Hollywood Road

At the end of November, the Gotham Independent Film Awards announced the nomination list, and the Hollywood film awards season officially kicked off.

However, Murphy and Dark City missed this award, and the reason can be seen from the name of this award. Dark City is a standard mainstream commercial masterpiece, not an independent film. The objects of the film awards are basically independent films that have not been screened in mainstream theaters in North America, and the boundaries between them and mainstream commercial films are very clear.

Then, as time entered December, various awards announced nominations one after another. In the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, New York Film Critics Association Awards and Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, Dark City won the best director without exception. , Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress four important nominations!

Immediately afterwards, the American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards also announced the nomination list. Like the Film Critics Association Awards, Dark City once again became the big winner in the nomination list, winning Best Director, Best Feature Film, Best Male and Female A series of awards such as the protagonist.

With the announcement of nominations for many awards, Murphy can also see which competitors are the strongest in this awards season-12 Years a Slave, The Great Gatsby, Gravity, Blue Jasmine and Dallas Buyers Club.

The awards season has also entered the hottest public relations stage.

Like other industries, the film industry also pays attention to organizing and summarizing the achievements of the year. The award season is the product of this sorting and summarizing, and it is the annual summary of Hollywood.

To be the big winner at the Oscars, Dark City has to overwhelm them.

The Golden Globe Awards had just announced the nomination list. CAA representing Murphy negotiated a series of conditions with the Los Angeles City Hall, and then Murphy signed a formal agreement with them. The two sides held a joint press conference the next day to announce that Murphy -The Stanton Film Memorial lands in the City of Angels.

The two parties jointly announced to the news media that Los Angeles will invest 1 billion US dollars to build the Murphy-Stanton Art Museum in Exposition Park, which will house a large number of various film collections carefully left by Murphy himself and Stanton Studio.

The construction area of ​​this art museum will be as high as 25,500 square meters. The venue will be designed by the famous Chinese architect Ma Yansong. It will exhibit more than 10,000 paintings, illustrations, clothing, film artworks, digital artworks, etc., including but not limited to Hard Candy, Saw, Planet Terror, Sin City, Deadpool, Game of Thrones, Gone Girl, Man of Steel directed and participated by Fay etc……

Of course, in addition to those preserved in the Murphy and Stanton studios, the museum will also display a large number of exhibits related to the film.

Although the investment is as high as 1 billion US dollars,

But the Los Angeles City Hall will not do business at a loss. They have conducted enough research and research, and believe that with the terror appeal of the Murphy-Stanton brand, the art museum will bring at least 200 to 300 million US dollars in revenue to the local area every year. , the return is also great.

Building the Murphy-Stanton Museum of Art would be a very meaningful move for Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said at a press conference, As a director who grew up in Los Angeles, Director Murphy Stanton has made great achievements and is an outstanding representative of Los Angeles citizens...

In short, Murphy was almost exaggerated.

On such an occasion, Murphy would naturally have to say a few words in front of the media.

This is a great honor for me, and it has fulfilled one of my wishes. I hope that more people can like film art, understand film art, love film art, and even become people who create film art...

This is a good opportunity to promote yourself during the awards season, and Murphy certainly will not let it go, Hollywood is already at the forefront of world movies, and if we want to maintain its leading position in the world, we need more talented people to join in.

He had prepared before, In addition to providing exhibits for the art museum, I will also set up a film foundation in the name of the Murphy-Stanton Museum of Art to provide study funding for those who intend to join this industry!

There was applause at the press conference.

A director who has achieved success and fame does not forget to support future talents, which will win the favor of many people.

After the press conference, when Murphy walked out of the press hall and was surrounded by reporters, they all asked questions in this regard.

Director Stanton, what advice do you have for new directors, especially those who want to form their own style like you?

Hearing this question, Murphy stopped in his tracks and said briefly, Don't think about your personal style when making a film. Style is for people who don't have style to worry about.

He thought for a while and said, Let's put it this way, I basically don't think about personal style. When I think about personal style, the so-called intellectual barriers and psychological barriers arise, and personal things can't be brought out.

Another reporter asked, Do you have anything else to say to newcomers who want to enter this industry?

The only thing in this world that can withstand the ravages of time is talent. Murphy came to the car, opened the door, and said the last sentence, People who make movies don't need encouragement from others, and people who need encouragement can't make movies.

After saying this, he got into the car, and Gal Gadot, who was sitting on the other side reading the newspaper, told the driver softly, Drive, go back to Beverly Hills.

Murphy turned her head to look at the newspaper in her hand, saw that it was a copy of Hollywood Reporter, and asked, Are there other films doing public relations?

The Hollywood Reporter is the most important publicity position of the awards season.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a great writer. He bought six pages. This is the second issue in a row. Gal Gadot handed the newspaper to Murphy. Best Actor is on the cards.

He has accumulated enough qualifications. Murphy opened the Hollywood Reporter, If the work is done well, maybe the academy will really give him a statuette.

Looking at the reports on the Hollywood Reporter, they are all flattering Leonardo DiCaprio.

Just like the Oscars are always affected by external factors, these hypes are not limited to movies. Leonardo DiCaprio's team clearly sees the development trend of the Oscars.

Best Actor is also an award that Dark City and Murphy want to strive for, so he looked carefully.

The best actor in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental career is more exciting than his personal film history!

Just reading the title of an article, Murphy had to admire the ingenuity of Leonardo DiCaprio's team. Just like liberalism, environmental protection is also one of the most concerned and self-labeled slogans in Hollywood. one.

This article reports in detail Leonardo DiCaprio's contributions to the environment.

On July 14, 2011, Leonardo DiCaprio's foundation announced that it would donate approximately $9 million to several wildlife conservation and environmental protection groups. Continuing destruction at a pace we can neither afford nor ignore, we have a duty to create a new future where we should not threaten the planet's living environment.' Leonardo has donated more than approximately $12 million since last February , in the statement, he also said: 'I am extremely honored to support organizations that work to solve some of the toughest challenges facing humanity.'

On May 13, 2013, Leonardo held a charity auction at Christie's Auction House in New York to raise funds for the environment and wildlife protection. The 33 works of art auctioned raised a total of 38.8 million US dollars. In November, Leonardo He turned the birthday party into a charity gala, donated the proceeds to his environmental protection fund, auctioned off a batch of expensive champagne, and raised a total of $3 million on the spot.”

In May 2007, the Cannes Film Festival screened Leonardo's environmental documentary The Eleventh Hour, which was produced and narrated. The film studied the global environmental situation and discussed the solutions to the problems of the earth. The impact of human activities on global warming, emphasizing how fragile our planet is after a series of recent natural disasters. In the film, 12 experts discuss whether human society will disappear if the world continues to warm .”

Seeing the times listed in the report, even Murphy believed that Leonardo DiCaprio was really an environmentalist.

Alas, as a Hollywood insider, he knows all too well that, like the so-called UN title, it's just a way to provide one's own flair.

To put it simply, these are no different from the red carpet, they are all for show.

As for the real gold and silver donated, they are all proceeds from donations, and it doesn't cost the celebrity himself a few dollars at all, so why not do it?

In September 2012, Leonardo DiCaprio, as an activist concerned about climate change in Hollywood, participated in the morning of the 23rd local time together with many diplomats, national leaders and scientists and other climate experts from around the world. Climate Summit, and made a thought-provoking personal speech at the meeting, earnestly calling on everyone to act together to stop climate deterioration. Leonardo said in his speech: Now I stand in front of you, not as an expert, but As a concerned citizen, as one of the 400,000 people walking the streets of New York and others everywhere who want to address the climate change crisis.

Seeing this, Murphy put down the Hollywood Reporter. Now that the Oscars are getting more and more influenced by the outside world, Leonardo DiCaprio has played such an environmental card outside of movies. With clever means, maybe he can change the fate of the accompanying runner.

Whether it's for James Franco and Dark City, or the original grievances, Murphy doesn't want to see him win the award.

Don't go home yet. He said to the driver, Go to Century City.