Millennium director

On January 13, 2020, the 92nd Academy Awards officially announced the final list of nominees.

As expected, the biographical film "Bruce Lee" produced by Disney and directed by Wu Yuan received six nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Photography!

But Wu Yuan was not too happy when he saw the final list of nominees.

After all, although this year's Oscars is not a big year, it is also a gathering of heroes.

At least much better than every session in the next few years.

In different genres but in the same era, there is a "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" that also received these nominations.

In addition to "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", "Parasite" also competes with him for the two most important awards of Best Picture and Best Director.

At the same time, the best R-rated film in history, "Joker", is also the biggest dark horse of this year's Oscars.

And the capital behind these three works should not be underestimated.

Behind Parasite is the famous Korean chaebol CJ Group, and behind Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Sony Columbia, and even Bona in China provides financial support.

Behind Joker is Warner, one of the largest companies in Hollywood.

With Disney, Warner, and Sony working together, even Wu Yuan dare not say that he can win.

To be honest, the excellence of Bruce Lee itself is no longer the most important thing in this year's Oscar selection.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Joker, and Bruce Lee can all be regarded as movies of similar standards, and there is no saying that one is better than the other. The three movies are also similar in terms of public reputation and public evaluation.

Even Bruce Lee is at a disadvantage, because until February, Bruce Lee was only released in more than 100 art theaters in North America, and has not been released on a large scale.

However, both Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Joker have been released on a large scale.

Putting aside "Parasite", Wu Yuan also felt the pressure of competing with these two movies and the war film "1917".

Although this year is not a big year, the competitors should not be underestimated.

Jovan kept saying that the Best Director was already in the bag for "Bruce Lee". Is this statement really credible enough?

Anyway, Wu Yuan couldn't help but worry.

He could accept that "Bruce Lee" would not win the Best Picture, but if it didn't even win the Best Director, wouldn't it be a waste of time!

From the beginning to the end, he did not participate in the Oscars for the so-called "dream chasing". He had no dreams for the Oscar awards, unlike the fifth-generation directors who once wanted to impact the Oscars.

He did make "Bruce Lee" to fulfill his dream, but he took this movie to the Oscars purely to maintain his fame.

But if he couldn't win the Best Director, then the idea of ​​maintaining his fame would become nonsense.

"Remember that in the original time and space, the film that won the Best Director award this year was Parasite?" Wu Yuan, who was alone in his mansion in Los Angeles, was seriously recalling the situation of this year's Oscars.

As he "reborn" for a longer time, the memory of the 20 years that seemed like a dream became more and more vague.

It's not that he forgot, but the new life brought more and more memories, making him recall less and less the "future" that now seemed like a dream.

But these memories are still firmly in his brain, which is also his biggest golden finger.

After trying hard to recall, he not only remembered who the Best Director was, but also remembered all the winners.

There is no way. He has been a director for two lifetimes. It is impossible not to pay attention to the Oscars every year. Maybe he doesn't have time to watch the award ceremony every year, but he will definitely watch the final list of winners.

"Best Picture and Best Director both went to Parasite, Best Actor went to Joaquin Phoenix from Joker, and Best Actress went to Renée Zellweger from Judy."

"Best Supporting Actor went to Brad Pitt from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Best Supporting Actress went to Laura Dern from Marriage Story."

"Best Actress seems to be the tallest among the short ones."

Most of these important awards are well-deserved, and there is nothing wrong with the awards, but this year is a small year for Best Actress. The performances of the nominated actresses are actually average, and Scarlett Johansson was nominated for Marriage Story.

"Unfortunately, Emma Stone doesn't have many scenes, and it's probably useless to force her into the Best Actress competition."

In terms of acting skills, Emma Stone from the Bruce Lee crew is definitely a standout among the actresses nominated this year.

Unfortunately, a good cook cannot cook without rice. The heroine in Bruce Lee does not have many scenes. Although she is Bruce Lee's wife, this is a man's play.

So Disney finally gave Emma Stone the Best Supporting Actress award, allowing her to bully those supporting actresses as the heroine.

"Speaking of which, as a Korean film, even with CJ's full support behind the scenes, Parasite can only be nominated for the group award."

Wu Yuan thought about it carefully and found that the Oscars are indeed an award that Europe has always considered "closed" and "closed-door" and "playing behind closed doors".

Even a movie like "Parasite" that is highly recognized worldwide was only nominated for four awards at the Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing.

Among them, the Best Editing is obviously a filler, which means that the Oscars will only let "Parasite" get two awards at most.

They did not win the equally important Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress.

To be fair, the performances of several actors in "Parasite" are still very exciting, and they are really not inferior to the nominated actors.

At least in Wu Yuan's opinion, Chen Guokun can be nominated for Best Actor, so there is no reason why Song Kanghao from "Parasite" cannot be nominated. He just won the Best Actor Award at Cannes with this movie.

It can only be said that the Oscars are worthy of being controlled by Hollywood. It is very respectful to give "Parasite" two major awards.

But this is good for Wu Yuan, after all, his "Bruce Lee" is produced by Disney.

If the Oscars are really as "fair" as the three major European awards, he would have no room for maneuver.

After thinking it through, Wu Yuan was a little more relaxed.

After all, the Oscars are unlikely to give "Parasite" too many awards. He still has a great hope of winning the Best Director Award. After all, Wu Yuan has made a lot of money for Hollywood and is a real insider.

"Hey, let's get ready to attend the nomination luncheon." Wu Yuan smacked his lips and said.

From the announcement of the shortlist, for all the film crews nominated for this year's Oscars, their Oscar journey has officially begun.

Start from the nomination luncheon! (End of this chapter)