Big director

The voice was loud and sharp, so shocking that Zhu Zimo immediately put the phone away, and when the other side finally calmed down, he put the phone to his ear again.

Larry Crowe gasped.

Zhu Zimo calmly advised him: "Don't be so excited..."

"What do you mean don't be so excited! Do you know Oscar! Oscar! I can't imagine how big your heart is!" Larry Crowe was ignited again, "Do you know how many big stars and directors have fought for Oscars all their lives? What?! Why do you act like you don't care about anything!"

Zhu Zimo waited until his voice disappeared, and then said helplessly: "Am I not celebrating the Spring Festival? Spring Festival, you know, the traditional festival of the Chinese people is similar to Christmas in the United States..."

"I know what the Chinese New Year is. Thank you." Larry Crow finally gave up trying to wake up Director Zhu's guilt, and said without love, "So that's why you shut down the phone for a month?"

Zhu Zimo defended himself: "Because I was filming a TV series before! I don't want to be disturbed at work, is it normal? Besides, it's not even a month, it's only about [-] days."

"Is it meaningful to care about 20 days or one month with me?" Larry Crowe wished he could fly to China to make Zhu Zimo's face very ugly.

Zhu Zimo wisely changed the subject: "So what exactly are you trying to say on the phone? What happened to Oscar?"

"So you really didn't pay attention to the list of Oscar nominations," Larry Crowe said with an unwavering tone like a robot, "Congratulations on being nominated. Among them, "Legend of Wukong" has Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup, Best Art Direction, a total of ten titles, and "Atlantis" There are three nominations for Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design. Although none of them were nominated for Best Director, there are rumors that the Oscar is considering your young age, plus two Movies are all commercialized, you know, the Academy now rejects movies that are too commercialized, and you have suffered a bit in this regard. Keep this momentum, and tomorrow you may be nominated for best director."

After such a long list, Larry Crowe couldn't help but sarcasm again: "Maybe it's a superfluous stupid thing to comfort you, after all, you don't care about Oscar at all, right?"

Zhu Zimo rolled his eyes: "I'm just too busy...you know..."

"Chinese New Year, yes, I know." Larry Crowe also rolled his eyes tacitly, "So, do you want to come to the United States? After all, getting the nomination is just the beginning. If you don't do a good job in public relations, it's good. You may get nothing at the beginning, and then the media will definitely ridicule you and add insult to injury. Sir, you have to learn to give the academy a face, otherwise, no matter how good you are, you may not get the honor you deserve... "

"Okay, okay," Zhu Zimo agreed, "I will go there as soon as possible, and I will let you know when the time comes. Also, thank you, Larry Crow, you are a very good friend."

"God bless me not to be prematurely aged by your anger." Larry Crowe hung up the phone angrily and funny.

In fact, Zhu Zimo also knows that although he and New Line are in a cooperative relationship and the two parties are still in the honeymoon period, there are no eternal friends in the world, only eternal interests. Of course, his movies have earned a lot of dollars for New Line. As a distributor, if they can win a few Oscars, it will definitely benefit them and not harm them.But my own movie is not Xinxian's "son" after all, Oscar public relations need a lot of operating expenses and contacts, and Xinxian is not a living Lei Feng in the new era, it is impossible for him to act like a little eunuch when the emperor is not in a hurry Jumping up and down alone with others and money.

So, it seems that I really have to go to the United States.

……

Zhu Zimo was indifferent to Oscar's attitude.

It's just an award, just because the United States is currently the largest, so their awards are also the most authoritative.In a few decades, the film festivals in China will have the same status, so filmmakers from all over the world are also looking forward to it... As long as it is related to interests, there must be shady scenes.Soliciting votes, bribing academy members, and fighting for connections are all unspoken rules.Furthermore, in order to ensure 'fairness', if you have just won an Oscar, no matter how good your performance is in the next few years, the trophy will not belong to you.For a "commercial film director" like Zhu Zimo, considering his age, Oscar would rather "compensate" him with ten nominations, and absolutely refuse to give him a best director nomination. This is a reality.

And what are the practical benefits of getting an Oscar?

Yes, first of all, the box office, award-winning films will show an upward trend.At the same time, when selling CDs and copyrights in the future, they will also get a more beautiful figure.Who doesn't like money?

Secondly, it is the so-called forced style.After a star wins the best actor, his value will soar immediately, and if the director wins the best director, there will be more investors waving money to ask him to direct, and so on.Especially for Chinese people, hitting the Oscars has been publicized as a national event, as if winning an Oscar can prove something, but it is a pity that they have been defeated repeatedly...but they never tire of it.

Then what else?

In fact, there is really nothing left.

And these 'benefits' are really not important to Zhu Zimo.

As far as the box office is concerned, his box office is already good enough. Now that Kunpeng Company has taken off, Zhu Zimo is destined not to be short of money.Besides, even without the blessing of awards, who would dare to underestimate him?

Therefore, he has never paid attention to the Oscars. The previous registration matters were also entrusted to New Line Films.

After hanging up the call from the United States, Zhu Zimo wandered off to find Shen Pingzhang.

Now that they have returned to their residence, during the Chinese New Year, the warmth at Father Shen’s and Mother Shen’s was warm enough. Unfortunately, under the eyes of their parents, they dare not be too presumptuous. They can only hold back for eight days. The other two My eyes were green. After returning to my lair, I didn’t say anything, and rolled the sheets for a while... because last night was too noisy, I woke up today, and found that it was almost noon. No one was there, but he could vaguely smell the aroma of food. It seemed that Shen Pingzhang was making lunch downstairs, and Zhu Zimo turned on his mobile phone during this gap.

To be fair, he turned off his mobile phone during the Chinese New Year, and Shen Pingzhang followed suit by avoiding all external disturbances, so that he could live a pleasant life like a peach blossom garden!

Thinking of what Larry Crowe said, he didn't get nominated for best director, but Shen Pingzhang got nominated for best actor. He put on his slippers and ran downstairs.

On the round milky white dining table, four dishes had already been set, and the aroma was tangy, while Shen Pingzhang was wearing a loose home clothes, wearing an apron, drinking soup with a spoon in the kitchen, and then turned off the fire.Hearing the footsteps behind him, he turned his head and said with a smile, "Get up, lazy pig? The meal will be ready soon, are you hungry? Sit there and wait for a while!"

Zhu Zimo stood at the door of the kitchen and told him, "You have been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar."

Shen Pingzhang flicked his wrist and almost knocked off the soup pot. After a pause, he said helplessly, "Don't make trouble..."

"It's true!" Zhu Zimo was quite happy for Shen Pingzhang, but despite being happy, he couldn't help feeling sour, "They didn't nominate me for the best director, but only you. Oscar and those guys are really blind!"

"Are you telling the truth?" Shen Pingzhang's eyebrows twitched a few times, and he simply put down the spoon and came to hug Zhu Zimo, "How is this possible? Besides, how do you know?"

Different from Zhu Zimo's contempt for Oscar, Shen Pingzhang is in the game and understands the significance of Oscar to an actor. At present, there is no Chinese actor who has ever won an Oscar!Not even a nomination!

"Just now there was a call from the New Line," Zhu Zimo muttered, "By the way, I forgot to ask when the nomination list came out... I don't know if the domestic media has reported it..."

Has the domestic media reported it?

So much!

It's been almost two days since the list of nominations came out, how could the domestic media fail to respond for such a long time!

When Zhu Zimo and Shen Pingzhang didn't hear anything outside the window and only wanted to have sex, the outside was already fried!

This year's Oscars are the prosperity of Chinese people!

Because there are two Mandarin films, it shines in the nominations!

Both received ten nominations, tying for second place.One of them is the martial arts movie "The Wind and Cranes" made by Taiwanese director Li Qiong, and the other is the mythological blockbuster "Legend of Wukong" made by Zhu Zimo.Li Qiong was nominated for best director, and although Zhu Zimo was not nominated for best director, the crew of "Legend of Wukong" has two important nominations for best actor and best supporting actor!Shen Pingzhang and Yan Xu, one is playing Monkey King, the other is playing Zhu Bajie, as a purebred Chinese!

The domestic media is crazy, okay?

However, they couldn't find Director Zhu and Shen Pingzhang...

The author has something to say: I actually got the nomination time wrong. In reality, the 2001 Oscar nomination was a few days later. However, when I wrote the last chapter, I made a mistake in the conversion of the lunar calendar to the Gregorian calendar... Anyway, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, and it seems to be a good excuse to make it up. Don't change it... above.