The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 621 Evidence
The Academy Awards selection is divided into two rounds.

The first round of voting will be conducted by Hong Kong Film Awards voters and the first round of professional jury.

The jury members are composed of film industry practitioners, film critics and media professionals.

The difference between voters and judges is only whether they are invited by the Academy Awards organizing committee.

They will decide who is eligible.

The second round will be selected by a professional judging panel of 50 people, members of the 13 affiliated associations of the Hong Kong Film Awards, and members of the Hong Kong Composers and Lyricists Association.

The votes of the fifty-member jury account for 55%, the votes of members account for 25%, and the votes of other personnel account for 20%.

Because of the relatively democratic evaluation mechanism, namely group voting, and the relatively relaxed environment for freedom of speech.

Therefore, the Academy Awards unashamedly claims that it is the fairest award in the Chinese-language film industry.

But in reality, it’s bullshit.

When voting as a group within the industry, human factors are inevitably involved in the selection process, and personal connections will affect the number of votes.

And the well-known regional protection mechanism.

It is the second domestic movie to gross over 1 billion yuan.

Since the preview, the comparison between "New World" and "Infernal Affairs" has never stopped.

"New World" was withdrawn from theaters on January 1 and officially launched on streaming media the next day.

PPS users were overjoyed and discovered that the streaming version was slightly different from the theatrical version.

Therefore, the popularity of this movie has not faded, and the audience has compared it frame by frame and from multiple angles.

Such as the plot of the story, the human nature revealed, and the details of the shot.
It also includes the professional abilities of the actors, especially Lu Yuan and Liang Jiahui.

It is said that since 2011, Lu Yuan has completely transformed into the big screen.

The next few films he starred in were all commercial films that focused more on box office than awards.

Although he has already achieved grand slam success on the small screen, his acting skills are beyond doubt.

But the awards on the big screen are much worse.

There are five major awards for Chinese-language films: Golden Horse, Golden Image, Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, and Huabiao.

Lu Yuan currently only has one popularity award that is not very valuable, namely the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor.

This makes many fans feel quite regretful.

They hope that Lu Yuan can recreate the same miracle on the small screen on the big screen.

"New World" is a film that successfully combines commercial elements with literary and artistic connotations.

The best proof of this is the rave reviews from the self-proclaimed literary critics on Douban that are like a brain orgasm.

So everyone is looking forward to it, wanting to see what awards this film can win for Lu Yuan.

The main focus is on the three major Chinese-language awards: the Golden Statue, Golden Rooster and Golden Horse.

The 2013 Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Cultural Center on April 4, while the shortlist will be announced in early February.

During the period before New Year’s Eve, the Academy Awards became a hot topic online.

Compared with several major Chinese-language film awards such as the Golden Rooster and Golden Horse Awards.

The Hong Kong Film Awards is the only award that has set regional barriers in its entry criteria.

According to the nomination criteria for the Academy Awards.

Co-production films must meet two of the following three conditions to be eligible for the nomination.

First: The director must be a Hong Kong resident holding a Hong Kong permanent resident identity card.

Second: The production company of the participating films must be a legally registered company in Hong Kong.

Third: The film division of labor is calculated based on 16 projects, including producer, screenwriter, leading actor, leading actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, new actor, photography, action design...

Among them, at least six projects have staff who are Hong Kong residents.

Such entry criteria exclude many excellent films from the mainland and Taiwan.

Fortunately, "New World" meets the last two points mentioned above.

Among the three producers, there is Johnnie To's Milkyway Image, and the distributor for the Hong Kong market is Emperor Entertainment Group.

Both of these companies are authentic local companies, which was also the reason why Lu Yuan originally extended the invitation.

But even so, the judges of the Academy Awards were very reluctant.

in the office.

Chen Jiashang stared at the computer in a daze.

The PPS client interface is currently playing a clip from "New World", where Lu Yuan is confronting Liu Yijun, who plays Superintendent Jiang.

"So you're sending Shi Wu to monitor me and, if necessary, take off my head?"

"I am indeed on guard, but Ishitake is not aware of your identity."

"You!" Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and glared.

Chen Jiashang turned his attention away from the screen. During the filming of "Painted Skin", he collaborated with Lu Yuan.

In just a few short years, everything has changed.

On the table is a list of nominees for the 32nd Academy Awards, and "New World", which appeared many times, is particularly eye-catching.

In 2008, he took over the important task of chairman of the Academy Awards, and it has been five years already.

During this period, he had no intention of reforming the Academy Awards selection mechanism, but instead emphasized persistence.

He believes that the Hong Kong Film Awards should be dedicated to local films and have its own positioning and uniqueness.

To put it bluntly, the purpose of the Hong Kong Film Awards is to commend and protect Hong Kong films.

Even if it is a co-production, it must be led by Hong Kong people.

But it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain this position.

Because the Academy Awards organizing committee has a sad side.

It costs money to hold an award ceremony. Where does the money come from? Government support + advertising sponsorship.

The annual government budget is stretched thin, and advertising sponsorship becomes critical.

The amount of advertising sponsorship often depends on whether big-name artists can be invited to appear.

Therefore, whenever the nomination list is announced, the organizing committee needs to take a two-pronged approach.

While actively inviting celebrities to attend and confirming the schedule, they are also negotiating with advertisers, using the star lineup as bargaining chips to win sponsorship and strive for a win-win situation.

In addition, the external doubts facing the Academy Awards are growing, and this has become a problem that must be faced.

Take "New World" as an example. With its 1.3 billion box office and hot online discussions, plus meeting the nomination criteria, it is impossible for the Academy Awards to really turn a blind eye to it.

Although the judges of the Academy Awards are narrow-minded, old-fashioned and conservative, they are not brainless.

Chen Jiashang moved his fingertips to the Best Actor column and tapped it gently.

"Duh, duh, duh"

He thought about it for a long time and felt that the judges this time were too difficult.

"New World" is coming in with great momentum, with a box office of 13 billion yuan. It is a police and gangster theme, and its significance is not insignificant.

But the Best Actor and Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards are different. The Best Actor is the last face of Hong Kong films and also the private preserve of Hong Kong artists.

After much anticipation, the 2013 Academy Awards nominations list was released.

Best Movies: Pulp Fiction, The Driver, Inverse, Cold War, The Bullet Gone, and The New World.

Best Director: Soi Cheang for "Driver", Pang Ho-cheung for "Love in a Puff", Law Chi-leung for "The Bullet Vanishes", Dante Lam for "Insider", Leung Lok-ming and Luk Kim-ching for "Cold War".

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Among the films on this list, there are two that attract the most attention: Cold War, co-directed by Liang Leming and Lu Jianqing, and starring Liang Jiahui and Guo Fucheng.

and "New World" produced by Johnnie To, directed by Wen Muye, and starring Lu Yuan and Liang Jiahui.

The two films led the nomination list, each receiving 12 nominations, becoming the biggest winners.

"Cold War" is a well-received Hong Kong film in recent years, so let’s not talk about it for now.

"New World" won the Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Editing.
Pang Ho-cheung's "Pulp Comedy", Cheang Pou-soi's "The Driver", and Lam Chiu-hsien's "Infernal Affairs" followed closely behind with 6 nominations each.

There are six nominees for Best Actor, five from Hong Kong and only one from Mainland China.

Five actors from Hong Kong were shortlisted, including Zhang Jiahui for "The Big Chase", Du Wengze for "Vulgar Comedy", Liu Qingyun for "The Bullet Vanishes", Tony Leung Ka Fai for "Cold War", and Tony Leung Chiu Wai for "The Whisperer".

There is only one from the mainland, Lu Yuan from "New World".

Among the six people, Lu Yuan and Du Wenze are competing for the Best Actor Award at the Academy Awards for the first time, while the others already have Best Actor trophies in their hands.

In the Best Actress category, Zhou Xun was nominated for her roles in "The Great Magician" and "The Whisperer", becoming a hot favorite.

She is also the only mainland actress nominated, the other nominees are Miriam Yeung, Sammi Cheng and Elanne Kong.

As soon as the list was released, public opinion was in an uproar.

"WTF, 'New World' got 12 nominations!"

"Is this still the Academy Awards that I remember, where people entertain themselves behind closed doors? This must be fake."

"How dare the Academy Awards not give it a nomination? New World is the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in history, and it is Hong Kong's best police and gangster film."

"It's just a nomination, not an award ceremony. Is it just a gimmick, and will the main creators of "New World" just sit there doing nothing?"

"Well, it's possible that the judges of the Academy Awards might really do something like this."

"..."

The public was talking about the 12 nominations for "New World".

It is generally believed that this year's Academy Awards have made progress compared to previous years.

But doubts about the Academy Awards will come eventually.

The first is the quality of the Best Picture, which has been much criticized.

Small and medium-budget films with mediocre reputations such as "Pulp Fiction" and "Driver" were actually nominated for multiple awards.

Netizens are puzzled. Have Hong Kong movies become so bad?
Then there are the nominations for Best Actor. Among the six shortlisted candidates, four have won the Best Actor award.

Although this is Lu Yuan's first time competing, his professional abilities and other aspects are recognized in the industry.

But what the hell is "Vulgar Comedy" and what is Du Wenze's basis?
What netizens find most incomprehensible is that Du Wenze was nominated for Best Actor, but Aaron Kwok who starred in "Cold War" was unexpectedly not nominated.

Some of Aaron Kwok's fans protested angrily on Weibo.

This forced the chairman of the Academy Awards, Chen Jiashang, to come forward and accept an interview, where he spoke frankly.

"The nominations for the Hong Kong Film Awards often accurately reflect the state of the Hong Kong film industry, and that's how I always interpret it."

To be frank, just do it, so what.

We gave "New World" all 12 nominations, and the rest are just small things.

"A little further in."

"Is it here?"

"Left, then left again, past that, then a little to the right."

"What now."

"Yeah, okay, be gentle, that's too hard."

"How are you now?"

"A little lighter."

"Oh, you're so annoying. You're thick-skinned and tough. I won't give in." Liu Shishi pulled her hand out of Lu Yuan's clothes and shook her wrist angrily.

"If I scratch you, you have to scratch me back, right? We agreed on that before."

"Hmph!" Liu Shishi rolled her eyes. "You are so shameless. You were scratching me, but you ran to the front while scratching me. You almost broke the shoulder strap. I was too embarrassed to expose you."

Lu Yuan laughed, picked her up by the waist and placed her on his lap.

"Brother, let me interview you." Liu Shishi put one arm around his neck and clenched her other hand into a fist, acting as a microphone.

"Do you have confidence in becoming the Best Actor at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards?"

"Who knows? All we can say is that the probability is higher than before, but it's just a possibility. However, if New World fails to win an award, then there will probably be no hope in the future, unless it wins an Oscar. Then the judges of the Academy Awards will definitely come to us with flattering faces."

Lu Yuan actually has a grudge against the Academy Awards.

In the 2012 film "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", the role of Yu Huatian became popular all over the Internet. The term "factory flower" once became an adjective, and there was a lot of support for the Best Supporting Actor, but the Academy Awards did not even nominate him.

Liu Shishi shook her short legs and said, "Why is it so hard to win the Best Actor award? At least Zhou Xun has won the Best Actress award."

"Because the shortage of actresses from Hong Kong is more serious, there is a lack of successors. Miriam Yeung and Sammi Cheng, who were nominated this time, are old faces. If we don't choose actresses from the mainland, there will really be no one to choose from."

Lu Yuan continued: "Relatively speaking, Liang Jiahui, Liu Qingyun, Zhang Jiahui and a group of people are still fighting hard. Although their appeal has been declining year by year, their professional ability is still impressive, so male actors are the bottom line of Hong Kong films."

Liu Shishi sighed, "You've already returned, why are you still so stubborn? Although the Golden Rooster Awards are also biased, at least there is such a big market in the mainland to support them, and they have given Brother Cheng Long the Best Actor award and Liu Jialing the Best Actress award. Hong Kong is such a small place, if it continues like this, it will really be a pill."

Lu Yuan shrugged.

There are a group of people in the Hong Kong film industry who are really selfish and want everything.

On the one hand, they are obviously excluding mainland artists, and on the other hand, they are salivating over the huge mainland market.
The small number of people at the top make a fortune by co-producing films.

But they don’t think about it, they are eating a lot of greasy food, but what about those behind-the-scenes workers and grassroots people in the film industry?
Would they be willing to stay in a tiny country that is shrinking day by day and live a life of eating one meal and going hungry three times?
It is inevitable to completely abandon the Hong Kong market.

How many years can Liang Jiahui and others hold out?

"Ding dong!"

As he was speaking, Lu Yuan's cell phone, which was placed on the coffee table, rang.

Liu Shishi stretched out her arm to reach it, skillfully entered the password to unlock it, then opened WeChat, and then her eyes widened.

Seeing her exaggerated expression, Lu Yuan asked, "What's wrong?"

"Zhuo Wei took the photo."

"Did you take the picture?" As soon as Lu Yuan put his head close to her, Liu Shishi immediately stood up and pulled him towards the study.

"What are you doing?"

"Chen Zhixi said he sent an email containing the video shot by Zhuo Wei."

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows and followed her into the study.

When he turned on the computer, he saw an apartment where Dong Jie and Wang Dazi's family were having dinner.

Dong Jie then went into the bedroom to make a phone call, and Wang Dazhi followed him into the room.

The following scene is quite eye-catching.

The two hugged and kissed passionately, and after a while, they opened the door and continued to have dinner with Wang Dazi's family.

The two elders seemed to be accustomed to the situation and seemed to have already accepted each other.

"It's really him. How could Dong Jie have the heart to do that?"

Liu Shishi was speechless after reading it. Seeing that her boyfriend didn't say anything, she asked, "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm considering whether to notify Pan Yuemin. It's the end of the year now. He'll be furious after reading this. I guess he won't be in the mood for Chinese New Year."

Liu Shishi hesitated and suggested: "Just tell him. We are all adults now, and it's up to him to decide."

"Right!"

(End of this chapter)