Chapter 220: Award Rules Regardless of the size of the prize, ...
As a "motherly" agent, Lu Yiting is not the kind of person who makes empty promises. Since she said she would arrange everything perfectly for Li Sishi, she immediately began to prepare for the promotion of "People in the Jianghu" after hanging up the phone.
Li Sishi's previous collaboration with Cheng Erjian in "Mermaid Romance" was a huge box office hit in Southeast Asia. This popularity base is naturally the same as that of the original fans in Hong Kong, which is definitely not to be overlooked.
For low-budget films like this, the goal is undoubtedly to make the most of all existing resources and then try to piece together a satisfying ending by accumulating these layers of conditions.
Although Li Sishi currently lacks sufficiently prestigious awards, in the eyes of investors, awards are merely icing on the cake to lure audiences into buying tickets. What they really want to see is the comparison between the investment capital and the box office performance.
If your box office performance is consistently good and stable, then even if you're harshly criticized by film critics as a "commercial film superstar," investors will still continue to seek you out for collaborations. However, if your box office performance is poor, then even if you have several prestigious awards and are widely recognized for your superb acting skills, investors will tremble at the mere mention of your name...
In the music industry, since Jade Solid Gold is its own award, and music awards consider not only seniority but also popularity, sales, and backstage operations, it shouldn't be too difficult to promote a superstar. For example, given Li Sishi's achievements in the music industry and her soaring popularity this year, it should be very possible for us to help her win the "Most Popular Female Singer" award, the highest honor in the female singer category.
However, the criteria for film awards are much more "complicated," especially film and television awards, which tend to favor the older generation and rarely show favoritism to the younger ones. In addition, there is the precedent of Yan Yingyi, who was heavily promoted and made into a star but ultimately fell from grace and became a scapegoat for the box office failure of big names...
Given this situation, not only did the Golden Film Awards dare not challenge the idea of promoting a supernova to create a legend, but even Zhuang Menghua and Lu Yiting began to re-discuss their original plan for Li Sishi, discussing whether they should slow down their pace.
Like Huang Qianyan, although her connection with art films is limited, she has missed out on awards several times with her breakthrough role attempts. So far, she has only won the Golden Lotus Award for Best Actress in Taiwan for her representative work "Qianying Qiuhen". As for the Golden Film Award for Best Actress in the same year, she lost to the senior actress Shao Fenfen.
Whether it was a coincidence or she was truly unlucky, Li Sishi was able to reach the top this year.
Only "The Voice of Dreams" won awards at both film award ceremonies.
This year's Golden Film Awards and Golden Lotus Awards' Best Actress frontrunner is another masterpiece by Shao Fenfen, "When You're Forty".
And the most difficult thing is that Shao Fenfen has already made a name for herself with this movie.
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She won the Best Actress award at this year's Baicheng International Film Festival, becoming the second Chinese actress to win the Baicheng Film Festival Best Actress award after Shang Lanyu.
With the triple foundation of an art film, veteran actors, and Baicheng Best Actress, Zhuang Menghua and Lu Yiting didn't need to think too much and quickly agreed to temporarily avoid the competition. At the local Golden Film Awards ceremony to be held next April, although Li Sishi will still be nominated for Best Actress, the film nominated will be "Mermaid Romance," which at most will only get a nomination.
As for the Taiwan Golden Lotus Awards to be held at the end of this year, the industry has adopted a different approach to ensure a higher chance of winning awards: "lead to supporting role". When it was clear that there was little hope of winning the Best Actress award, they simply chose not to nominate her and instead "modified" the definition of the film role, making the male lead the only lead. In contrast, the original "female lead" naturally became the number one supporting actress.
By using this method to define Li Sishi's role in "The Voice of Dreams" as a supporting actress and then submitting her for this year's Golden Lotus Award for Best Supporting Actress, their chances of winning the award are significantly increased.
Such a "lead to supporting role" crossover is a common practice in backstage operations. Lu Yiting is no stranger to this and had already arranged it in advance: Don't say that winning the Best Supporting Actress award first and then the Best Actress award would be beneath you. In fact, this is the most normal process for an actor to win an award.
Those who win the Best Actor award right from their debut either perfectly embody the character, possess extraordinary talent, or have a perfect combination of timing, location, and luck...
Since Li Sishi didn't debut like Huang Qianyan during the golden age of film, collaborating with various big-name stars in blockbusters to accumulate a large number of films and become a leading actress; nor did she debut like Yan Yingyi, who was blessed with the right timing and circumstances to be made a goddess by the times; then it's better to simply arrange a more solid path for her, starting from the bottom and winning all the awards she deserves.
In fact, the development path that Li Sishi took because she had just debuted and encountered fierce competition from top actors, and was ultimately forced to be revised, is the most difficult path to replicate. The Best Newcomer Award, Best Supporting Actor Award, and Best Leading Actor Award are the most standard "Grand Slam" of acting awards for an actor.
Aside from the fact that the Golden Film Awards are still in their infancy and many of the regulations are not yet complete...
In the first edition of the Golden Film Awards, there was a so-called "flash in the pan." Chen Bimei, who played a troubled girl in her own right, was nominated for both the Best Newcomer Award and the Best Actress Award. She eventually became the youngest Golden Film Award Best Actress and the Golden Film Award Best Actress with the fewest works. Other "geniuses" who directly won the Best Actor Award upon their debut would all miss out on the Newcomer Award in their acting careers due to the "unspoken rule of award distribution."
The Best Newcomer Award is, in some ways, even harder to win than the most prestigious Best Actor Award—because it is awarded only once for each actor, limited to their first film as a newcomer.
Therefore, Li Sishi had no objections when she received the new award plan: the timing of her debut was indeed not good. The big names had basically stabilized their positions, and there would be Hollywood blockbusters to come in the near future. If she wanted to find a way out of this situation, the only way was to take it one step at a time and start from the bottom.
Of course, such a "grand slam" is something that is hard for Li Sishi, who has a bit of a collecting obsession, to resist.
Taiwan's Golden Lotus Awards only introduced a newcomer award after the millennium, so she only needed to collect "Best Supporting Actress" awards.
With the "Best Actress" award and the "Golden Lotus Award" for acting, one can basically achieve a "grand slam" of performance awards in the general sense.
As for the Golden Film Awards, she has already won the Best Newcomer Award. Next, she will be surrounded by strong competitors. So, she might as well start with the relatively easier-to-win Best Supporting Actress Award and then strive for Best Actress later, so as to achieve a "Grand Slam" of Golden Film Awards performance categories. In her memory, the only person who can achieve this "Grand Slam" of Golden Film Awards performance categories in the future is the current cute and soft-hearted young Xiao Xie.
Since she has already gone through the "gifted" path in beauty pageants, if the timing isn't right in the film industry, she should quickly switch to the "steady and reliable" approach, which can be considered a new attempt.
If Li Sishi hadn't been slated to star in two consecutive films by award-winning actresses, Zhuang Menghua probably wouldn't have told her that he wanted to find an opportunity to promote her. However, Lu Yiting thought that, given Zhuang Menghua's personality, those words probably weren't empty promises; it was just a matter of waiting and finding the right opportunity.
Good ideas and good scripts are always hard to come by, and a good script that can win awards and at the same time break even and make a small profit is basically a matter of luck. So now, it's not just Li Sishi who is waiting for this "opportunity," they are waiting too.
However, regardless of external opinions, if Li Sishi performs well at the box office in the coming months, Zhao's films will still...
The Asia-Pacific Film Festival, which has a certain level of participation, could consider giving Li Sishi a chance to win Best Actress. Although the Asia-Pacific Film Festival has a well-known name but lacks influence, if Li Sishi can win it, it can be used as a promotional slogan for "youngest Best Actress".
Anyway, who cares what kind of Best Actress award it is, big or small, winning an award is what matters.
Otherwise, why would they go to so much trouble to forcibly change Li Sishi's leading role to a supporting role and send her to Taiwan to try her luck at the Golden Lotus Award for Best Supporting Actress? It's better to have an award in hand and be able to take it home than to go there and be a runner-up for nothing.
Judging from Shang Hanyou's agent's attitude, he doesn't seem to care much about his film career. This year, he was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Lotus Awards, but the agent was busy dealing with his music career and didn't pay much attention to his dual nominations. It seems like if Shang Hanyou takes the time to attend the Golden Lotus Awards ceremony this year, he'll probably be a runner-up again...
However, at least his agent is honest and reliable. Although he couldn't handle everything perfectly, he didn't cause a backstabbing incident like the agent in the early morning, which shocked the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry. Well, he's not the best, but he's not the worst either.
While dealing with her own affairs, Lu Yiting couldn't help but mutter a few complaints about other agents who couldn't handle everything. Then she quickly finished processing the documents in her hand and drove directly to the Li family mansion to deliver them to Li Sishi.
These "confidential" documents definitely require personal involvement!
We can also check if Ah May has been affected lately. Although young girls recover quickly, staying up too long will eventually take a toll on their health...
Upon arriving at the Li family mansion, seeing Li Sishi and Lu Yiting looking radiant with good food, drink, and sleep, they were immediately satisfied.
As for the remaining five points, that depends on Li Sishi's performance going forward.
After a period of leisure, Li Sishi finally received a huge pile of documents, just as expected. She was both annoyed and happy. She thanked Lu Yiting, who had been working overtime to finish the documents, and then she had to start preparing for her trip to Taiwan in a couple of days to attend this year's Golden Lotus Award ceremony.
"You don't need to worry about anything else, just make sure your clothes look beautiful!" Lu Yiting waved her hand, making her only requirement of Li Sishi. "And when your status rises a bit more..."
But when it comes to dressing, things aren't so free. While you're young, beautiful, and have a great figure, and you don't need to worry about being as dignified and elegant as your 'seniors'—dress however you look beautiful!
"Although you can't be the main character at this awards ceremony, you will definitely be the one and only main character when you walk the red carpet!"
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