Best Movie Star

It's Oscars season now, and entertainment PRs in black suits are everywhere. Even PR experts from other industries will come to Los Angeles this season to join the annual Hollywood party and get a piece of the action, such as Harvey-Way More than once, Ernstein has hired the best of the presidential campaign to do Oscar PR.

Facts have proven time and time again that those who are willing to spend money will have a higher chance of getting an Oscar.

People like Anne Hathaway who are not willing to spend a lot of public relations expenses should wait until they have the money to consider winning the best actress. ..

However, Matthew sadly found that, except for Anne Hathaway, no one specially came to do his public relations work, and there were so many pull-ups in the independent film circle, and no one invited him.

This may have something to do with him never setting foot in that circle.

Aside from the background board of the three-second shot of "The Girl Who Moved Soul", since "Gladiator" played the barbarian leader, he has not participated in any literary and artistic film again, and he is labeled as a dazzling commercial star.

Although strictly speaking, several films he collaborated with David Ellison can also be classified as independent films. After all, they are the works of small companies, but the typical commercial characteristics and the six major companies as distributors , no one would admit that it was an independent film.

Especially with literary films, it has nothing to do with it.

Is there any neurosis in the film? Do you have depression? Are there any neurotic protagonists? Is there a super-sized lens that has been stripped and dried? Is there a rhythm where slow-to-empty shots appear one after the other?

If not, it has nothing to do with art.

No one is doing Oscar PR for him anymore, so Matthew is ready to vote randomly. In the Best Actress nomination, the first choice is of course Anne Hathaway. He is rarely able to do what he should do.

At this point, even in the whole of Hollywood, Matthew has a good reputation.

"The award for you as the presenter has already been decided."

The second weekend after the New Year, Matthew received a call from Helen Herman at home, and she said on the phone, "You have been the best picture award presenter before, and you will not be the first to be awarded any time soon. It's the second best picture award, and this time it's Disney Studios who's looking for you as an award guest, so you and Paul Walker are going to award the best animated feature together."

Hearing this, Matthew immediately understood the intentions of Disney Pictures and said, "It seems that Disney believes that the best animated feature film is "Robot Wall-E"."

Helen Herman on the other side of the phone added, "Although this animated film is one of the feature films produced by Pixar Studios, which has low commercial returns, it has a really good reputation."

Matthew nodded and said into the microphone, "This is a very rare and good movie."

Everyone knows that the box office and peripheral income of a good movie may not be very good. The global box office of "Robot Wall-E" of more than 500 million US dollars is not very good compared to the production cost of 80 million US dollars, and it is even more popular. Bad films like "Superman Hancock" released at the same time have been suppressed.

Even "Cars" is recognized as the worst animated film of Pixar Studios. Under the pressure of Disney, Pixar Studios is preparing to shoot a sequel, but according to the information he got, "Robot Wall-E" may not have a sequel.

Even if "Robot Wall-E" wins the best animated feature film, I am afraid it will not change the fact that the surrounding sales are far less than "Automobile".

One excellent commercial film after another received a mediocre response in the market, and one bad film after another sold well. He also discovered the fact that the audience of the so-called mature North American film market, the main audience group has just started to appreciate the level of appreciation compared to the other side of the Pacific Ocean. It's not much better over there.

In general, everyone likes simple, cheerful and exciting commercial blockbusters.

The market segment in North America is relatively well done. There are art theater chains that specialize in showing literary and artistic films. This is clearly different from traditional commercial chain theater chains. Art theater chains rarely show large commercial productions, and commercial chain theaters basically do not show literary films. Those who like literary films can avoid going to commercial theaters.

"Right, one more thing."

Before hanging up the phone, Helen Herman said to him again, "Remember your Oscar ballots, which will be mailed out before the fifteenth."

"I know."

Matthew hung up the phone to find out the Oscar ballots and the long list of candidates for Oscar nominations, most of which were very unfamiliar, making him a little dizzy.

Like "Child Abuse Doubt", "Life and Death Reading", "Midnight in Barcelona", these are the few names he has seen in the media.

If it is an ordinary person, since they are all unfamiliar, then choose a familiar name.

Matthew flashed this thought, and suddenly realized something. There are more than 6,000 judges at the Oscars, mainly located all over North America. ? So, those who are interested in running for the Oscars spend huge sums of money, constantly advertising in the media, and getting familiar in this way.

As a result, Oscar judges, who rarely watch the movies in question, will give preference to familiar names when voting.

It seems to be a normal human reaction.

However, he is not going to vote this way because it would be unfair.

As an Oscar judge, you must reflect the fairness and impartiality principles of the Academy!

Since this is a nomination vote, not a final award vote, according to the academy's regulations, as a member of the Screen Actors Guild, he can only vote for performance awards, which are best actor and actress and best supporting actor and actress.

Plus, he's joined the Producers League and can vote for best picture nominations.

Matthew took a few ballots with pictures of golden figures, and the ballots mailed by PricewaterhouseCoopers were actually only these five categories.

Of course, the Academy only pays money and does not work. The voting for Oscar has been represented by PricewaterhouseCoopers over the years. In the more than 80-year history of Oscar, PricewaterhouseCoopers has always been the proxy.

From the five ballots to find the one nominated for Best Actress, Matthew first filled in Anne Hathaway's name in the first place, but she didn't remember the movies and roles she played, so she had to take the declaration list and turn it over. After turning it over, I filled in the name of "Rachel's Wedding" and the corresponding heroine Cam.

What to do with the rest?

Matthew glanced at the application list. The familiar names on it are Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep. According to the choice of ordinary people, if you have not seen the movie, you will definitely choose these two famous names. people.

Especially Meryl Streep, who is simply the representative of a recognized acting actress.

It is a pity that the name of the production company is not on this application list, and it is not known whether Meryl Streep's film is the work of Weinstein Films.

Having said that, with Harvey Weinstein's reputation in the industry, if Meryl Streep uses him to get the best actress Oscar, will there be something special between the two...

Matthew shook his head and smiled. Even if there is such a thing, it is your wish. No one can say anything. Besides, Meryl Streep has a better reputation in matters of men and women than Harvey Wee. Ernstein is just a little better.

He is a well-known member of the Hollywood studio team of car shock players, and Meryl Streep is also one of them.

Glancing over the list of candidates, Matthew carefully considered who to choose and found a way.

He asked the housekeeper to push the whiteboard in the study on the first floor into the living room, found a few more colorful pens, pasted the shortlist on the whiteboard, stepped back five feet, and made a dart-throwing gesture, pointing at the list. a bit.

"No." He shook his head. "It's too close to see the name on it."

Matthew wants to ensure that his vote is absolutely fair and impartial. How can he choose a person based on the familiarity of the name? In order not to let the name affect the choice, he stepped back five feet.

"It still won't work." He gestured and shook his head again, "I just saw the list, remember the location of those names."

With a familiar name, a choice may be made subconsciously, which cannot guarantee fairness and justice.

As an Oscar judge, how can you not take fairness and justice as the first rule?

So, Matthew beckoned and called the housekeeper over again, and asked her to bring a thick black cloth and cover her eyes~www.readwn.com~ Now I can't see the list at all.

He thought about it and asked the butler to hand him a few other colored pens.

After doing this, Matthew shook it deliberately, then picked up the crayon, and threw the crayon at the position where the list was in the impression by throwing darts.

Snapped--

The crayons hit something and landed.

Snapped--

The crayons banged again.

Matthew threw four in a row and said to the housekeeper, "Go and see, did you all hit it?"

The butler's voice sounded, "All four have hit the target."

Hearing this, Matthew undid the blindfolded black cloth, went to the whiteboard, took off the list, and looked at it carefully. There were four marks left by colored pens on the list, three of which were on the letters with letters. place.

However, there is one in the blank.

Matthew thought about it for a second and then made a decision. Since this is not on the letter, then choose the closest name.

Then, he took the ballot and filled in the chosen name in the four lines below Anne Hathaway.

"This is fair and just." Matthew checked again and confirmed that there was no mistake. "Except for Anne Hathaway, the other four candidates are not affected by my subjective emotions."

Compared with the judges who received small gifts or were influenced by public relations, his votes more reflected the principle of Oscar's fairness and justice.

In order to be a qualified judge and carry out fairness and justice to the end, when Matthew filled in the ballots later, there was no more public relations like Anne Hathaway, and they all blindfolded and made choices that were not subject to subjective influence.

At noon that day, he packed the completed ballots and mailed them to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

After lunch, Matthew left the manor, ready to go to Disney Studios to see, the post-production of "Fast and Furious 4" has come to an end.