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Chapter 554 Golden Globe Awards

After Christmas, Link and Iwaka returned to New York with their three children to spend a happy New Year there.

At the beginning of the year, the shortlist for the 71st American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards was announced. Lionsgate Pictures and Palm Beach Pictures had 7 films shortlisted for various awards and received 16 nominations.

"Rust and Bone" three awards: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Actor/Actress in a Drama Series

"Her" won three awards, including Best Picture, Comedy/Musical, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.

"Spring Breakers", best screenplay.

"August: Osage County" won three awards, including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress twice.

"Dallas Buyers Club" won three awards: Best Picture, Drama, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" won two awards: Best Picture, Comedy/Musical, and Best Actor.

"The Hunger Games 2" 1 award, Best Original Song.

It accounts for a quarter of all nominations, which is slightly less than last year. Last year, 8 films were shortlisted and received 18 nominations.

The main reason is still related to the recent trend of public opinion.

Since the end of last year, there have been many comments in the media similar to 'Lionsgate Films contracting the Golden Globe Awards and Oscars', claiming that Lionsgate Pictures receives too many nominations and awards every year through public relations, which is not good for many film companies. Fair and not conducive to the development of the film industry.

It is also said that Lionsgate’s films are specially shot to win awards, and it has become a specialist in winning Golden Globes and Oscars.

Affected by these negative news, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organizer of the Golden Globe Awards, voted for other films that should have been cast for Lionsgate films.

In order to solve this problem, during the awards selection stage, the public relations departments of Lionsgate Pictures and Palm Beach Pictures separated their activities. During the promotion, the films under the two companies will also be separated, such as "Her" and "August: Osage" County Governance is a Palm Beach Pictures movie, and the remaining few are Lionsgate movies.

In fact, the PR award teams all belong to the same group of people.

Although this method of covering one's ears and stealing the bell is redundant, it is useful and can block some people's mouths to a certain extent.

In terms of TV series, "House of Cards" co-produced by Lionsgate and Netflix received four nominations, and "Orange Is the New Black" won two, showing outstanding performance.

Rival Weinstein Pictures also performed well, with two films nominated for the Golden Globe Awards. The female-themed film "Philomena" received three nominations, and the celebrity biopic "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" received three nominations. .

On January 12, the 71st American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. Link took Selena to attend the award ceremony.

"Hey, Link, why don't you take a bet and see who of us wins the prize?"

Leonardo shouted at him at the award ceremony.

"No gambling!"

Link decisively refused. Although both of them were nominated for Best Actor, one was Best Actor in a Drama Series and the other was Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical. His track included "Dallas Buyers Club" The protagonist, Matthew McConaughey, is also the focus of Lionsgate's public relations. He has little chance of winning an award.

Later it was proved that he was right not to gamble.

That night, Best Actor in a Drama Movie went to Matthew McConaughey.

Leonardo once again won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor after 9 years. In 2005, he won the Best Actor in a Drama Series. The shortlisted movie was "The Aviator", this time in the comedy category.

However, the film director who won the Golden Globe Award twice for Leonardo DiCaprio was Martin Scorsese.

The two can be considered old partners.

In other awards, the best picture in the drama category was won by "12 Years a Slave", and the best director winner was Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity".

The best film comedy-musical category went to "The Wolf of Wall Street".

Best Actress in a Drama Series went to Cate Blanchett for "Blue Jasmine".

The director of this film is Woody Allen. This year he also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award (Lifetime Achievement Award) for his many achievements in film, but the old man did not attend.

Although director Woody Allen has received 23 Oscar nominations and 13 Golden Globe nominations, he has never attended an awards ceremony.

The main reason is that in 1974, his film "Idiots in Science City" was ignored by the Oscars. At that time, Director Allen was very angry and once said publicly, "The idea of ​​awarding awards to movies is very stupid. I can't follow the judgment given to me by others. If you Accept the award they give you, even if they say your film doesn't deserve the award, you have to accept it. ’

Director Woody Allen subsequently stated that he would never attend any film awards ceremonies again.

Director Woody Allen didn't come, so the award couldn't go empty. The organizers asked Link to come on stage to present the award, and director Woody Allen's ex-girlfriend Diane Keaton accepted the award on her behalf. The other party won the award in 1977 with Allen's film "Annie Hall" won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Link teased the old man a few words during the award ceremony, and even shouted from afar, don't forget the boxer movie.

Although he knew that the old man could live for a long time, he had not cooperated for more than two years, and he was worried that the other party was busy and forgot.

Meryl Streep won Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for "August: Osage County."

Jared Leto won Best Supporting Actor for "Dallas Buyers Club."

The Best Supporting Actress award went to Jennifer Lawrence for "August: Osage County."

"Her" won best screenplay and "Frozen" won best animated feature.

"Beautiful City" won best foreign language film.

"All Is Lost" won the best original score, and the "Mandela" theme song "Ordinary Love" won the best original song.

Lionsgate's films won a total of 7 awards, including Best Picture/Best Actor/Best Actress in a Comedy, Best Actor in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay. .

In addition, the TV series "House of Cards" won Best Actor/Best Actress in a Drama Series.

After the awards ceremony, the results of this year’s Golden Globe Awards were hotly debated in the media. The main reason was that Lionsgate’s films had won too many awards. There are only 14 awards in the Golden Globe Film category, including 15 Lifetime Achievement Awards.

However, Lionsgate Films accounts for half of the films released, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a contract company.

Many people who are hostile to Lionsgate Pictures have begun to take issue, claiming that Lionsgate Pictures' monopoly on the Golden Globe Awards is very unfair and an alternative form of film hegemony.

Some film critics even said that Lionsgate Pictures has an advantage in public relations for the Oscars. Maybe Lionsgate's films will continue to contract Oscars after contracting the Golden Globe Awards. In a few years, the Golden Globe Awards will be renamed. It’s called the Lionsgate-Film and Television Golden Globe Awards, and it would be more appropriate for the Academy Awards to be renamed the Lionsgate-Academy Awards.

In response to this argument, Lionsgate did not tolerate this in its promotion.

Goldsmith, the vice president in charge of publicity, said in an interview with CBS that the main reason why Lionsgate films have won the favor of the Golden Globe and Academy Award judges is that Lionsgate Films is pursuing the art of film. Invest more money, energy and time on the road, strive for excellence in movies, allow movies that are not blockbusters, and never allow bad movies.

Judging from the movies of the past three years, Lionsgate has done a good job in this regard.

Lionsgate's attitude of attaching great importance to the development of artistic films is the main reason why the films released by Lionsgate have won multiple awards.

In addition, in the era of commercial movies, in order to cater to the market and pursue high box office, many film companies actively reduce the cost of film production and lower the quality of movies. This is like making movies in a gambling style, hoping to earn several times the box office at a very small cost. This This idea is good, but without respect for the art of film, it may backfire in the end.

If the quality of the movie is not high, it will naturally not be recognized by the judges of major film awards, and it will not win film awards.

In short, Lionsgate's films can win multiple awards only because of their peers.

Another thing is that Lionsgate chooses like-minded partners when it releases its movies.

For example, Palm Beach Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, Appian Trail Pictures, and Plan B Pictures. These four companies are all independent film companies with good reputations in the industry and aim to create high-quality films.

This year's award-winning "Her" and "August: Osage County" were completed in collaboration with Palm Beach Pictures and Annapurna.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" is a collaboration with Appian Trail Pictures and Martin Scorsese Studios.

Choosing the right partners is also key to getting Lionsgate-distributed films recognized by fans and professional filmmakers after they are released.

The CBS TV host mentioned the issue of awards public relations. It is rumored that Lionsgate Pictures spends more than 50 million US dollars on awards public relations every year.

Goldsmith said that public relations for film awards are essential, just like participating in the Olympics. All athletes who feel they have the ability can sign up. After qualifying for the Olympics, athletes will receive financial support from sponsors. If the athletes If you are strong, you will win the prize in the end, and your sponsors will also get a lot of benefits.

Investment in film public relations is similar. The main reason why Lionsgate spends a lot of money on publicity every year and attracts the favor of the judges of major awards is that the quality of the film is high enough and it is confident that it will beat many finalists and win the award. This investment is also cost-effective.

Therefore, the focus of public relations for film awards is not how much money is spent, but how high the quality of the film is, how much support it can get from the judges, and whether the film can convince the public and gain recognition from movie fans after winning the award.

Judging from the award-winning status of Lionsgate Films’ films in recent years, all of Lionsgate Films’ films are well-deserved for their awards. Although there is a slight controversy, it is within the normal range.

Finally, Goldsmith also joked that if he could win a movie award through public relations alone, Lionsgate boss Link would not be nominated for the Best Actor Award three times and come away empty-handed three times. This fully shows that public relations for awards are necessary. But it is by no means the main reason why movies or actors win awards.

The CBS TV host immediately asked, what is the key to an actor winning the award, is it his acting skills? According to this view, Link's 0 out of 3 mentions is a hint that Link's acting skills are not good.

Goldsmith was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained that not only acting skills, but also the strength, luck, and overall quality of the film among the nominees are very important. Link was nominated for the final three times with "Midnight in Paris", "Buried Alive" and "Rust and Bone". Best Actor Award, which fully shows that Link's acting skills are very superb, but he lacks a little luck.

After this interview was aired on CBS Midday News, it caused a lot of discussion. However, the most discussed thing was Goldsmith's praise of Quarry's acting skills in the show, which was considered to have a "strong desire to survive."

In addition, the news that Link was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor three times and won 0 times was also ranked first in the trending search after the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony.

This news also greatly reduces online rumors about Lionsgate's excessive PR awards.

Because of Link’s negative teaching material, as long as someone talks about Lionsgate’s public relations awards, opponents can use Link as an example, saying that if Link can really win the Golden Globe Award through public relations, why has Link won a Golden Globe in five years since his debut? Didn't get the ball award either.

Inspired by this news, Link's fans cried out for him on various platforms, asking why Link could not win awards in the United States despite his ability to conquer the Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival with his acting skills.

Fans think the Golden Globe and Oscar judges are targeting Link because he's so good.

If Link were just a simple actor, instead of the boss of Lionsgate Films, a billionaire, a singing superstar, and a sports superstar, he would have won the Best Actor Award in "Midnight in Paris" based on his acting skills.

And Link hasn't won the prize yet, which is very unfair to Link.

Fans left messages on the official websites of the Golden Globes and Academy Awards, demanding that Link be treated fairly and treated equally.

This kind of fandom behavior put a lot of pressure on Link. He had to stand up and speak out, saying that acting is a hobby and winning the Golden Globe and Oscar is a long-term goal. If it is won too early, it will not be challenging, so he does not I'd love to get a few more Best Actor nominations.

When fans saw his speech, their attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees.

Fans who initially left messages on the Golden Globe and Oscar websites deleted their messages and strongly requested the Golden Globe and Oscar judges not to award the Best Actor Award to Link.

The reason is that Link announced his withdrawal from the selection of various music awards after receiving enough music awards, and then announced that he would no longer release a new album.

If the Best Actor Award is awarded to him too early, he may very well choose to give up his job as an actor because he has no goals, which is not good news for fans.

So Link self-defeated and once again made it more difficult for him to win the Oscar for Best Actor.

Link didn't mind this either.

After his net worth has grown to more than 10 billion and he has countless honors, he has a more casual attitude towards Oscars. It doesn't matter whether he can get it or not.

What he cares more about is the process of making movies, making money through movies, increasing his popularity, and indirectly increasing the appearance fees for boxing matches.

However, the reaction of fans caused him to be ridiculed by many acquaintances, calling him the most difficult actor in the world to win the Oscar for Best Actor.

Even Leonardo, who is in trouble for an Oscar, made a bet with him in the poker game, saying that he would not be able to win this award in thirty years.

Link agreed to bet him one million dollars.

(End of chapter)