China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 779: All of Them Are Navy
Liu Yifei is an actor, but she also knows how difficult it is for Chinese directors to win an Oscar.

Let alone winning an award, even getting a nomination is extremely difficult.

This can be seen from the performance of domestic directors in their attempts to win Oscars.

The national master submitted ten films to the Oscars, but only received three nominations.

Anhua Hsu submitted films to the Oscars five times but was never nominated.

Chen Kaige applied four times but was only nominated once. The movie he was nominated for was called "Farewell My Concubine".

Directors such as Du Qifeng, Sunglasses King, Feng Xiaogang, and Li Hanxiang have also submitted their films to Oscars, more than once, but with little success.

The film that actually won the Oscar was Li An's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

This difficulty is not ordinary.

However, Li Yu has certain advantages compared to these people.

Most of the works these people submitted for the awards were not shot in the United States, and are considered foreign language films for the Oscars.

Li Yu's "Barbie" was filmed in the United States, and both its core and production are pure Hollywood style.

Another company, Huana, hired a lobbying firm to lobby the judges.

Compared with the directors mentioned above, Li Yu has a great advantage, except Li An.

Li Euan has a standard yellow skin and white heart.

This is not an insult.

Except for the traditional trilogy which is more oriental, the style of Li An's other films is very European and American, completely Western, not Chinese or oriental at all.

Even the logic of the dialogue in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is very Western.

In other words, he is a white director with yellow skin, and a very strong one at that, so it is normal for him to win an Oscar.

"What nomination do you think you can get? Best Director? Best Picture? Or Best Actor or Actress?" Liu Yifei looked at Li Yu curiously.

"How would I know? The current situation is that I am opening a blind box, and I don't know what nomination I will get. However, the quality of "Barbie" is very good, and it is completely in line with the quality standards there.

I guess there will be a few nominations, but I don’t know what awards they will be nominated for.”

Li Yu said he didn't know either.

Liu Yifei was surprised: "How many nominations? The national master has applied for the Oscars so many times, but only got three nominations."

Li Yu looked at her speechlessly and explained, "It's different. The films that Guoshi is trying for the Oscars are all Chinese films, and they can only be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film.

My film is pure Hollywood, and those rules don’t apply to me.”

This is an Oscar rule that non-English films can only compete for Best Foreign Language Film.

The national master and Director Chen are also working towards this goal.

The Best Picture award will not be given to a non-English film at all, this is a written rule.

There is one exception, and that is "Parasite", which is the only non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

"Parasite" is very special. The fact that this movie won the Oscar for Best Picture has a lot to do with the fact that it was produced in the Silla Kingdom.

Although it's annoying how people who have a great life always like to claim everything in the world as theirs.

But in terms of cultural contribution, Silla was indeed quite impressive.

Their Korean dramas are not only popular in East Asia, but also have a great influence in Central Asia, West Asia and Russia.

Their people have been running the three major European awards and the Oscars.

The fact that "Parasite" won the Oscar for Best Picture is the result of their efforts over more than ten or twenty years.

It can also be said that if this movie was not made by Silla people, but by Chinese or Japanese, it would most likely not break the rule that the Best Picture award is not given to non-English films.

Because the Chinese and Japanese people didn't spend more than ten or twenty years preparing for the award like the Silla people did. Liu Yifei nodded in sudden enlightenment after hearing what Li Yu said.

In short, on that day, she and Li Yu would just attend the Oscars ceremony together.

She has been in the industry for so many years, but has never been to an Oscars ceremony.

In her previous life, she also starred in "Mulan". Because of this movie, she was invited to attend the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony and was interviewed by the media while walking the red carpet.

She wished all the nominees and winners well in her red carpet interview.

Because the Oscars didn't look down on her live-action version of "Mulan".

This shows that sometimes Eastern and Western judges and audiences have the same views.

For example, the live-action version of "Mulan" is considered a bad movie both in the East and the West.

In this life, Liu Yifei listened to Li Yu's advice and did not participate in the live-action version of "Mulan", so he naturally missed the opportunity to walk the red carpet at the Oscars.

Li Yu took her for a walk, which was considered as compensation.

……

After the box office of "Dying to Survive" exceeded 1 billion, the growth momentum is still strong.

The current Chinese film market is no longer what it used to be.

Back then, one billion was the end, but now one billion is just the beginning.

With the recommendations of audiences who had watched the movie in the cinema earlier and the publicity from the media and self-media, more and more passers-by began to enter the cinema.

Lin Xue is just an ordinary passerby who was recommended by the audience and promoted by self-media.

He is a person who does not believe in evil.

As an old Internet user, he feels that the current Internet environment is very different from that of more than ten years ago.

More than a decade ago, especially around 2, Nokia dominated the mobile phone market and the mobile network was G.

Internet access is a luxury for many people.

At that time, people who could surf the Internet frequently were basically those who had some financial resources, so the overall quality of Internet users was much higher than it is now.

Nowadays, everything is so chaotic that anyone with a mobile phone can access the Internet.

Look, isn’t this just a riot of demons?
What the hell is "Dying to Survive", is it really as good as these people say? What percentage of it is water army?

Lin Xue watched videos for more than ten minutes and came across content related to "Dying to Survive" four or five times.

This made him very angry. It’s never going to end, right?

The whole internet is talking about this, how rich is the crew to be able to hire so many internet trolls?

He didn't believe in evil, so he wanted to research who this crappy medicine god was.

If it was really exaggerated, he would definitely become a hater of the movie and criticize it completely.

In order to learn more about the movie, Lin Xue first went to the DouMiao website to check the movie's ratings and DouMiao users' comments on the movie.

He knows DouMiao's users very well. He is strict with Chinese-language films but tolerant of foreign-language films.

Both have a score of seven points, but in reality Chinese-language films may deserve eight points, while foreign-language films are actually only worthy of six points.

When Lin Xue saw that the score of "Dying to Survive" was around 9.something and that quite a lot of people had rated it, he was a little surprised.

Maybe there's something to this movie.

There are not many Chinese-language films that can get a score of nine on DouMiao. Most of them are old films. In recent years, there are really few that can reach a score of nine, maybe only two films are released a year.

(End of this chapter)