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"In fact, it is not uncommon for high-grossing movies to win Oscars in history."

Faced with the worried Anne Hathaway, Gilbert Jr. felt that there was no need at all.

"If the Washington Post were to claim otherwise, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King would not have won big at the Oscars."

"Yes."

Cameron Diaz also added: "Currently, many judges have expressed their support for us. As long as you do a good job of public relations, you will definitely win the Oscar for Best Actress."

Because of this Oscar, Anne Hathaway gave up the opportunity to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in "Les Miserables". After all, it is impossible to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress at the same time.

This time, Anne Hathaway is determined to win, but as for other awards, Gilbert Jr. will just take it as it comes.

He himself doesn't care much about his third Oscar for Best Director.

But the women still worked very hard, and when they were helping with publicity, they basically all mentioned that Gilbert Jr. had a chance of winning the Oscar for Best Director.

When communicating with the judges, I also hope that they will support little Gilbert.

Disney also expressed its support and launched a large number of public relations activities. Gilbert Jr. also basically cooperated. It was a small surprise if he got it, but it was nothing if he didn't.

Even though he doesn’t have an Oscar today, people still don’t think he is not a good director.

As the award season approaches, Gilbert Jr. has become one of the nominees for this year's Directors Guild Awards, and Anne Hathaway has also been shortlisted for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

In addition, the three major film critics awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and the National Society of Film Critics Award, have successively announced their nomination lists, and "Gravity" is on the list.

These three awards can be seen as a barometer of the Oscars, and those who can win these three awards are basically the favorites for the Oscars.

Although the Golden Globe Awards are known as the weather vane of the Oscars, in fact, the tastes of the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars are quite different. Films that are truly aiming for the Oscars have a casual attitude towards the Golden Globe Awards.

The industry's internal recognition includes the union awards, and word-of-mouth recognition includes the three major film critics awards. If it sweeps all these awards at the same time, it will prove that Gravity can indeed make a big splash at the Oscars.

And with the arrival of the awards season, various attacks surrounding the film have also followed.

This is normal. Not only is there fierce competition among summer films, but the competition among these award-winning films is even more intense.

Because there are only so many awards, if you take one I will take one less.

For directors who wait years to get a chance, blocking them from winning an award is blocking their careers as directors. For the production companies that distribute those independent films, it is also blocking their financial opportunities.

Blocking people's way of wealth is like killing your parents.

At this point, they are no longer afraid of whether you are a big company or not, and they will have to put in all their strength to compete with you.

This is when the advantages of big companies come into play. Disney is a large company with a huge business, so logically speaking, it wouldn't take an award-winning movie too seriously.

But "Gravity" is very special. This film is not only used to win awards, but also has a great impact on the film market.

In order to please Gilbert Jr., Disney was willing to pay for Gravity's award-winning performance. It didn't matter how much it cost, as tens of millions was just a drop in the bucket compared to the film's profits.

The most important thing is to make little Gilbert happy. If he is happy, he will make good movies, and we at Disney can make a fortune without doing anything.

Many independent film directors envy Gilbert Jr.'s treatment. They also want to have such a production company to invest in and distribute their films, but unfortunately this is impossible.

The reason why Gilbert Jr. is treated this way is that his films have never failed, which makes the top executives of Disney have blind trust in him. Michael Bay once said that with Gilbert Jr.'s current status, he can make five consecutive blockbusters with an investment of over 100 million yuan and lose money on another one before his status will be affected.

For other directors, if a movie fails, their career will end immediately. That’s the difference.

And Disney’s approach was not wrong. Sure enough, just after the first weekend of September, Gravity’s North American box office reached 2 million U.S. dollars and its global box office reached 6500 million U.S. dollars.

The pace of box office revenue has slowed down, and it has entered a stage where box office revenue accumulates over time.

But the film has already recovered its costs and achieved massive profits, so Disney's live-action movies this year are still going strong.

And just on Monday morning, Gilbert Jr. officially submitted the complete script of "Cyberpunk 2077: Prologue" to Disney, which is another new and bold attempt.

The 2007 series "Edgewalker" directed by Gilbert Jr. is unforgettable. It still has a high score of 9.4 on IMDB and hundreds of thousands of reviews.

At that time, Gilbert Jr. proposed a movie plan, and some characters from the series would appear.

But unexpectedly, after waiting for five or six years, there was still no progress on the film, making people think that little Gilbert had forgotten about it.

There are also many fans who leave messages on Gilbert's social media account urging him to update the series, and this continues.

Finally, at this point in time, Gilbert Jr. showed the design drawings of a hovercraft and a mantis knife through his social account, with his signature and the words "Cyberpunk 2077: Prologue" on them.

The fans of the show were instantly excited. It had begun, it had begun, and they could finally see Adam Hammer.

After years of anticipation, Gilbert Jr. finally had time to work on this film project.

For many cyberpunk culture enthusiasts, this is also a surprise, because movies of this type are very rare.

The last one that could be considered successful was probably the "Blade Runner" era in the 1980s.

But due to the limitations of technology and the times, although the film was widely acclaimed, it still failed to present the cyberpunk world that people imagined.

It wasn't until 2007 that the series "Edgewalker" came out, which for the first time fully displayed a fictional city called Night City and its cyberpunk characteristics of high technology and low quality of life.

What’s more important is the prosthetic parts, which simply fascinate cyberpunk fans.

This time, Gilbert Jr. is making a movie, which has taken the production scale to a higher level, which has undoubtedly attracted the attention of many movie fans.

But at the same time, I am a little worried because "Gravity" is still in theaters, and Gilbert Jr. is not taking a break and is just jumping into his next job.

And it’s such a huge investment, will your body be able to handle it?
In addition, whether the film can be completed with guaranteed quality and quantity.

In response, Gilbert Jr. responded to his concerned fans: "I am actually in great physical and mental condition, and I can't wait to start writing the next story.

Our team members are all like this, they have a lot of wonderful ideas, and they can't help but put them forward at this moment. "

In fact, preparations for Cyberpunk 2077 have been ongoing in recent years, and the props, scene construction, world view structure and art design are basically complete.

But for Gilbert Jr., the most pressing issue was the casting, which was a problem.

Before selecting suitable actors, Gilbert Jr. adopted the production method of "The Dark Knight Rises" and first conducted pre-shooting in a motion capture studio to establish the picture and feeling he wanted through pre-shooting.

At the same time, auditions for actors are also underway. (End of this chapter)