Chapter 197 Chinese Shine at Oscars, Ready to Return Home!

After five years, a Chinese-language film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film again.

Before Wu Yuan, there was already a Chinese-language film that won this honor, that is Li An's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Before "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Li An was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with "The Wedding Banquet" and "Eat Drink Man Woman".

But at that time, this matter was not known or cared about by mainland movie fans at all.

It was not until "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the award that mainland movie fans paid attention to the Oscars.

Then, with the fanfare of "Hero" "rushing for the Oscar", this award was deified.

Now, the popularity that Zhang Weiping hyped up and the style that he created for this award have all benefited Wu Yuan.

In China, when Wu Yuan held up the little golden man, public opinion on the Internet exploded.

Although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" also won this award, Li An is not a mainland director after all, and mainland movie fans still want to see a mainland movie win the award.

Now that a mainland director has finally won this award, it must be blown up!

On major film forums, forums, QQ groups, Douban groups and other online social platforms, there are news about Wu Yuan and "Love" winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Regardless of whether they have seen the movie or not, all netizens are cheering and calling Director Wu awesome!

It is noon in Beijing time, which is the busiest time on the Internet. The news of Wu Yuan's winning is like a depth bomb, exploding on the mainland Internet.

The video of his winning was spread everywhere on the Internet at the first time.

With the end of the screening of "Painted Skin", Wu Yuan's popularity, which had just weakened, was pushed to a high point again.

"Director Wu won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which Zhang Yimou didn't. Does that mean that Director Wu is better than Zhang Yimou?"

"That's not true. Director Yimou has won the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear. He only needs the Golden Palm to complete the three major European Grand Slams."

"But he doesn't have the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film."

"This Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film isn't that incredible. Before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the award, I hadn't heard how great it was."

"But Director Yimou didn't win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film."

"No matter how great this award is, can it be better than the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear?"

"But Director Yimou didn't win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film."

On the Internet, at least today, Wu Yuan can be said to have overwhelmed a group of great domestic directors.

Especially Zhang Yimou.

The bitter fruit of Zhang Weiping's crazy hype for the Oscar in "Hero" was swallowed by Zhang Yimou this time.

It's a pity that at the Oscars ceremony today, the glory does not only belong to Wu Yuan alone.

The perspective is pulled back to the award ceremony.

After the Best Foreign Language Film Award was presented, the award ceremony continued.

Although the awarding of this award caused a heated sensation in China, netizens rushed to tell each other and celebrated Wu Yuan.

But in the eyes of North American audiences, the Best Foreign Language Film Award is just a less important award, because most of them have not seen the nominated films.

In addition to sighing that the winning director is really young and handsome, the attention of North American audiences was quickly attracted by other awards that were presented next.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Ziyi also came on stage to serve as the award presenter and presented the award for the Best Editing Award.

This year is really a year of high spirits for the international Zhang.

Awards were presented one after another.

When the award ceremony came to this point, every award would cause countless audiences on the scene and in front of the TV to shout excitedly.

The Best Actress Award was presented to Reese Witherspoon of "Sing Along".

She was nominated for the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Film at the 59th Golden Globe Awards in 2001 for the romantic comedy film "Legally Blonde".

This time, her performance in the music biographical film "Sing Along" was finally recognized by the old men of the Academy and she was successfully crowned the queen.

The Best Actor Award was awarded to Philip Seymour Hoffman.

He was successfully crowned the emperor for his outstanding performance in the biographical film "Capote".

The Best Actor and Best Actress awards were awarded to the leading actors of biographical films, which shows that the old men of the Academy prefer biographical films.

It is no wonder that more and more biographical films have been nominated for Oscars.

And the Best Director Award was not surprisingly won by Li An.

When the award presenter Tom Hanks read out the name "ANG LEE", all the guests and the audience gave warm applause, and Li An also jumped up to hug the crew members around him.

"This is the first time ANG LEE has won an Oscar and the third time he has been nominated."

The announcer on the scene was introducing Li An, but obviously their introduction was not correct. Li An should have been nominated for the fourth time and won the Oscar for the second time.

If the scope is narrowed down to the Best Director Award he won, then he was nominated for the first time and won it.

Obviously, the Oscar staff made a low-level mistake when writing the script.

But no one at the scene cared about this little mistake.

"As the director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he once won the Best Foreign Language Film Award for Taiwan."

Another announcement, but Wu Yuan and others from the Love crew frowned, somewhat dissatisfied.

What does it mean to win the Best Foreign Language Film Award for Taiwan?

The Americans just like to inadvertently stir up the nerves of cross-strait conflicts.

Holding back his unhappiness, Wu Yuan listened carefully to Li An's acceptance speech.

Fortunately, the Oscars only dared to tease like this. When announcing "Love", they counted Ang Lee's nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film as a Chinese film.

Otherwise, they should have announced that "Love" was the second Chinese film nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film, not the fifth.

"I made this movie not long after my father passed away, so the most important thing is that I dedicate this movie to him."

"Finally, thank my family, my mother, and thank everyone who cares about me on both sides of the Taiwan Strait."

"Thank you!"

Holding the little golden man, Li An walked down from the podium.

His winning also caused quite a stir on the mainland Internet.

After all, Li An said a lot of thank-you words in Chinese when he gave his acceptance speech.

The simple mainland netizens still have the impression that the compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family.

When a Taiwanese director won the Oscar for Best Director, everyone was celebrating. Li An also took away a lot of the glory of Wu Yuan's winning the Best Foreign Language Film.

However, Li An's winning also means that the strength of Chinese people tonight will stop here.

If you win the Best Director, you will miss the Best Picture.

In the end, the Best Picture of this year's Oscar was won by "Crash", which is a work that is very unfamiliar to mainland movie fans and has never been released in the mainland.

But Wu Yuan is very familiar with the heroine of this movie, Sandra Bullock.

Yes, it is the top Hollywood actress whose luck was cut off by the Light Age.

When the presenter announced that "Crash" won the award, Wu Yuan clapped very hard. When the live camera captured him, the audience in front of the TV was a little surprised.

"Does Director Wu know Paul Haggis, the director of "Crash"?" In the domestic broadcast room, Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang looked at each other.

So far, the 78th Academy Awards ceremony has ended.

Although this year's Oscars is not a big year, it is definitely the most perfect Oscars for Chinese movie fans.

Wu Yuan won the Best Foreign Language Film, Li An won the Best Director, and Zhang Ziyi's "Memoirs of a Geisha" also won the Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Editing Awards!

For domestic movie fans, after watching the live broadcast of today's Oscars, they have the illusion that Chinese filmmakers have gone global and even become an important part of the world film industry.

Perhaps this is not an illusion.

It was 10:30 pm in Los Angeles time.

The Oscars ceremony has ended and the live broadcast has been disconnected, but behind the scenes of the awards ceremony, there is still a press interview waiting for all the award-winning guests.

"Daniel, what do you think about winning the Best Foreign Language Film Award?"

"I am very happy and excited. This proves that Chinese films are getting closer to the international market!"

Holding the little golden man, Wu Yuan was also surrounded by many reporters backstage.

"Daniel, will Love be released in North America? When will it be released?"

"Of course it will be released in North America, and it is expected to be released in April. At that time, North American audiences can also go to the cinema to watch this movie. This is a very profound movie. I believe that many fans will like it."

"Okay, then can you reveal your work schedule for next year? In addition to Pirates of the Caribbean, do you have any new Hollywood movies to meet fans?"

"Yes, the Rush Hour 3 directed by me has just been completed not long ago. It will meet the audience at the end of this year or the beginning of next year."

"The Rush Hour series should not need me to introduce it much. This is Cheng Long's masterpiece in Hollywood. Fans who like Chinese Kung Fu will definitely love this sequel!"

One reporter after another kept putting the microphone in front of Wu Yuan to interview him, trying to dig out more news from him.

At this time, a crisp Chinese question and answer came out from the group of reporters.

"Director Wu, congratulations on winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film! You have won a great victory for Chinese films!"

A female reporter wearing a CCTV badge squeezed into the group of reporters with difficulty, raised her hand and asked loudly: "When do you plan to return to China? When will your science fiction blockbuster "Gravity" officially start shooting?"

The face of the female reporter revealed a worried look.

She was really afraid that Wu Yuan would be obsessed with Hollywood, the world of fame and fortune, and the extravagant and decadent life of the capital empire, and would focus his work on Hollywood and no longer pay attention to the mainland audience and market.

After all, the current mainland film market and Hollywood are really uncompetitive.

Wu Yuan, who has box office and awards in Hollywood, why would he return to the mainland with a total box office of only 2 billion a year?

The total box office in mainland China in a year is not as high as the global box office of Wu Yuan's "Pirates of the Caribbean"!

The reporter herself was a little unsure.

However, when she looked up at Wu Yuan's eyes, she saw a pair of clear and bright eyes.

Wu Yuan smiled and said in Chinese: "I have finished my work in the United States and will return to China in two days."

"There are still many things and work waiting for me to deal with in China."

"As for Gravity, it may not start until the end of the year, in November or December."

“As the first science fiction blockbuster in the mainland, this film is also a very risky attempt for me. Many aspects are done for the first time. The early preparation alone takes a long time. There is no rush.”