In the office of the chairman of China Film Group, Han Sanping sat in his own chair.
As the most powerful person in the film industry, he was staring nervously at the computer in front of him.
Sitting upright, with his hands clenched on his legs, Han Sanping felt so nervous for the first time in several years.
At this time, the live broadcast of the Oscars on the computer was already a third of the way through. After the awards were handed out one by one, it was time for the most critical one, Best Foreign Language Film.
In all these years, Han Sanping has never been as nervous as today.
Even though the director's tribute film "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" in 2009 was very important, he was not too nervous.
Controlling more than 50% of the theater chains, countless institutions and companies have reserved theaters, even the box office has been piled up.
But this time, Li Qian was competing for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and he couldn't help at all, and he didn't feel confident at all.
After the introduction of a movie, Natasha Portman opened the envelope and read out the five words of the award-winning movie "The Truman Show", Han Sanping finally breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back.
He is turning 60 this year and will retire by this time next year.
The mainland film industry has entered the era of billions from the era of 100 million yuan. The film industry has grown from a box office of 900 million yuan in 2002 to 19 billion yuan today, an increase of 21 times.
Now, Li Qian has won the mainland film's first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Han Sanping can retire successfully without any regrets. This answer is enough to guarantee his status for the rest of his life.
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At this moment, when all the filmmakers saw that "The Truman Show" won the best foreign language film, they were filled with thoughts.
In the past ten years, what all the major mainland directors have been pursuing was obtained by Li Qian, and they all felt empty in their hearts for a while.
However, no matter what others think, at this time, the live broadcast of the Oscars ceremony on the computer screens in front of countless people has been flooded with various barrages.
"Li Qian is awesome!"
"I got the statuette!"
"Bubble, take a photo together!"
"Taking a group photo as a souvenir was worth watching the live broadcast for an hour."
"A screenshot to commemorate. Not to mention that when Li Qian held up the statuette, he suddenly felt a little bit like Xiao Shuai."
"This little golden man, is it pure gold?"
"I feel good. I just got off work. I want to have an extra bowl of rice."
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In the Dolby Theater, Li Qian held up the statuette with a smile on his face and let the camera capture it for two seconds before holding it flat on his chest and delivering his acceptance speech to the audience.
"Thank you all, thank you to the crew members who have worked with me for a hundred days and nights. Together we created the story of "The Truman Show"... and also thank the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences and Arts for their support for this film.
Approval…”
After giving a formal acceptance speech in English, he continued, "Please allow me to use my own language to express my sincere gratitude to those who care about and support me across the ocean."
Li Qian then switched to Chinese and spoke loudly in front of numerous cameras and countless pairs of compatriots' eyes behind the cameras.
"It should be early noon in China now, and it should be time for everyone to eat. Thank you for your concern. You have a share in this little golden man. I wish everyone a smile and a good appetite."
The viewers who watched the live broadcast thought that Li Qian was going to have a sensational tirade, but when they heard his tacky words, they almost burst into laughter.
"I'll go, Li Qian is so funny. I thought I would like to thank CCTV, Optoelectronics, and the elders in my hometown."
"Just for this little golden man, I will eat three more bowls today!"
"When I eat pig's trotter rice later, I'll add two more braised eggs!"
"It's so real. Fortunately, Mi Lijian doesn't understand, otherwise I would probably make fun of Li Qian, haha..."
"Eat and eat, watch the live broadcast while eating, everyone should also have a good lunch."
"There are large duck legs in the cafeteria today. I ordered three."
"So you like duck legs? I ate two ducks in one meal!"
"I guess it's because the cafeteria aunt slapped the duck legs so they couldn't shake them, hehe."
"Who said that? You haven't seen it. One time I beat a chicken leg, and my aunt shook it twice out of habit, shaking the drumstick off, and then she gave me some soup. She looked stupid at the time."
"Ouch, this made me laugh so hard. I suddenly want to eat chicken drumsticks. The abalone and lobster in front of me suddenly don't taste good anymore."
"I just asked the restaurant owner and they didn't have chicken legs, so I smashed his restaurant!"
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Li Qian, after delivering his acceptance speech, stepped off the stage to the applause and camera lenses again, and returned to his position.
"This is the Little Golden Man, is he pure or not?" Zhang Wei asked innocently.
"Nonsense, this thing is extremely heavy. It weighs eight kilograms. If it's pure gold, it costs more than one million yuan."
Zhang Wei smiled coquettishly, "If it is made of pure gold, it will be much more expensive than the previous gift package."
"This is the Little Golden Man. It looks like a man wielding a sword." Tong Liya looked at the trophy composed of a naked man and a long sword, and was quite curious.
"It was originally made of bronze. During World War II, we couldn't even afford copper, so the statuette was made of plaster, and the base was still made of wood." Li Qian smiled and looked at the five rings on the base.
The five rings refer to film reels, and each reel represents the five most original elements in the film: actors, directors, producers, post-production technicians and screenwriters.
There are many particularly funny stories about the Little Golden Man.
The first Best Actor trophy was originally intended to be awarded to a dog, and it received far more votes than all actors.
However, one judge expressed doubts that the best actor trophy is to reward the performance of human actors, and dogs are not humans.
So the dog was eliminated and the award was given to another actor.
I don’t know if there was an animal association at that time, otherwise I could sue the academy for discriminating against dogs.
Speaking of which, the movie starring that dog became a sensation across the United States after its release and brought Warner, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, back from the brink of bankruptcy.
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The awards continue, and the following categories for Best Supporting Actor and Actor, as well as Best Actor and Best Actress, are the same as the Golden Globe Awards.
Daniel Day-Lewis, who starred in "Lincoln," and Jennifer Lawrence, who starred in "Silver Linings Playbook," both won Best Actor and Best Actress.
With "Pi", Li Bian defeated Spielberg and won the Best Director Award, becoming one of the rare directors to win two Best Director Awards.
The best picture ultimately went to "Escape from Tehran," and the award for this political film was announced by the first lady on the big screen.
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After the awards were given, Li Qian went to sign a contract with the academy before attending the following dinner.
Every winner must sign such a contract.
If you do not want to keep the trophy, you must sell the trophy back to the Academy for $1 to ensure that the statuette does not pass into the hands of a private collector.
If you refuse to sign the agreement, the statuette will have to be kept by the college.
The house is big enough and there is no shortage of a place to put the statuette. Of course, Li Qian signed an agreement to keep it by himself.
After walking out of the theater, countless reporters were already waiting. Seeing Li Qian come out, several Chinese reporters who were more conspicuous in the crowd immediately squeezed over and handed the microphone to Li Qian's mouth.
"Hello Director Li, I am a reporter from CCTV. Congratulations on winning your first Oscar on behalf of a mainland film."
"Thanks."
"As the first person in the mainland film industry to successfully win the Oscar, what does Director Li want to say to the domestic audience?"
"First of all, thank you for your continued support... and also thank you to the State Administration of Optoelectronics for giving "The Truman Show" the opportunity to be nominated for an Oscar..."
CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, Xinlang Penguin, official or unofficial, the number of reporters in front of Li Qian is no less than that of other big names.
Li Jian also came out, and the CCTV reporter suggested that they take a photo together.
The two agreed, standing next to each other, each holding up their own statuette for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film.
With a "click" sound, reporters rushed to record this historic moment. At this Oscar, two Chinese directors won the award.
The reporters were very excited.
Li Yi was also very excited to receive his second Oscar for Best Director. After all, the global box office of "Pi" was close to 600 million US dollars. Sometimes high box office is not necessarily a good thing. I was a little worried before.
Li Qian was also very happy. The reporter just told him that the ratings of the movie channel and the number of people watching the live broadcast on Penguin Video were much higher than expected, which also meant that more people were paying attention to this year's Oscars than he thought.
After winning the award, at least no one was disappointed.
Everyone was happy, but the only one who was unhappy was Fan Binbin on the other side. He finally got the opportunity to attend the Oscars, but at this time, reporters gathered around Li Xian and Li Qian.
Even the reporters I had hired before were surrounded, and they took money but did nothing. It was so unprofessional.
However, no one cares about an irrelevant actor.
Not only domestic reporters, but also Mi Lijian's reporters also interviewed Li Jin, who won the best director, and more and more people came to interview him.
Li Qian got out of the circle of reporters early. In fact, he is not very famous in Milijian. He is more famous for "The Truman Show". Even the leading actor Deng Chao may not be recognized when walking on the street.
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However, when I was leaving, I happened to bump into Ichiro Takagi, the short and fat guy from Sony. When he saw the award for Best Foreign Language Film in Li Qian’s hand, he gave a cold sound and walked away.
"Who is this person, so cool?" Tong Liya and the others were a little curious.
"A little devil." Li Qian smiled and did not go forward to ridicule him.
I took everyone to the banquet and received a call from Guo Fandaoxi on the way. He is currently filming "The Hobbit" with Peter Jackson in New Zealand.
The trilogy has been shot continuously since early 2000. One was released last year, and it was also a movie invested by Warner. Guo Fan worked as an artist on the crew, which is his old profession. The main thing was to become familiar with the industrial production process of blockbusters.
Warner will also arrange to go to other large-scale production crews in the future.
After attending the dinner, Li Qian returned to the hotel and rested before returning home.
At this time, the domestic media regarding Li Qian's winning of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film has been frantically reported by various official and unofficial media.
""The Truman Show" represented mainland films in the Oscars and successfully won the best foreign language film. Li Qian became the first Oscar winner!"
"Following the first Golden Globe Award for mainland films, Li Qian once again won the first Oscar trophy in mainland film history, breaking the record of 0 Oscars in mainland film history!"
"Famous director Li Qian returns home with great honors. "The Truman Show" won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, setting a record in mainland film history!"
"The light of Chinese-language films, after ten years, Li Qian once again made Chinese-language films go international!"
"The mainland box office is 1.8 billion, and the North American box office is 130 million US dollars. It broke the North American box office record for Chinese-language films. It won the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. "The Truman Show" set a series of records. Li Qian is a well-deserved Chinese-language film.
First person!"
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Under the overwhelming praise, Li Qian was given the title of the light of Chinese films and the number one person in Chinese films.
Moreover, not only is it salary wave, media outlets like Penguin, but also print media such as Xinhua News Agency, Central Daily News, and CCTV’s movie channel also report this.
However, the media did not think it was an exaggeration, and most netizens did not have any objections.
Even those who had different opinions were quickly drowned in the comments of netizens.
"Li Qian is the greatest director of Chinese-language films!"
"Zhang Yimou and the others have all gone downhill. Now Li Qian says there is nothing wrong with the first director!"
"I think Li Yi can compete with Li Qian. "Pi" has a global box office of nearly 600 million and won the Oscar for Best Director. It is much more important than the Best Foreign Language Film."
"'Pi' is a Hollywood movie and has nothing to do with the country. Li Qian can get so many honors and box office for a purely domestic movie. No other director can do it."
"The North American box office of "Pi" is 20 million US dollars lower than that of "The Truman Show", and it is unmatched in China. Its impact on Milician is not as good as "The Truman Show." Just go out and watch it over the wall.
You know how sensational it was, how many demonstrations there were, and the psychologists over there even invented the "Truman Syndrome"!"
"All of Li Qian's achievements were achieved with domestic films. All over the world, Li Qian has higher achievements than Li Qian, but in the category of Chinese-language films, Li Qian is the number one, there is no comparison at all!"
"The box office, influence, awards, and real achievements are here. Suddenly I found that the gap between Li Qian and other domestic directors is too big. Even the national masters can't compare."
"The main peak of Guoshi was in the 1990s, and they were all literary and artistic films, and the films in recent years have become increasingly inferior."
"When I win the award, I win the award. This matter is over. Li Qian quickly started preparing for a new film. He has been waiting for two months."
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With Li Qian winning the Oscar, officials, media and netizens no longer have any doubts about Li Qian, the number one director of Chinese-language films.
In the industry, many big directors are disappointed to see that Li Qian has reached where he is at such a young age, but they have to admit that apart from his age, Li Qian is almost perfect.
You're only 29 years old, and you're still here.
Zhang Yimou, 29, is a sophomore in college.
29-year-old Cheng Kai is a senior in college.
29-year-old Ma Xiaogang is still working as an artist at the Beijing TV Drama Art Center.
The three major mainland directors in the past had not officially become directors when they were 29 years old.
The achievements of 29-year-old Li Qian are enough to convince anyone.
Of course, except for Ma Xiaogang who dropped another expensive ceramic tea cup worth 20,000 yuan.
After praying for an hour, Li Qian still won the prize.
Moreover, when discussing the number one director of Chinese films, the media and netizens constantly compare Zhang Yimou, Cheng Kaige, and Li Bian, but no one has ever mentioned Ma Xiaogang's name.
Even the names of Wu Yusen and Wang Jiawei are occasionally mentioned!
Ma Xiaogang was so angry that he was sulking so hard.