Chapter 1083 Chapter 108.9 The Postponed Academy Awards

This year's Academy Awards is the second.

The deadline for film selection is still December 31st, and the shortlist will be released around January 15th.

However, considering that the Spring Festival this year is relatively early, the 24th is New Year’s Eve, so the Academy Awards organizing committee has announced a few days ago that the second Academy Awards ceremony will be held in early February, so that everyone can There will be more time.

The results of the first Hong Kong Film Awards last year were pretty good. Although not as influential as the Baodao Golden Horse Awards, and not as long in history, its selection focused on Chinese-language films, and it also With the continuous strength of Hong Kong films, the Hong Kong Film Awards can only become more and more prosperous.

The movies released in Hong Kong last year were also exciting.

There are not only "Speed", which is a hit at the box office, but also "Prison", which has a good reputation and box office, as well as the innovative "Mr. Zombie", and the stunning "The Guard" made by Chuck Ce's old tree with new flowers. The spy film "The Best Partner" imitates the 007 series, and Cheng Long also followed Yin Jun's example and entered the global market with "Red Zone" and achieved great success.

Although these scripts were all written by Yin Jun, which seems a bit embarrassing, Yin Jun is a genius to begin with. There is nothing to say about a genius who has made such great achievements.

In comparison, the 1981 Baodao films appear to be slightly inferior. It is expected that only about 8 films will be selected for selection, and they will basically all be literary films.

This is just right, lest too many commercial films will affect the purity of film art.

As the chairman of the Academy Awards organizing committee, Guan Shan was very busy after New Year's Day. Many crew members, including those from Baodao, were entertaining him, hoping to get some inside information.

Although Guan Shan basically doesn't care about anything, he is Yin Jun's father-in-law. If he says something inside, maybe he can change the direction of the award?

Wen Jun, the executive chairman, was also invited by many people, but Wen Jun, the little fat man, was very cunning. He would eat and drink what he should eat, but he wouldn't say a word of what he shouldn't. People would learn from his mouth. Can't get a word of truth.

It’s not Fatty Wen’s fault. If he said it out loud, Jun Shao would be offended. Can he bear such consequences?

In fact, at best, Wenjun knows the approximate number of votes in the specific preliminary voting, but if the list of candidates comes out, Wenjun will not be able to see the second round of voting. At most, he will only know it on the day of the award ceremony.

Prior to this, the verification and counting of votes were jointly handled by the most famous law firm and accounting firm in Hong Kong, ensuring absolute confidentiality.

This was the case last year. At that time, many people felt that Yin Jun was making a fuss out of a molehill. However, after a year of interpretation and consideration, everyone felt more and more that this would ensure that the awards were fair enough and would also give people a lot of uncertainty. Increase the tension at the awards ceremony.

There are also reporters who want to interview Yin Jun, but Yin Jun's attitude towards this is that he knows nothing about it and has no control over it. How to organize it is a matter for the Academy Awards Organizing Committee, and how to select it is a matter for a series of film experts, reporters, Regarding the commentators, my only role at the Academy Awards is to sign a broadcast contract with them and provide some financial support.

At the end of last year, before the Hong Kong Film Awards even started, a five-year television broadcast agreement was signed with Kylin TV.

Kylin TV bought the TV broadcast rights at a sky-high price of HK$30 million per year.

Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that this is a losing business. For such a fledgling film festival, 5 million is not worth it.

But the Hong Kong Film Awards was proposed by Yin Jun. He came to support it himself and provided sufficient funds. This is also normal.

When the news was revealed at that time, Baodao's Golden Horse Awards were filled with envy and jealousy.

It makes a real difference to have a big boss behind you!

We have so many categories of Golden Horse Awards here, and we almost stop them from time to time due to funding problems. You guys here only have 30 million Hong Kong dollars, you are so rich!

Not to mention, with such 30 million Hong Kong dollars, the Academy Awards Organizing Committee is indeed very wealthy. In addition to daily office work, they are also extremely generous to filmmakers and crews who come to Hong Kong, usually three-day high-level Hotel and round trip air tickets are all included.

Local people in Xiangjiang can't afford this kind of money, but the layout and scale of the award ceremony are also very luxurious and grand, making people feel classy at first glance.

Then there is the celebration party after the awards ceremony, which directly takes over a floor of the Peninsula Hotel. Indeed, only those with deep pockets can afford it.

Even each of the judges who participated in the selection was sent some exquisite gifts along with the selection ticket, including high-end pens and so on.

If the Academy Awards organizing committee is rich, the possibility of engaging in favoritism and taking advantage of the awards will be greatly reduced.

It's not that no one doubts whether Yin Jun will receive the most attention, but last year's results show that movies directed by Yin Jun are not necessarily winners, and the judges will make selection changes every year based on their reviews.

Besides, their relationship with Yin Jun is not that good, especially the group of film critics from newspapers and magazines. They relied on the newspapers to eat and were called a hammer by "Kilin Daily". They didn't want to suppress Qilin Movies. You are so kind, how can you care about Yin Jun's movie?

Yin Jun didn't say any polite words.

In fact, his lack of attention to the Academy Awards is the greatest consideration.

Otherwise, what he has to say may still affect the tendency of the award.

But what's the point?

Is this what Yin Jun wants to see for a film award that was unfair from the beginning to become as infamous as it was 30 years later?

Yin Jun hopes that everyone will be equally matched and fight to the death at every Academy Awards. This will prove that Hong Kong and even Chinese-language films are prosperous, instead of one family being the only one or enjoying itself.

The movies produced by other film companies are good, but this will make Qilin Film Company vigilant and keep working hard to avoid being robbed of honor by others and losing face to others.

However, even a girl like Guan Zhilin, who doesn't care much about money, asked Yin Jun whether the annual sponsorship of 30 million is a bit too much?

She thought Yin Jun paid so much money for his father Guan Shan.

In Guan Zhilin's opinion, there is really no need for this.

Originally, Guan Shan had made a lot of money in the past few years. Yin Jun had given him a lot of acting contracts before, too many to say every year, and he easily pocketed three to five million yuan.

Not to mention that Guan Shan made two movies directed by Yin Jun. The money earned from the first one went to his family, but the millions he made from the second one went to the little vixen.

Now just to let Guan Shan enjoy the vanity of being the chairman of the Academy Awards organizing committee, he was given 30 million. The cost was really too much.

Yin Jun's pain was with Guan Zhilin the most, so he naturally explained it to her in detail.

Although the Hong Kong Film Awards were started because of Guan Shan, the continuation of this award will be a great good thing for Hong Kong's film industry, so this is the most important purpose of sponsoring 30 million yuan every year.

As for the issue of losing money, that can't be said much.

The Academy Awards are not famous now, but if the Academy Awards become well-known throughout Asia, then if you compare it to the Oscars in Hollywood, the sponsorship fees from major brand manufacturers will be very considerable, and it will be easy to win. Earn it back.

After hearing Yin Jun's explanation, Guan Zhilin reluctantly accepted it.

Naturally, the young man would not tell her that for the Academy Awards, he was now selecting films from Baodao and Xiangjiang, which was just the first step.

In the future, when the mainland opens up, all outstanding mainland films can be screened and awarded in Hong Kong, and it will be a bustling and prosperous place.

Compared with various domestic awards such as the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, which have a lot of bad habits and are not fair at all, the Hong Kong Film Awards is not so easy to be interfered by official power.

However, in the future, we cannot let the judges in Hong Kong alone decide. It is really a bit biased to use judges from one place to decide the awards for film works from the three places across the Taiwan Strait.

Yin Jun plans to increase the number of judges from mainland China after mainland films are added, and people from Baodao can also join. It should be better for everyone to vote together.

Naturally, there will definitely be some camaraderie and intrigue between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places. This is naturally indispensable in a society with people.

But if the coordination is good and the judges chosen have deep attainments in art, the problem shouldn't be too big.

At that time, those unprofessional reporters and film critics would be excluded by Yin Jun.

More people joining in are directors, producers, screenwriters, etc., real industry insiders, film critics and editors from newspapers and magazines, etc. The quota should not occupy more than one-third.

How to operate it specifically will definitely be a relatively long exploration process. There is still time, so don’t panic.

Just a little bit.

The Academy Awards must appear in front of people in the most innocent manner from the beginning, and there must not be any exchange of interests, resulting in the award being taken away by others.

From the very beginning, the Academy Awards should have been about finding a balance between art and business, rather than simply appreciating artistic films. Instead, they should exclude films that the general public likes. This is another extreme and is not conducive at all. The development of film.

The reason for the decline of the Hong Kong Film Awards in the previous life is that on the one hand they were stubborn and played their own game, and on the other hand their selections became more and more niche and ran counter to the public. It is surprising that they can arouse everyone's love and attention!

Look at the old men in Hollywood, they are equally stubborn, but they dare to award awards to commercial blockbusters such as "Titanic" and "Lord of the Rings".

Even Hollywood can seek change, so why can’t the new Hong Kong Film Awards do better from the start?