Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

After Christmas, Link and Eva Ka returned to New York with the three children, where they spent a happy New Year.

At the beginning of the year, the list of nominees for the 71st Golden Globe Awards for American Film and Television was announced. Lionsgate and Palm Beach Films had 7 films nominated for various awards and received 16 nominations.

"Rust and Bone" three awards, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Actor/Actress in a Drama

"Her" three awards, Best Picture/Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical, Best Screenplay.

"Spring Breakers" one award, Best Screenplay.

"August: Osage County" three awards, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress twice.

"Dallas Buyers Club" three awards, Best Picture in a Drama, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" two awards, Best Picture in a Comedy/Musical, Best Actor.

"The Hunger Games 2" one award, Best Original Song.

It accounts for a quarter of all nominations, which is less than last year, when 8 films were nominated and received 18 nominations.

The main reason is still related to the recent trend of public opinion.

Since the end of last year, there have been many media reports like "Lionsgate has contracted the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars", claiming that Liongate has received too many nominations and awards every year through public relations, which is unfair to many film companies and is not conducive to the development of the film industry.

It is also said that Liongate's films are specially shot for awards, becoming a professional winner of the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars.

Influenced by these negative news, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organizer of the Golden Globe Awards, voted for other films that were supposed to be voted for Liongate's films.

In order to solve this problem, during the award selection stage, the public relations departments of Liongate and Palm Beach Films will separate their activities. When promoting, the films of the two companies will also be separated. For example, "Her" and "August: Osage County" belong to Palm Beach Films, and the remaining few belong to Lionsgate.

In fact, the public relations award team belongs to the same group of people.

Although this method of covering one's ears and stealing the bell is redundant, it is useful and can stop some people from talking to a certain extent.

In terms of TV series, "House of Cards", co-produced by Lionsgate and Netflix, received four nominations, and "Orange Is the New Black" received two, with outstanding performances.

Rival Weinstein Films also performed well, with two films nominated for the Golden Globe Awards, the female-themed film "Philomena" received three nominations, and the celebrity biographical film "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" received three nominations.

On January 12, the 71st American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, and Link attended the awards ceremony with Selena.

"Hey, Link, how about a bet and see who can win the award?"

At the awards ceremony, Leonardo shouted at him.

"No bet!"

Link decisively refused. Although both of them were nominated for Best Actor, one was for Best Actor in a Drama and the other was for Best Actor in a Comedy/Music. His track has Matthew McConaughey, the protagonist of "Dallas Buyers Club", which is also the focus of Lionsgate's public relations. He has little chance of winning the award.

Later, it was proved that he was right not to gamble.

That night, Matthew McConaughey won the Best Actor in a Drama Film.

Leonardo DiCaprio won the Best Actor in a Drama Film again after 9 years. In 2005, he won the Best Actor in a Drama Film. The film he was nominated for was "The Aviator". This time, it was a comedy.

However, the film director who made Leo win the Golden Globe twice was Martin Scorsese.

The two can be regarded as old partners.

In other awards, the Best Film in the Drama Film category was won by "12 Years a Slave" and the Best Director was won by Alfonso Cuarón for "Gravity".

The Best Film in the Comedy Musical Film category was won by "The Wolf of Wall Street".

The Best Actress in a Drama Film was won by Cate Blanchett, the heroine of "Blue Jasmine".

The director of this film is Woody Allen. This year, he also won the Cecil B. DeMille Award (Lifetime Achievement Award) for his many achievements in film, but the old man did not attend.

Although director Woody Allen has received 23 Oscar nominations and 13 Golden Globe nominations, he has never attended the award ceremony.

The main reason is that his film "Singleton" was ignored by the Oscars in 1974. At that time, director Allen was very angry and once said publicly, "The idea of ​​awarding movies is very stupid. I can't follow the judgment given to me by others. If you accept the award they give you, then you have to accept it if they say your movie doesn't deserve it. '

Director Woody Allen then said that he would never attend any film award ceremony again.

Director Woody Allen did not come, and this award could not be left empty. The organizer asked Link to present the award on stage, and Diane Keaton, Woody Allen's ex-girlfriend, accepted the award on his behalf. The other party won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1977 for Allen's "Annie Hall".

When presenting the award, Link teased the old man a few times and shouted across the air, "Don't forget the boxer movie."

Although he knew that the old man could live a long time, he hadn't cooperated with him for more than two years, and he was worried that the other party would be busy and forget it.

Meryl Streep won the Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for August: Osage County.

Jared Leto won the Best Supporting Actor for Dallas Buyers Club.

Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Supporting Actress for August: Osage County.

Her won the Best Screenplay, and Frozen won the Best Animated Feature.

The Great Beauty won the Best Foreign Language Film.

All Is Lost won the Best Original Score, and the theme song of Mandela, Ordinary Love, won the Best Original Song.

Lionsgate's films won a total of 7 awards, including Best Picture/Best Actor/Best Actress in a Comedy, Best Actor in a Drama, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay.

In addition, the TV series House of Cards won the Best Actor/Best Actress in a Drama.

After the awards ceremony, the winners of this year's Golden Globe Awards were hotly discussed in the media, mainly because Lionsgate's films won too many awards.

There are only 14 awards in the Golden Globe Film category, including 15 Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Lionsgate's films accounted for half of them, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they monopolized the Golden Globe Awards.

Many people who are hostile to Lionsgate began to attack, claiming that Lionsgate's monopoly on the Golden Globe Awards is very unfair and a kind of alternative film hegemony.

Some film critics even said that Lionsgate has more advantages in public relations for the Oscars. Perhaps Lionsgate's films will continue to win the Oscars after winning the Golden Globe Awards. In a few years, the Golden Globe Awards will be renamed the Lionsgate-Film and Television Golden Globe Awards, and the Oscars will be renamed the Lionsgate-Oscar Awards.

Lionsgate did not give in to this argument when promoting it.

Goldsmith, the vice president in charge of publicity, said in an interview with CBS that the main reason why Lionsgate's films were favored by the Golden Globe and Oscar judges was that Lionsgate invested more money, energy and time in the pursuit of film art, and kept improving the films, allowing unsellable films to appear, and never allowing bad films to appear.

Judging from the films in the past three years, Lionsgate has done a good job in this regard.

Lionsgate's attitude of attaching importance to the development of art films is the main reason why the films released by Lionsgate have won many awards.

In addition, in the era of commercial film proliferation, many film companies actively reduce the cost of film production and the quality of films in order to cater to the market and pursue high box office. They make films in a gambling way, hoping to earn several times the box office with very little cost. This idea is good, but it lacks respect for the art of film and may eventually backfire.

If the quality of the film is not high, it will naturally not be recognized by the judges of major film awards, and it will not win film awards.

In short, Lionsgate's films can win many awards, all thanks to the support of peers.

Another point is that Lionsgate will choose like-minded partners when distributing films.

For example, Palm Beach Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, Appian Trail Pictures, and Plan B Pictures are all independent film companies with a good reputation in the circle and aim to create high-quality films.

This year's award-winning "Her" and "August: Osage County" were completed in cooperation with Palm Beach Pictures and Annapurna.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" was a collaboration with Appian Trail Pictures and Martin Scorsese Studios.

Choosing the right partners is also the key to Lionsgate's films being recognized by fans and professional filmmakers after they are released.

The CBS TV host mentioned the issue of award public relations. It is rumored that Lionsgate spends more than 50 million US dollars on award public relations every year.

Goldsmith said that film award public relations are essential, just like participating in the Olympics. All athletes who feel they have the ability can sign up to participate. After qualifying for the Olympics, athletes will receive financial support from sponsors. If the athletes are strong and win awards in the end, sponsors can also get a lot of benefits.

The investment in film public relations is similar. The main reason why Lionsgate spends a lot of money on publicity every year and attracts the favor of judges of major awards is that the quality of the film is high enough and it is confident that it will beat many nominees and win awards. This investment is also cost-effective.

Therefore, the focus of film award public relations is not how much money is spent, but how high the quality of the film is, how much support it can get from the judges, and whether it can convince the public and be recognized by fans after the film wins the award.

Judging from the awards Lionsgate has received in recent years, all Lionsgate's films have won awards. Although there are some controversies, they are within the normal range.

Finally, Goldsmith joked that if he could win a movie award just by public relations, Lionsgate boss Link would not have been nominated for the Best Actor Award three times and returned empty-handed three times. This fully shows that award public relations and publicity are necessary, but it is by no means the main reason for the film or actor to win the award.

The CBS TV host immediately asked what is the key to an actor's winning, acting? According to this statement, Link's 3 nominations and 0 wins, is it implying that Link's acting is not good.

Goldsmith was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly explained that not only acting, but also the strength, luck, and overall quality of the nominees are very important. Link was nominated for the Best Actor Award three times for "Midnight in Paris", "Buried Alive" and "Rust and Bone", which fully shows that Link's acting skills are very superb, but he lacks a little luck.

After the interview was broadcast on CBS's midday news, it caused a lot of discussion. However, the most discussed thing was that Goldsmith praised Link's acting skills in the show and was considered to have a "strong desire to survive".

In addition, the news that Link was nominated for the Golden Globe Best Actor three times and won zero times also became the top trending search after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

This news also greatly reduced the rumors on the Internet that Lionsgate Films over-publicized the award.

Because of Link's negative example, whenever someone talks about Lionsgate's PR awards, opponents can use Link as an example, saying that if he could really win a Golden Globe through PR, why didn't Link win a Golden Globe in five years since his debut.

Inspired by this news, Link's fans cried out for him on various platforms, saying that Link could conquer the Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival with his acting skills, but why couldn't he win an award in the United States.

Fans believe that the Golden Globe and Oscar judges are targeting Link because Link is too good.

If Link was just an actor, not the boss of Lionsgate, a billionaire, a singing superstar, or a sports superstar, he would have won the Best Actor Award in Midnight in Paris with his acting skills.

And Link hasn't won any awards yet, which is very unfair to Link.

Fans left messages on the official websites of the Golden Globe and Oscar awards, demanding that Link be treated fairly and equally.

This fan circle behavior put Link under a lot of pressure. He had to speak out and said that acting is a hobby, and winning the Golden Globe and Oscar is a long-term goal. If he wins too early, it will not be challenging, so he doesn't mind getting nominated for Best Actor a few more times.

When fans saw his speech, their attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees.

Fans who left messages on the Golden Globe and Oscar websites at the beginning deleted their messages and strongly requested the Golden Globe and Oscar judges not to give the Best Actor award to Link.

The reason is that Link announced his withdrawal from various music awards after winning enough music awards, and then announced that he would not release new albums.

If the Best Actor Award is awarded to him too early, he may choose to give up his acting job because he has no goals, which is not good news for fans.

So Link made things worse and made it more difficult for him to win the Oscar for Best Actor.

Link doesn't mind this either.

After his net worth grew to more than 10 billion and he had countless honors, his attitude towards the Oscars was more casual, and it didn't matter whether he could get it or not.

He cares more about the process of making movies and making money through movies, increasing his own popularity and indirectly increasing his appearance fees for boxing matches.

However, the reaction of his fans made him teased by many acquaintances, who called him the actor with the most difficulty in winning the Oscar for Best Actor in the world.

Even Leonardo DiCaprio, who has a hard time winning an Oscar, wanted to bet with him in a card game, saying that he would never get this award in 30 years.

Link agreed to bet him one million US dollars.