides it!
On stage, Tom Cruise opened the envelope and smiled slightly: "The winner of Best Picture is "The Hunt", and producers David, Shen Mengxi and Leonardo DiCaprio are invited!"
"It's us!"
David jumped up directly from his seat and hugged Shen Mengxi fiercely, and Liu Yifei took the opportunity to hug Leonardo...
β... Is it really us?"
Shen Mengxi was a little confused...
Unconsciously looked at Harvey, who was standing up and applauding decently, and next to him stood Jean Dujardin, the hero of "The Artist", at this time, he was opening his mouth to say something...
It's a pity that Shen Mengxi doesn't know lip language, otherwise, he knows that this person is talking 'merde', which is equivalent to 'TMD' and 'shit'...
French national scolding!
Harvey is aggrieved and home, why does he work so hard to publicize "The Artist"?
I just want to use the influence of the Oscars to push the box office results of "The Artist"...
After all, "The Artist" and "The Tree of Life" were the ten nominees with the worst box office - $20.23 million and $13.3 million, respectively...