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- December 10, 2005
The 31st Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (LAFCA) announced:
¡¾Best Picture: "Brokeback Mountain"; Second Place: "A History of Violence"
Best Director: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain"; Second Place: David Cronenberg, "A History of Violence"
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Capote"; Second Place: Heath Ledger, "Brokeback Mountain"
Best Actress: Vera Farmiga, "To the Bone"; Second Place: Judi Dench, "Mrs. Henderson"
Best Supporting Actor: William Hurt, "A History of Violence"; Second Place: Frank Langella, "Good Luck and Good Night"
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Jack and Rose," and "The Translator"; Second Place: Abigail Breslin, "Little Miss Sunshine"
Best Screenplay (tie): Dan Futterman, "Capote"; Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"
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New Generation Award: Ye Wei
Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Widmark]
The three major American Film Critics Association Awards, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, are important benchmarks for the Oscars.
The announcement of lafca marks the official start of the awards season. Multiple Film Critics Awards will be announced on the 11th and 12th. The Golden Globe Awards will announce the nomination list on the 13th. From then until the Oscars in early March next year, there will be an average of three or four days. A prize is announced.
As the earliest award awarded this year and an important award, LAFCA¡¯s results have been reported by North American media and also cited by global entertainment media.
"Brokeback Mountain", which won Best Picture and Best Director, became the biggest winner. However, although 100% of Lafca's best films in the past 10 years were nominated for Oscars, none of them won the award. Whether "Brokeback Mountain" can break this curse remains to be seen. It¡¯s unknown.
"Little Miss Sunshine" won the best screenplay, and Ye Wei finally had a breakthrough outside of school!
The media all cheered and praised, "refreshing the age record" and "youngest" are the key words. In the past 31 years, Lafca has awarded 30 New Generation Awards, and the youngest winner is Jodie Foster. "Taxi Driver" in 1976, when she was 14 years old.
But Foster is an actor. 19-year-old Sean Penn, 19-year-old Leonardo, 19-year-old Scarlett Johansson, and 18-year-old Laura Dern have all won this award. As for directors, most of them are between 30 and 45 years old. The young ones include 29-year-old Spike Lee and 20-year-old John Singleton. These two black directors are the top two record holders.
Singleton is the biggest victim of Ye Wei's rise. His record seems to be in jeopardy. The 17-year-old Ye Wei won awards as a director, second only to Foster.
17 years old, definitely a new generation.
Although he did not enter the top two for Best Director, Ye Weiling's breakthrough was a big victory. It was like breaking a seal. This talented young man can be commended.
In fact, this result has nothing to do with public relations. Herman Wright seems to have won the lottery. Ye Wei¡¯s advantage is so great that if the New Generation Award is not given to him, the outside world will have to question the reliability of Lafca! If you don¡¯t give it to Ye Wei this year, who else can you give it to? To Breslin?
Winning this award also means that Ye Wei has won the Los Angeles battle!
¡°Finally, we can open the champagne to celebrate!¡± Countless movie fans rejoiced, waiting for the Golden Globe Awards to announce the nominations on the 13th!
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If a movie wants to make a difference during the awards season, of course it cannot do without public relations activities, and any campaign cannot do without it, most notably the presidential campaign.
There are no TV debates. The main public relations for the Golden Globe Awards is the reception. The judges are invited to eat and drink, and the stars of the crew who are competing for the award attend to communicate and lobby. Everyone is happy and the impression points are gained. This is related to the fact that the number of judges for the Golden Globe Awards is now only over 80. For the Oscars, which has more than 6,000 judges, preview DVDs are the fatal weapon.
October to November is the peak period for the Golden Globe Awards¡¯ public relations activities. When LMS¡¯s public relations fee increased to 3.5 million and two cocktail parties were held for the Golden Globes, Wright did not even frown.
¡°It sounds like a huge irony for us people to talk about losers, look around.¡±
Under nightfall, a DreamWorks reception was being held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. The LMS crew was attended by Ye Wei, Alan Arkin, and Michael Arndt.
In the luxurious and spacious banquet hall, bright lights were shining, and guests in semi-formal evening attire were holding drinks and chatting in twos and threes. There were chuckles and the atmosphere was harmonious.
The largest gathering in the audience was not Wright or any other publicist, but a black-haired boy, with more than a dozen film critics surrounding him, listening to his directorial explanation of the film.
"A banquet hall in a high-end hotel, everyone looks like a celebrity."??Talk about losers. "He was holding a glass of juice with a confident and calm smile on his face.
"Hehehe" The film critics chuckled one after another. Among them, a middle-aged man named Karen Martin laughed and said: "viy, not all people who talk about war have been on the battlefield."
"Yes, I mean, everyone here." Ye Wei looked around the crowd, his words were contagious: "Everyone can become a loser at any time and lose everything. There is not much difference between winners and losers. , this is one of the topics that "Little Miss Sunshine" wants to talk about."
Arndt, who came to listen, nodded and said: "A few years ago, I was just a person who quit his job to concentrate on writing. I lived in a small apartment without an elevator in Brooklyn, living a tight life with some savings. At that time, I really didn¡¯t expect that I would be standing here communicating with everyone.¡±
"Me too." Ye Wei smiled, "But this is not an inspirational story. Maybe you have worked hard a lot, but in the end you have failed. This is more common than success. The American Dream has never been a concern. The losers who pursue dreams, I think they are the most indispensable part of pursuing dreams.¡±
Everyone nodded slightly and drank cocktails with serious faces. I wonder how many of them really felt the same way.
"In this era, fewer and fewer people believe in the American Dream, because more and more people are losers and no longer have sunshine in their hearts. It is easy for us to fall into darkness and make excuses for everything. It is easy; but calmly Regarding success and failure, it is very difficult to keep your own light even in darkness. We are always in between. Sometimes we can do it and sometimes we can't."
Ye Wei¡¯s words spread around, and Wright, who was not far away, looked at the film critics and nodded again, feeling happy in his heart! viy's performance was better than expected, and he was even more experienced than a veteran.
"I agree with one sentence, the world is gray." Ye Wei took a sip of juice and spread his left palm, "We are all ordinary people, no one is perfect. In LMS, the situation is exactly the same, you know A lot of people say 'Ms. Jenkins' is a badass."
"Meryl Streep did a great job." "Another outstanding performance." Film critics couldn't help but say.
"In fact, my work went much smoother during the few days she was on the set. What a respectable person, everyone paid more attention when they saw her. I call it the 'Streep Effect.'" Ye Wei He laughed and said, "Maybe I can win the Best Science Filmmaker Award for it? Just kidding, I still like Best Director."
Everyone chuckled again, and no one left. More and more people gathered around him. It was like a miracle that they only knew what a prodigy was when they met him.
"Ms. Jenkins is not a pure bad guy." Ye Wei said back to the movie, "Maybe she is an animal protector. She donates large sums of money to some charities all year round. Can you say she is a bad guy? It's just at that moment in the movie , she showed her cold side.
If you look at it from another angle, she didn¡¯t do anything wrong. The Hoovers are indeed late. Rules are rules. Why should we give you an accommodation? If someone is holding a beauty pageant and your family comes to cause trouble, what's the problem with calling the police to arrest you? This is Ms. Jenkins¡¯ perspective, and the Hoovers are the bad guys. "
Everyone nodded thoughtfully, and Ye Wei frowned and said: "Everyone does not have only one side. Human nature is a complex and often contradictory thing. I don't know what truth is, but I think it can be seen this way. Everyone has failed. Successful, dark and sunny, good and bad, we all struggle.¡±
Yes. Herman Wright exclaimed, "I have struggled in the public relations world for so many years, and I am finally getting ahead!"
With results like lms and performance like viy, it¡¯s impossible not to get nominated.
Look at these foreign reporters, they are obviously fascinated by viy, the charm of genius!
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On December 10, as the North American film awards season kicked off, a piece of bad news suddenly came from Europe, which shocked Hollywood and the world.
One of the former members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the 40-year-old Irish journalist Nick Douglas hanged himself in a small shop in Northern Ireland where he once worked.
The 61-year-old Golden Globe Awards, like everything, has grown from small to large, gradually gained influence, experienced scandals and reforms, and then became more and more standardized.
In the long history of history, the biggest controversial incident occurred in 1982, when actress Pia Zodora won the Best New Actress Award for her mediocre performance in "Butterfly" (the award was later cancelled). It was revealed that it was her multi-millionaire husband who invited all the HFPA judges to go to Las Vegas.
The scandal was exposed, and HFPA immediately fell into the whirlpool. Although HFPA solemnly apologized and repaid the expenses, the reputation of the Golden Globe Awards fell to the bottom.Nothing. After more and more strengthening management in the past 20 years and no scandals for many years, the reputation has recovered.
hfpa currently has 86 members, and only absorbs 5 new members every year. However, because it requires unanimous approval by old members, there is only one new member every year.
¡°Not all of these foreign film critics are famous figures, nearly half are freelance journalists and tabloid reporters, and the existence of this half has always been a major aspect of the Golden Globe Awards¡¯ professionalism that has been questioned. However, John Ball, the well-known film critic of "LA Weekly", said it very classic: "Although the Golden Globe judges are basically idiots, they often make smarter choices than those Oscar judges."
¡°Idiot, Nick Douglas is one of them. He wrote a column for the Irish gossip magazine "The Big Thing" (G-Buzz) for 12 years and was a member of the HFPA for 3 years. But last year in 2004, he got into trouble and sold a photo of himself and Tom for $50. -Photograph of Selleck sold to tabloids.
In fact, many journalists and film critics are star-chasers, especially these tabloid reporters. They are flattered when a big star attends a reception, and they feel even more honored when they take a group photo with them. Of course, Nick Douglas was not selling photos for the $50, but to show off his identity and status, even though Tom Selleck was not a big star at all.
This behavior has caused a scandal and has been strictly prohibited by the HFPA. Douglas was suspended as a result. He also lied and denied it, which was exposed, and committed other disciplinary violations, including taking unopened bottles of beer home from an MGM reception, which was also a violation of organizational rules.
The HFPA punished him very severely and basically kicked him out. His suspension period was supposed to end in September this year, but the HFPA continued not to allow him to attend any receptions.
At 9 a.m. on December 13, the nominations for the 63rd Golden Globe Awards were to be announced. Douglas committed suicide three days ago. It was clear that Douglas wanted to embarrass the Golden Globes and embarrass the awards season with his death.
This tragedy triggered heated discussions in the media, bringing HFPA to the forefront again after many years. What's going on! ?
Philip Burke, chairman of HFPA, said he was also very shocked, "When you join HFPA, you have to abide by the discipline of the organization. We have suspended many members who have damaged the reputation of the association. This is done to protect our image and fairness. Of course no one ever commits suicide. We can't simply connect the two things."
No one believes Burke¡¯s excuse. He committed suicide at this time and cannot be contacted?
Many hpfa members responded angrily, saying that it was completely unreasonable for hpfa to kill Nick. Nick himself had repeatedly violated the rules, so shouldn't he be punished? He also accused "The Big Thing" of exposing Nick's suicide for fear of causing chaos in the world, causing unnecessary additional pain to his family.
However, another member, Karen Martin, asked in a group email to all colleagues: "Now that Nick is dead, my question is: How do you all feel? I want you to know that I think every one of us "Everyone who voted for the suspension is responsible for this incredible tragedy. We are all real losers."
In the eyes of ordinary people, there are two views. One is that Nick Douglas is pitiful but hateful. He first broke the rules and then committed suicide. He did not value his own life too much.
The other person thinks that the punishment of HFPA is excessive. Even though Nick lost his dignity and livelihood, he committed suicide because he couldn't think about it. As for the violation, a few bottles of beer and 50 US dollars?
¡°Anyway, someone died and it really cast a pall over the Golden Globes.
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On the evening of Sunday the 11th, Gia held a celebration party at home to celebrate Ye Wei's New Generation Award, the "Best New Director Award" at the Boston Film Critics Association Awards announced today, the "Best Screenplay Award" won by LMS and "Best Ensemble Performance Award" and also wishing victory for the Golden Globe nomination.
Those who were invited were all close friends from the Dream-Chasing Alliance. Lily said she had something to do and didn¡¯t come, so Emma came. At this time, there were more than ten or twenty young people talking and playing in the spacious back garden.
"Everyone, everyone!" Gia shouted at the food table. Seeing everyone's eyes coming and going, she was serious and annoyed: "A Golden Globe judge committed suicide yesterday!"
"Oh!" Everyone exclaimed, Emma looked a little weird, what did she want to say? Looking at Ye Wei next to him, he frowned.
Gia said: "Let us observe three minutes of silence for him first." The whole place became silent, everyone closed their eyes and prayed. After a while, about a minute, Gia said loudly: "Okay Oh, that guy is probably an idiot. He committed suicide to disgust others and to make us feel guilty even if we won the Golden Globe nomination.¡±
At that moment, she explained the cause and effect and said angrily: "What he did was terrible."
"Jesus, Master Gia" Ye Wei was helpless. Lev didn¡¯t even want to talk about it: ¡°?Teacher, do we have to talk about him? But Bud was also very angry: "It sucks!" "
"Of course we have to talk, Nick Douglas made the wrong idea!" Gia pulled Ye Wei forward and pointed at him to everyone, "This guy! Tell me, how hard has he worked in the past two years? Most of you You know better than me, I don¡¯t even have any shares in the company.¡±
Emma whispered softly: "Me neither."
Gia ignored her and continued to speak like a speech: "Now, finally! At this moment, this guy, us, will be crowned with glory. Just because a guy who sold photos and got beer and was kicked away committed suicide, we want to take it away All of us? No way! Let them all die, no one can do this!
"Okay, okay, Gian Kara, let me say a few words." Ye Wei really couldn't stand it anymore, so he interrupted her, looked at his friends, sighed, and said:
"Jimi Hendrix once said, 'When you die, everyone will love you.' This is true. Even if you commit suicide or take drugs, as long as you don't hurt others, it doesn't matter whether you have You will become a great person if you make any mistakes. Because death is really a very serious, terrible and regrettable thing.¡±
Everyone was silent. Giya looked at Ye Wei with dissatisfaction, trying to make trouble? This is not my celebration party!
"Because we all know that when a person dies, he is lost forever, forever. So we will forgive his shortcomings, understand his pain, and even worship his advantages. This is another manifestation of the kindness of people. "Death is the ultimate failure. In life, Nick Douglas was not a respectable person."
Ye Wei paused as he spoke, looked at Gia who was beginning to think deeply, and then said: "He is just a gossip reporter who writes for gossip tabloids. He keeps violating the rules, and he refuses to admit his mistakes. In the end, he ends up with a sad But Nick Douglas deserves to be understood after his death."
"Guys." He scanned everyone's faces, "No one is perfect. A person always has good and bad, his happiness and his pain. Think about it, Nick Douglas may be a good father for his child. , may be a well-known good person in the community, but in his career, he is a bit greedy, showing off, self-righteous, and fragile.
No matter what, Nick Douglas is dead! "
Ye Wei's voice became louder, "His family is grieving, the children are crying, others are crying, and a family is broken. If he wanted to overshadow all this, and he succeeded, I am very sad." Uncomfortable. I think he must have been very painful and twisted when he hanged himself. He felt that he had taken revenge on the world and made everyone look good.
But brother, you don¡¯t have to commit suicide because of a photo or a bottle of beer at the reception. It¡¯s not worth it. When you feel like you've lost everything and then die, what do you win? It's just a bunch of assholes talking about you at a party, but this ghost won't last long before it dissipates and no one remembers it.
This is a complete tragedy. For us, the biggest sadness is, do we have to use this method to get to know someone better? "
"Definitely not" Emma was a little confused. It was Gia's turn to look weird, Lev and others were silent, and the atmosphere was a little sad.
Ye Wei sighed again and said: "In my opinion, why is a person respected after death, even if he was infamous during his lifetime? Because death will make us look at things more positively. It is too contradictory and ironic. It's so sad that someone else's death brings sunshine into our hearts.
Whenever something like this happens, whenever we think that a dead person is really good, I want to ask, what were you thinking before?
Nick Douglas is dead! It cannot be undone. I know this is a celebration party, but how do we fight back this shadow? I don't agree with Master Gia. I think, we take it, we see you, we move on. "
He raised the juice glass in his hand, looked at the night sky above, and shouted: "Nick Douglas, you are a fool, but for the sake of your death, I give you a toast!"
"Here's to Nick Douglas!" Everyone who was touched raised their cups, and Emma shouted the loudest.
Gia, who didn¡¯t have a drink, also raised her fist in a gesture. This is why the person who may be nominated for the youngest Golden Globe Award for Best Director is not Gia Coppola, but Ye Wei. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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