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Chapter 419 Oscar Nomination

but!
Obviously, the quality of "Chicago" does not allow this to happen.

It still grossed $17 million the following weekend.

Including the four weekdays, the box office for ten days of release totaled $63 million!
If nothing unexpected happens, there will be no problem in breaking the 100 million mark.

One hundred and fifty million is a bit problematic.

But a film like this, which cost less than 50 million US dollars, most of which was used to pay Huang Ze's directorial fee, was able to gross over 100 million US dollars. In Hollywood, it is definitely a work with sufficiently high profits.

As a result, Huang Ze received quite a few banquet invitations.

With two films competing for Oscars, the parties were so frequent that almost every day was spent at parties.

By the time "Chicago" was released for two months, Huang Ze had become the big winner in the North American market this year!

"Chicago" box office successfully exceeded 100 million!

"Lilo & Stitch" has been released for more than four months and has earned 85 million. It will still be released for a few more months and should be able to break 100 million.

The lowest was "Life is Beautiful", but it still earned 42 million US dollars. It is currently being screened for a long time in dozens of venues, waiting for the Oscar nominations to be released, and then expanding the scale of screening again, relying on the Oscars to earn the last wave of box office revenue.

Such days continued until the Oscar nomination list was released, and Huang Ze's popularity reached a new level!

"Life is Beautiful" received a total of six nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Editing, and Best Original Score for a Feature Film!
The musical "Chicago" was even more exaggerated, with a total of thirteen nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Cinematography!

Thirteen items!
This number quickly caused a stir even in Hollywood.

Many media outlets also made an inventory.

Which movie has received the most Oscar nominations to date?
"All About Eve" in 1950 received a total of fourteen nominations.

So how many films received thirteen nominations?

Six!

But of these six, the last two, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, were both nominated for Oscars in 1966.

It’s been exactly thirty years now!
Thirty years!

The film market has experienced many changes during this period, but until today, another work like this has been released.

Many elderly film critics even began cheering in the media.

“The spring of musicals is here!”

"Musicals created the golden age of Hollywood. Now, musicals will usher in a new golden age!"

“Chicago, a landmark film.”

"Haha, it's exaggerated, exaggerated." Huang Ze, who was staying in the hotel, was casually flipping through some entertainment newspapers. He said it was exaggerated, but he didn't think so in his heart.

If you can speak, please say more.

Great! Praise me more!
If you think it is a landmark movie, then give me more awards, so that your words will be justified.

"It would be better to just give me Best Picture and Best Director."

"In that case, I won't have anything to pursue in terms of awards, and I can make movies as I please!"

"Ding ding ding..." Just then, the doorbell rang.

"Who?" Huang Ze walked to the door and asked.

"It's me!" A familiar voice came from outside the door.

"Oh!" Huang Ze opened the door and let Jennifer Connelly, who was wrapped tightly, walk in. "Jennifer, why are you here?"

"Am I not welcome?"

"What do you think?" After all the interactions, they became acquaintances, so Huang Ze was too lazy to be polite and said directly, "You've come at the right time. I was just looking for someone to celebrate with." "I'm here to celebrate with you!" said Jennifer Connelly.

"Are you celebrating your Oscar nomination for Best Actress?"

"All."

"I was nominated for Best Supporting Actress before, but I didn't win. This time I was nominated for Best Actress, so of course I have to celebrate."

"Although I don't know if I can win the Best Actress award in the end, at least I am only one step away from it. I feel like I can touch the trophy if I just reach out my hand!"

Jennifer Connelly had a look of longing on her face and made a gesture of reaching out to touch it.

Huang Ze pulled her hand and let it actually touch the trophy, not the Best Actress trophy that might only be awarded in the future.

Jennifer was not angry, but her eyes suddenly looked strange.

There is confusion and also admiration.

"yellow!"

"You are really amazing!"

"Thirteen nominations. I dreamed that it would be great if our film had ten nominations, but you made me have a dream that was even better than a dream!"

"I feel very honored to be the leading actress of this film!"

"I'm also very happy to find you to play the female lead in my two dramas!" Without saying much, Huang Ze began to celebrate everything wildly with her.

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If Hollywood felt shocked, then the domestic film and television circles felt a storm after hearing the news.

Brother Chen Kai, who was planning a movie about Emperor Qin Shi Huang, was stunned on the spot.

"Chicago" received thirteen nominations.

"Life is Beautiful" received six nominations!
Two-pronged approach, heading straight for the Oscars.

After winning all three major awards, is this guy's ambition to win an Oscar so strong?

By the way, is it true that he will win the Oscar for Best Picture or Best Director?
The bitterness in Brother Chen Kai's heart rose again.

He doesn't understand.

Why is this happening?

It’s obvious that I’m from the directing department!
Moreover, in the directing department, even if I am not as good as Tian Zhuangzhuang, I am still in the first tier. My talent is obvious to the naked eye.

Huang Ze is just from the photography department. Apart from being a bit handsome, his photography skills are just so-so.

Why can't I even compare to him?

Knowing that it would be difficult for him to swallow his anger and serve as Huang Ze's assistant director in exchange for a script, Brother Chen Kai's opinion of Huang Ze has turned into resentment and unwillingness.

And in another place.

After just a phone call with Huang Ze, he started filming "Raise the Red Lantern" with Gong Li. Zhang Yimou, who was doing post-production, was also stunned.

He wants to win the Cannes Palme d'Or to complete the missing one of his three major trophies.

But seeing that Huang Zedu was winning the Oscars and the box office was steadily increasing, he admitted that he couldn't help but want to make a commercial film.

Go make some dollars and win an Oscar.

"After this year's Cannes is over, regardless of whether Rock 'n' Roll wins the Cannes Film Festival or not, I will have to start making a commercial film!"

Zhang Yimou glanced in the direction of the United States.

(End of this chapter)