In fact, public relations manipulation and behind-the-scenes manipulation of awards have long been commonplace in film and television circles. Even the highest Oscar in the eyes of filmmakers is no exception.
In the past 30 years, Harvey weinstein, the "God of Public Relations" of the Academy Awards, has used all kinds of public relations lobbying methods to the extreme, such as "throwing a party for the judges, making phone calls, being stubborn, bribing, manipulating the mainstream media to brag about themselves and discrediting opponents", and successfully operated 34 1 Oscar nominations and won 8/kloc-. It was not until last year, when its sexual scandal was exposed, that they drew a clear line with it.
Farewell My Concubine is defeated by a lover of 4,000 daughters, and a deserter has sex with four sisters at the same time. The biggest reason is that Chen Kaige thought he was a shoo-in, but he really felt how fair the Oscar was, so he didn't bother to go to the public relations judges. Ang Lee is great, but the process of winning three Oscars, in his own words, is "every time I eat plastic chicken breast at a public relations reception, it makes me want to vomit".
International Class A film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice and other three major European film festivals mainly select films, and the actor award is attached to the optimistic shortlisted films, which is relatively ignored and the number of judges is small, so the final result is greatly influenced by the personal preferences of the judges.
For example, at a Cannes Film Festival, he hosted Wong Kar-wai's "Sunglasses for the King". One film was given to five winners, and the other film randomly invited six queens, which caused an uproar in the international film circle.
Excellent filmmakers from all over the world will try their best to "protect their weaknesses" and try their best to win awards for their films and actors when they are judges. For example, Ang Lee won the Golden Bear Award in Berlin for "The Wedding Banquet" and the Golden Lion Award in Venice for "Lust, Caution", all of which were the results that Zhang Yimou, then chairman of the jury, tried his best to win for him.
At present, in the Chinese film circle, the Golden Horse Award, which is highly praised by many industry stars and film critics, is actually a political propaganda tool of Taiwan Province authorities. After the 1990s, it was nominally changed to the management of filmmakers themselves, but in fact it was also deeply influenced by current politics. For example, 1993 changed the rules overnight, declaring Farewell My Concubine as a film with more than 50% investment in the Mainland, and it was forbidden to participate in the evaluation. Tuya's Marriage, which won the Golden Bear Award in Berlin in 2007, was a wholly-owned film in the mainland and was ordered to withdraw from the competition. Leslie Cheung and Nan Yu, the stars of these two films, also missed the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor and Best Actress.
Even today, there are still a lot of public relations operations, the judges' personal preferences and the regional protection of the organizers in Taiwan Province Province.
For example, of the five places nominated by the winners of the Golden Horse Awards each year, the organizers in Taiwan Province Province will reserve two or three places for their own people, and the rest will pay more attention to Hong Kong stars, which means that there are only two or three places left for mainland actresses at most. Therefore, almost all famous or unknown young actresses in Taiwan Province Province were nominated by a Golden Horse Award winner, and young Hong Kong stars such as,,,, Wu,, Yin Xin and Chen Wenqi were added.
As for the gold content, acting nominations such as Kwai Lun Mei, Lin Jiaxin and Ariel Lin may be well deserved. The rest, such as The Legend of the Demon Cat, Foreign Guifei have actually nominated three acting queens, and the heroine of Tomato has also nominated acting queens. I have to say how fair the nomination of the Golden Horse Award is, but no one believes it if it is not "regional protection"!
Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun have performed many classic works for so many years, and they were nominated three times after winning the Golden Horse Award, which is already the best achievement of mainland actresses in the Golden Horse Award. Compared with Shu Qi's seven nominations for the Golden Horse Award and one award, does her acting evaluation really exceed the sum of Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun?
-Then why do many mainland films allow investment from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and one or several actors in Taiwan Province Province seriously disobey the audience? You have the answer.
At the same time, since the mainland film market is now on an equal footing with the China film market, the local market of Hong Kong and Taiwan can be completely ignored. As for the once brilliant Hong Kong Golden Awards, these years are completely equivalent to the "Hong Kong Image Award", and its influence is extremely weak, which is not worth mentioning.
I admire Louis Koo, who has built countless Hope Primary Schools in the Mainland, but this year, Wolf in Kill the Wolf won the Golden Elephant Best Actor, and Jason Wu's Wolf Warrior 1, Kill the Wolf 2 and Wolf Warrior 2 should win three best actors in a row.
Authoritative awards such as Golden Rooster Award, Hundred Flowers Award Award, China Watch Award, Flying Award and Golden Eagle Award in the Mainland have only been held once every two years since 2003, which often misses the timely recognition of outstanding actors, and even two or three years have passed since the actors won the awards. It is precisely because of this deep-rooted shackles that authority and credibility are also greatly affected.
Moreover, in the mainland, there are countless old artists with superb acting skills, and there are also countless well-known actors in various theaters. From last year's in the name of people, we can see their real strength. Because of fierce competition and limited places, many excellent actors often have to wait until very late to finally get the recognition of authoritative awards.
On the contrary, those big stars with great commercial value, because they need trophies to paste their fame and brag about their acting skills, rely on their popularity and strong team to seize the best film and television resources and further go to public relations to operate awards. They have enough motivation, enough benefits and enough ability to do so.
Huang Xiaoming won three authoritative awards for Best Actor (Golden Rooster and Brilliant Watch) and two sub-awards for Best Actor (two gold medals in Changchun Film Festival).
Fan Bingbing's four authoritative awards (Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, Sanshui, Tokyo) and three sub-awards (Asian Film Award, Directors Association Award, Peking University Film Festival),
Is the performance good? Is your resume wonderful? However, their acting reputation has always been well known.
On the contrary, before the narrow escape on 20 18, Xu zhēng didn't even have a winner, only the second director association award. This year, he finally won the Golden Horse Award at the age of 46 by virtue of the drug god.
However, if you really want to compare acting skills with word-of-mouth in the eyes of fans, please let Huang Ying and Fan Ying tie up, even if it is a fraction of "The Mountain is Brother".
Compared with the films made by the two best actors in recent years, the box office has been flogged constantly, and the audience voted for the "real best actor" with the 7 billion box office starring Xu zhēng.
Duan Long didn't win the first authoritative award (Best Actor in Jin Shanghai) until 20 15, and won the best actor in Tokyo on 20 17.
Zhang Yi didn't win the first authoritative award (Golden Rooster Award for Men) until 20 15, and was honored as Emperor Magnolia on 20 17.
It was not until 20 16 that Zhao Lixin won the first authoritative award (male magnolia).
Zhang Zhijian didn't win the first authoritative award (Magnolia Award for Men) until 20 17.
Yu Hewei won the first authoritative award (Golden Rooster Award for Men) on 20 17, and Magnolia Award for Men on 20 18.
So what? Are their excellent works for so many years before 20 15 really in vain? Even that their acting skills are not as good as those of Huang Xiaoming or Fan Bingbing? Who believes it? Who is convinced?
There are many good actors like Zu Feng, Wang Jinsong, Liu Yijun and Edward Zhang who have not won prizes yet, but there are no formal awards or sub-awards for film actors, but who can say that their acting skills are not good? Who can? Who dares?
Aren't you afraid that they, like Duan Long, Zhang Yi, Zhao Lixin, Zhang Zhijian and Yu Hewei, don't know when their luck will change?
Not to mention the example of Great Leslie Cheung, there was only one gold statue winner in his life, a Tokyo critic winner, who was artificially suppressed and belittled many times in the selection of the Golden Horse Award, and lost to his opponent who was far less than him.
However, his brilliant works, such as Farewell My Concubine, True Story of Teddy Boy, Ashes of Time, Spring Break, and Rouge Kou, reflect the history of China movies. Every year, there is an actor, but there is no Leslie Cheung!
In recent years, some fans of traffic stars have been ridiculed by the public because they are not angry that their idols have made too many bad movies of thunder dramas and their acting reputation is extremely poor. Conversely, it satirizes those actors who have created many classic roles and whose acting skills are well known to the public, but there are no awards for the time being, or there are too few awards. How ignorant and fearless!
When an artist does not conquer the audience by his own works and roles, but needs fans to go to popular science with others and list how many international and domestic awards he has won to prove his "acting skills", he or she has already lost as an "actor"!