Among the numerous film awards throughout Europe and the United States, the most valuable ones are the four major film awards recognized in the world. They are the Cannes International Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award.
, namely the American Academy Awards.
Taken together, these four major film awards are regarded as the most influential or artistically representative awards in the international film industry.
Among them, the Oscars pay more attention to the political and commercial factors of the film.
The three major film festivals insist on taking artistry as the highest indicator. The difference between the Oscar and the other three is that generally, the Oscar only awards awards to Hollywood films, while the three major film festivals of Cannes, Venice and Berlin are open to the world.
It is a place that embraces all rivers and is a place where entertainers from all over the world flock to.
From this point of view, Oscar looks more like a party played by my own family.
However, the Oscars are not unreasonable. Among the many awards, they also set up the Best Foreign Language Film Award to attract the attention of directors and actors from all over the world.
How is the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film selected?
The selection requirements for this award are not difficult in the eyes of people in the American entertainment industry, but they are not so friendly to films outside the United States. It requires that the selected films must be between November of the previous year and the next year.
In October, films released in major theaters in the United States or locally.
Moreover, this film should be recommended by the American Film Review Board, and then reviewed by the "American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foreign Language Film Review Committee" composed of a small group of people, and then they vote to select five films for nomination.
Finally, a review committee composed of a wide range of authoritative figures in the American film industry will select the best film after watching the five films.
How difficult is it for films from many countries to be released in the United States?
This naturally caused most of the excellent films to sink. Fortunately, "The Truman Show" was not among them. On the first day it was released in the United States, it earned a box office of 13 million US dollars on its first day.
Among the twenty-three movies released at the same time, "The Truman Show" ranked ninth at the box office.
If it were a Hollywood film, this score might be barely passing, but it would definitely not be outstanding.
But as a foreign film and a literary drama, "The Truman Show" shines brightly.
You should know that among the five foreign films released during the same period, in addition to "The Truman Show", the highest-ranked animation work "World of Gods" from Japan was followed by "Arhat", which ranked third.
Nineteen, the remaining two films, one is a German film and the other is a French film, ranked at the bottom.
The film market in the United States is extremely huge, and its number of movie screens is not comparable to that in the country. There are more than 8,000 screens in cities in each state alone, and this does not include remote rural areas.
There are six to seven hundred movies released in the United States every year, or even higher. This means that its premiere box office is not comparable to that of other countries.
The box office of "The Truman Show" on its premiere day was as high as 13 million U.S. dollars, which is already over 100 million dollars when converted into RMB. This is something that is simply unimaginable in China.
Of course, as time goes by, the developing motherland will gradually become the second largest box office in the world, and the gap with the United States will become smaller and smaller. It is easy to easily exceed hundreds of millions in the box office on the first day.
However, although "The Truman Show" performed well in the United States, after layers of exploitation by theaters and agents, the box office share that finally fell into the hands of Legendary Pictures may be a very small number, but this
In fact, it is not important. What is important is that "The Truman Show" was an instant hit and opened up market reputation.
And this movie will bring fame and fortune to actors such as Li Qing and Jiang Chendong in the future, which they cannot currently realize.
For example, Dylan Dennis, who had just returned home from the cinema, frantically called his friends along the way: "You must watch "The Truman Show". It is the best movie I have seen this year, bar none."
"But it's only been two weeks this year..."
The voice on the phone said with a smile: "However, if you are so optimistic about this movie, doesn't that mean it has the hope of winning an award?"
"Of course, Brandt, I will recommend this film to the committee, but before that, I know that the Berlin Film Festival is about to open. Do you want to miss this film?" Dennis reminded.
"Of course I know, but Dennis, it's not me you should remind about this, but the director of "The Truman"."
Brandt said with a smile: "I've been very busy recently, and I haven't had time to watch "The Truman Show" yet, but you also know the temper of Cannes. Even if a film that has been released to the public is allowed to participate in the competition, the possibility of winning is still very low."
Not big."
In fact, not only Cannes, but also the Berlin Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival all have a similar temper. They all require participating films to premiere at the film festival before they are eligible to participate. However, there are exceptions to everything, such as the box office hit "
"No Man's Land" was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival only after its release.
Dennis certainly knows this truth. As a member of the Academy's Best Foreign Language Film Review Committee, he can't wait to recommend this "great movie" to the committee. However, the Oscar Awards Ceremony is at the end of the second half of the year, so far away from that time.
The time was too far away, and he couldn't wait to recommend this movie to audiences around the world, so he called his old friend Brandt.
Although Brandt is one of the examiners of the Berlin Film Festival and also has voting rights, as he said, the three major film festivals are all about face. If a certain film wins an award at one of the film festivals, it basically means that
The possibility of winning awards at the other two major film festivals is very low. This is a historical issue left over from the middle of the last century, and it is also an implicit rule of the three major film festivals.
Dennis said helplessly: "But I still suggest that you recommend it to your group, or watch this movie yourself. This is a movie that is definitely worth watching seriously. The writer Jerry personally recommended it two days ago.
"
"Jerry? Is the Jerry you're talking about the author of Midnight Taxi?"
"certainly!"
"That's really worth taking a look at."
Brandt's curiosity was immediately aroused. Jerry's work had won the Golden Bear Award. He readily agreed and went to the cinema that night to buy a ticket for "The Truman Show"
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During the purchase process, he was surprised once and asked the conductor: "How many shows of "The Truman Show" are scheduled in a day?"
The conductor smiled and replied: "There are three shows? At three o'clock in the afternoon, five o'clock, and nine o'clock in the evening."
Brandt was shocked. As a foreign film, not only could it be released in Germany, but the film schedule was so high? And it was all prime time?
When Brandt walked into the screening room, his eyes widened again.
The entire theater was densely packed with people. Among the 600 seats, there were at least 300 or 400 people, not counting the audience who came in one after another behind Brandt.
As the movie was about to start, the occupancy rate of the entire screening room exceeded 90%.
Brandt was a little excited. For the first time, he had high expectations for a Chinese movie!