Millennium director

Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor Award at the 92nd Academy Awards as expected.

Is it the result of public relations?

Not necessarily.

His performance in "Joker" was indeed excellent enough, and he was the most popular candidate for the Best Actor Award at this year's Oscars.

But do you say that Warner, behind "Joker", did not do any public relations?

Not entirely.

Wu Yuan knew that Warner actually organized banquets in the past one or two months and invited a bunch of Oscar judges to participate, whether it was to win over relationships or give benefits, everything that should be there was done.

But this does not mean that the Best Actor trophy won by Joaquin Phoenix is ​​not a well-deserved result.

Yes, the Oscars are such a complicated place.

Just relying on superficial strength, you may not be able to win the award.

Just relying on the operation behind the scenes, but not having the strength itself, you may not be able to win the award.

But if both are combined, then you will be invincible, and the judges will be satisfied, and the public will also be satisfied.

Just like this perfect result of Joaquin Phoenix.

Well, it was really perfect.

Including Chen Guokun, who was competing with him for the Best Actor, all gave him applause in recognition.

"He really has good acting skills, and Joker has a good box office in Hong Kong Island. It's normal to lose to him." Chen Guokun said while clapping.

Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "Indeed."

Although Chen Guokun has been saying since the nominations were announced that it was good to be nominated, and he didn't expect to win the Best Actor.

But when he really saw him facing the result so calmly, without even a moment of regret, at least Wu Yuan didn't catch such emotions on his face, Wu Yuan still admired him a little.

At least if it was his first time to be nominated for such an important award, even if he kept persuading himself in his heart that "it's good to be nominated", when he really didn't win the award, he would definitely feel disappointed and regretful.

Or maybe Chen Guokun really concealed it well.

Without thinking too much, Wu Yuan put his attention back to the award ceremony.

After the Best Actor was awarded, the Best Actress was naturally awarded.

Because this award has nothing to do with the Bruce Lee crew, everyone was very relaxed.

Jovan, who was sitting next to Wu Yuan, even joked and "pointed" at several nominated actresses.

"Scarlett is so beautiful, no wonder NBA stars want to drink her bath water."

"But I think her chances of winning are not high. Judy has a higher chance of winning. It's a biographical film, and it's the favorite of the old men in the academy."

"And Fox is also working hard on public relations behind the scenes."

There are no secrets in Hollywood.

Or there are no secrets for the Big Six.

Jovan actually knew the results of most awards. After all, it is impossible to hide the operations of major giant companies behind the scenes during the award season from their opponents.

The fact is indeed as he guessed. Among the five nominees, Renée Zellweger won the Best Actress Award for Judy.

This is her first time to win the Best Actress Award and her second Oscar. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 76th Academy Awards for Cold Mountain.

"Twentieth Century Fox has achieved its goal this year." Jovan applauded and joked with Wu Yuan.

"It's a good result to get a best actress. Oh, now we have to call them Twentieth Century Pictures."

On March 21, 2019, Disney completed the acquisition of the film and television divisions of Twentieth Century Fox for $71.3 billion and obtained final regulatory approval.

In January 2020, Twentieth Century Fox Film was renamed Twentieth Century Pictures.

In other words, Fox, which was founded in May 1935 and was once one of the eight major film companies in Hollywood, has now been sold to Disney.

Twentieth Century Fox, which was once extremely glorious in the first decade of the 21st century, eventually could not escape the result of being acquired.

However, mergers and acquisitions are mergers and acquisitions, and the new Twentieth Century Pictures is still independently operated, just like Disney's Marvel Pictures, and will not be completely merged by Disney.

Of course, it is normal to parachute executives.

But the "competitor" relationship between 20th Century Fox and Disney will not change. Even though the two companies are now one family, they still have to compete with each other. This is the world of capital.

However, Fox's "Deadpool" has completely turned to the worldview of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from the X-Men at the beginning. This can be regarded as one of the effects of Disney's acquisition of Fox.

After all, Fox and Marvel have become one family, so it is naturally easy to talk about the integration of the movie universe.

If Warner can merge with Disney, maybe we can see the Justice League fighting the Avengers.

Yes, I want to see it!

Wu Yuan's thoughts quickly diverged, and even Henry Cavill's Superman fought with Chris Evans' Captain America in his mind.

He almost forgot that he was still at the Oscars.

However, with the announcement of the host behind the scenes, Wu Yuan's mood was quickly pulled back.

Because the big one is coming!

After the Best Actress Award was presented, there were only two most important awards left at this year's Oscars!

Best Director Award!

Best Picture!

And these two awards are closely related to the crew of "Bruce Lee"!

Not just the crew of "Bruce Lee".

The crews of "Joker", "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", "Parasite" and "1917" also looked serious and looked forward to the next awards ceremony with bright eyes.

These crews are currently predicted by the outside world to be the favorites to win the awards.

Interestingly, the most popular candidate for the Best Director award is Wu Yuan, and the favorite to win the Best Picture award is "Joker"!

Yes, although "Parasite" has been a big hit in Europe and Asia, under the public opinion of the mainstream media in North America, "Parasite" can't compete with the two movies pushed by Disney and Warner!

Again, the official name of the Oscar has always been the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards, not the "International XXX Awards"!

For an outsider like "Parasite", you have to coil up even if you are a dragon, and you have to lie down even if you are a tiger.

All the media groups in North America are promoting "Joker" and "Bruce Lee". Although they also gave a "fair" evaluation of "Parasite", they are not optimistic that this movie will win the grand prize in the end.

These media groups are not really in love with their own movies. The main reason is that the money given by Disney and Warner is in place.

Warner chose to go all out for public relations and operate the best film, while Disney chose to go all out for public relations and operate the best director.

Yes, Wu Yuan had heard from Disney that the pressure for the best film was relatively high and it was best to settle for the second best. He thought it was because "Parasite" put too much pressure on him.

As a result, he found out last week that it was actually because Warner put too much pressure on him. It was Warner who wanted the best film. Disney and Warner had privately negotiated and separated the two public relations awards.

Then Wu Yuan was confused.

Why did "Parasite" win both awards in the original time and space?

Can the Oscars also blow a black whistle? (End of this chapter)