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"The Gotham Independent Film Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, and Annie Awards all sent me invitations."

As December ends and January 1998 enters, the annual awards season in North America has once again begun to enter its most lively stage. After the chatting time passed, Jimmy opened his black briefcase and took out a large pile of invitations of various shapes and colors.

The manager fiddled with the invitations one by one, looked at Wayne and continued: "Not only these, there are a dozen awards ceremonies of various sizes, all of which have sent you invitations."

As he spoke, he placed seven or eight specially separated invitations on the coffee table in front of his clients, shrugged and said, "These are what the organizer has already hinted at. As long as you attend the awards ceremony in person, "Batman: "The Dark Knight" will give you something."

Similar things happen in entertainment circles all over the world, and Hollywood is certainly no exception. Award ceremonies also need exposure to attract sponsors and advertisers, and some smaller award ceremonies naturally need to find ways to invite celebrities to participate.

Even some awards that have always upheld fairness in the eyes of the public still cannot escape this rule.

"besides."

Jimmy took advantage of Wayne and Naomi Watts to lower his head to check the invitation he picked out, pursed his lips, and continued talking to himself. "The Hollywood Directors Guild, the Producers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild. These three major union awards, "The Dark Knight" all have very good prospects of winning. I suggest you pay appropriate attention and, if possible, mobilize your connections to fight for it. .

By the way, there are also the three major Film Critics Association Awards in Los Angeles, New York and other places. I personally highly recommend you to fight for them, regardless of whether "The Dark Knight" has any results at the Oscars, or even whether we want to participate Public relations, these are the most professional awards in the industry, so you should try your best to win them! "

Once the awards season begins, the whole of North America will be plunged into award ceremonies, large and small, and the awards selected by Jimmy and specifically mentioned are the most authoritative and professional awards in the industry.

In particular, the awards within various Hollywood unions are almost the well-known outposts of the Oscars, because most of the guild members who select these awards are also members of the Academy and also have the right to vote for various Oscar awards.

They will vote in the union's internal selection, which means that they will most likely not change their choice in the next Oscar voting.

"I've already told Jeff that we will give up on this year's Oscars."

With a kacha, Wayne lit a cigarette, glanced at Naomi Watts, who was looking at various invitations, her face full of creative scenes, but she directly said to her agent: "This year we can say It’s because you have no desires and no demands. It seems that all your preparations will be wasted.”

"no."

Jimmy shook his head firmly, put away the smile on his face, looked at his client seriously, and said: "We'd better participate if we can, and don't give the college a signal to give up..."

"Hey, hey, Jimmy, listen to me."

Before the agent could finish speaking, Wayne stretched out his hand and knocked a few times on the coffee table, interrupting the other person's words. "I have to be busy with the post-production work on "The Flash" and keep an eye on the editing of "X-Men." Even if I still have energy, I still have to care about the progress of "Charlie's Angels." So, do you think I still have time to participate in these? Awards ceremony?"

Seeing that there was less than a month left, he had to start cutting out a thirty-second trailer for "The Flash" to put on the Super Bowl halftime show.

"X-Men" has also entered the final work. In order to ensure that the direction of the film does not go astray, he must also take time to visit the Fox post-production studio from time to time. In addition, "The Matrix" needs to be paid attention to. "Matrix Revolution" and "Charlie's Angels", so in terms of time, he is simply not allowed to attend various award ceremonies.

"Don't worry, listen to me."

Helplessly spreading his hands, Jimmy looked at his client with a solemn look on his face. "You have been too busy during this time and have neglected too many things. I got some news. In order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of North American cinema, the Academy will select one of the 100 Greatest Movies this year.

Compared with the Oscars, this year's selection of the 100 Greatest Movies may have greater influence. Moreover, Wayne, the Oscar Awards ceremony is held every year, and statuettes are given out in batches every year, but the opportunity to select the top 100 movies of the century has only been once in these decades! "

"F**k! A hundred years old..."

The agent's words made Wayne lean on the sofa, raised his hand and slapped his thigh violently, muttering expletives in his mouth.

He had heard a little bit about this when he was still living on the other side of the Pacific. However, compared with the various movie lists on the Internet in later generations, there were not many occasions when the "100 Greatest" was mentioned. People preferred I believe that the list of top 250 must-see movies is because of this list, it does not have a strong presence on the Internet.

In 1998, in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of North American cinema, the North American Film Institute selected from more than 400 recommended classic films. Based on votes from academia, the production industry and general audiences, the film will be selected as the representative works of North American films in the past 100 years.

After this list came out, it has occupied a very important position in the hearts of countless die-hard movie fans and industry professionals for a long time. Obviously, if you want to reflect the quality of a director, you have to look at whether his works are in this most authoritative list, at what position they are, and how many films have been selected.

It is worth mentioning that Steven Spielberg has a crazy five movies selected in this list, and Hitchcock also has four movies selected, which shows how fierce the competition for positions on this list is.

"You have to show your influence!"

Jimmy listened and stared at his client. "Wayne, you are actually at a natural disadvantage in this regard because you are too young, so you must always show your influence and remind those people of your existence through the media."

Young age is Chi Luoluo's advantage in many cases. Young age means there are countless possibilities in the future. But in Hollywood, being young is an invisible disadvantage in many ways.

Ranwen

Almost everyone in the Oscar industry knows about the hidden discrimination against age at the Oscars. Being young means being ignored in award selections, whether for actors or directors. For the selection of the top 100 movies of the century, young age is also an invisible disadvantage.

Because he is young, it means that his career is still very short. The number of director's works is naturally very different compared with those who have been in the industry for decades. Even if Wayne is a quick shooter, There is no way to make up for the disadvantage brought by time.

Obviously what they can make up for is to find ways to always remind those people and use quality to impact other people's quantity.

"No matter how you choose, there is no need to argue about the first place." Jimmy recalled while analyzing carefully. "No movie can beat "Citizen Kane" to get the first place, so what we have to fight for is the second place! With the current popularity of "The Dark Knight", the main opponent is "The Godfather"."

"And Joker!"

Naomi Watts reminded: "There's hope for 'Joker', 'The Dark Knight' and even 'Get Out' too!"

Jimmy nodded. "Yes, Wayne, we have to find a way to fight for it."

The thing is very simple. Since we can't compare with those old fried dough sticks in terms of quantity, we can only start with quality. As long as the ranking is high enough that people watching the list can spot his works at a glance, who can deny his influence and his contribution to North American movies?

"Nina, help me arrange the time."

Wayne smiled, turned to look at the assistant lady, and ordered: "We will make time to attend some necessary activities. We should decline some unnecessary invitations."

Of course he didn't want to give up on an opportunity like this that was impossible to get if he missed it. It was better to fight for it if he could, rather than regret it later when he looked at the list.

As a result, the already tight time was invisibly squeezed even harder. After the beginning of the new week, Wayne rushed to the post-production studio to start editing "The Flash". And just a few days after January, a special awards season award nomination was announced, once again pushing him to the forefront of entertainment.

The Grammy Awards, hosted by the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences, announced this year's full list of music nominees. Among the shortlists, the ones that the public and the media are talking about the most are undoubtedly Wayne and George. - "something just like this" sung by Lucas.

This song, which touched the whole of North America in 1997, was directly nominated by the organizer for Song of the Year. What made countless people laugh was that the duo of Wayne Greenberg and George Lucas were also nominated for the Grammy Award. The best newcomer in America.

Although these two awards are both Grammy Awards, the Best New Artist seems to be the one that makes countless people laugh. No one expected that the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences would suddenly do such a trick. .

Undoubtedly, as soon as the nomination list was announced, it won huge attention for this year's Grammy, and the hot discussion of the topic was not limited to the music circle at all.

Almost on the day the list was announced, many well-known musicians expressed in the media that they were very much looking forward to being on the same stage with two world-class directors.

Even Will Smith, who had won the Grammys before, was interviewed by reporters immediately. He said to the camera without hesitation that he hoped that the organizers of the Grammys would not let his brother Return empty-handed, even if you give him a gramophone, even if it is the best newcomer's.