It's quite sad to say that for this year's Oscars, Penguin Video spent a lot of money to obtain the broadcast rights, but everyone is only paying attention to the Best Animated Short Award, which has no sense of existence!
Like live-action movies, it seems that many movie fans in China are always angry about it and hate that iron cannot become steel, but in fact, there are really not a few Chinese movies that have won awards internationally.
It doesn’t matter if it’s the top three in Europe or it’s an Oscar.
There are really not a few Chinese directors who have won awards.
But unfortunately, in the animation field, the most award-winning works in China probably date back to the 1980s and 1990s.
Therefore, the animated short film award may not attract much attention in North America, but for Chinese movie fans and animation enthusiasts, if it can win the award, it will definitely be a huge breakthrough.
But many viewers watching the awards ceremony were extremely pessimistic.
Because the opponent is really too strong.
Among the five nominations, there are three top Hollywood animation companies, and these three are also frequent Oscar winners.
They are Deep Blue Studio, Fantasy Animation Studio, and Oasis Animation!
Among them, Deep Blue Studio has won four Oscars for Best Animated Short Film and three Oscars for Best Animated Feature Film.
Although the other two studios are not as good as Deep Blue Studio, they have also won more than one Oscar award.
It can be said that in the past ten years, the Oscars for animated short films and feature films have not been won by these three top animation companies, but they are still close.
Therefore, it is no wonder that everyone is so pessimistic.
Li Yi actually didn't have high expectations, but since he was nominated, he must be looking forward to the award. Otherwise, why would he come here? Wander the red carpet?
They are not celebrities and have no meaning!
"The winner of this year's Oscar for Best Animated Short Film is..." The award presenter opened the envelope in his hand and raised his eyebrows.
"Wow, what a surprise, Li Hexing Animation's "Replace the Battery" from China! Congratulations!"
In fact, this result is indeed somewhat surprising.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
When the footage was transmitted back to China, the broadcast screen was immediately flooded with barrage!
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!"
"Actually, actually!"
“Really won an award!”
"Li Yi is awesome (broken sound)!"
"This is so valuable. It beats the three top Hollywood animation companies to win the award. It's really awesome!"
"Li Yi is crowned the King of Short Films. This time he truly deserves it!"
At this moment, Li Yi could still be calm, but Zhang Haiyang and the other three were all confused.
"What the hell, why are you pinching my thigh?" Zhang Haiyang glared at another team member in pain.
"It will hurt if you pinch yourself. Have we really won the award?"
"Let's go, don't be embarrassed, go and receive the award!" Li Yi patted Zhang Haiyang on the shoulder and said!
Although it's just an animated short film award, everyone knows how difficult it is. Well, Li Yizhen doesn't feel it.
Anyway, it's quite unexpected.
This award is of great significance to Zhang Haiyang and the others, but to Li Yi, it is actually just that.
Generally speaking, in animated films, the director's presence is not that strong. People often only hear people talking about the animated films of such and such company, rather than the works of such and such director.
When the news came back to China, the media sent out prepared press releases one after another. In fact, the media always prepared two press releases, one for winning and one for losing.
"Great news: my country's famous director Li Yi successfully won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, completing a historic breakthrough for Chinese animation Oscars!"
"Breaking news: Li Yi, the king of short films, defeated the three top animation studios in the world with his animated short film and successfully won the Oscar. The king of short films was successfully crowned!"
"The rise of domestic animation! The animated short film directed by Li Yi and produced by Xingman defeated world-class animation studios and successfully won the Oscar statuette!"
"Li Yi made history and won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film!"
The domestic animation circle exploded, although the film and television circles did not react particularly strongly to this. After all, animated movies are actually quite unfamiliar to them.
Most of the time, live-action film directors rarely direct animated films, because to be exact, there is an insurmountable gap between the two!
Because the aesthetics of live-action film directors and the aesthetics of animated films are actually two different things.
In China, apart from those despised animated films for young children, there are almost no other truly successful animated films for all ages.
Another one, it's just an animated short film. If it weren't for the director Li Yi, I'm afraid many people might not have seen it.
Don't think it's outrageous, it's the truth.
Zhang Haiyang and the others returned to China with honors and continued to work on "WALL-E"! But Li Yi did not go back because he had other work to do.
Li Yi quickly produced the script, this time it was the science fiction movie "Artificial Intelligence".
The same film will also be made into a co-production.
Dean Pictures quickly opened the review channel after receiving Li Yi's script.
In fact, it was just a formality, but after seeing the script, James Dean of Dean Films couldn't help but smile and breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it was Li Yi's movie, he was still worried. Especially when he learned that Li Yi was going to shoot a science fiction movie this time, James Dean was actually a little worried.
Because although this is a science fiction movie, it is the genre that Li Yi is best at.
"Artificial Intelligence" is said to be a science fiction movie, but it does not involve too many special effects. Instead, it still focuses on sensationalism similar to "A Dog's Purpose" and "The Story of Hachiko"
Film.
And this is obviously Li Yi's specialty.
That’s okay!
Just get the green light and start!
The cooperation model still follows the previous model of "A Dog's Purpose".
It's true that it's a co-production, but Li Yi is the producer, director, and screenwriter of this movie!
It can be said that it is still a movie in which Li Yi leads everything.
The film "Artificial Intelligence" is not a blockbuster with mission visual effects, but is actually a feature film in the name of science fiction.
There are actually not many images of robots and the like.
At most, the "Robot Slaughterhouse" scene is a bit more troublesome, and the others are basically real people acting out robots.
Of course, this movie requires very high acting skills from the actors.
Especially the role of the little robot can be said to be the soul of the entire film.
However, although it is not a big production with big scenes, the preparation of this movie still requires a lot of thought.
For example, those various robots, such as alien images, etc.
As for the role of the heroine, for some reason, the first thing Li Yi thought of was Wen Qing!
He definitely, absolutely didn't think wrongly, and he would face the wall whenever he thought wrongly.
I just think Aunt Qing is very suitable! It’s definitely not because she is my mother’s friend!
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