hollywood melon man

Chapter 733 The beginning of the year
Let’s take a look at the Oscar nomination list. Warner Bros. and Heath Ledger did a lot of public relations work and finally got an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

However, it is not so easy to get this award further.

After all, if Heath Ledger hadn't died, the Oscars wouldn't have considered sympathy points.

In addition, "The Dark Knight" won several technical awards, including Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, Best Sound, etc.

There are quite a lot of nominations, so I should be able to win one or two awards.

Everyone felt sorry for little Gilbert as his film was not nominated for Best Picture or Best Director.

But Gilbert Jr. didn't care much: "Oscar is trying to strike a balance."

"I think you deserve a Best Director nomination," Charles Roven said indignantly.

Gilbert Jr. shrugged. "Charles, don't get so excited. The Academy has a long-standing habit of discriminating against superhero movies, and it won't change overnight.

Unless, I die."

Charles Rowan was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"Indeed, as long as you die, the Academy will definitely nominate you out of sympathy."

Charles Rowan changed the subject: "But you can't die, you are still very young."

"The Dark Knight" has caused a huge social response, and the content of the discussion is no longer limited to the film, but has spread to real society.

If you don't give a few nominations to such an influential film, the public's saliva will drown the Academy.

But the Academy was unwilling to give it a nomination for a major award.

According to Scarlett, if she were to present the awards, nominations for Best Picture and Best Director would definitely be there.

But unfortunately, Scarlett is not the one who decides the Oscars.

"Kung Fu Panda" and "Wall-E," both produced by Pixar Studios, were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

Another thing related to Gilbert Jr. is that Anne Hathaway was nominated for Best Actress for "My Sister's Wedding".

Anne Hathaway specifically called Gilbert Jr. to canvass votes for her to compete for the Oscar for Best Actress.

But to be honest, Anne Hathaway's hope is not very high, as the other competitors are all very strong.

But considering it from another perspective, if you were nominated and didn’t win this time, your chances of winning next time will be greatly increased.

It's a blessing in disguise, but it's not a blessing!
Since January 2009, the entire film market seems to have entered a hot trend. Specifically, the films released have achieved good results, and the number of theater audiences is still increasing.

Most notably, the total box office in January increased from US$8.91 million to US$10.35 billion, breaking the record in the North American market.

The impact of the financial crisis is still continuing. During the economic crisis, the cultural and entertainment industries have seen great development.

It seems that everyone wants to use these things to escape from the troubles brought by the real world.

As February began, movies aiming for this year's summer season began releasing trailers, but Knives Out, directed by Gilbert Jr., was scheduled for release on March 3 and did not compete in the summer season.

Perhaps no one expected that Gilbert Jr.'s movie would be released at this time, and the first announced "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" caught him off guard.

"Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" had no time to change its release date and had to face the lineup of Gilbert Jr. and Tom Cruise.

This movie was released by 20th Century Fox and produced by a game company called Capcom.

This game company is revered by game fans as the King of Action, and its fighting games are very popular. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is adapted from Capcom's fighting game.

It is worth mentioning that there is also an actress named Josie Ho in this movie. She is the daughter of gambling king Stanley Ho, and her brother invested a sum of money in this movie and put his sister Josie Ho in it.

If she could be a little more shameless, Josie Ho could call herself an international superstar. After all, she is an international superstar just by walking on the red carpet. She even starred in a movie.

Josie Ho is of course paying close attention to her first Hollywood movie.

When she learned that this movie was released in the same schedule as Knives Out and that the director was Gilbert Jr., she was very surprised. She never thought that this day would come to her.

Josie Ho is not a fan of Gilbert Jr., but because of her family relationship, she knows many movie stars in Hong Kong, including Jackie Chan.

When she was a child, she often visited Cheng Long's home and was very familiar with Cheng Long.

After learning that her film would compete with Gilbert Jr.'s film, Josie Ho immediately ran to ask Jackie Chan.

Cheng Long said: "Don't even think about defeating Gilbert Jr. The number of film directors who can compete with him can be counted on one hand."

Josie Ho curiously asked Cheng Long: "You are very familiar with Director Gilbert Jr., what kind of person is he?"

"What kind of person?" Cheng Long thought for a moment before answering: "A talented director with many ideas and some weird ideas."

"What about privately?"

"In private, he is a warm and cheerful person. He is knowledgeable and cultured, well-spoken and well-mannered."

"Really?" Josie Ho seemed thoughtful.

She begged Cheng Long: "Can you take me to meet him if you have the chance? I want an autograph and a photo."

Cheng Long didn't think much about it: "That's no problem. I'll take you to see little Gilbert on his birthday."

Little Gilbert didn't know that Josie Ho, the daughter of the gambling king, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, had shown interest in him. If he knew, he would probably have complained:
You are too ugly, I am not interested.

Little Gilbert is only interested in beautiful women. If he goes to China to sleep with a beautiful woman, he will look for a pretty one.

When filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy in China, Gilbert almost slept with Xu Qing. But he failed to do so, otherwise Gilbert might have started his stamp collecting journey.

On February 2009, 2, the awards ceremony was held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The awards ceremony was hosted by Australian actor Hugh Jackman and broadcast live on ABC.

As expected, Heath Ledger missed out on the Best Supporting Actor award, which was won by Philip Seymour Hoffman for his role in "Bad Boys".

"Slumdog Millionaire" won the Best Picture Award, and Danny Boyle won the Best Director Award for the film.

Sean Penn won the Best Actor award for Milk and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for The Reader.

"The Dark Knight" won big in technical awards, winning the Best Cinematography award. This is the third time John Schwartzman has won this award.

Selina Heffy won the Best Art Direction award. As Gilbert's exclusive art director, this is her fifth time to win the Best Art Direction award.

The film also won awards for Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Editing, taking home a total of five major awards.

The Oscars seem to be using this way of dividing the cake to prove that they absolutely do not mean to discriminate against "The Dark Knight".

However, after the award ceremony, fans still stood up for "The Dark Knight" and believed that "The Dark Knight" deserved more awards.

Some even believe that "The Dark Knight" was the best film last year and that Gilbert Jr. should have won the Best Director award.

Of course, these awards didn’t even get any nominations, so that was all.

But last year, Heath Ledger's Joker was so great, but he was only nominated but didn't win. This made movie fans very dissatisfied and they all complained about it.

(End of this chapter)