Millennium director

During the Spring Festival of 2010, Wu Yuan spent time with Liu Yifei and her daughter in Los Angeles.

In order to get into the Chinese New Year atmosphere, they even went shopping together in Chinatown and watched a unique American lion dance.

Except for the Chinese compatriots who recognized them and took photos and posted them online, everything else was pretty happy.

Anyway, for Wu Yuan, the Spring Festival is not a day that he pays much attention to.

There is no way, you can't let a man who has been the head of the household in the household register at the age of 16 look forward to and love this kind of day of family reunion.

However, in recent years, Liu Yifei and her daughter have been accompanied during the Spring Festival, and Wu Yuan has regained a little bit of the atmosphere of home.

After having a reunion dinner, watching the jet-lagged Spring Festival Gala, listening to Queen Wang Jingwen come back to sing "Faye Wong", Liu Yifei, who was lying in Wu Yuan's arms, was no longer thinking about the Spring Festival Gala.

"Brother, are you going to attend this year's Academy Awards ceremony?"

"Go!" Wu Yuan nodded matter-of-factly: "Although I don't really feel anything about being shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Award this time, the domestic public opinion situation is unusual."

"The movie "Gravity" has almost become China's national business card. The General Administration of China has submitted this movie as a representative Chinese film to apply for the Oscar Foreign Language Film Award. It is because they hope that Gong Li, Wang Xueqi and I can be recognized as Chinese filmmakers. status, attend the Oscars.”

"The domestic film industry has been developing better and better in the past few years, and the fifth generation of directors have been chasing Oscars. This has made the Oscars more and more famous in China, and it is expected to surpass the three major ones in Europe."

"The General Administration definitely hopes that "Gravity" can win the Best Foreign Language Film Award again and bring glory to the country."

"We will definitely attend when the time comes."

"You come with me too."

Wu Yuan has never understood why in China's ten years from 2005 to 2015, the North American Academy Awards became the global film palace and authoritative award in the minds of Chinese people.

The Academy Awards has never been an international award. It is just a North American award that only selects Hollywood movies. Its nature is similar to the domestic Golden Rooster Awards, Golden Horse Awards, and Hong Kong Island Awards.

You can say that it is an authoritative award in North America and the most valuable award in Hollywood.

But to say that in this global film palace, Chinese-language films should be proud of winning Oscars, and Chinese-language actors should be proud of winning Oscars, is really nonsense.

This is an award that Americans enjoy behind closed doors. Why are you Chinese filmmakers joining in the fun?

The Oscars are not like the three major European film festivals. They are international film festivals and are geared towards global films. Every year, the films shortlisted for the main competition come from more than ten countries.

In the Oscars, only local films can be shortlisted for the main competition, while foreign films can only be shortlisted for the consolation Best Foreign Language Film Award, which is similar to the Golden Rooster’s Best International Film and Hong Kong’s Best Asian Film.

Even if Li Yu has won Oscars many times, it is because Li Yu is a Hollywood director and worked in Hollywood. He has nothing to do with China!

Wu Yuan previously won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for Juno and was shortlisted for Best Movie. He also won several technical awards for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, but he didn't find it too worthy of praise.

Wu Yuan has never been able to understand why fifth-generation directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are so obsessed with chasing the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

They are all directors who have won three major awards in Europe. As for the Oscar consolation prize, are they still obsessed with it?

"After "Love" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film last time, the country was in a state of excitement for a while. If "Gravity" can win again this time, it is estimated that this award will be held on the altar in China."

Wu Yuan sighed, feeling a little helpless.

Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige rushed for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film several times, but failed to win it. Instead, this award was full of gold.

The Palme d'Or and Golden Lion and Golden Bear were awards that neither of them could win, but Wu Yuan won them twice in a row.

Then this consolation prize is really regarded as a divine award by domestic audiences.

"I actually don't want to do this." Wu Yuan said helplessly.

"Brother, don't act like a good boy when you get an advantage." Liu Yifei reached out and tapped the tip of Wu Yuan's nose, saying angrily and funny.

"Directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige will be furious if they hear what you say!"

"As expected, those who are favored are confident, and those who are not favored are always in turmoil."

While talking, Liu Yifei also hummed "Red Rose" by the last Hong Kong singer.

"Okay, you haven't answered me yet." Wu Yuan rolled his eyes and asked again: "Oscar, will you attend with me?"

"The organizing committee hopes that I will bring a female chaperone from my family. This is not a red carpet event, it is an Oscar tradition."

"Generally invited guests have to bring their families to attend."

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Okay, then I will reluctantly attend as your family member."

"If you win the award then, I will sit down and applaud you."

This year's Oscars is a big one.

In terms of box office, there is "Avatar" which is conquering the world.

In terms of reputation, there is "The Hurt Locker" which has already won a lot of awards at the Oscars.

In the field of animation, there is also "Up" which is still a classic ten years later.

In addition, "District 9", which is quite advanced in the field of science fiction movies, the romance film "In the Clouds", and Quentin's "Inglourious Basterds".

More importantly, "Weakness" produced by Light Times was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress at this year's Oscars.

For the movie "Weakness", the script was given to John by Wu Yuan very early on.

The film was originally adapted from the novel.

The original novel was published in 2006. It tells the story of a poor black boy from the slums who became the first drafted player of the National Football League.

Simply put, it is full of the American dream.

When Wu Yuan gave Jonh the movie, there was only an outline story.

And he also said bluntly that the inspiration for this story itself came from a black player in the NFL.

This kind of novels and movies based on real people and true events are easy for Wu Yuan to achieve.

When the original novel was published in 2006, although John felt strange about it, he just thought that the author of the original novel and Wu Yuan had thought of getting together.

It's just a coincidence that one of them chose to write the story into a novel and the other chose to adapt it into a movie.

As a result, John immediately bought the film adaptation rights of the original novel "Weakness" to close the copyright loopholes.

This movie also invited "Pepper Pepper" Gwyneth Paltrow, who has always worked well with the Light Era, to play the heroine.

Well, another moment of silence for Sandra Bullock.

Who is Wu Yuan and John really have no cooperation with Sandra Bullock?

After the filming of this movie was completed, it was released in the summer of 2009. The box office results were not bad, with more than 100 million US dollars in North America and less than 200 million US dollars worldwide.

Judging from its investment cost of more than 20 million US dollars, it is definitely a profit.

John even plans to provide public relations awards for this movie!

After so many years of development, Light Times is no longer satisfied with just achieving results at the box office!

It’s time to put some trophies on the company’s wall of honor. (End of chapter)