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Director Wei could only sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman.

Facing Zhang Ziyi's expectations, Director Wei calmly said, "It's hard to say about the rest, but Mr. Chen has no chance of winning the Best Actor award."

Chen Daoming's hands trembled and he looked at Director Wei in surprise.

"Director Wei, did you get the inside information?

Although Chen Daoming did not have much hope of winning the Oscar for Best Actor, after all, he had just won the Best Actor Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, so it was not realistic for him to win another Oscar.

But there are still dreams.

What if it happens?

Director Wei ruthlessly extinguished his dream.

"Barring any major surprises, this year's Best Actor Oscar winner will definitely be Leonardo DiCaprio."

"Leonardo?" Chen Daoming was stunned, then frowned and said, "Director Wei, I admit that Leonardo is a very good actor with excellent acting skills, but his performance in "The Revenant" is actually average for him, isn't it? It's nowhere near as good as his performances in previous years."

Director Wei nodded.

This is true.

Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for four consecutive years and his acting was really good.

Leonardo DiCaprio hasn't won an Oscar in four years, and the whole world feels sorry for him?

But this year's "The Revenant," his fifth attempt at an Oscar, can only be considered a mediocre performance.

Of course not bad.

But among Xiao Li's many excellent works and performances, it is not considered excellent at all.

Chen Daoming hesitated for a moment and continued, "Director Wei, please don't laugh at me. I think Leonardo DiCaprio's performance in The Revenant wasn't as good as mine."

Director Wei smiled and said, "Teacher Chen, please be more confident. I also think his acting in The Revenant is no better than yours in The Family of Heroes. But awards aren't all about acting."

“Then what are you looking at?

"His qualifications, this is Leonardo DiCaprio's fifth attempt at the Best Actor Oscar this year, the whole world is watching and the atmosphere is already hyped up to this point.

Leonardo DiCaprio is the number one superstar in the United States right now. Even though the Oscars are arrogant, they let Leonardo take the runner-up position for five consecutive years? Doesn't Leonardo have a temper? Don't his fans have a temper?

Director Wei shook his head and chuckled, saying, "The most important thing is that giving Leonardo the Oscar for Best Actor won't cause any controversy.

He deserves the award. "The Revenant" is certainly not Leonardo's best work, but he didn't win the Oscar when he was at his best. This year, they must make it up to Leonardo. After all, this is the fifth time.

If it were Wei Jun, he would definitely ignore Oscar after three consecutive runner-ups.

Do you treat me as a bootlicker?

Are you worthy?

But Leonardo DiCaprio is a real Oscar bootlicker.

In order to win an Oscar for Best Actor, he destroyed his image in various ways.

Moviegoers will be silent after watching it, and fans will cry after watching it.

He transformed himself from a handsome young man into a rough man.

The whole world felt his desire to win the Oscar for Best Actor.

In this case, the atmosphere is set here.

Oscar didn't dare to refuse.

After all, the Oscars are American film awards.

And Leonardo DiCaprio is arguably Hollywood's last superstar.

After Leonardo DiCaprio, the era of Hollywood's superstars is effectively over.

The likes of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who came after him, are far behind Leonardo DiCaprio in terms of global fame and appeal, not to mention Vin Diesel.

It became popular entirely because of "Fast and Furious".

But the reason why "Fast and Furious" exploded at the global box office was because of the death of another leading actor, not Van Diesel's appeal.

His sudden rise to fame was a result of taking advantage of someone else's success; one can only say he seized the opportunity, but compared to Hollywood superstars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, and Tom Cruise, he's still a notch below them.

The superhero movie market has completely dominated Hollywood, and the appeal of superstars is far less than that of IP.

Many people always think that the Chinese-language film industry is in decline, but if you open your eyes, you will find that Hollywood has not produced any classic movies for many years.

Instead, there are Marvel superheroes.

But watching superhero movies in twenty years... they will really be the same. With the advancement of technology, these superhero movies will definitely be replaced.

Can certainly be replaced.

Just as you no longer watch old special effects movies like "Star Wars" and "Avatar", the special effects of Marvel movies will also bore you in ten or twenty years.

However, some original classics, such as "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan", have not been found in Hollywood in the past decade.

In today's Hollywood, the value of original scripts and IP is infinitely reduced and magnified.

The same is true of the value of superstars.

Leonardo DiCaprio is considered the last remaining gem of the superstar era, which is very important to Hollywood. They will not let Leo fade away easily.

After listening to Wei Jun's analysis, Chen Daoming completely gave up.

Because he himself knew that there was little hope.

After all, it’s an open secret that if you want to win an award in Hollywood, you need to spend money on public relations.

He didn't spend a penny.

Of course, the possibility of it happening to him is small.

However, Chen Daoming still complained: "After listening to Director Wei's words, I always feel that there is no difference between the Oscars and our domestic film festivals."

Director Wei said frankly: "There is still a difference. The Oscars are unfair, but generally speaking, the winners are not that bad, at least they won't cause too much trouble.

We all feel ashamed when some domestic awards become a joke.

For example, Li Yifeng and Baby from Baihua Jushi.

Li Yifeng directly defeated Zhang Yi's water content. In any case, Li Yifeng himself didn't dare to use it for publicity.

That doesn't happen at the Oscars.

The Oscars are an award for any candidate of a certain level. The judges will give the award to whoever is paid the most, and there won't be much controversy.

In domestic film festivals, whoever offers more money and has a stronger background will be shortlisted.

Otherwise, considering Li Yifeng and Baby’s acting skills... it’s a huge joke that they can be nominated for this kind of award.

Director Wei's comments were very objective: "The Oscars are relatively more formal than our domestic awards. At least the quality of the nominees can be guaranteed. Who wins the award depends on who puts in the most effort.

Teacher Chen, you didn't exert any strength at all, so you definitely don't stand a chance."

"Where's Ziyi?"

Chen Daoming looked at Zhang Ziyi.

Zhang Ziyi hesitated for a moment and said, "Someone approached me and hinted at it, but I didn't agree."

"Huh? Is the price too high?" Chen Daoming asked curiously.

Zhang Ziyi shook her head, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "That Harvey? Weinstein has some bad intentions. I don't want to have any contact with him.

Wei Jun raised his eyebrows and asked, "Sister Ziyi, Harvey? Did Weinstein look for you?"

Zhang Ziyi nodded.

Wei Jun chuckled and said, "This is a famous Oscar promoter, known as the god who can decide the Oscars. Sister Ziyi, why don't you give it a try?"

The rumors are not exaggerated.

in the country, Reba was ridiculed by many people as the "Water Queen" because she won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress.

But compared to Harvey Weinstein's record, Reba's title of "Water Queen" is well-deserved.

At the very least, the Golden Eagle Award is elected by audience voting. Even though Reba's acting is terrible and her acting skills are terrible, the fact that she won the award only shows that there is something wrong with the setting of this award. After all, the fans' vote ultimately depends on who has loyal fans and who has strong enough votes from the "water army", and it has nothing to do with actual ability.

But Harvey Weinstein managed to produce an Oscar-winning actress.

The 71st Academy Awards is hailed as the most "watery" one in history.

Because in this year's Oscars, "Shakespeare in Love" defeated competitors such as "Saving Private Ryan" to win the Best Picture, shocking the world.

Gwyneth Paltrow also won the Best Actress award, but was hailed as the "Water Queen".

The man behind all this is Harvey Weinstein.

With his superb public relations skills and promotion strategies, extensive social network and collusion of interests, he successfully pushed his own production "Shakespeare in Love" to the awards podium.

To be honest, this is really weak, comparable to Li Yifeng defeating Zhang Yi.

This is something that Americans themselves admit.

So the Oscars are only relatively better than domestic awards, but in reality, all crows are black.

Harvey Weinstein's record doesn't end there.

He is the founder of Miramax and the Weinstein Company, a Hollywood "gold medal producer" and a true "Best Actor and Best Actress Maker".

He has worked with many big-name directors and actors, and countless films have won awards at the Oscars and major film festivals. Many filmmakers regard him as a mentor.

Meryl Streep, who has two Oscars and twenty Oscar nominations, even once called him "God."

Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein, both highly acclaimed in China, are longtime collaborators. Harvey Weinstein favored "Pulp Fiction," which he subsequently financed and subsequently won awards for. He subsequently commissioned "Kill Bill," "Inglourious Basterds," "Django Unchained," and "The Hateful Eight" to be produced by Weinstein's company.

Including some Chinese movies.

For example, the North American distribution rights for films like "Hero," "House of Flying Daggers," and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" were all secured by Harvey Weinstein.

The 69th Academy Award-winning film "The English Patient," the 83rd Academy Award-winning film "The King's Speech," the 57th Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or-winning "Fahrenheit 9/11," and "The Reader," which crowned Kate Winslet as an actress, as well as many other well-known classics such as "Good Will Hunting," "The Hours," and "Gangs of New York," were all produced by Harvey Weinstein.

According to incomplete statistics, among the films produced and distributed by his father, more than 70 have won various Oscars and more than 300 have been nominated for Oscars.

Hands.

If Harvey Weinstein really wanted to help Zhang Ziyi win a Best Actress award, she would have a real chance based on her performance in "The Family".

Because Zhang Ziyi’s acting skills are not bad.

At least it's much better than Gwyneth Paltrow's performance as the Water Queen.

There are always some people who think that foreign actors are awesome and domestic actors are terrible, but this is referring to the average level.

Domestic actors are dragged down by the average by some popular idol stars who have no acting skills at all.

But when it comes to top actors, when they reach a certain level, they all score more than 90 points. Where does the qualitative difference come from?

After all, 90 points is only 10 points away from 100 points.

Zhang Ziyi's image in China is indeed not very good, and she is not popular with the audience, but the acting skills she showed in "The Grandmaster" that surpassed Tony Leung's throughout are something that not many actresses in Hollywood can do.

When it comes to acting, some Chinese people really don't need to feel too inferior.

Because acting has an upper limit. Once you reach that level, the gap cannot be that big.

The big gap is that some domestic traffic idols really lower the average score of domestic actors, but they can still occupy a lot of mainstream resources so that the acting skills of our domestic actors seem inferior to those of foreign actors.

With Zhang Ziyi's acting skills, it wouldn't be surprising for her to win any Best Actress award as long as she performs well.

But Zhang Ziyi still refused.

The reasons are also very solid.

"Harvey? Weinstein has such a bad reputation. I don't want to have anything to do with him. His affairs in the industry are no secret."

Ziyi said.

Wei Jun smiled: "It seems that Harvey Weinstein covets your beauty, Sister Ziyi."

Really not picky.

But Wei Jun knew that this was not fake.

Next year, in 2017, Harvey Weinstein's affair will be exposed, and he will go straight to jail.

This caused a major earthquake in Hollywood.

Nearly a hundred female celebrities have been exposed for having been involved with Harvey Weinstein.