You don't understand the happiness of the director

Since the NetEase blogger posted the first week box office data of "Juno" in North America, and Jia Zhangke launched an attack on the double due to dissatisfaction with the low schedule of "The Good Man", Bona's "Hurt City" also joined the fray. , at this time, all the attention of domestic entertainment media was attracted by the Lunar New Year festival.

As a result, online and offline attention to "Juno" plummeted, and several major portals and official media almost no longer mentioned the movie and King Power.

Maybe they also feel that it is meaningless to talk about it, and it cannot boost the morale of the people, but it is easy to make fun of the royal power.

In fact, during this period, some overseas bloggers occasionally posted articles saying that "Juno" had won some awards, and its box office performance was getting stronger day by day. The United States and even the United Kingdom were discussing this movie.

But if you take a closer look, you will see that the Florida Film Critics Award for Best Director and the Detroit Film Critics Award for Best Picture came in second place. Where did the Pheasant Award come from? It’s hard to say.

There is also the box office. It has been almost a month since its release, and the total box office has only exceeded 10 million. It is far from what it used to be. It is about to be scrapped. What potential does it still have? This is worth bragging about.

It was in this environment that "Juno" returned to the attention of the Chinese people with seven Golden Globe Award nominations, and it was the film with the most nominations this year. It immediately aroused thousands of waves, and the royal power seemed to have returned to the C-level in the film industry. He Still the Chinese light!

Although Chinese people are confused about the relationship between the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars, they only recognize two American Film Awards, the first being the Oscars and the second being the Golden Globes.

Needless to say about the Oscars, Chinese people are also familiar with the Golden Globe Awards. The Chinese film industry has had a relationship with it many times.

Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Li Yin have all been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film many times, among which "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Farewell My Concubine" even won this award.

In addition, Li Jian also won the Golden Globe for Best Director for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which was an important node in his career.

In addition, Zhang Ziyi was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series last year, and Zun Long was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

For a time, the introduction of the Golden Globe Awards and speculation about the possibility of Wang Quan winning the award once again became a hot topic in the media. The flattery of Wang Quan once again occupied the headlines. Even the fact that Zhang Ziyi had a new foreigner boyfriend was covered up.

In this atmosphere, 2006 turned a new page.

"Brother, let me read you another article..." Yang Mi on the other end of the phone said enthusiastically.

It is still the night of December 31, 2006 on the West Coast of the United States, and it is already the day of January 1, 2007 in China.

Yang Mi specially called to celebrate New Year's Eve with Wang Quan, and by the way, she read to Wang Quan the domestic news about Wang Quan and Juno that she had collected in the past few days.

Although it feels good to be praised by others, Wang Quan is also afraid that he will get too high. "Okay, okay, save your breath. Domestic understanding of the Golden Globe Awards is limited, but winning the Golden Globe Award does not necessarily mean you will win the Oscar. Two There is no direct relationship."

Now Chinese people have begun to long for Wang Quan to be nominated for an Oscar and even win the award as he was at the Golden Globe Awards. However, Wang Quan feels that as a foreigner, being shortlisted is already a great success. This is why his version is better than the original version. under the premise of triggering a wider discussion.

"Ah, it doesn't matter, isn't it about a weathervane or something?"

Wang Quan explained with a smile, "The Golden Globe Awards are selected by the HFPA, which is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the number of judges does not exceed 100, while the Oscars are organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and there are more than 6,000 judges, including me. It’s also one of those things where there’s very little overlap in the judging of the two awards.”

"Then brother, you can vote for yourself!"

King Quan, "With the base of 6,000 people, how useful do you think it will be to vote for yourself?"

"So brother, who did you vote for?"

Wang Quan laughed, "Of course I voted for myself!"

After laughing and talking to Mimi on the phone, Wang Quan quickly received another call from Sissi.

She first congratulated Wang Quan on his nomination for the Golden Globe Award, "I knew you could do it. Those media and netizens were talking nonsense before."

Wang Quan asked, "Then why didn't you speak up for me?"

"I..." Liu Yifei's face suddenly turned red. You don't even know how many times I used the account "I'm not Liu Yifei" to confront others, and my fingers were calloused.

Wang Quan immediately laughed, "I'm kidding you, I don't care about this kind of thing, and you don't need to care about it, just live our own life every day. How are you doing at the Spring Festival Gala?"

"The first round of rehearsals has passed."

"With the new song I wrote for you?"

"Well!" Liu Yifei said, "By the way, my childhood friend also passed the first round of rehearsals, and I haven't seen her in almost ten years!"

"oh?"

Then Liu Yifei enthusiastically told Wang Quan about her and Yao Beina. This reunion gave Liu Yifei a second real best friend in the capital. The first one she thought was Yang Mi. After all, they slept together and even stayed together. Kissed.

"She taught me a lot about vocal music, and I feel like it also helped me a lot with how to pronounce my lines."

Wang Quan was speechless for a while. You should skip a few classes. You can learn all these in school. Among the four subjects of vocal performance, vocal music ranks first.

Later, Liu Yifei also told Wang Quan a little secret.

Wang Quan thought to himself, Mimi is big even if she's not small, "You tell me."

"I signed a contract with Happy Twist."

"oh?"

"My mother doesn't know yet."

"Ouch!"

"I have rehearsed with them several times, and I feel like I have learned a lot of new things. Fortunately, my mother is busy with the charity fund, so I didn't notice it."

"Good guy!"

"Sister Teng Geli and the others are very nice people, and they have many new friends, such as Wei Xiang and Ma Yuan."

"never heard of that."

"Wei Xiang mainly acts in dramas, but Ma Yuan has acted in "Blood Romance"."

Wang Quan told her to shut up and stop talking, "Auntie is too busy to take care of you. Has the charity fund been completed?"

"It's done," Liu Yifei said, "but no one seems to be paying attention to it. The media is all paying attention to Teacher Li Lianjie's one."

Wang Quan, "I've also heard that his fund is a fund raised from outside. There is no room for mistakes in this kind of thing. We won't touch it. We will use as much strength as we can."

"Well, actually we have quite a lot of power, now it's more than 20 million."

"You have to tell Auntie, 'It's only 20 million,' to save her from getting upset."

Liu Yifei chuckled, "You are quite a nice person."

"That's~"

After talking to Liu Yifei, Wang Quan has also completely completed his share of Oscar nomination votes and can cast them out tomorrow.

Except for putting his own "Juno" first for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, he basically watched all the other movies before carefully filling in his choices.

You can basically guess last year's Oscars, but this year there is an additional variable in "Juno". He shot it differently and at a different time. No one can tell what kind of changes it will ultimately cause to the original history. .

But that’s what’s interesting!

After the third expansion, the total box office of "Juno" soared from just over 10 million to 31 million!

Ranking third at the weekly box office, the first place is the comedy "Night at the Museum" and the second place is Will Smith's "The Pursuit of Happiness."

"Juno" seems to have finally ushered in a box office explosion, and after two weeks of release in the UK, the film's box office has reached 10.59 million U.S. dollars!

Market feedback shows that this small film, positioned as an award-winning literary film, seems to be very popular with the audience.

As a result, film producers from all over the world came to discuss the introduction of Dorothy with Dorothy. Of course, some countries in China and the Middle East declined to express their gratitude.

However, Dorothy is very calm. It is only released in the UK and the United States, so she does not have to worry too much about piracy leaks. She has to wait for the results of the Golden Globe Awards and the announcement of the Oscar nominations. At that time, Juno's net worth will rise again. .

~

"The weather is really nice, the sun is shining." Little K said happily.

Wang Quan, "Yes, we will have to dim it later."

The current shooting is a baseball scene in the film. There are many actors. In addition to the heroine and the decent vampire, the villain vampire also appears, James, Victoria and Lauren.

The villain Vampire Victoria Throne, who appears briefly in this film, was cast by Kate Beckinsale, a vampire hunter, to play a contrasting cuteness.

The original actor only acted in two films before being replaced by King Power's good friend Bryce Dallas Howard due to schedule reasons. This time King Power simply didn't look for anyone and found the more famous Kate.

She is the most well-known actor in this film. Of course, her salary is also high, but her role is small and her salary is limited. Wang Quan can only save some money elsewhere.

I spent the whole day filming this scene. It involved a lot of exercise and a lot of special effects, but everyone had a great time. Wang Quan also played two baseballs and found that he was still better at basketball.

It was not until the last two hours of the afternoon that the three people who had been waiting for a long time, Kate Beckinsale, had the opportunity to appear.

Accompanied by the artificial fog, one woman and two men made a cool appearance, and the good and evil sides faced off, as if a war was about to break out.

"Ka!" Wang Quan said that everyone performed very well. He would call it a day and continue tomorrow.

Kate Beckinsale still has two scenes left. As the biggest star in the film, King Power will finish filming her part first.

Anyway, the shooting sequence is not linear, they are all shot according to the scene, and everyone is used to it.

That night at the hotel, Wang Quan was writing the scripts for the next two parts of "The Twilight Saga". The first part is more conservative, and there will be slight changes later to make the story more sober and attractive, while reducing some vulgarities that may deduct points. plot.

Then he heard a knock on the door. If he guessed correctly, it should be Kate Beckinsale. When filming today, Wang Quan felt that her eyes melted when she looked at him. Men at work are indeed very attractive. Now he was She found out.

However, he opened the door and looked at the husky outside the door, "Dadario, what do you want from me?"

"Director, how many mistakes did I make today? Am I here to apologize to you?" She was talking about when she was running. Because she was overloaded, her runs did not go very smoothly on several occasions. She had to retake several times and it was almost delayed. It's time for Kate and others later.

Looking at the girl with colorful eyes, Wang Quan took a step back and said, "Come in and apologize. Have you brought the sincerity of your apology?"

"Hmm~" She said as she opened the buttons of her blouse. She was really sincere!

Until Kate Beckinsale left the crew, because the royal power was always occupied by Daddario's sincerity, she didn't have the chance to chat with this big shot that she hired with a lot of money.

But Wang Quan couldn't lose his temper yet. Daddario's style was really rare. At a certain moment in bed, he would even think of Mimi in his hometown.

On January 13th, the voting for Oscar nominations closes. In the next ten days, PwC’s accountants will conduct statistics. Except for foreign language films and animated feature films, which are responsible for special committees, the rest of the nomination lists will be drawn from these Selected on the ballot.

Because each person can cast five votes for each item, it is a preference voting system, and it is very important for the judges to put your name at the front of the sequence.

The statistical process is complex and requires a lot of calculations, which are always done manually.

Feng Zhiyu is 36 years old. He has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for five years after graduating with a doctorate. This year, he is responsible for the statistical work of director classification.

First, he and his team have to determine the votes received, because anyone can vote for the best film, so that one is the most complicated, but the director is okay. In addition to the director department and public representatives, the total number of people who can vote for the director is only 523 people.

The votes received were 498.

There are also some invalid votes. For example, the same director is written for all five places. You can only write one, but five, sorry, this vote is invalid.

In the end, 488 valid votes were obtained, all of which were registered votes.

Then they need to determine a critical number of votes, which will be important in the next work.

There are five director nominations, and they will divide 488 by 5, which equals 97.6, and round up, which is 98.

98 is the critical number of votes for director classification.

Then look at the top candidate among these 488 votes.

The camera was turned on, and Feng Zhiyu placed the ballots on the table, "Start counting the votes now."

There were people reading the votes, people counting the votes, people supervising, and there were several cameras.

The first one to be drawn was the vote of director Dongmu. He voted first for Martin Scorsese ("The Departed"), so the old Martin had one vote.

Then another ballot was drawn, this one was pressed by Li. His first choice was for Alejandro Gonzalez ("Tower of Babel"), so Gonzalez got one vote.

Before the 488 votes have been read, Martin Scorsese has already received the critical number of votes, 98 votes, so he became the first Best Director nominee. Next, his vote will be invalid, which means that as long as he sees his name You can ignore them all and look directly at the name below.

The director with the fewest nominations is also eliminated, and his portion of the vote will be counted in favor of the second-placed nominee.

One other candidate retains the votes to advance to the second round.

Because someone must have only written one Martin Scorsese. When his vote was invalidated, the total number of votes changed, and there were only four remaining nominations, so a critical number of votes needed to be recalculated.

Then proceed to round two.

By analogy, five nominees are selected, and usually the results will be announced before all the votes have been read.

There will definitely be people who can reach the critical number of votes later, but your ranking at the bottom shows that in the minds of the judges, you are just the last and helpless choice, so the opportunity belongs to others.

After getting the list of five nominees, Feng Zhiyu smiled and sealed the list until it was announced on the 23rd.

This is the director classification. The rules for other actors, photography, scripts, etc. are basically the same. Only the best movie is slightly different because of the large number of votes, so I won’t list it in detail here.

On the 16th, taking advantage of the weekend, Wang Quan returned to Los Angeles from the set and prepared to attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony~

(Because there are too many professional things that need to be checked, this chapter is late. I’m sorry. Lao Fo won’t sleep tonight. I will write out the guarantee chapter for the 1st and ask for the guarantee monthly ticket for July. This is very important to us. This book is really important, please!)