Chapter 342: Defiled Awards
Neither Paramount nor the Twentieth Century Fox failed to fail in the nomination for the 59th Academy Awards.
Paramount Tui's Top Gun was nominated for Best Original Song, and the same nomination was also given by Twentieth Century Fox Tui's bodyguard "I'll always love you".
Then, the 20th Century Fox also pushed back to the future 2 and received a nomination for good visual effects.
Naughty Jump Lamp, produced by DreamWorks Animation Studio, was nominated for Best Animation Short Film.
The most powerful one is the last emperor. When the nomination list came out, both Hollywood, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and European film industry were full of exclamations.
Because the last emperor won nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Photography, Best Composition, Best Art Design, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, and Best Sound Effect.
If this is a movie invested by Europeans and Americans, film practitioners from all over the country may be shocked and nominated, but they will never be as shocked as this time. After the nomination was released, all media and newspapers began to report on a large scale and analyze why the last emperor received nine nominations, and how many awards could be won in these nine nominations in the end.
When analyzing these reports, many media maliciously speculated how much money Qiao Feng, the investor of the last emperor, spent on public relations. Many European and American people, especially in Hollywood, accused the Oscar judges of being bribed by money, and the art they insisted on was defiled by money.
Then before the Oscar organizing committee could respond, what did the judges respond? The organizing committee of the US Golden Globes quit, and many reporters quit.
Because the Golden Globes were held earlier than the Oscars, of course, the nomination list came out earlier. Although the last emperor did not receive as many nine nominations as the Academy Awards, he also received five nominations in the Best Picture of Drama, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Movie Soundtrack, and Best Actor in Drama.
If there are a lot of nine nominations on the Academy Awards, accusing the Academy Awards of fairness, accusing the judges of being bribed and artistically tainted, is it that the Golden Globes also bribed and tainted?
The judges of the Key Academy Awards felt unfairly because the Academy Awards were allowed to lobby and be allowed to lead the way. Whether it was clear or unspoken rules, the film party or public relations company gave gifts to the elderly members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts who were unable to do their careers. This was allowed, and souvenirs, all of them were allowed.
It can even be said that a considerable number of people among the academic members vote with their feet, and a considerable number of people live by lobbying various public relations companies during the annual awards ceremony season.
Whether the Academy Awards are nominated or final awards, their votes are equivalent to goods and are traded. The film party, public relations company, and these people give votes. This is business. Of course, because the final vote is unnamed, there are professional accounting firms to supervise notarization to count votes, so there are those who don’t give votes after taking the money, but after all, there are fewer such top-quality products.
It can be said that all the participants in the Academy Awards play this way, and no one can say anything wrong with each other. Therefore, many people in Hollywood accused the last emperor very ridiculously, and no one on that table is ashamed.
But the Golden Globe Awards are different. The Golden Globe Awards do not have this open and secret rule of lobbying. Of course, whether there are any money to buy tickets or not, but the money is not much, which means that the judges don’t collect much money.
The Golden Globe Awards are different from the Academy Awards. The Oscars voted by members of the Academy of Sciences, while the Golden Globe Awards were organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The votes were voted by 96 journalists, and about two-thirds of the people here are part-time jobs. The importance of this Golden Globe Awards cannot be compared with the Academy Awards. Oscar companies may spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to lobby, but everyone will never do it. They spend tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to the sky.
Because even if you have too much money, you won't spend money on a group of reporters whose main goal is to spread Hollywood news to countries outside North America. Not to mention that many of these reporters do not rely on news to make a living, but only occasionally write articles for small foreign publishers. A large number of members have been in the association for a long time, including some 10-year-olds who rely on pensions to live. Many members have other professions, including education, real estate, automobiles and movie promotions.
Perhaps the Golden Globe Awards are regarded as important awards in other parts of the world, but in the United States, the Golden Globe Awards are just a general award, and they are no different from the awards of various performing arts guilds. What about the Oscars are just things to entertain themselves, but they are just fooling laymen.
There is nothing to be willing to spend money on one hand, and on the other hand, it is because there was a scandal in the past few years. In 1982, the Golden Globe awarded the Best Newcomer Award to Pia Zadora, the 26-year-old heroine of the film "Butterfly". The fact is that Pia's multi-millionaire husband hired a large number of public relations to "buy" the award for her beautiful wife. After the inside story broke, the Golden Globes were directly cut off from their live broadcast cooperation with CBS TV.
The Golden Globe Awards, which are at the forefront, finally make people forget the disgraceful scandal. At this time, how dare you collect money randomly and cause any scandal?
Therefore, the judges of the Golden Globes were unfairly panicked. Because of the nomination, someone would immediately think of the Golden Globes, and then take out the previous scandal of the Golden Globes and talk about it again. Then they can be confident that the Golden Globes will be accused of buying the awards again.
If, if, if you really charge money, then the scandal will be a scandal. Who is the truth? However, the five nominations for the Golden Globes to the last emperor this time are completely the result of fair selection, because the producer and publisher of the last emperor did not put the Golden Globes on the plan list at all, let alone sending money and gifts, they did not even call the judges.
They are foreign journalists or journalists serving foreign media, and most of them are part-time jobs. The Golden Globe judges are quite rejected, and they are so fragile when they are careful. Now they may be slandered and accused inexplicably, and these journalists immediately stopped doing it.
When the Oscar organizing committee and judges were not speaking out, the Golden Globe judges began to praise the last emperor in their respective media for how good it was, what was good about it, etc., and used their own professional judgmental perspective to refute those who said that the last emperor was not worthy of nine nominations.
Chapter completed!