Chapter 700 Surprise Nominations
On December 26, the nomination list for the 60th Golden Globe Awards was announced.
This year’s awards season has been characterized by fierce competition and chaos. Many film critics have raised their arms and shouted "big year", attracting countless attention. The Golden Globe nomination list has naturally skyrocketed.
Which works are nominated for the best film in the drama category and which works are left behind? Is there any new change in the fierce competition between the leading actor and leading actress departments? Which films can break the odds and be nominated for the screenplay department?
And so on and so forth.
This year's nomination list came out, and the controversy immediately dominated the headlines of major media——
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is making a joke again.
Best Director, generally speaking, is nominated for five seats, this is the rule.
However, this year the competition was so fierce that the association had difficulty making a choice. In the end, six names appeared on the Golden Globe nomination list:
"Gangs of New York", Martin Scott Seth.
“Every moment,” Stephen-Daldry.
"Adapted Screenplay", Spike Jonze.
"About Schmidt", Alexander-Payne.
"Chicago", Rob-Marshall.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", Peter Jackson.
This...
Controversy exploded instantly.
Professionals have said, don’t they know that this is the New Year? Don’t they know that this year’s masterpieces have been blowing out frequently?
Even if we list a list of six nominees, we can still see a series of leftovers, such as Steven Spielberg in "Cat and Mouse Game" and Roman Polans in "The Pianist" Key (Roman-Polanski), "Far From Heaven's" Todd-Haynes (Todd-Haynes)" and so on.
Can't squeeze in, really can't squeeze in!
However, we cannot arbitrarily change the rules and turn five seats into six seats.
This is unfair.
It’s unfair to those directors who “still missed the nomination even after increasing the number of nominations to six”, and it’s also unfair to the six directors who have won nominations so far——
People will inevitably discuss “if only Who should be kicked out of the five nominations?", "Who got the nomination through the back door?", "Who broke the rules?"
And so on and so forth.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's attempt to honor more directors for their work is well-intentioned; but it's a foolish approach.
This also proves once again that the Golden Globe Awards are nothing but child's play.
Uproar!
After the nomination list was announced, the debate and hot discussion couldn’t stop at all.
This is not the era of social networks, otherwise it would be 100% on the hot search list, and with the keywords "shady", "dirty" and "parallel import", it would stay on the hot search list for a longer time.
It is precisely because of this that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks did not spend time and energy busy during the awards season, which was praised by many movie fans as wise.
Then.
After the first wave of hot topics of discussion, people finally discovered a key point:
Anson Wood!
Anson’s name actually appeared in the nomination list for the Golden Globe Awards!
Things suddenly became interesting.
You can see shining names in the nomination list for Best Actor in a Musical Comedy.
Richard Gere, "Chicago"; Hugh Grant, "About a Boy"; Nicolas Cage, "Adapted Screenplay"; Adam Sandler, "A Secret Love" disorder”.
Also, Anson Wood, "Cat and Mouse Game".
Wow. Wow!
Every one of them is a big name, every one of them is a famous superstar. Seeing Anson's name here is like a breath of fresh air.
No one from Anson to DreamWorks expected this. When Edgar called, Anson was resting in the carriage with his eyes closed, almost falling asleep, his brain a mess——
Flash mob activity, On the surface, it looks infinitely beautiful, setting off a massive heat wave, as if the naked eye can see the flow and heat sweeping across the entire North American continent; but behind the scenes, Anson is running around day and night. He doesn't have enough sleep time almost every day, and he is constantly moving and running. Switch between changing looks and meeting fans.
Even though Anson was only twenty years old, he felt overdrafted in just a few days.
No wonder I used to watch the crew's promotional movies, and as I went to the back, I felt more and more desperate. Business is indeed not an easy task.
So much so that when he answered the phone, Anson could hardly keep his eyes open.
On the other end of the phone, Edgar was very excited and happily shared his joy.
"Surprise. 100% surprise."
"I had no hope. Although Steven and Tom are here this time, the competition in this year's awards season is more intense than imagined."
"I didn't expect it."
"Haha, I didn't expect it!"
"This is a good thing. It doesn't matter if we can't be nominated for an Oscar, even if it's just a musical comedy nomination, but we have already appeared in In the context of awards season, that means you've broken into the field."
"Of course, they can continue to say you're an icon, like Hugh Grant and Richard Gere, but the whole thing. The format in the industry is different, we have more possibilities.”
“And this is Steven and Tom’s work.”
"Haha, I need to promote it now, not for Oscar PR, but to let people go into the cinema to watch this movie, and plant an idea in people's minds: Anson is an actor, Anson is an actor, Anson is an actor."
< br>"Maybe we should create controversy and say you should be in the drama category instead of the musical comedy category. The more controversial the better."
"Ah, Anson, I need to give Eve a call. Let’s talk about it later.”
Come on.
After the cooperation in "Cat and Mouse Game" was confirmed last year, Edgar has been planning and laying out. He does not expect Anson to complete the transformation from idol to actor overnight. Take a look at Tom Cleese and Boo Ladd Pitt's transformation has not been successful for ten years, which shows how serious Hollywood's prejudice against idols is; what's more, idols are also pretty good——
At least there is constant work and good pay.
What Edgar really aims to do is to broaden the scope of acting and create more possibilities. Even idols are divided into niche actors like Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant who specialize in acting in love, and Adam Sander He doesn't want Anson's job opportunities to be trapped in youth superheroes like "Spider-Man".
Plan, layout, and advance.
Now, I finally get the reward——
It doesn’t matter what nomination, the important thing is to open a window through the nomination.
Especially since DreamWorks did not spend much energy and investment in public relations this time, Anson still won the nomination. From the side, it can be seen that Anson's influence in Hollywood is rising.
This is the real good thing.
It is no wonder that Edgar, who has always been calm and calm, reveals a side he has never shown.
The entire call was basically made by Edgar himself. His inspiration burst out, and his joy and cheerfulness could be felt through the receiver.
On the other end of the phone, Ansen was in a daze the whole time. Half asleep and half awake, he vaguely understood what happened, but in the end he had no real feeling. He fell asleep after hanging up the phone, just like that... fell asleep directly.
It wasn't until a few days later that that sense of reality slowly crept into Anson's stomach -
From the pop-up event.
The audience continued to express their congratulations, and were sincerely happy for him, as if they had been nominated, one, two, three, four, or five.
Then, Anson finally felt real.
Ah, it’s nominated for a Golden Globe.
(End of this chapter)