Chapter 1247: Oscar Award

"Wang, I'm so happy to meet you; Mrs. Wang, your outfit today really fits your temperament!" This time, Bertolucci personally came to the door to greet them. After such a long time of cooperation, Shen Long's status in his heart has been greatly improved, and he is no longer just a soundtrack artist.

"Bernardo, I have seen articles praising you in the newspapers every day recently. I think you will definitely win the Oscar for Best Director this time!" Won nine Oscar awards, even in the entire history of Oscar, it can be regarded as a big winner.

"Haha, that's what I called you to talk about today!" Bertolucci lowered his voice, whispered in Shen Long's ear, and brought him inside together.

No outsiders were invited to this party. Shen Long saw the main creators of the crew, representatives of the distribution company, etc., and there were a few people Shen Long had never met. Only after listening to Bertrucci's introduction did he know that these people were all Representatives of Hollywood PR companies are also candidates who have major interests in this movie.

"Wang, congratulations. According to the information I received, you and David have a high probability of being selected for this year's Oscar for Best Original Music Award. Of course, whether we can win it smoothly requires our joint efforts." The representative enthusiastically stood up to welcome the best box office situation, and Shen Long played a big role in it.

I understand this. I also helped others run the Oscars back then, and I know the way inside it very well. Unfortunately, this time, the many unions of the Oscars will not be under my control. Otherwise, it would be a matter of one word to win the award.

"Qiming!" Guo Yan was a little nervous when she heard this. It's not that they haven't won awards before, but those are mostly small awards with relatively limited influence. This time it's an Oscar!

"As for the Grammys, we are also trying to find a way to help with the operation. Today's meeting is to discuss this matter. Guys, we are going to make a big deal!" Bertelucci's agent said.

This surprised Shen Long a bit. He knew that "The Last Emperor" could win the Oscar for Best Original Music Award, but it seemed that it didn't win the Grammy Awards. What's going on? After thinking about it for a while, Shen Long understood that in the original plane, the music of "The Last Emperor" was jointly composed by David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Su Cong. Their influence on the Grammy Awards is relatively Limited, but this time it was replaced by myself.

I have accumulated a lot of reputation in the United States over the years, and I have also met many people in the music circle, especially those music critics. They have a certain say in the nominees for the Grammy Awards; The hot sales of "Reminiscence" set off a New Age craze in the United States, and many New Age masters came out to give themselves a platform. Under such circumstances, if the Grammy Awards ignore themselves, it will cause public dissatisfaction.

"If you can win the award, it will be a good thing for everyone, so I hope you can bear a little bit of the cost of winning the award!" The representative of the publishing company is the convener of this meeting, and he has also prepared a public relations plan , "We invited the best public relations firm in Hollywood to help us compete for awards."

"Qiming, why do you need to spend money to win awards?" Guo Yan once again felt that the beautiful image of the United States was broken in her heart. When she was in China before, she was dissatisfied with the interference of other factors in various awards and awards. , I didn't expect the big guy to talk about the plan to spend money to win the Oscar.

"If you want to win an Oscar, how can you do it without spending money?" Do you really think America is paradise, Harvey Weinstein understand? If he hadn't been good at using public relations activities to help people win Oscars, how could he have managed so many female stars?

actually,

Chinese films have suffered a lot in this regard. Back then, Zhang Yimou's "Ju Dou" had a good chance of winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. However, Zhang Yimou and his cooperative company did not know the way of Hollywood and did not carry out public relations. The event, which eventually led to the loss of the grand prize, was awarded to the Swiss film "Journey of Hope".

"Gentlemen and ladies, let's first determine the awards we want to hit! According to our survey results, we plan to focus on these awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Original Music..." The representative of the public relations company used slides to explain the plan.

"Why is there no best actor or actress? Not even a supporting role?" Shen Long raised his hand and asked, this is a bit abnormal, generally speaking, movies that are expected to hit the best picture, no matter what aspect they do very well , You must know that a good movie is inseparable from the excellent performance of the actors.

According to Shen Long's memory, most of the directors who are expected to compete for the best picture, even if the actors do not win the award in the end, they can still get one or two nominations for the best actor and actress.

"Sir, there are no outsiders here today, so I will say it frankly. Hollywood is not without prejudice. It is still difficult to get them to accept the best actor and actress of Asian descent. We can't create unnecessary trouble for ourselves; Zunlong Mr.'s performance is indeed admirable, but at most he can only be nominated for the Golden Globe Award. There is no hope for the Oscar Award. In order to avoid the dissatisfaction of the academy members and cause other awards to fall aside, we have no choice but to give up this award! said the representative of the PR firm.

This is also because the meeting is now in private, and everyone is discussing topics that cannot be disclosed to the public, so he is so blunt, "It is also because of this reason that he did not hit the supporting role award, otherwise the supporting role was nominated or even won the award, but the protagonist did not." Any harvest will also cause unnecessary trouble."

Guo Yan's face became even more ugly. She originally thought that she had gradually entered the upper class of the United States, but she did not expect that in the eyes of Americans, they still looked at them with colored glasses.

Shen Long shook his head. He thought of the heroine in "The Last Emperor". She tried every means to stay in the United States and wanted to enter Hollywood. Who knew that Hollywood had prejudiced against her from the very beginning, and it was impossible for her to achieve anything here. Achievement.

Maybe it's nothing now, because even if she can only play some very inconspicuous roles in the United States, she can earn much more than starring in China. , What would she think when the income of female stars was far below her? Will you regret it?

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