Millennium director

Chapter 71 First Oscar

Los Angeles, Hollywood, outside the Kodak Theater.

Today, Kodak is not bankrupt yet. Countless people around the world are buying their film products, and their business is booming.

So much so that the wealthy Kodak spent a huge sum of money to name this theater, which is called a big spender.

No one expected that just ten years later, Kodak would actually face bankruptcy and liquidation.

Let’s get back to the point.

This year is the first year that the Kodak Theater has been put into use. This new theater has up to 3,400 seats and is very worthy of the size and level of the Oscars.

This is where the Academy Awards will be held for at least the next 20 years.

However, this is the first time it has been used. Both the media reporters who came to watch and the guest celebrities who came to participate were all curious about this newly opened grand theater.

Outside the theater, it took 18 people and 900 hours to lay it out. The long red carpet covering an area of ​​4,645 square meters has been laid.

It is worth mentioning that this red carpet, which is so labor-intensive and expensive, is only a one-time item and will not be reused and will be destroyed after tonight.

It can only be said that Hollywood is a wealthy and prosperous Hollywood, and it is generous in its actions.

At this time, thousands of media reporters from all over the world have gathered on both sides of the red carpet. They are all looking at the end of the red carpet expectantly, waiting for the courtesy cars to arrive, and then pouring out the film in their cameras. Empty!

Today is a once-in-a-year event for every reporter. Countless top Hollywood celebrities will be present, so don’t skimp on film!

Among the reporters, there is a small group of reporters who are different from their colleagues around them, and they stand out among the crowd.

Because their skin color is all yellow, and what they speak is not English, but authentic Mandarin.

"Will Director Wu walk on the red carpet?"

"Definitely! "Juno" has been shortlisted for four awards. Can Director Wu not walk on the red carpet?"

"I cheered up for a while and started shooting as soon as Director Wu arrived. This time I specially prepared ten rolls of film and made them all!"

"I wonder if Director Wu can win the award tonight."

"I guess no mainland filmmaker has ever won an Oscar."

"Not necessarily. Director Wu is making a Hollywood movie, not a Mainland movie. There is still hope for him to win an award."

The Chinese reporters gathered together were chatting with each other, their voices full of anxiety. They both hoped that Wu Yuan would win the award, but were afraid that he would not win the award.

Although Wu Yuan was shortlisted for the Oscar for an English-language film, he is also a Chinese with upstanding roots. Winning the award is definitely a shot in the arm for the Chinese film industry.

Chinese filmmakers have won the top three awards in Europe, and they have won quite a lot, but no Chinese director has ever won an Oscar.

The closest time was last year when Li Eu was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". But is Li Eu considered a director trained in China?

Now Wu Yuan has been nominated for four awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay. If he can win the Best Picture or Best Director, he will truly achieve a breakthrough of 0!

It’s just that every Chinese reporter knows that all major Hollywood media have made predictions before the awards.

Among the shortlisted films, "Juno" has the lowest possibility of winning Best Director and Best Picture.

"Director Wu is still young, so being nominated is already very impressive." A younger reporter said confidently: "I believe that Director Wu will definitely win the Oscar for Best Director in the future!"

On the red carpet, groups of guest crews arrived at the scene and walked on the red carpet to contribute scenes and photos to reporters.

The frenzied media reporters around were all taking photos frantically, with their flashlights flashing.

Only the Chinese press group gathered in a corner were very restrained. Even if international superstars were present, they would only take one or two symbolic photos to save the use of film.

Until, a black limousine drove to the end of the red carpet, and Wu Yuan and John, in suits and ties, got out of the car with Chris and Scarlett.

The Chinese press team, which had been silent all afternoon, immediately went crazy.

"Director Wu! Look here!"

"Director Wu, do you hope to win an award at tonight's award ceremony?"

"Director Wu, smile!"

Not only Chinese journalists, Wu Yuan is no longer an unknown director in Hollywood, and the popularity of the Berlin Film Festival has not yet completely passed.

Watching a director who had just won Berlin's Best Director walk onto the red carpet, the blond and blue-eyed foreign reporters immediately pointed their cameras at him.

"Daniel, look at me!"

"Come here!"

"Daniel, smile!"

Compared to the cast members Chris and Scarlett, as well as John, a producer who is not famous at all, Wu Yuan is undoubtedly the most worthy of filming in this red carpet group.

He became the center of attention on the red carpet as soon as he appeared.

Not just on-site media, the Academy Awards are broadcast live and broadcast in most places around the world, including the red carpet.

At this moment, viewers from the United States, China, Europe, Japan, South Korea and other countries who are paying attention to this year's Academy Awards, no matter which time zone they are in, saw Wu Yuan standing on the red carpet, smiling and waving.

Wu Yuan's well-fitting suit, straight back, confident smile and steady steps together form a "perfect" image of a handsome guy with oriental temperament.

Whether you know Wu Yuan or not, when you see him through the live broadcast, you must be fascinated by his demeanor and temperament at the moment.

The vast majority of Asian women of appropriate age who are watching the live broadcast are screaming in front of the TV, who is this Asian man with great temperament?

Well, Chris Evans, who is one step behind him, is also handsome, and more in line with European and American aesthetics. European and American women who are also watching the TV are fascinated.

Plus the young and beautiful version of the widowed sister Scarlett Janssen.

The highlight of the "Juno" crew is a combination of handsome men and beautiful women, and they are both Asian and European!

The appearance effect is very good!

Domestically, CCTV also spent money to buy the broadcast rights for this year's Academy Awards.

Not for anything else, just because Wu Yuan is nominated for this Oscar.

However, since the movie "Juno" has not been released in the mainland, and the content of the movie is really contrary to mainland values, the host in the broadcast room did not introduce too much about the situation of the shortlisted movie "Juno". Instead, it mainly introduces Wu Yuan himself.

"The crew of "Juno" walked onto the red carpet, and the Chinese face in the lead is the famous Chinese director Wu Yuan."

"Director Wu Yuan wrote and directed his first film "The Night the Comet Came" when he was 18 years old. The film not only made nearly 20 million domestic box office, but also won the best screenplay at the Sanchez International Fantasy Film Festival. prize!"

"In February this year, Director Wu Yuan went to Berlin to participate in the Berlin International Film Festival with his latest film "The Embalmer". Not only was he successfully shortlisted for the main competition, but he also finally won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at this Berlin Film Festival! "

"Now, he's coming to the Academy Awards with the movie "Juno" he directed in the United States!"

"The movie "Juno" was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay!"

"Let us look forward to Director Wu Yuan's performance tonight, and let us wish Director Wu Yuan to win the award! Winning glory for Chinese filmmakers on the stage of the Academy Awards!"