The 91st Academy Awards ceremony was held on the morning of February 25, Beijing time. Among them, the best picture was won by "Green Book". The film also won best original screenplay and best supporting actor (Mahesara Ali).
In addition, Rami Marek and Olivia Coleman won the Award for Best Actor and Actress. The best foreign language film award went to Mexico's Roma. In addition to the award-winning films and filmmakers, what deserves people's attention at this year's Oscars is that the Chinese power has become a new force rising in the American film industry after black and streaming media companies, which has a new impact on the traditional Hollywood film and even the territory of the American film industry - from capital to culture.
Chinese capital
Ali looks at "Green Book"
Become the big winner of this year
"Green Book" is produced by American Participant Films, American DreamWorks Pictures, and co-produced by Ali Pictures. The success of "Green Book" means that Ali Pictures has become the third Internet company in the world to jointly produce and receive the Oscar Best Picture nomination after Amazon and Netflix, becoming the biggest winner of this year's Oscars in China.
The Green Book is based on the true story of Jamaican-American pianist Don Shelley and his hired driver and bodyguard, Tony Lip. The low-level white driver played by Vigo Mortensen and the black pianist played by Mahershala Ali tour to the south, where two men with disparities in status and personality go from incompatible to sympathetic, and together compose a sincere friendship. The film was co-produced by Alibaba Pictures.
It is worth noting that Chinese film companies like big narratives and film projects with home-country feelings in their investment in Chinese mainland films, but in their investment in American films, Chinese film companies regard telling the stories of small people and literary and art projects with a warm narrative style as an investment strategy.
Associated with Hollywood since 2011
Successively invested in blockbuster movies such as "Mission Impossible 5"
In recent years, Chinese films have stopped at the periphery of several "Olympics", but the Oscars and China have not gradually drifted away, because Chinese capital has long begun to lurk in it.
Chinese elements that have begun to "infiltrate" Hollywood from advertising implantation and Chinese actors' appearances are no longer satisfied with contributing to Hollywood's box office at the consumer end, but have gone deep into the upstream of the industrial chain – through the establishment of overseas branches, the acquisition of film companies, the signing of investment agreements, the acquisition of creative teams, etc. as a step to expand the international market.
In 2016, Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar hit "The Revenant" already had the participation of Chinese capital, and the film was co-produced by New Regency Productions and China's Aofei Pictures. Aofei Pictures has reached a long-term strategic partnership with the new regent, while investing no more than $60 million in three Hollywood blockbusters produced by the company, sharing the global box office revenue of these three films according to the proportion of investment.
Moreover, with the increase of investment, Chinese capital can directly issue instructions on the details of American blockbusters. Bai Jie, the project leader of Aofei Pictures, the producer of "Wilderness Hunter", revealed in an interview with Beijing Youth Daily that Aofei Pictures has been involved in the script creation stage of "Wilderness Hunter", and it is also known early that Leonardo starred, and the whole cooperation process is very smooth.
In fact, the connection between Chinese capital and Hollywood can be traced back to earlier, New Wilderness Entertainment Media Company became an investor in the science fiction blockbuster "Cloud Atlas" in 2011; in 2012, LeTV Pictures invested $8 million in "Daredevil 2"; in 2013, Huayi Brothers invested in the movie "Fury" starring Brad Pitt, and participated in the global box office distribution as an important investor; 1905 Film Company has participated in the production and investment of "Transformers 4", "Mission Impossible 5" and "Terminator 5" Alibaba Pictures also participated in the investment of "Mission Impossible 5".
Hollywood films funded by China
It will be more popular when it is released in China
Chinese-funded Hollywood films will be more popular and faster when they are released in China, for example, "The Revenant" was quickly introduced to China after the Oscars, and the film eventually achieved a box office score of 370 million in China.
In the early years, films such as "The King's Speech" and "The Iron Lady" were introduced a year after winning the Oscars, while the oscars "A Parting" and "The Artist" were introduced nine months later than they won the Oscars. The release of "American Hoax" in China has also passed 4 months after the awards ceremony, and these films have been dragged down by the introduction lag, and the box office can be described as very dismal.
This time, "Green Book" has accelerated again, and will meet the audience on March 1.
It is reported that the current pre-sales of "Green Book" have reached 1.62 million, 19.7% of the pre-schedule films, and its popularity in China will continue to rise with the bonus points of the Oscar awards.
Chinese filmmakers
Kim Kwok-wai won the Best Documentary Feature Film Award
Rely on sports to show the strength of the Orientals
At this year's Academy Awards, Chinese filmmakers have gained a lot, and the works directed and photographed by Kim Kwok-wai and his wife Elizabeth Chai Vassarelli won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In this documentary, Jin Guowei as the "protagonist" shows the muscle strength of the Orientals, but this power is not demonstrated by the "Chinese Kung Fu" known in the past, it comes from a sport, a sport that is popular in the contemporary era and has the spirit of Western adventurism - "Freehand Rock Climbing".
Director Jin Guowei was born in Minnesota in 1974 to a Wenzhou native and a mother from Harbin. Jin Guowei's passion and efforts in travel, rock climbing, skiing, adventure and photography have made him a breakthrough in global adventure activities. He is one of the world's finest all-round adventurers and photographers, and a signed athlete for North Face. Over the past decade, Kim has worked with many of the world's top explorers, climbers and skiers and documented the Karakoram Tower, which has never been climbed, and skied down on top of the world.
Ishi no Yu won the award for Warm Chinese Animation
That's exactly what Pixar is interested in
Director Shi Zhiyu's animation film "Bao Bao Bao" won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. "Bao Bao" is no stranger to Chinese audiences, and when "The Incredibles 2" was released in China, the 8-minute "Bao Bao" appeared in the form of a cushion short film. Compared with the super cute superhuman baby, there are also many people who prefer this very Chinese-style bao baby, after all, the animation is written by a Chinese director. The director' name is Shi Zhiyu, and he is the first female director of Chinese descent in Pixar's history known as the "Boys' Club".
"Bao Bao" is a special "welfare" given by Pixar, and it is also the second Pixar short film patch to introduce mainland theaters, and the last short film patch to introduce mainland theaters is "Light Rod Band" (patch "Racing Story").
This 8-minute short film feels real in fantasy from the start. A lonely mother used to make buns to pass the time, but she did not expect that at the dinner table, one of the small buns turned out to be alive, which made the mother re-experience the joy of mother-son love. However, with the advancement of life, the little bun slowly grew up, grew a small mustache, began to ignore the existence of the mother, make friends with themselves, and even ran away from home with his girlfriend, the mother was in pain, and did everything to prevent it but found that everything was a dream...
The film uses food to express the unspeakable love of Chinese parents, and expresses the mentality characteristics of paying too much attention to children who are reluctant to let go, reproducing the bittersweet and mixed parent-child relationship.
Shi Zhiyu's father is a native of Sichuan, and Shi Zhiyu immigrated to Toronto, Canada with his parents at the age of two. After graduating from Sheldam College in Canada with a degree in animation, she joined Pixar Animation Studios as an animation storyboarder and moved to California.
Shi Zhiyu was originally worried about whether the film was too "Chinese", but Pixar was precisely because of the strong Chinese style and liked it, "Pixar is willing to tell the world a variety of special stories, not the same story." "Text/Reporter Xiao Yang Coordinator/Man Yi."
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American movies embrace streaming
Rome, which received ten nominations at this year's Oscars, won best director, best foreign language film and best cinematography, and director Alfonso Cuarón won his second Oscar for best director, and the streaming trend represented by "Roma" is particularly concerned by filmmakers.
Produced by Netflix, "Roma" is the company's first work to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, marking the official breaking of the traditional Hollywood studio dominance of the streaming media company, and in 2018, Netflix won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for "Icarus".
Alfonso Cuarón won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Editing in 2014 for Gravity, Roma made him the first to win Best Cinematography and the first director to win an Academy Award for Cinematography for his own work.
If the film industry was still hostile to streaming in 2018, then in 2019, it is already beginning to embrace. In January, Netflix officially joined the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), becoming the first technology company in history to join the MPAA. Previously, MPAA members only had the traditional six major Hollywood film companies - Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, etc., Netflix was the first non-film company to join THE MPAA, the first to join the MPAA streaming media. The traditional studio = U.S. film mainstream is changing, and then there is news that MPAA is recruiting other new members such as Amazon. Recognized by the Motion Picture Association of America, Netflix, which was once boycotted by multinational theaters, ushered in a warm spring in 2019.
This year's Oscars Chinese Power related awards
Best Picture: "Green Book"
Best Original Screenplay: Nick Valerunga, Peter Farrelli, Brian Hayes Curry, "Green Book"
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, "Green Book"
Best Documentary Feature: Kim Kwok-wai, Evan Hayes, Shannon Deere, Elizabeth Chai Vassarelli, "Freehand Rock Climbing"
Best Animated Short Film: Becky Neiman, Ishi no Yu, "Bao Bao"
Source: Beijing Youth Daily
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