Chapter 622 American Literary and Art Circles

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The awards ceremony continued.

Only the four most important awards were left, Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Actress.

Chen Qi played with the two trophies. As far as he was concerned, the most confident one was the Best Foreign Language Film, and he got it. The Best Screenplay was beyond his expectations and was very unexpected.

Since he won the Best Foreign Language Film, he felt that he had little hope of winning the Best Picture.

In the 100-year history of the Oscars, only 11 non-English films were nominated for Best Picture, and only one South Korean film, "Parasite", won the gold medal. That was purely due to political correctness and money. And that was in 2020. The Oscars are already old and have started to deal with LGBT.

"Life is Beautiful" is politically correct enough, but it has no money.

Even the original 1999 "Life is Beautiful", which tells the story of the persecution of Jews, when Jews had already exerted their strength all over the world, and they were of good origin, was also nominated for Best Picture as a non-English film, but it did not win, only Best Foreign Language Film.

So Chen Qi was happy to win two awards, and at the same time he was in a peaceful state of mind.

The Best Actress award went to Shirley MacLaine for "Mother and Daughter", the Best Actor award went to Robert Duvall for "Tender Mercies", and the Best Director award went to James Brooks for "Mother and Daughter".

Finally, an 80-year-old white man named Frank Capra trembled on the stage and presented the Best Picture Award.

He was a figure from the golden age of Hollywood. This old man's representative work "It Happened One Night" won him three Oscars for directing and was a respected old artist in the American literary and art circles. Chen Qi didn't know him, but the whole audience burst into thunderous applause, forming a clear generation gap.

"Best Picture Nominees: "Mother and Daughter", "Space Pioneers", "Big Chill", "Tender Mercies", "Life is Beautiful"!"

"The winner is "Mother and Daughter"!"

"Wow!"

Someone went up to receive the award and gave a speech.

Gong Xue was afraid that he would be sad, so she held his hand and comforted him: "Didn't you say that winning an award depends on luck? It's not that we are not strong enough, we just lack a little luck, "Life is Beautiful" is the best."

"If you want to comfort me, why don't you act more like a spoiled child, then I'll be happier. Oh, I'm fine, I'm mentally prepared for everything, we won two out of three nominations, we were successful.

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Chen Qi was happy, he didn't explain the inside reason, just said: "If you didn't win this time, try again next time!"

"Yes, try harder next time!"

Liu Zhigu and others didn't know much about Oscars, although they were disappointed, they were very happy overall, and said: "Xiao Chen, you will be a famous screenwriter in the United States in the future!"

"You won the Golden Rooster and the Oscar, the Oscars have good vision!"

"The Americans are still capable, we won two out of three this time, and we won glory for the country, this is the first time in the history of the world. Chen Qi was more and more happy, nodding his head.

"Mother and Daughter" won five awards, and it was a big hit. "Life is Beautiful" won two, and "Fanny and Alexander" won several technical awards, but none of the important awards.

"Space Heroes" was the worst, with eight nominations and only one editing award.

Chen Qi faintly smelled the smell of pork, but no matter what, the group was still very happy. The first Chinese-language film to win an Oscar had to wait until "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2001, which was 17 years away!

After the awards ceremony, there was an official dinner.

The first thing most female stars did was to change their clothes. They wore extremely skinny and inconvenient dresses, which were not suitable for the dinner or the various private parties afterwards. They had to change into something lighter.

It didn't matter that Gong Xue wore a cheongsam, and she had two chocolates hidden in her small handbag.

Because of Liu Zhigu, an orthodox official, the United States sent a person from the Film Association and a person from the Academy to accompany them. The United States does not have a Ministry of Culture! Gong Xue was very obedient and stayed by Liu Zhigu's side.

There were indeed quite a few foreigners who came to toast or chat with her, but she always pretended not to understand.

Li Wenhua and Yan Shunkai were brothers in distress. They really didn't understand English and could only eat.

On the other side.

Chen Qi, holding a glass of wine, wandered around the venue under the guidance of the 20th Century Fox staff, met many filmmakers, and also met Brooke Shields.

This girl was only 19 years old and was the most popular youth idol in Hollywood. She looked pure and innocent, and was 180 cm tall.

He had always wanted to meet this American star of the same generation as Zhao Lirong, but unfortunately the filter was immediately broken. The skin, pores and smell were simply unbearable, so he gave up the idea of ​​taking a photo. This was definitely not because Sister Xue was staring at him from behind.

Hollywood is now the Big Seven, because United Artists was acquired by MGM.

The output value of Hollywood in the 1980s was far less exaggerated than in later generations. For example, Universal's domestic profit in 1982 was only 4 million, of which 3 million was earned by "ET the Alien". The existence of the Soviet Union hindered Hollywood's global expansion.

The senior executives of several large companies were all there. Chen Qi's identity as a Chinese, investor, producer, and screenwriter was enough to make them show goodwill.

He met several people and then met another one.

"This is the president of Columbia Pictures, Mr. Price!"

Price was a white man in his 50s. He was meticulous in his black suit, white shirt, and black tie. He spoke in a very accented way. He shook hands with Chen Qi and said with a smile: "What an excellent young man. We are far from achieving your achievements at your age."

Chen Qi glanced at this guy who relied on his old age and said with a smile: "Indeed, after all, I won't be forced to make the protagonist of every movie hold a can of Coca-Cola."

Price's face darkened!

Colombia has been acquired by Coca-Cola. Why does Mao want to buy a film company? The same idea as Dickson Pan, to promote the product.

They forced Colombia to have scenes of Coca-Cola in the movie, and the protagonists and positive characters must drink Coca-Cola. As for the sinister and cruel villains, they were all arranged to drink Pepsi.

Chen Qi refused to open any pot, but Price immediately regained his smile and raised his glass: "No wonder they say you don't look like a Chinese. I like the movie "Life is Beautiful" very much. Congratulations!"

"Thank you!"

The two of them had a good time, and Price said: "I heard that you are making a movie in Hong Kong?"

"We have business in both mainland China and Hong Kong, and we have companies on both sides."

"Is China already so open? Can you be so free - I mean, don't you have to be subject to any restrictions?"

"In the context of overall reform, there are bound to be some risk-takers who do extraordinary things to provide experience for reform."

"You are the adventurer!"

Price became more and more curious: "What is your business scope?"

"I produce cultural products on behalf of the country, promote them, and conduct some international exchanges and cooperation. In essence, my company is a state-owned enterprise. Do you understand state-owned enterprises?"

"I understand! I understand! You and your company are very interesting. I hope we have the opportunity to cooperate."

The two had another drink and exchanged business cards.

Chen Qi went to look for his next target. He had already collected a bunch of business cards tonight, many of whom came to chat with him on their own initiative. This was the most direct effect of Oscar.

He looked back at Price and couldn't help but smile. Colombia was actually a good partner.

Because it’s abstract and even makes the protagonist drink Coca-Cola, what else can’t he do?

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