Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

The Saturn Award is unfamiliar to Chinese people, and most people only know about the Oscars and the Golden Globe Awards.

However, in Europe and the United States, the influence of the Saturn Award is not weaker than the above two awards.

This film and television award is held by the American Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. From the name of this academy, it can be seen that the films selected for this award are nothing more than science fiction, fantasy and horror.

And these three categories are often the most pursued special effects movies. Under the premise that movies are increasingly relying on special effects, this award is becoming more and more popular and recognized by people.

"The Martian" was nominated for the Best International Film Award, which is equivalent to the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Oscars.

However, the most valued Saturn Award this year is actually "Avatar", which created a global box office miracle in the second half of last year. This work was nominated for eleven awards of Saturn Awards this year, and according to the media's prediction, "Avatar" can win at least eight of the eleven awards it was nominated for.

The American media are unanimously optimistic that "Avatar" will become the biggest winner tonight, even though its competitors include popular works such as "Star Trek" and "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".

However, Nie Wei does not have to worry about competing with "Avatar". The awards he was nominated for are exactly the few film awards that Avatar was not nominated for. The main competitors of "The Martian" are "District 9" and "Taken".

For the best international film, more than half of the American media are optimistic about "The Martian". This is partly because the film has achieved very good results in the global box office. Secondly, in terms of word of mouth, "The Martian" is also far ahead of other players.

Perhaps the only one that can pose a threat to "The Martian" is "District 9".

This science fiction film produced by SONY contains an implicit criticism of war, so it has received a lot of praise in Europe and the United States, and is considered to be one of the best anti-war films this year.

Although this is Nie Wei's first time to participate in the Saturn Awards, he is not here just for the sake of participation. On the contrary, he is determined to win the Best International Film Award.

Huayi, the company behind Nie Wei, has spent nearly $5 million on the PR costs for this award alone.

This publicity cost is also the second highest among the films nominated for the Best International Film Award this year. The first one is "District 9" produced by Sony. According to a media report, Sony has spent more than $6.5 million on PR costs.

On the one hand, it is because Sony is rich, and on the other hand, it is because "District 9" is not as well-known as "The Martian".

Since Sony wants to make a difference in this award, it will naturally spend more money to boost the momentum of its film.

Nie Wei will not simply compete with Sony with money. In Nie Wei's view, everything is worthwhile as long as it is reasonable, and those irrational expenses are completely unnecessary. Such emotional disputes will not cause much change in the final result of the award.

The award ceremony started at 6 pm and the red carpet show lasted for more than an hour. The official show started at 7:30 pm and ended at 11 pm.

Nie Wei also had to walk the red carpet. His partner was Fan Binbin who came from China. Wang Zhonglei was also scheduled to come, but because of Nie Wei's incident, Huayi's stock fell and soared recently, so he stayed in China to stabilize the morale of the troops and did not come to join in the fun.

Fan Binbin was obviously very happy to be able to participate in the red carpet of the Saturn Awards. This woman always likes this kind of show that everyone pays attention to. It is no wonder that she was called a red carpet actress by the media for a while in the original time and space.

Of course, this time Fan Binbin accompanied Nie Wei on the red carpet, which was justified. After all, she was nominally the heroine of "The Martian". Although the role of this heroine was pitifully small, she was the heroine after all, so she was qualified to step on the red carpet, and the organizer also officially sent an invitation letter to Fan Binbin.

Not to mention Nie Wei, as the director, screenwriter and leading actor of "The Martian", he is also the representative of the producer.

Nie Wei's custom-made suit was already airlifted from Europe to Los Angeles seven days ago. The blue and white plaid British suit is gentlemanly and youthful. In order to match Nie Wei, Fan Binbin also chose a blue and white long dress, plus a million-dollar jewelry, which makes this woman look dazzling.

The moment the two walked on the red carpet, the reporters did not hesitate to use the memory of their cameras, and pointed the lens at the two and kept pressing the shutter.

The college even arranged a two-minute red carpet interview for the two. Of course, the host mainly focused the questions on Nie Wei, after all, he is the most talked-about person in the United States recently.

"I wrote The Martian a long time ago, and the inspiration really comes from Robinson Crusoe. In the 17th century, people yearned for the sea and wanted to explore the world overseas, but now the times are different. People have begun to yearn for space and want to explore space. This is also the main reason why I wrote The Martian."

Then the reporter also asked about Nie Wei's current lawsuit.

"We have a lot of evidence. My legal team and I believe in the justice of the American judiciary. In addition, the framing of Jess and others is nothing to me, and it has not affected my view of the American entertainment industry. This is still the most desirable place for all artists in the world. It is the most prosperous place for global entertainment..."

After the two-minute interview, both sides got very satisfactory results.

"I thought you would severely criticize those guys." Fan Binbin whispered in Nie Wei's ear in the passageway leading to the venue.

She was referring to the host's question about Jess and his gang. Nie Wei's answer was completely evasive. He basically didn't mention Jess and his gang. Instead, he praised Hollywood.

"That's meaningless. No matter how much I say here, it can't change their unlucky ending. It's better to take advantage of the opportunity to improve the American people's favorability." Nie Wei smiled and shook his head, explaining.

In his opinion, talking nonsense in the media is the most meaningless thing. The older he gets, the more he disdains to do such things.

On the contrary, taking this opportunity to show his generosity and kindness is a very beneficial thing.

Even those foreigners living in China know that they can shoot a lot of videos to prove that Chinese food and culture are very popular in order to gain the recognition of local people. Then Nie Wei can naturally use the same method to gain the goodwill and love of local people.

If Nie Wei was online at this moment, he would be able to see that many American netizens who were watching the live broadcast expressed great enthusiasm for Nie Wei's interview and praised Nie Wei for his generosity and friendliness.

Fan Binbin glanced at Nie Wei with a complicated look in her eyes. She always felt that Nie Wei was becoming more and more unfathomable.

Soon, the two of them walked into the venue under the guidance of the public relations staff. Along the way, countless artists greeted Nie Wei, most of whom were black actors. It was obvious that the previous incident had given Nie Wei a very good reputation in this group.

"Hey, brother, I'm optimistic that you will win the award tonight."

"Nie, do you want to come to my house after the ceremony? I want half a PATRY. I have many friends who want to meet you."

"Dude, you look very handsome today, just a little bit worse than me, haha."

Fan Binbin looked at the Hollywood stars who greeted Nie Wei one by one, and her expression management was relaxed because of surprise. She really didn't understand when Nie Wei had so many celebrity friends in Hollywood.

You know, although Nie Wei has a lot of influence in Hollywood, with both a film company and a super cinema, he still hasn't completely integrated into this circle. Even the movies he produced mostly used Chinese actors, so although Nie Wei has a lot of power in Hollywood, he doesn't know many people.

But what's the situation now? Many famous stars actually took the initiative to greet Nie Wei, and it didn't seem like they were trying to please Nie Wei, but simply expressed goodwill.

Fan Binbin soon stopped wondering, because Nie Wei was very considerate. When these stars greeted him, Nie Wei would specifically mention Fan Binbin's name and introduce her to these people.

Perhaps it was for Nie Wei's sake, anyway, these stars also greeted Fan Binbin very friendly.

It took Nie Wei and Fan Binbin almost five minutes to walk a short distance of less than 50 meters before they arrived at their seats. Even before sitting down, the stars on both sides saw Nie Wei and shook hands with him.

It was not until Nie Wei finished greeting the stars around him that Fan Binbin raised her own questions in surprise and curiosity.

"Guy Ritchie, Quentin, Robert Downey Jr., Charlize, Harrison and Denzel, wow, Nie Wei, when did you get to know so many Hollywood stars?"

"I just met them recently." Nie Wei replied, but did not explain the reason in detail to Fan Binbin.

After all, these friendships came very suddenly and were very complicated. The negative news caused by Jess could only be regarded as a fuse. The key is that Nie Wei himself is strong enough, so these stars will take this opportunity to actively make friends with Nie Wei.

Nie Wei's answer obviously could not solve the doubts in Fan Binbin's heart, but seeing that Nie Wei did not want to explain more, she naturally would not ask without thinking, but took advantage of Nie Wei's relationship to have a serious conversation with the stars around her.

At this moment, she was really grateful to Nie Wei for forcing her to learn English when filming "The Martian". She put it to good use at this moment. Otherwise, if she had given up such a good opportunity but was unable to communicate due to language barriers, Fan Binbin would probably be in deep regret for a long time.

"Do you want to watch NBA tomorrow?" While waiting, Nie Wei asked Fan Binbin on the side.

Fan Binbin looked at Nie Wei in confusion, not knowing why Nie Wei suddenly mentioned NBA.

"I'm going to sing the opening song for the Lakers tomorrow. The team gave me some VIP tickets. If you go, I'll give you one." Nie Wei explained.

Of course, singing the opening song is just a side job. Nie Wei's real purpose of going to the Lakers tomorrow is to discuss a business deal with Jenny, the current president of the Lakers.

If everything goes well, then Nie Wei is likely to become one of the owners of the Lakers.

"Okay, leave me a seat with the best seats." When he heard that Nie Wei was going to sing the opening song, Fan Binbin immediately supported him, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel surprised in his heart. Obviously, he didn't understand when Nie Wei had anything to do with the Lakers.

However, Fan Binbin quickly accepted this reality. After all, Nie Wei's omnipotence had already penetrated her heart. Even if Nie Wei said now that he was going to have coffee with the president, she would believe it.

The award ceremony started on time.

This film and television award includes the world's best science fiction, fantasy, and horror movies and TV series throughout the year, so the three-and-a-half-hour award ceremony seems to be very long, but in fact the pace of the award ceremony is much faster than that of ordinary award ceremonies.

As expected by the media, "Avatar" is indeed the biggest winner in the film field.

Among the awards announced an hour before the award ceremony, "Avatar" was nominated for four awards and won all of them, showing an almost invincible momentum.

However, this did not surprise Nie Wei. Just like Apple's mobile phone won all the technology awards for mobile phones after it was launched, "Avatar" is to the film market, just like Apple's mobile phone is to the mobile phone market, both of which bring a cross-era change.

Now that "Avatar" has won four trophies, it is just the beginning in Nie Wei's view. It may win all the eleven awards it was nominated for.

Halfway through the award ceremony, it was finally the turn of "The Martian" to be nominated for the Best International Film Award.

In addition to District 9 and Taken, the works nominated with The Martian include The Silence of Rona, Bats, and The Fantastic Theater of Doctor Parnassus.

Six works compete for one award, which is also a feature of the Saturn Awards.

So it has always been said that it is easy to be nominated but difficult to win the Saturn Awards.

When Nie Wei was listening carefully to Downey on the stage announcing the list of nominees, he suddenly felt a soft warmth surrounding his right hand. He looked down subconsciously and found that Fan Binbin nervously grabbed Nie Wei's hand.

For Fan Binbin, although this is not an exclusive personal award, as the heroine of this movie, if The Martian can really win this trophy on behalf of China, she will definitely be remembered by people.

At that time, even if she can only get a small part of the influence brought by the award, it will be enough for her to benefit endlessly.

So at this time, she seemed more nervous than Nie Wei, and even grabbed Nie Wei's hand subconsciously.

The cameras on the scene were now focused on the main creators of the six crews. As Downey announced the names of the movies one by one, the big screen on the stage also had more shots.

Nie Wei and Fan Binbin stood out among the nominees, after all, they were the only yellow people.

After announcing the list of nominees, Downey handed the final list to his female companion, who announced the results.

"So which movie will it be? Let's reveal the results now." The female companion was very decisive and directly opened the envelope and took out the final list of winners.

"Congratulations, "The Martian" from Huayi Entertainment Group."

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