Chapter 371: Oscar list announced, Harvey's dirty tricks come (6K)
At around nine o'clock in the evening, the Golden Globe Party ended and Link returned to his Beverly Hilltop villa with several women in his family.
Because Sandra and Renee won the award, everyone held a party at home to celebrate, did some happy things, and had fun until midnight.
After the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, American media reported on the winners of this year's Golden Globe Awards and analyzed the winners of each award.
Among them, there was a lot of controversy over "Sense and Sensibility" winning the Best Picture Drama Award. The film is of good quality and has the strength to win awards, but "The Shawshank Redemption", "Braveheart" and "The Bridges of Madison County" from the same period are also of very high quality and can be called classic movies.
In terms of artistic level and popularity, the films are on par with each other.
The New York Post commented that several of the films nominated for Best Picture this year had the potential to win awards in the past few years, but unfortunately they were nominated at the same time, and there was a certain amount of luck involved in Sense and Sensibility's winning.
The second more controversial award is Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
There are five actresses nominated for this award: Nicole Kidman for "To Die For", Annette Bening for "White House Romance", Sandra Bullock for "Married at Second Sight", Toni Collette for "Muriel's Wedding" and Vanessa Redgrave for "The Lake".
From a performance perspective, the three are equally matched, but in terms of box office and influence, "Love at Second Sight" is slightly stronger.
Media analysis showed that Sandra Bullock won the award because she did not have any strong rivals during the same period.
In the past few sessions, her chances of winning the award would have been slim.
The third focus is that 8-year-old actor Haley Joel Osment became the youngest winner in the history of the Golden Globe Awards.
It also made Link's reputation as an actor trainer spread more widely and gain recognition from more people.
The fourth focus is that Guess What Pictures achieved remarkable results in this year's Golden Globe Awards, with seven films nominated, 5 out of 19 nominations, and won 5 of the more important 13 awards.
These awards once again demonstrate that Guess Pictures' films are not only profitable but also of high quality, and that Guess Pictures' policies and capabilities in film production are at the forefront of its peers.
At the same time, many tabloids also hyped up the fact that Guess What Pictures spent money on public relations for the Golden Globe Awards, saying that Guess What Pictures spent more than 10 million US dollars to buy awards, which was the main reason why several films won awards.
The tabloids also took the opportunity to hype Link's relationship with Sandra Bullock and Renée Zellweger.
It is said that Link uses this method to pick up girls, and he wants to make all his girlfriends win Golden Globe or Oscar awards.
Regarding these discussions, the public relations department of Guess the Film Company treats them differently. It does not interfere in any reasonable disputes. For speculations based on hearsay, the legal department gives stern warnings and makes all liars pay the price.
"This news shouldn't be a rumor, right? Don't you want them all to become Oscar winners?"
In the villa's study, Sofia Coppola pointed at the news in the newspaper and laughed.
"I do! But it's not me who made them Oscar winners. They won the awards through their hard work. The media gave me all the credit for Sandra and Renee's awards, which is unfair to them."
"What's the difference? Without your support, they wouldn't have the chance to get so many good movie roles, so you are the key factor in their winning the award."
Sophia said.
"Okay, how's the preparation for Girl, Soul Shifter going? When will it start filming?"
"Next Tuesday, if you have time, come to the crew and help train the actors. There are a lot of newcomers in the crew this time, and their acting skills are average. I'm worried that I can't lead them." Sophia walked behind him, put her arms around his neck, and pressed her chest against his back, like SpongeBob SquarePants.
"Okay! I'll go when I have time."
Link touched her cheek and continued to work on his hands. He was writing the script for the movie "The Rock". The crew has already started the preparatory work, including casting, making props, building a movie set, etc. It is expected to start shooting in March.
The day after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the shortlist for the 68th Academy Awards was announced.
Guess What Pictures had 6 films shortlisted and received 27 nominations.
"The Sixth Sense" has 8 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Visual Effects, and Best Makeup.
"The Shawshank Redemption" received seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
"Sense and Sensibility" also received 7 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, etc.
"The Butterfly Effect" has three nominations: Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay.
"The Groom Running Backwards" received 1 nomination, Best Supporting Actress.
"Love at Second Sight" received 1 nomination, Best Actress.
The film with the most Oscar nominations this year is Braveheart, with 10 nominations;
In second place is "Apollo 13" with 9 nominations;
"The Sixth Sense" ranked third.
After the Oscar nominations were announced, all nominated film companies began their award public relations efforts, striving to win more awards at the Academy Awards ceremony and gain more attention and box office.
Guess what, the film industry has also started public relations. The first ones to do so are not the judges from the various unions of the Academy of Oscars, but the next three major Oscar awards, including the British Academy Film Awards, the American Critics' Choice Awards, and the American Film Guild Awards.
At the end of January, the American Critics' Choice Awards were held in Los Angeles. The award is jointly organized by the North American Broadcast Film Critics Association and the American Broadcast Journalists Association, and has a high influence and professionalism in the North American film and television industry.
The award was established last year and this year is its second year. There are 10 awards in total, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Young Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language Film.
At the American Film Critics Awards, "Sense and Sensibility" won the Best Picture, "The Sixth Sense" won the Best Screenplay, Renée Zellweger won the Best Supporting Actress, and other awards were won by films such as "Braveheart", "The Bridges of Madison County", and "Apollo 13".
In early February, Link brought his crew to London to attend the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards ceremony held here.
Since the award belongs to the UK, the judges are all British, and the award selection is mainly based on British filmmakers and films with British themes.
At this year's British Academy Film Awards, British-themed films "Sense and Sensibility", "Braveheart" and "The Madness of King George" became popular movies.
After several rounds of selection, "Sense and Sensibility" finally won three awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
"Brave Heart" won four awards: Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Effects, and Best People's Film Award.
"The Sixth Sense" only won two awards, Best Editing and Best Special Visual Effects.
"Trainspotting" won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award.
On February 10, the American Film Guild Awards was held in Los Angeles.
The American Film Guild refers to the various unions in the film industry, including the Producers Guild, Directors Guild, Actors Guild, Cinematographers Guild, Writers Guild and 13 others.
Every year, each union selects the best performing films or filmmakers.
Every year, the Academy Awards are voted on by members of the American Film Guild, and the winners are ultimately announced by the Academy.
The American film union awards are also known as the most valuable indicators.
At the Guild Awards, "Braveheart" won Best Picture, Best Sound Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Cinematography, "The Sixth Sense" won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing, "Sense and Sensibility" won Best Adapted Screenplay, and "The Butterfly Effect" won Best Supporting Actress.
The remaining film awards were won by other films.
Judging from the four major Oscar awards indicators including the Golden Globe Awards, there are three popular movies for this year's Oscars, "Braveheart", "Sense and Sensibility" and "The Sixth Sense". The second tier is "Apollo 13", "The Postman", "Leaving Las Vegas", "The Butterfly Effect" and "The Usual Suspects".
"The Shawshank Redemption has a good reputation, so why did it win so few awards?"
In the office, Link asked as he flipped through the newspaper.
When it came to the PR of several films under its umbrella, "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Sixth Sense," and "Sense and Sensibility" received equal PR resources, but they repeatedly failed in award selections.
This result surprised Link.
The original "Shawshank Redemption" failed to win the award because the quality of "Forrest Gump" released at the same time was too high, making this movie a missed Oscar.
Now that it has been postponed for one session, I didn’t expect that it would still be unpopular.
"Boss, we have analyzed it and found two reasons. The first is that there were many good movies released last year and the competition was strong. The second reason is that the film's values are not correctly oriented. Compared with the pursuit of 'freedom' in Braveheart, Andy Dufour's pursuit of freedom does not conform to the mainstream values of society and is slightly inferior in terms of ideological level."
Jon Gordon said.
Link thought about it and accepted this explanation.
Whether it is Chinese or foreign films, they must have normal values, outlook on life, and values that conform to social morality and mainstream values.
The same goes for Hollywood movies. They are not only an important tool for the United States to export its ideology and culture abroad, but also a tool for promoting culture and values domestically.
Films that conform to the mainstream ideas of American society will be supported by the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards.
For example, films against racial discrimination, gay films, films promoting capitalism, inspirational films about small people, etc.
Compared with "Brave Heart", "The Shawshank Redemption" has a certain depth and cultural connotation, but the core story and expression method do not conform to mainstream values and appear to be relatively niche. This kind of movie will probably have a chance to win the Best Picture unless there are no good movies in more than ten years.
"Since Shawshank performed mediocrely during the awards season, we will reduce our investment in film PR and focus on Sense and Sensibility and The Sixth Sense, and try to get these two films to win more awards."
Link looked at the three relevant persons in charge at the desk, Jon Gordon, president of the publicity department, Daniel DeVito, president of the production department, and Remi Scola, vice president of the public relations department. He was temporarily in charge of the public relations department after Liu Xiaoli returned to China.
“Okay boss!”
Jon Gordon and Remy Sklar get up and leave.
Link and Daniel, who stayed behind, discussed the pre-production status of the new movie "The Rock".
After more than a month of preparation, the main cast of the film has been confirmed, including Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, John Sabins and others. The assistant director is Yu Feihong, the art director is Michael White, and the visual effects artist is Hoyt Yetman.
It’s almost the same cast.
The film's production budget was $75 million.
Link plans to start filming in February.
Daniel DeVito told Link that Donald Simpson still firmly opposed to changing the script and hoped to shoot the film according to the original script without making major changes, otherwise the film would definitely lose money.
Link smiled and told Daniel not to worry about it, as the copyright of the script was in the hands of Guess Pictures.
Guess What has the right to modify the script and shoot it in its own way.
Although Donald Simpson is the producer, he has no power to interfere with the work of Guess What Pictures.
After seeing Daniel off, Link looked at the time and went to the "Girl, Interrupted" crew to check on the filming. He heard from Sofia that Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie had a conflict over their roles during the filming, and he had to find a way to mediate.
The way to adjust it is very simple. Just sleep together and they will fight at the head of the bed and make peace at the foot of the bed.
We are all family, there is no conflict that cannot be resolved in bed.
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After the four major award ceremonies of the Academy Awards, Harvey Weinstein was also studying the awards won by his films.
In the four major film awards, among the four films promoted by Miramax, only a few have received nominations and no film has won any awards, which is a rather poor result.
Harvey Weinstein looked gloomily at Scott Greenstein, the vice president and public relations department, and said, "We did so much public relations, why didn't the movie win the award? Have you found out the reason?"
Scott Greenstein said, "There are two reasons. The first is that there were too many good movies released last year. Several of our movies were not among the top ten in terms of box office reputation or artistic quality. This is the fundamental reason.
Secondly, Guess What Pictures and the seven major film companies are also working hard on public relations, with more resources and funds than us, and more PR efforts. If we want to win the award, we have to put in more funds and resources. "
Harvey frowned, "We put out 3 million dollars for PR, isn't that enough?"
"I heard that Guess What Pictures has spent more than 10 million US dollars on the six shortlisted films, and Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures have also invested 3 to 4 million US dollars." Scott spread his hands helplessly.
Harvey looked even worse.
Before 1992, when Miramax Films was promoting the Oscars, it only needed to make a few phone calls to acquaintances, send a few greeting cards, or organize a few movie-watching parties to get the support of many judges.
Starting from 1994, after Guess What Pictures' films were shortlisted for the Academy Awards, Link began to spend a large amount of money on the public relations of the films, giving many benefits to the judges and attaching great importance to the Academy Awards.
The votes in the hands of Oscar judges have become very valuable.
They need to get more benefits and stop voting for Miramax movies based on a few phone calls from him.
This makes public relations more difficult for Miramax Films, and they must invest more money and resources if they want to win the award.
At this point, Academy Awards public relations has become a game of capital.
In this game, the well-funded Guess What Pictures undoubtedly has the biggest advantage, followed by the Big Seven. It becomes more difficult for films from small and medium-sized film companies such as Miramax Films to win awards.
If this situation continues, Miramax's films will not only fail to make money in the box office market, but will also fail to win the Academy Awards that he has high hopes for.
If Miramax Films fails to build its reputation through the Oscar platform, its box office performance will be even worse, and its influence in the film industry will also decline accordingly. It will no longer be able to use the Oscars to purchase film distribution rights at low prices.
This was a vicious cycle, and the end result was the bankruptcy of Miramax Films.
"Damn it Link! Why do you always go against me?"
Harvey Weinstein cursed gloomily.
"Link is not only going against us, but also the entire film industry. His goal is probably to break the established circle in Hollywood and make Guess What Films the dominant force in the film industry. This guy is really ambitious."
Scott exclaimed.
Harvey took a few deep breaths and looked at the photo of Link holding the trophy in the newspaper. He wished he could find a killer to kill this annoying guy.
After Scott left the office, Harvey thought about it seriously with a dark face. After thinking it over, he was unwilling to admit defeat, and he didn't want to see Link too proud.
He called Michael Ovitz, Ron Meyer, Barry Diller and others to talk about Guess Pictures spending a lot of money on public relations for the Oscars.
I hope that several companies will work together to hype this news so that everyone knows that Guess What Pictures is spending money on public relations, which is unfair to all film companies and filmmakers. We should try to use this news to discredit Link and Guess What Pictures.
Ron Meyer disagreed.
First of all, the public relations for the Oscars is not only done by Guess What Pictures, but other film companies are also doing it. They use this kind of thing to expose the scandals in the film industry and let the audience know the inside story of the Oscar award selection, so that they despise the value of the awards.
This practice harms the interests of the entire film industry and is highly undesirable.
Secondly, hyping up news costs money. Who will pay for it? Will they pay to suppress Guess What and let other film companies reap the benefits?
In addition, the films under Guess What Pictures continue to sell well, and it is the film company with the most capital in Hollywood. The publicity department under Guess What Pictures is also good at hype and public relations. When encountering such negative news, they will definitely do public relations in a timely manner.
If you want to ruin the reputation of Guess What Pictures, you need to spend more money and resources to wage a public opinion war with Guess What Pictures.
If you succeed, the profit is not great, but if you fail, the loss is huge.
Finally, guess what? The reason why the film studio spends a lot of money on public relations for the movie is because several of their films have the chance to win awards, and among the seven major film studios, except for Paramount Pictures, the producer of "Brave Heart", the films of other companies have little chance of winning multiple awards.
Since there is no chance to win more awards, it is not cost-effective to invest resources in such things.
To sum up, this practice is not advisable.
Harvey was furious when he heard what Ron Mayer said.
Competing with Guess What for the Oscars was indeed not a good deal for the Big Seven Studios, but it was very cost-effective for him and Miramax Films. Miramax's films did not perform well at the box office after their release, and he had hoped to make up for the losses with the Oscars, and also hoped to use the Oscars to gain fame and power.
But these guys didn't cooperate at all.
Since he is unwilling to cooperate with the action, why was he chosen to be the leader in the fight against Guess What Pictures?
Harvey secretly reminded several people that this matter would not benefit the Big Seven Studios much, but it would benefit their race a lot, as it could reduce Link's voice and power in the film industry.
Link is already very powerful. If he and Guess What Pictures win more Oscars, his dominance in the film industry will be further enhanced.
This is a very harmful thing for their race.
Barry Diller agreed with his statement but not his proposal.
Because hyping up this kind of news will have little negative impact on Link and Guess What Pictures.
Guess What Pictures’ foothold in the film industry is one hit movie after another, not how many awards it wins.
As long as Guess Pictures' films continue to do well, Link's influence in Hollywood is unlikely to decline.
The Academy Awards were just icing on the cake for Link and Guess What?
Barry Diller hopes Harvey will come up with a better strategy to deal with the rise of Guess What? rather than this superficial tactic.
Ron Meyer agreed.
Harvey was angry and helpless.
In the past, when Michael Ovitz proposed to deal with Link, Longmeyer and others agreed, but when it came to him, everyone just did a perfunctory job.
These assholes are so disunited, the Jews will never stand a chance of taking back Hollywood.
"Harvey, if you want to beat Link at the Oscars, I can give you a good idea."
said Michael Ovitz, who was acting as a spectator.
"What?"
Harvey didn't want to hear what Ovitz said because this guy had been defeated repeatedly when dealing with Link in the past, so there was no point in listening to him.
"Did you know about Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere's divorce?"
"I know, what does it matter?"
"At the beginning of the year, French media reported that they saw Link and Cindy Crawford traveling in Switzerland. Cindy Crawford also became a member of Link's huge group of girlfriends."
"I've seen it too, it's just gossip, no photos. Also, Cindy Crawford is divorced, so it's normal for her to date Link. This kind of news has no destructive power on Link."
Harvey said with a frown.
Cindy Crawford is a great beauty in the entertainment industry, with a great figure, long legs, and great fame. Many people wanted to take advantage of her divorce to find an opportunity to date her, but they didn't expect that she would fall into the arms of that bastard Link so early.
When Harvey saw the news, he couldn't help but sigh. He really didn't understand why a successful woman like Cindy Crawford would degenerate and fall into Link's trap.
"Harvey, don't be anxious. Do you know the news about Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's divorce? I heard that their divorce case has been going on for half a year and the verdict will be announced soon. You should pay more attention to it."
Ovitz chuckled.
"I know it"
Harvey wanted to ask what this had to do with Link, but suddenly his eyes lit up and he instantly understood what Ovitz meant.
Cindy Crawford divorced Richard Gere and then got involved with Link.
Nicole Kidman was once rumored to have an affair with Link, and shortly after filming "Batman", news came out that she and Tom Cruise separated and were preparing for divorce, and now they are about to officially divorce.
This shows that their divorce was also related to Link.
Even if it doesn't matter, Link can still be blamed through hype.
Then blame Link for Cindy Crawford's divorce.
Haha, then Link is not only a playboy, but also the third party who destroyed two loving couples, a habitual seducer of married women, and a person with a blemish on his reputation.
This is a critical stage in the Oscar awards selection process. When voting, the judges not only look at the quality of the film, but also pay attention to the reputation of the winners. They will not vote for someone with a bad reputation.
As long as he does it right, Link won't be able to win an award at this year's Academy Awards.
"Thank you, Michael, that's a great suggestion."
"You're welcome. We're all family. I don't want to see Link suffer."
Michael Ovitz laughed.
After hanging up the phone, Harvey called Bob and Scott to discuss hyping up negative news about Link.
(End of this chapter)
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