""The Truman Show" won the Golden Globe Award. Li Qian set a record for mainland films and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the first time!"
"The first person in mainland film history, Li Qian has created a new history in the mainland film industry!"
"At 10 o'clock in the morning on January 13, 2013, in the live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony of Miljian Film and Television, "The Truman Show" defeated the Odile film "Love", the Norwegian film "Ocean", and the French film
"The Intouchables" and the single film "Royal Romance" won the Best Foreign Language Film Award, achieving the first breakthrough in the history of mainland films at the Golden Globe Awards!"
"The first Golden Globe trophy for mainland films, "The Truman Show" became famous overseas!"
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Just after the Golden Globes live broadcast and Stallone announced the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film, major media immediately reported the news that "The Truman Show" successfully won the Best Foreign Language Film award.
In the past, let alone the Golden Globe Awards, the media would not be so positive about the Oscars.
It seems that the Golden Globe Awards have never been broadcast live, whether it is CCTV or video websites.
Not to mention live broadcast, even after the ceremony is over, the TV station will not broadcast it in full, but only edit it and broadcast a summary.
Only in 2006, two Chinese-language films, "The Promise" and "Kung Fu", competed for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Lee Press's "Brokeback Mountain" was also a big hit, and CCTV 6 did it on the "World Cinema Tour" program
There is a special feature "Watching Chinese Filmmakers Competing for the Golden Globe Awards".
This time, because "The Truman Show" was not only nominated for the Golden Globe Award, the Mainland is basically nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film every other year.
More importantly, "The Truman Show" was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which was the first time in ten years.
Optoelectronics attaches great importance to it. CCTV 6, that is, the movie channel, started live broadcasting in the morning, and Penguin Video also won the right to live online.
All media outlets took the initiative to report it without anyone else having to tell it, and the news immediately spread all over the Internet.
Setting records, breaking zero breakthroughs, milestones... unusual words are used in Li Qianhe's "The Truman Show".
And this morning, there are also many people watching movies and live TV. As a phenomenal masterpiece with a box office of 1.7 billion, "The Truman Show" is nominated for the Olympics, which is completely different from ordinary niche literary films.
Different, the whole industry is paying attention, the whole network is paying attention, and many viewers who have watched the movie will pay attention.
"Li Qian is awesome and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film!"
"We have already won the Golden Globe, and the Oscar is not far away. Don't they say that the Golden Globe is the benchmark for the Oscar!"
"It's the first Golden Globe trophy for mainland films. Although it's not as good as the Oscars, it's at least there. Now it's just short of the Oscars!"
"If a commercial film, or a comedy, can win the Golden Globe Award, don't say that the Golden Globe Awards and Oscars discriminate against mainland films in the future."
"It seems that the Milijian people also approve of the movie "The Truman Show". No wonder they don't talk about freedom every day."
"I think it's better not to have too high hopes. Li Qian won the Golden Globe for his first nomination. He doesn't have much hope for an Oscar. After all, it's a comedy. Let's wait for the Oscar next time."
"So low self-esteem? What's wrong with comedy? "The Truman Show" has an IMBD rating of 810 million, a good reputation in North America, and won a Golden Globe. Why can't it win an Oscar?"
"As a professional, I can tell you that the Golden Globe Awards now have no authority at all. They are becoming more and more entertainment-oriented, all for the sake of ratings and audiences. They are completely different from the Oscar selection criteria."
"Bullshit, if you say that, then the movie that won the Golden Globe won't win the Oscar, so why would anyone else participate?"
"Shit professionals, most of the movies that won the Golden Globe last year also won Oscars. Isn't Milijian a professional like you?"
"Professionals from Mi Lijian can't do it! Professionals from China who type keyboards can do it!",
"Last year's Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film also ended up winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. "The Truman Show" has at least a 50% chance."
"The Truman Show has great hopes. It's the first time a mainland film has won an Oscar!"
"There are still people who say that Li Qian's movies have no meaning and are just commercial movies for fun. Some people talk about those literary and artistic films all day long. Why don't literary and artistic films win Oscars?"
"Good-looking literary and artistic films are called commercial films, and obscure and difficult-to-understand literary and artistic films. Some of the Oscar-winning films are literary and artistic films, but most of them are commercial films."
"But after all, after winning the Golden Globe, my chances of getting an Oscar have greatly increased."
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After winning the Golden Globe Award, netizens seemed more confident about competing for the Olympics, and they were also more and more enthusiastic about discussions. Even in the morning, the Golden Globe Award had just been awarded for Best Foreign Language Film, and there were already comments about "The Truman" everywhere on the Internet.
The news of "The World" winning an award.
On the other side of the ocean at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Li Qian also held the trophy and continued to sit leisurely in the audience and watch the ceremony continue.
The entire awards ceremony didn't cause any major disturbances because Li Qian won the award. After all, this is Hollywood, and Li Qian only won the best foreign language film.
But Deng Chao and the others are quite excited. After all, it is the only Golden Globe trophy in the mainland, and it is also known as the Oscars' benchmark.
"Oscar should be safe now," Tong Liya said expectantly.
Li Qian shook his head, "It's hard to say, the current big hit is Odile's movie "Love". The Oscar taste is very weird, even "The Intouchables" was not nominated."
"I watched "The Intouchables" last year. It was also a comedy. Do the Oscar judges look down on comedies so much?" Deng Chao said with a frown.
"I've also seen it. This movie is very touching. It seems to have a score of 9.2 on Douban, but it didn't even get an Oscar nomination." Zhang Wei also said.
"It's normal. To be precise, he doesn't like comedy movies that are entertaining and positive. Chaplin even had his nominations for Best Actor and Best Director changed midway, let alone winning the award."
It's really funny that Chaplin's nomination will be changed.
But what’s even more funny is that Chaplin later moved to Switzerland, and Oscar specially invited him back again and awarded him an honorary award in recognition of his contribution to the film industry.
When I was making a movie, the nominations were withdrawn, and when I was seventy or eighty years old, I was called back from abroad and given an honorary award.
In the 1920s, Chaplin's nomination was withdrawn and a special award was given.
What’s even more funny is that at a grand screening event for academics of last year’s biggest Oscar winner “The Artist,” the distributor specially invited Chaplin’s two granddaughters to host it.
Because this movie looks very much like Chaplin's autobiography, inviting his granddaughter makes people associate the movie with Chaplin even more.
Similarly, "The Artist" is also a comedy movie, and it swept the Oscars last year, winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.
Another film from the 1950s, "Singin' in the Rain," which also showed the development of movies from the silent era to the sound era, also had comedy elements, but it only received two nominations.
In terms of quality, "Singin' in the Rain" is the greatest musical in the history of Hollywood movies. The Millennium Film Institute even ranked it fifth in the history of world cinema, ahead of many classic films.
A film that excelled in every aspect including technology, watchability, and academic reviews failed to win an award, while a film that was inferior in all aspects swept the Oscars.
The only difference is that the protagonist of "The Artist" does not accept talkies, feels sorry for himself, and even wants to commit suicide.
The protagonist of "Singin' in the Rain" actively accepts talkies, and the plot is much more enjoyable to watch than "The Artist".
The reason why "The Artist" won the award was because of this difference. The male protagonist's transition from silent films to talkies was a tortuous process. He was a man fighting against an era, rather than adapting to the era.
If "The Truman Show" had made the confrontation between Truman and the show crew and the capitalists more intense and more space, the front part would be concealed, which is pitiful, and the struggle in the middle would be dominated by tragedy, and the final ending would be more inspiring.
Then Li Qian has absolute confidence in winning the award.
But in that case, first of all, there is not enough time, and secondly, although there are more conflicts, the struggle in the middle is mainly pathos instead of absurdity, so the entertainment will be much less.
For a 90-minute movie, time is very limited, so choices must be made.
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The entire awards ceremony lasted for three hours and did not end until 11 o'clock in the evening.
There was a banquet after the ceremony. Li Bian went straight to Li Qian and said congratulations, "Congratulations to Director Li for winning the first Golden Globe Award for a mainland film."
Lee's "Life of Pi" won nothing, and both Best Picture and Best Director were taken away by "Escape from Hedland".
This film tells the story of six Milijian diplomats and civilians who were trapped in Yinlang for 444 days when Yinlang had just won the victory of the Japanese revolution, and were finally successfully rescued by CIA agents.
Mi Lijian and Yin Lang are mortal enemies. This is a political thriller, which is unexpected and expected.
It is also a commercial film. In fact, most of the Oscars and Golden Globes are commercial films.
Li Qian could clearly see that Li Bian was a little disappointed when he didn't win either of the two grand prizes, so he had a drink with him and smiled.
"Thank you, Director Li. "Pi" is such a pity, but "Escape from Hedland" is a political film, so the Golden Globe Award is of little significance, and it was not nominated for the Oscar for Best Director. Director Li is still the favorite."
Another big favorite is Spielberg, the director of "Lincoln," but he has already won Best Director twice, which is a disadvantage.
"Then thank Director Li for your kind words." Li Bian smiled, paused, and then said, "Director Li, I will be the chairman of the Golden Horse Awards jury next year. I welcome you and your directors to participate in the Golden Horse Awards."
Golden Horse Award?
Li Qian shook his head, "Director Li, everyone is understanding, and I'm not afraid of saying anything ugly. Whether I participate in the Golden Horse Awards or not has no real meaning. The focus is not on me.
The initiative has always been in the hands of the Golden Horse Awards. They don’t want to take the initiative to integrate into the mainland film industry. They always keep a distance, even too deliberately, and are hostile to mainland movies. I don’t want to bring people there, but at most they will bring something to the Golden Horse Awards.
Exposure, nothing else."
"Why."
Li Jian sighed, Li Qian had already said so, and he was too embarrassed to force anything more.
Although I can't stand the behavior of the people at the Golden Horse Awards, I'm also a little disgusted. They always look for trouble all day long.
But there was no way. The funding for his first movie "Pushing Hands" was given by the Information Bureau, and Xu Ligong, who supported his filming of "Pushing Hands", was the founder of the Golden Horse Film Festival.
Both emotionally and rationally, he wants to help the Golden Horse Awards get out of its current decline. In the past two years, Li Qian and his blockbuster movies have not participated in the Golden Horse Awards, which has undoubtedly made the Golden Horse Awards lose a lot of color.
However, even though it was the first time I met Li Qian, I still had a certain understanding of Li Qian.
He has a good temper and plays an important role in the industry. Now he has opened a company, which is developing very well, and he is not short of fame and fortune. No matter how determined he is to not participate in the Golden Horse Awards, it will be in vain.
Li Qian thought for a while and smiled, "Actually, Director Li can invite "1942". This movie is also very good, but it is not suitable for the Lunar New Year movie."
""1942"?" Li Bian smiled bitterly. In 10 years, Ma Xiaogang started a scolding war with the Golden Horse Awards.
At that time, Ma Xiaogang scolded the entire Golden Horse Awards and even the directors of Xiangjiang and Baodao.
Of course, filmmakers from Xiangjiang and Baodao also fought back.
Ma Xiaogang also said that he would not participate in the Golden Horse Awards again. "If You Are the One 2" did not participate, but went to the Academy Awards instead.
There are more than 6 people from Xiangjiang in the creative team, including Shu Qi, photographers, artists, etc., and there is also investment from Uniasia, so we are qualified to register.
In the end, it won the Best Cross-Strait Chinese Film Award.
It would be strange for Ma Xiaogang to accept the invitation to attend the Golden Horse Awards despite being like this.
"Director Li might as well try inviting him." Li Qian smiled. Ma Xiaogang said he wouldn't go to the Golden Rooster Award, so he went anyway.