The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Dolby Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Han Jiadong's arrival immediately attracted a lot of people's attention. Everyone who knew him congratulated him. Even the host Harris specifically mentioned that he had surpassed Spielberg to become the new box office king before the award ceremony began.

However, many people are not optimistic about him at tonight's Oscars.

Because Oscar’s consistent style is: slap the Golden Globe Awards in the face!
Except for those works that can win awards without any controversy, the rest of the movies, as long as they win the grand prize at the Golden Globe Awards, will find it difficult to win anything at the Oscars.

Even "Avatar" is no exception!
"Sister Ziyi, do you think it's possible for the director to win the Best Director Award again?"

Looking at Hayao Miyazaki going up on stage to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, Xu Lu's eyes sparkled with excitement.

During this period, they have won many important awards including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Picture, Best Director, etc. from more than a dozen awards including the American Board Critics Award, New York Film Critics Circle Award, American Film Institute Award, New York Online Film Critics Association Award, American Film Critics Society Award, Critics Choice Award, and American Independent Spirit Award.

It was even more popular than "Boyhood", which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture.

"Hard to say."

Zhang Ziyi is not as optimistic as Xu Lu.

As an old hand who has been in Hollywood for quite some time, she naturally knows more about some of the unspoken rules of the Oscars than Xu Lu, a newcomer.

Look at "Boyhood", which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. It has recently been criticized by some media close to Hollywood.

Obviously, they are preparing for tonight's award ceremony.

After all, the Oscars want to slap the Golden Globe Awards in the face.

If the award I present cannot outperform the one given by the Golden Globe Awards, wouldn't that be a slap in my face?
The film that the media is currently optimistic about replacing "Boyhood" and winning the Oscar for Best Picture is "Birdman", directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Emma Stone and Michael Keaton.

It is even predicted that it may win several important awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.

"Why is it hard to say?" Xu Lu was puzzled.

Zhang Ziyi didn't explain much to her, but just comforted her with one sentence: "Don't worry, the Best Foreign Language Film will definitely be ours."

Soon after she finished speaking.

"Parasite" won the Best Foreign Language Film award without any suspense.

It became the second Chinese-language film after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to win both the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

It is also the first film in mainland China to achieve this achievement.

"Parasite" also surpassed "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2.13 million) and "Life is Beautiful" (2.3 million), becoming the highest-grossing Oscar-winning foreign language film.

However, after that, as many people expected, "Parasite" lost to other films in the awards it was nominated for.

For example, the Best Original Score and Best Art Direction awards were both lost to The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Lost Best Editing to Whiplash.

Lost Best Cinematography to Birdman.

"Birdman" won the Best Cinematography Award as expected before the awards ceremony, which made many people think that "Birdman" was about to have a big harvest.

As a result, "Birdman" lost to "Parasite" in the next Best Original Screenplay award.

As soon as the award was announced, there was a lot of discussion at the scene. Obviously, this result was beyond many people's expectations.

Later, the Best Actress award was given to Julianne Moore for her outstanding performance in Still Alice.

She also became the first woman in the world to win the three major European awards and the Oscar for Best Actress.

The Best Actor award was given to Eddie Redmayne for "The Theory of Everything", who is also the first artist born in the 1980s to win the award.

It seems that not only the post-80s generation in China have poor acting skills, but the same is true abroad.

After the Best Actor award, the next award is the Best Director award.

The nominees include Alejandro González Inarritu for "Birdman", Richard Linklater for "Boyhood", Bennett Miller for "Foxcatcher", Wes Anderson for "The Grand Budapest Hotel", and Gordon Han for "Parasite".

After the highlights were played, in silence, the award presenter Ben Affleck slowly read out the results.

"The winner of the 87th Academy Awards for Best Director is Han Jiadong for "Parasite". Congratulations!"

As soon as the words fell, discussions broke out again.

A group of main creators from the "Birdman" and "Boyhood" crews also showed expressions of disbelief or loss and frustration.

Even many people in the "Parasite" crew showed surprise.

Newcomers like Xu Lu and Zhang Yishan were just celebrating excitedly.

"Wow! We won another award. The director is awesome!"

"Ah~ The director is amazing!"

……

Han Jiadong actually expected this result when he won the Best Original Screenplay Award, but he was still very happy, because if his guess was correct, the remaining Best Picture...

"The winner of the 87th Academy Awards for Best Picture is Parasite. Congratulations!"

While the rest of the crew was still basking in the joy of winning the Best Director Award, presenter Sean Penn read out the name of their film again.

In an instant, the whole audience was in an uproar.

Hollywood's Best Picture award was given to a Chinese-language film?!
This is unprecedented in the 80-year history of the Oscars!
When Han Jiadong heard the result, he finally felt relieved.

Before the award was announced, he became the person in the entire crew who cared most about this award for the first time.

Because others were already satisfied after winning the Best Director Award.

As for the final Best Picture award, it can be said that there is no hope at all.

On the contrary, Han Jiadong, who had guessed the result, couldn't help feeling a little anxious and expectant.

As many people agree on the Oscars, the Oscars do like to slap the Golden Globes in the face.

But a slap in the face is not just a way of not giving awards. Giving more and bolder awards than the Golden Globe Awards is also a way of slapping in the face!
You dare to claim that you are more open and inclusive just because you only give the Golden Globe Awards to the Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director?

I will show you what true openness and inclusiveness means!
This is indeed a better way to go when the Best Foreign Language Film award is almost exclusively given to "Parasite".

Because if "Parasite" was awarded the Best Foreign Language Film, and the Best Picture and Best Director awards were given to other films, it would hardly have the effect of slapping the Golden Globe Awards in the face.

At most, it can be seen as a difference in preferences, and one may even be questioned for being biased against Chinese-language films.

And if "Parasite" is not even awarded the Best Foreign Language Film, it will not only fail to slap itself in the face, but will instead be questioned in various ways.

Of course, these are all conspiracy theories.

Maybe the Oscars are really just making their selections fairly and impartially?

But no matter what, "Parasite", which won four major awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film, was undoubtedly the biggest winner of the night.

As soon as the award ceremony ended, Harrison, the Oscars' regular critic, began to express his views on this year's Oscars.

The focus is undoubtedly on "Parasite".

First of all, Harrison denied that the Oscars were competing with the Golden Globes, and gave his own reasons: the Golden Globes were not qualified! It has always been the Golden Globes that were trying to compete with the Oscars, and the Oscars have never regarded the Golden Globes as a rival.

Then we analyzed what is so good about "Parasite" and why it became the first non-English film to win the Best Picture.

In the process, the problems existing in the movie were not ignored, such as the rich people seemed too stupid and the plot seemed a bit too coincidental and unreasonable.

But none of this can hide the excellence of the film.

In particular, the film uses such clever design to show the social problems caused by the gap between the rich and the poor.

Compared to the current Hollywood movies that are all about feminism, homosexuality, black people and other popular award-winning topics that are quickly becoming obsolete, the issue of wealth disparity that the whole world is more or less facing as the times change is obviously more attractive and more worthy of attention and discussion.

At the same time, the Best Picture award was opened to non-English films for the first time, which also demonstrated the Oscars' broad-mindedness and enterprising spirit for reform.

After all the hype, "Parasite" and the Oscars were praised to the sky, but the Golden Globe Awards once again became the object of ridicule.

Han Jiadong received a call from Liu Yifei right after the award ceremony.

"You've even won the Oscar for Best Picture... I'm increasingly regretting not participating in the film."

Hearing the joy that could not be hidden in Liu Yifei's tone, Han Jiadong's mouth corners could not help but slightly raise: "Don't worry, there will definitely be opportunities in the future."

"I originally thought you were lying when you said you would help me win the Oscar for Best Actress, but now I kind of believe you."

“I was serious.”

"Well, I'm looking forward to it."

Liu Yifei paused and said, "Also, congratulations on winning the award."

After hanging up the phone, she touched her round belly and said proudly, "Baby, you have a very awesome dad!"

the other side.

When Han Jiadong returned home, Tong Yi was still awake. Han Jiadong felt distressed and quickly helped her lie down on the bed.

Before I knew it, there was only about a month left until the baby was born.

"Be good, go to bed quickly. Staying up late is not good for the baby."

"I want to wait for you to sleep together!"

"Okay, I'll take a shower and come join you."

……

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“Making history! Parasite wins the Oscar for Best Picture!”

"The first non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Picture has been born. Han Jiadong has created a miracle!"

"With great success, Parasite swept the Oscars!"

"The world's best director, Han Jiadong topped the box office and won many awards!"

"Xicheng Film and Television City plans to change its name to Han Jiadong Film and Television City, and is seeking Han Jiadong's consent."

……

When the news that "Parasite" won the Oscars spread back to China, it immediately caused a sensation across the entire Internet.

“Ah!!! Awesome!!!”

"Han Jiadong, I love you!!!"

"Han Jiadong, I want to have a baby with you!"

"It's crazy! I thought the best award would be Best Director, but I didn't expect to win Best Picture."

"Now, who would object to the fact that Han Jiadong is the best director in China?"

"Not to mention in China, even in the whole world, he is qualified to compete for the top director."

"If we consider the box office, in fact, only Spielberg and Han Jiadong can compete for the title of the world's number one director. After all, the box office of the others is at least three billion less than that of the two. Now the box office of the two is almost the same. Spielberg has two Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, two Oscars for Best Director, and one Oscar for Best Picture. Han Jiadong only has one Golden Globe Award for Best Director, two Oscars for Best Director, and one Oscar for Best Picture, which is weaker than Spielberg, but he has won more awards at the three major European film festivals. In general, they are about the same."

"The three major European cinemas cannot compare to the Oscars and the Golden Globes, and Spielberg's box office success is higher, so Spielberg is still the undisputed number one now."

"Who told you that the European Big Three can't compare to the Oscars and the Golden Globes? In terms of artistry, the two North American ones can't compare with the European Big Three. It's only because of their influence that the Oscars can rank first, but Han Jiadong's Oscars have already caught up with Spielberg. As for the Golden Globe, it's just an award for popularity, so don't compare it with the others."

"If we want to talk about the box office value, then Han Jiadong's winning of Oscars and Golden Globe Awards is more valuable, isn't it?"

"Originally, the gold content is quite high, but since they are going to become American citizens, forget about the gold content."

"Those who say they are becoming American citizens, please show me the evidence. Do you think people from your own country are not good enough?"

"Naming the film and television city after yourself, wow! Going down in history! What a great honor!!"

"Let's go watch "Charlotte's Troubles", the first billion-dollar director is the best!"

……

Except for a few people who poured cold water on the film, the internet was almost entirely filled with praise, and the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" also increased.

By the end of the Spring Festival holiday, the movie's box office had successfully exceeded the 2 billion mark.

It ranks second in film history, second only to "Transformers 4" with more than billion.

It is also the first domestic film to exceed 2 billion at the box office.

It is also the fastest movie to break the 2 billion box office.

With the box office revenue of more than 300 million US dollars, Han Jiadong's total global box office is only about 100 million US dollars away from the 10 billion mark.

A balcony of a villa in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

Han Jiadong was talking on the phone with his father.

"Hurry up and find someone to hand over your shares in Jia Mi."

"Are you sure you want to come back?"

"Well, Cai Fuchao has decided to retire early."

Han Jiadong was not surprised by this result.

The annual box office in 13 has exceeded 40 billion, with a growth rate of %.
Based on the growth rate of previous years, last year's box office should have easily exceeded the 50 billion mark.

As a result, due to the joint boycott of those big companies, the total box office for the whole year was almost 30 billion.

The growth rate dropped from 40% to negative 27%.
The box office share of domestic films has dropped from over 60% to just over 30%, far below the standard of 50%.

In this situation, it would be strange if no one came out to take the blame.

"Okay, I'll hand it over as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)