Chapter 727 Add Another Fire

"You can discuss with 20th Century Fox about the technical award."

These types of awards are not very important, and Murphy himself will not spend too much thought on them, "Best picture and best director are a must!"

Bill Rosses nodded, "What about the acting award?"

"I've already communicated with Maggie and James." Murphy's words surprised Bill Rossis, "declare them for Best Actress and Best Actor respectively!"

"Best Actress and Best Actor?" Bill Rossis froze for a moment.

"That's right, it's Best Actress and Best Actor." Murphy said with certainty, "James' role is the protagonist of the film, so there is no problem in applying for Best Actor; Maggie's role is also the only one in the film." A heavyweight female character, and she does it well."

Bill Rosses thought for a moment and asked, "What about 20th Century Fox?"

Murphy replied, "This is the result of my discussion with Kara Firth."

The two reached a consensus on this aspect a long time ago. From the appearance of the film "Dark City", Chris Dann is the only protagonist, and everyone else is his supporting role. Everyone in the film knows that James Franco's magician shines brilliantly and completely dominates the plot of the film. Henry Cavill, not to mention being compared with James Franco, is even obviously overshadowed by Margot Rowe. than pressed down.

This also caused the film's characters to be somewhat unbalanced. Fortunately, the plot of the film concealed Henry Cavill's not-so-great performance, and no one paid too much attention to him.

As for the two roles that are commonly considered to be supporting roles to apply for the best actor and best actress, there is no problem at all. There have been many times in the history of Oscars. The most representative ones are undoubtedly Professor Hannibal, Anthony- Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar for that year with a pure supporting role and just ten minutes of acting.

The strategy to hit the Oscars is not static, but flexible. For example, when Catherine Zeta-Jones hit the Oscars with "Chicago", she found that there were many strong competitors for the Best Actress, and she had no advantage at all. After a complete defeat in the competition, he quickly changed the award he declared from Best Actress to Best Supporting Actress on the eve of the Oscar voting. As a result, Renee Qiwei, another leading star in "Chicago", was nominated for Best Actress Greg returned empty-handed at the awards ceremony, but Catherine Zeta-Jones managed to take home the best supporting actress statuette.

Operated by two major companies, CAA and Twentieth Century Fox, with the outstanding performances of Margot Robbie and James Franco in the film,

Murphy thinks it's still possible for them to be nominated for Best Actor or Actress.

Can you win an award in the end? No one can guarantee this, after all, Oscar's choices are often too easily influenced by the outside world.

For example, the last Oscars ceremony that Murphy had seen, because no black people won important nominations such as best actor and actress and best director in the previous one, they all stood up to boycott the Oscars. Not only did black people receive a large number of nominations, they successfully won Best Supporting Actor and Actor, and a purely black film also won the best picture statuette...

It's clear to anyone in their right mind that the film's Best Picture win has little to do with its quality.

Black people, homosexuality and a series of sensitive topics, coupled with the protests of the black people in the previous year, who can't see that this film was made for the appetite of the Oscar judges, and it was simply for the Olympic Games.

Think about it, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are too obvious because of their intention to rush to the Olympics, how many years has the Oscar suppressed them?

It can only be said that people who can cry have food!

In fact, the faults of certain groups are also caused by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences themselves. After the Oscar nomination list came out this year, black people won many heavyweight nominations. This strange group is still dissatisfied!

Some black actors complained: In the past, how come Hollywood movies are all white now, and black people are not given the chance to win awards, discriminating against black people, right? Now, why are there so many black people in Oscar nominations? We can only rely on crowd tactics to win awards if we are discriminated against, right?

In the so-called Hollywood-style politically correct environment, black people have long since become a special group. It is not too much to say that they are a group of black uncles.

Also at this year's Oscars, although this black film won the best picture, when two old white actors announced the award, they said it was another white-dominated musical.

Afterwards, PricewaterhouseCoopers, who was counting the votes, admitted that they took the wrong envelope and handed the best actress envelope to the award presenter by mistake. However, Murphy once maliciously guessed that this might be a premeditated action.

The two award presenters deliberately took the wrong envelope and mispronounced the name of the best film. In this way, they announced their dissatisfaction with the so-called Hollywood-style political correctness and protested to those black people!

Even many insiders in Hollywood have to admit that in some cases, white people have become a disadvantaged group in Hollywood...

Uncle Hei used a special way to highlight his victory at the Oscars, but as time goes by, when people look back on the past history of Oscars, some films will inevitably become a laughing stock like "Shakespeare in Love".

Hollywood has developed to the present, and even Murphy has to admit that many external factors can not only affect the results of the Oscars, but can even affect the final ownership of the Oscar statuette.

If you want to hit the Oscars and make a difference in the awards season, you must not only look at yourself, but also your competitors.

"A lot of films aimed at the awards season have already appeared at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival." Bill Rossis knew about Murphy's plan and began to pay attention to potential competitors a long time ago. Judging from the media reputation and professional reputation, this year may be a big year for the Oscars."

Murphy nodded slightly.

Bill Rossis continued, "Dallas Buyers Club, directed by Jean-Marc Vale, starring Matthew McConaughey, Blue Jasmine directed by Woody Allen, Leonardo- DiCaprio's The Great Gatsby, Tom Hanks' Captain Phillips, David O. Russell's American Hustle, Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave."

"I heard..." Murphy reminded, "Alfonso Cuarón's 'Gravity' is also interested in awards season."

"Yes." Bill Ross nodded, "I will let people pay attention to their dynamics."

Murphy stood up and sighed softly, "We have many competitors, and they are very powerful."

"Gravity," "Dallas Buyers Club," "American Hustle," and "12 Years a Slave" are all worthy films, especially "Gravity" and "12 A Slave." Year", Alfonso Cuarón and Steve McQueen are both strong contenders for best director.

Needless to say, the former is a Latino director who was once crowned the best director at this year's Oscars; the latter is a typical black movie, and it is simply the best representative of Hollywood-style political correctness. , will burst out a powerful ability to charge prizes.

On the surface, Murphy seems to be more likely to win awards than those two in terms of ethnicity, but in today's Hollywood environment, Latino and black films will become advantages instead.

Compared with the one he won, this year's Oscar is obviously more competitive.

Not to mention the best director and best picture, the best actor and best actress of James Franco and Margot Robbie are not at all dominant.

In the past, the death of Heath Ledger was the biggest factor in being able to win the award. The power of death is extremely shocking, and no one would care about and compete with the deceased. The Best Supporting Actor statuette, awarded to the late Heath Ledger, fits the spirit of the award.

Although the current James Franco does not have such a special advantage, and the declared award has become the best actor, it is not without a chance of being nominated. After all, the film is no longer a comic-adapted film that is discriminated against by the academics. And it has become a black crime realistic film that has been well received by the media and professionals.

These all help James Franco get nominated, but if you want to win the award, you have no advantage against Matthew McConaughey and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The situation of Margot Robbie is similar to that of James Franco. The difference between the characters before and after, especially the peculiar psychological changes. According to many professional evaluations, it is that she is performed superbly. Perhaps it is not difficult to get nominated , if winning, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock and Amy Adams, which one has a greater advantage than her.

Fortunately, the situation is relatively unfavorable for "Dark City". Murphy had planned to continue to provoke the tough Archbishop Marquez Costello when the awards season was approaching. Unexpectedly, the changes were much faster than planned. The shooting incident wrinkled the archbishop's ambitions, and made the Catholic Church intend to seek Hollywood...

Standing on the cusp of madness, he and "Dark City" passively became representatives of Hollywood attacked by Catholicism.

From the perspective of public opinion, this is not a good thing, but from the perspective of Hollywood, it is definitely not a bad thing.

No one can guarantee the awards of James Franco and Margot Robbie. The first thing CAA and 20th Century Fox must guarantee is the best director and best picture.

With the Hollywood media frenziedly hyping the Catholic scandal, Murphy is ready to add fire to it.