Chapter 491 The Youngest Oscar-winning Best Director
The Best Picture Award has been awarded, and this Oscar Awards Ceremony has come to an end.
Some people are happy and some are frustrated.
Nothing in this world is perfect.
Anyway, Wang Shu is in a good mood.
He hurriedly rushed to catch up with the 81st Academy Awards. Taking advantage of the global economic crisis, he finally shook up the old men of the Academy and successfully won the Academy Award for Best Director.
Although it was a pity that it failed to win the Best Picture Award.
But who made it happen that the person I met at this Academy Awards was the "son" of the old men of the Academy, "Slumdog Millionaire"?
It is not easy to tear off a piece of meat and eat it under the premise that the old men in the academy love this film very much.
You must know that the movie "Life and Death", which gave birth to this Oscar winner, and "Milk", which gave birth to this Oscar winner, are both among the nominated films.
In the original time, "Slumdog Millionaire" was able to win eight Oscars under such circumstances, which shows how difficult it was for "The Wolf of Wall Street" to win a Best Director Award for Wang Shu.
If the old men in the academy love "The Wolf of Wall Street", then naturally there is nothing much to say.
But the fact is that the old men in the academy do not like this movie, and some of them even dislike it.
If it weren’t for the pressure from the outside world, which forced him to think carefully, Wang Shu wouldn’t even be able to make a hair out of it.
However, Wang Shu rushed to prepare for the filming of this movie with the mentality of raking in what he had and what he didn’t have.
During this financial crisis, it would be nice to pick up "The Wolf of Wall Street" and win an award.
If you can’t win the award, keep trying.
You are still young anyway, and there is plenty of time in the future.
Fortunately, this rake really helped him collect something, and he won the Oscar for Best Director.
I felt relieved all of a sudden.
Because he knew that if he couldn't get the award this time, he would definitely have to go through qualifications in the future.
Unless the private equity side achieves results, you will have to endure the qualifications until the end.
Backstage at the Oscars, Wang Shu, like all the winners, was being interviewed.
"Shu, as the youngest winner of the Academy Award for Best Director in history, what do you want to say?"
The reporter looked at the newly nominated Best Director at the Academy Awards in front of him. Director, I feel incredible inside.
22 years old!
He is still a director from China.
So young, and when he first arrived in Hollywood, he actually won the Academy Award for Best Director!
Incredible!
If the reporter hadn’t already understood Wang Shu’s achievements before and knew about the call for “The Wolf of Wall Street” to win the award, it would be absolutely unbelievable at this moment.
Although the director in front of me is young, he had already been the best director at the Venice Film Festival before, and had won awards at the Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival.
These achievements show that the other party is not just a boaster, but a truly capable director!
Coupled with the fact that "The Wolf of Wall Street" was very popular for winning the award, Wang Shu winning the Best Director Award was not an upset, but many people had expected it.
It’s just
Even if I expected it, it was still incredible to see this 22-year-old young director actually win the Academy Award for Best Director.
He is only 22 years old
Many people have not graduated from college, but this one is already the best director at the Oscar
Facing the camera, Wang Shu maintained an innocent smile on his face and said: " Maybe there will be an Oscar director younger than me in the future."
"How are you feeling?" The reporter asked after seeing Wang Shu being so calm.
“I’m very excited.” When Wang Shu said this, he immediately showed a very excited look.
When the reporter saw this, he was a little speechless, thinking that after all, the other person was the best director at the Venice Film Festival, and had won awards at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals, and had also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director before.
Yes. It is reasonable to be so calm.
"What happens next? What are your plans?" the reporter asked again.
Wang Shu said with a smile: "I should be involved in the work of "The Life of Pi"."
"The film will be completed this year, and I will participate in Competition for the next Academy Awards?" the reporter continued to ask.
There has been a lot of news about Wang Shu's confirmation to direct "Life of Pi" and that the project has been launched and is being raised, which is not uncertain.
"Hopefully." Wang Shu responded, "If the filming process goes smoothly, we may be able to catch up with the next Oscar."
"If there is a delay, we are not sure."
The reporter nodded and continued to ask: "If you can catch up with the Oscars, are you confident in being nominated again and winning the award?"
"Of course!" Wang Shu answered noncommittally, "I have always had confidence in myself."
When the reporter saw Wang Shu's confident look, he was a little infected for a moment and said with a smile: "Shu, I believe you can nominate again and win the award."
"See you next time!"
< br>According to tradition, after the Oscars ceremony ends every year, the winners, nominees, award guests, etc. will be invited to attend the Governors Ball and dinner.
Wang Shu arrived in Hollywood for the first time and won an award. It would be bad not to go, so he attended as usual. At the dance, Wang Shu was considered one of the handsome guys. From time to time, producers would come up to chat with him and hand over his business cards.
Nowadays, he is not only an Oscar-winning director, but his movies are also very successful at the box office.
This kind of director whose films are both box-office hits and award-winning is naturally highly sought after by producers here in Hollywood.
In just a short time, many people expressed their intention to cooperate with him.
Wang Shu neither agreed nor refused.
After all, he has a "Life of Pi" to direct next, and it will take at least half a year to complete it.
It is too early to talk about future cooperation now.
"Shu, congratulations on winning the Oscar for Best Director."
Kate saw Wang Shu from a distance after finishing socializing with many producers, and happened to have some free time, so Came over quickly.
Beside her was a person, her husband Sam Mendes.
Sam Mendes also smiled politely and said: "Congratulations, the youngest Oscar-winning director in history."
Wang Shu heard this and replied politely, then smiled and said to Kate: "Congratulations on winning the Best Actress Award."
Kate shook her head and said: "It's far worse than you. , it’s been 12 years since I was last nominated for an Oscar, and it’s only now that I finally won the Oscar. On the contrary, you won the Best Director Award when you first arrived in Hollywood.”
Because you won the Oscar for Best Director. No one even mentioned the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and it has been forgotten.
As for the last time Kate was nominated for an Oscar, it was in 1998 when she was nominated for the 70th Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the movie "Titanic" which was popular all over the world.
Although the movie was a hit and she became famous all over the world, she failed to win an Oscar.
Over the years, she has appeared in many movies, but has never been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress again.
Now, she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress for the second time and finally won the statuette.
After speaking, he sighed: "I am 34 years old this year, and you are only 22 years old."
34 years old. Becoming an Oscar-winning actress, Wang Shu felt a little strange in his ears. Does it have the meaning of Versailles?
As we all know, if you want to win an Oscar for an actor, you need more than just acting skills, you also have to go through qualifications.
Even if it is much easier for actresses to win awards than for male actors.
But it is the Oscars after all, and winning the award is not that difficult after all.
It is undeniable that the youngest actress to win an Academy Award was Mary Matlin, who won the award at the age of 21.
But this actress, who was born deaf, was able to win the Oscar for her true role in "Children".
The second youngest Jennifer Lawrence, who successfully won an Oscar at the age of 22 and became an Oscar-winning actress, is only 19 years old and has only made her debut for two years.
In short, these are special cases or rare cases.
Becoming an Oscar-winning actress at the age of 34 is already a very young Oscar-winning actress.
When Wang Shu heard this, he looked at Sam Mendes aside with a look of helplessness.
Although Sam Mendes seems to be heading out to the grassland every day, he is a director who also won the Oscar for Best Director.
And, at the age of 35, he already won the Academy Award for Best Director.
Prior to that, he was the third youngest person in Oscar history to win the Oscar for Best Director.
Moreover, the other two directors younger than him are already dead.
Therefore, Sam Mendes was not only the youngest person alive to win the Oscar for Best Director before this, but he is currently 44 years old and is still in the prime of his directing career.
It’s really awesome.
However, it is precisely because of this that Kate chose him.
Because Sam Mendes has the strength to help her catch up with Leonardo DiCaprio, she will not be far behind in her career by DiCaprio, who has constant high-quality resources.
Now, the halo of the youngest living Oscar-winning Best Director has been snatched away by Wang Shu, who is also the youngest Best Director in the history of the Oscars.
In the past, others used the title of the youngest Oscar-winning director to compliment him, which greatly satisfied his emotional value.
Now, the smile has shifted to Wang Shu. He has lost the aura of being the youngest person to win the Oscar for Best Director, and naturally feels a little uncomfortable.
Especially Kate’s last thoughtless words made Sam Mendes’ face darken.
To Sam Mendes' ears, it was as if he won the Academy Award for Best Director at the age of 35, not as good as Wang Shu, who had already won the Academy Award for Best Director at the age of 22. director.
The so-called youngest Oscar-winning director is nothing in front of Wang Shu.
Although Kate did not say it clearly, her sigh was to express that her Oscar for Best Actress at the age of 34 was far inferior to Wang Shu's Oscar for Best Director at the age of 22.
Hearing these words, Sam Mendes, who was previously complimented as the youngest Oscar-winning director, suddenly felt harsh.
He simply stopped talking and stood aside silently.
(End of this chapter)