A widower's entertainment

Chapter 400 [The Oscar] (Please Subscribe)
The fact that Lin Youcheng does not plan to attend the Oscars ceremony, a confirmed news from Paramount Pictures, has undoubtedly disappointed the Hollywood media. After all, Hollywood has always been very curious about Lin Youcheng, this mysterious Eastern screenwriter, and many media outlets have wanted to interview him.

However, Lin Youcheng has never been to the United States. Neither readers who like his novels nor film professionals have ever met this Eastern screenwriter in person, which is quite frustrating for Hollywood.

Under such circumstances, some media outlets naturally believe that Lin Youcheng, the screenwriter from the East, is extremely arrogant. He did not attend the Oscars ceremony last year and will continue to do so this year, showing that he does not care about the Oscars at all.

Although such comments have appeared, Lin Youcheng not only did not go to the United States or any other country, but he also did not refuse interviews from American media. For example, Time magazine interviewed Lin Youcheng, the screenwriter from the East, which proves that the screenwriter simply did not attend the award ceremony.

Fortunately, Lin Youcheng himself is a behind-the-scenes staff member of the film. Although some people think Lin Youcheng is arrogant, more people are curious about how this Eastern screenwriter wrote such a wonderful script. As Chen Aige and Lin Youcheng said, this Eastern screenwriter, Lin Youcheng, is very likely to win the Best Original Screenplay award at this year's Oscars.

In the eyes of many Hollywood media critics, Lin Youcheng, an Eastern screenwriter, is the strongest contender for Best Original Screenplay in the Oscar nominations.

This is Lin Youcheng's second time being nominated for this award, and the success of the film "The Truman Show" is primarily due to its unbelievable and imaginative script. Furthermore, besides "The Truman Show," Lin Youcheng also wrote the screenplay for "Amour," a film nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and which won the Golden Lion…

All of these factors undoubtedly contribute to the high likelihood that Lin Youcheng will win this award.

Of course, the most important thing is that The Truman Show is just too good!
Last year, American media and newspapers almost exclusively discussed the movie "The Truman Show" and the popularity of Truman's symbolic culture. All of this undoubtedly proves the influence of "The Truman Show," and such influence is naturally due to the fact that the story of "The Truman Show" is so amazing and has an unprecedented impact.

As the screenwriter of this film, Lin Youcheng is fully qualified, and arguably deserves, an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

After all, according to many film critics, "The Truman Show" is a film that deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture, and screenwriter Lin Youcheng winning Best Original Screenplay is even more justified.

Otherwise, after the Golden Globe winners were announced, many people in Hollywood would have spoken out in support of Lin Youcheng.

These voices are by no means weak, all because the original script of "The Truman Show" is simply too brilliant.

Although many media outlets and film critics believe that Lin Youcheng, the screenwriter from the East, deserves the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, the final result will naturally have to wait until the awards ceremony to be announced.

Now it remains to be seen whether the Oscars will still award the prize to Lin Youcheng, an Asian screenwriter, even though he is not attending the awards ceremony.

This is arguably one of the highlights of the Oscars ceremony.

Of course, the most attention is focused on the stars and actors on screen. Who will win the Oscar for Best Actor and Best Actress, and which company's film will take home the Best Picture award? These are the biggest highlights of the Oscars.

Lin Youcheng didn't pay attention to the result, but he did prepare an acceptance speech according to the instructions of Paramount Pictures producer Freeman. It was a very simple speech, but whether he could actually deliver it was not up to Lin Youcheng.

Time passed quickly, and the children had long since started the new school term. Lin Youcheng didn't pay attention to Oscar's news; he was more concerned about his children's grades.

Especially for someone like Lin Zhaomei, who is taking the high school entrance exam this year, although Lin Zhaomei's grades have always been good, this is a very crucial moment. It will be a matter of whether Lin Zhaomei continues to study at Xinghua High School or goes to another high school. In addition to Lin Zhaomei taking the high school entrance exam, Lin Zhaoqing will also be entering his senior year of high school after the end of his last semester of his junior year, which will also be a crucial moment for him.

In Lin Youcheng's view, the fact that his children have successively gone on to higher education has also made him, as a father, continuously care about their studies.

After all, after Lin Zhaomei takes the high school entrance exam, next year will be Lin Zhaoqing's college entrance exam, followed by Lin Zhaoman's high school entrance exam, and then Lin Zhaohuan and Lin Zhaole. One after another, especially if he and Xie Shuhua have another child, the timeline for the children's entrance exams will be even longer.

Although Lin Youcheng did not follow the Oscars ceremony and the winners, countless people at home and abroad were waiting for the results. Many domestic filmmakers were also eager to know if Lin Youcheng could make history this time and win the Best Original Screenplay award.

With such anticipation, the highly anticipated Oscars ceremony finally took place.

As a major contender for this year's Oscars, "The Truman Show" is undoubtedly a true hot film. After all, it has been nominated for eight awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Cinematography. It is an absolutely undeniable contender.

Amidst such enthusiastic support, and it's unclear how much public relations money Paramount Pictures actually spent behind the scenes, the strong contender "The Truman Show" actually won the Academy Award for Best Picture. More importantly, in addition to Best Picture, "The Truman Show" also won four other awards: Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.

Quite an amazing achievement!
For Paramount Pictures, The Truman Show was an absolute success, as the PR budget paid off. Besides the film's solid quality, Paramount Pictures also invested heavily in securing Oscars.

But no matter what, it's all worth it now, because The Truman Show won Best Picture!
There wasn't much controversy in Hollywood regarding the award list. Even if there was some controversy, it wasn't about "The Truman Show." Of course, some film critics felt sorry for another film, "Unforgiven," believing that it deserved the Best Picture award and that "Unforgiven" was more artistic.

However, such voices could not change the outcome. In the end, the biggest winner was the movie "The Truman Show"!
In fact, no matter the era, the Oscar for Best Picture will always attract attention, or rather, be questioned. For example, the most controversial Oscar for Best Picture in the 21st century, "Anora," and later the romantic comedy "Shakespeare in Love," which beat Spielberg's war epic "Saving Private Ryan," are also considered one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history, and are regarded as typical cases of public relations defeating art.

However, at least the controversy surrounding "The Truman Show" winning Best Picture wasn't that great, and it wasn't simply seen as a PR victory. At that point, "The Truman Show" was a novel and unique film, and its chances of winning the award were very high. Although there were concerns that it might not be favored by the Oscar judges because it was a comedy, it was clear that this novel, unique, and unimaginable film about humanity and freedom absolutely deserved the Best Picture award.

As for Lin Youcheng, an Asian screenwriter, winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, there will be even less controversy. On the contrary, it has vindicated the Oscars to some extent. After all, Lin Youcheng is an Asian, and even though he did not attend the awards ceremony, the Oscars still awarded him the prize. This can prove that the Oscars did not discriminate against race.

The Truman Show won an award!

Lin Youcheng, the screenwriter of "The Truman Show," has won an award! This is truly astonishing news, almost unbelievable!
When this astonishing news reached China, it immediately caused a sensation throughout the entire domestic film industry.

That's right, it's boiling!
This news is quite astonishing. Even though "The Truman Show" is not a domestic film, it was written by Lin Youcheng. Now, the film has not only won the Oscar for Best Picture, but Lin Youcheng has also won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. How could such a historic event in Chinese cinema not make filmmakers cheer, feel proud, and be overjoyed?

Comrade Lin Youcheng is truly amazing!

It's safe to say that no one was unhappy upon hearing this news, after all, Lin Youcheng is a domestic screenwriter, and such an outcome is truly encouraging.

Those who knew Lin Youcheng immediately called him to congratulate him, and many even went directly to Xinghua Hutong to tell him the news in person, even though Lin Youcheng may have known about it for a long time.

There's no way around it, this is something that deserves to be celebrated and discussed.

It's truly unimaginable that a Chinese screenwriter would win an Oscar for screenwriting!
A number of people from the film and television industry arrived at Xinghua Hutong, including Cheng Zhigu, the director of Yanjing Film Studio, director Chen Aige, Zhang Guoshi, and Zheng Xiaolong, among others, who also came to congratulate Lin Youcheng.

"Youcheng, you really did a fantastic job this time!"

Although Lin Youcheng is not the first Chinese to win an Oscar this time, the first Chinese to win an Oscar was composer Su Cong in 1988, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for the film "The Last Emperor". However, at that time, he shared the award with Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and British composer David Burn.

Lin Youcheng won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay this time, and the film also won Best Picture.

Although Lin Youcheng was already quite impressive when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay last year, he didn't win the award then. This time, winning the award is truly a testament to his talent.

The director of Yanjing Film Studio said with a smile, "Your screenplay won an award, and your film won Best Picture. You're really amazing!"

"Yes!"

Chen Aige nodded repeatedly, then expressed her regret for Lin Youcheng, saying, "It's such a historic moment, it's a pity that Youcheng didn't go to the awards ceremony to accept the award. I told him before that he had a high chance of winning."

"Whether they went to the event or not, Chengdu winning this award truly makes them the top screenwriter in China!"

Lin Youcheng smiled as he listened to these words and said, "It's a pity that Hou Xiaoxian's film 'Love' didn't win Best Foreign Language Film."

"Yes, it's a pity that this movie didn't win the Best Foreign Language Film award. This movie definitely deserves the Best Foreign Language Film award. If this movie had won the award, then you would really be the number one screenwriter in Hollywood history, with two movies you wrote winning both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film."

"It's already amazing that Yo-Cheng was able to win the Best Original Screenplay award!"

"Of course! He's the number one screenwriter in China!"

"That's right, he's the number one screenwriter!"

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As Lin Youcheng listened to these words, he could feel the excitement of these people, after all, this matter was really too difficult.

After all, for a domestic screenwriter to win the Best Original Screenplay award at the Hollywood Oscars is truly remarkable!

Actually, Lin Youcheng wasn't that excited. When Paramount Pictures producer Freeman asked him to prepare his acceptance speech, he felt that Paramount Pictures would probably seriously lobby for various awards, which was also because the movie "The Truman Show" was absolutely worth it.

Although Lin Youcheng wasn't particularly excited or thrilled, he was undoubtedly quite pleased with the final result. He hadn't expected the Oscars to actually award this prize to him, an Eastern screenwriter. Of course, Lin Youcheng knew this was because he was a behind-the-scenes screenwriter, not a major figure like the Best Actor or Best Actress awards.

If this were an Eastern male or female actor, they would probably have a hard time even getting an Oscar nomination, let alone winning an award.

However, regardless of the circumstances, he is the one who has won the Best Original Screenplay award.

As Chen Aige and others have said, he is indeed the first person in Chinese film history and the first screenwriter to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Of course, he had already won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival before that, which was already a historic achievement.

Of course, winning an Oscar is indeed much harder, but—

No matter how difficult it was to obtain, he has now achieved it!
(End of this chapter)