Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

"As judged by current court analysts, the judges in our favor include Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Ginsburg, Stephen Brouer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan; the judges against us include John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, and Samuel Elito; and it is Clarence Thomas who is currently unclear." After Jed returned to his office, someone from the legal team had come over to help Jed did a recent development briefing.

"What surprised us this time was that Justice Anthony Kennedy was the strongest supporter. In past Supreme Court trials, Justice Kennedy was considered a swing vote, and his political stance was center-right. The moderate conservatives. The support of Lord Ginsburg and Lord Breuer is no exception. After all, they are the two most typical liberal justices on the Supreme Court. As for the support of Lord Sotomayor and Lord Kagan , except that they are also the justices nominated by the Democratic Party, they are more based on feminist positions.

"It's interesting to say that the three female justices of the Supreme Court are all on our side. On the opposing side, the opposition of Chief Justice Roberts is justified. After all, during his tenure, almost all the U.S. The proud liberal legislation has been abolished, and even the First Amendment of the United States Constitution has been reduced to a minimum by him. Lord Scalia and Elito are also typical conservative judges, In particular, Lord Scalia is even more conservative than Lord Roberts.

"The only Sir Thomas whose attitude is unknown, we think he will eventually choose to oppose, after all, his political stance is very close to Sir Elito's. But we think he should not appear to write an objection letter, after all, Sir Thomas has had sexual harassment cases His previous convictions have made many feminists very dissatisfied with him. If he does not want conservative judges to continue to be excluded, it is the safest and surest way to remain silent or simply participate in the petition."

Jed listened to the briefing quietly, basically as he expected.The challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act is bound to be supported by liberal judges. Sure enough, the four liberal justices of the Supreme Court all expressed their support; while the four conservative justices also expressed their opposition and relatively neutral attitude. ; On the contrary, Justice Kennedy, who is a moderate conservative and a swing vote, is actually a strong supporter this time, which makes Jed a little confused.

At this time, John was puzzled by Jed, "In fact, our lawsuit this time is not whether same-sex marriage should be protected by legislation for the Supreme Court, but whether the "Defense of Marriage Act" is unconstitutional. The justices are considering the "Defense of Marriage Act." Whether the Marriage Act caused inequality to some people in the United States does not mean whether they support same-sex marriage. Of course, the final result of winning this case is that the Defense of Marriage Act will be overturned and same-sex marriage will become recognized One of the formal forms of marriage."

Because the Supreme Court has not yet made a final decision, Jed and John remained silent.Then Jade went on to Robert Downey Jr. for some big award shows.In the other four weather vane award ceremonies, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2", which is considered a model of commercial films, was supported by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Golden Globe Awards; while "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Films about humanity and human reflection were favored by the National Society of Critics and the New York Film Critics Association.But in terms of performance awards, the leading actors of films under the Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group and MGM Pictures Group are only nominated to accompany them.In particular, Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for Best Actor in almost all award ceremonies for his role in "Sherlock Holmes [-]: A Game of Shadows". Embarrassed.

Just as Jed was struggling to build momentum for Downey, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also announced the list of nominees for this year's Oscars.In terms of the number of nominations, Martin Scorsese's first 3D sci-fi film "Hugo" led with 11 nominations; followed by the French film "The Great Artist" with 10 nominations...but it surprised Jed What’s more, Sherman Films Entertainment Group and MGM Pictures Group only have four titles, namely “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2”, “Kung Fu Panda 3”, “Transformers [-]” and “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”. The films were shortlisted, and both were nominated for technical awards.

After the nomination list was announced, before Jed Sherman expressed his anger, many media had doubts about the nomination.If it is said that this year's Oscars intend to promote art films, then there may be no doubts about the nominations of "The Great Artist" and "Iron Lady", but why is the sci-fi theme "Hugo" the most nominated?Secondly, which one of "Penalty Kick", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "Bridesmaids" is not a typical Hollywood commercial film?If Oscar intends to favor commercial films, then why are the commercial masterpieces of Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group and MGM Pictures Group being suppressed so sadly?

In the face of questions from the media, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continued to remain silent, responding to all questions by not responding.But how can the media be so easy to fool?In particular, Jed also privately arranged investigation agencies and private detectives to find out the reason. After all, the directors' union and the screenwriters' union are responsible for nominating and voting for the Oscar's best director and best screenwriter. As the leader of these two unions, where is Jed? Don't you know the list of nominations in advance?However, the nomination list of the trade union was obviously different from the list announced by Oscar. Jed did not turn his face on the spot because of the face of the union chairman, but he had already asked for a reasonable explanation.

On the second day after the Oscar nominations were announced, as the most watched news program in the United States, "CBS Evening News" of the cbs television network exploded a message. "According to the reporter's visit, several people including the chairman and vice chairman of the Oscar jury met with a mysterious person before announcing the list of nominations. According to the interpretation of the surveillance video and lip language experts, the mysterious person made a promise to the management of several jury committees. After they retired, they were arranged to be consultants of a certain film academic research institution. According to the investigation of this station reporter, this so-called academic institution was just established a few years ago, and it is still an empty shell unit. Let me ask, as a consultant for this kind of institution, apart from leading Is there anything else to pay besides money? We not only question, is this a bribery incident? If so, what is the purpose of this bribery? And who is the briber?"

"Cbs Evening News" had a video showing the beginning of the whole incident with the truth, which immediately ignited the attention of the entire American media.We must know that the film industry is the most proud pillar of the American entertainment industry, and it is also the vanguard of the United States' export of culture and values. Now the most brilliant crown in the entire film industry is actually covered with maggots, which makes Americans feel embarrassed.Some American politicians even publicly called on the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office to intervene in this investigation, but unexpectedly, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences responded very quickly, stating that it is only an unofficial non-profit organization. It has no control over itself.

But soon Spielberg, one of the three legendary directors in the United States, made up a crucial knife, "Mr. Sherman complained to me, and he found that the final list of nominations given by the directors' union was different from the list announced by the Oscars. Inconsistency, so we launched an internal investigation. Now we have to announce the embarrassing fact that in the recent awards process, the list sent by our directors union is indeed different from the list announced by the Oscar Organizing Committee .”

If the "cbs evening news" just ignited the soul of gossip, then Spielberg's words completely angered everyone.And with the beginning of the self-inspection work of the directors' union, the screenwriters' union and actors' union also began to conduct self-inspections.But the bad news came out one after another, and finally the public discovered the cruel fact that the most democratic Oscar has always been played by a few people in the palm of their hands.

If winning prizes through lobbying and public relations is still within the rules, the current practice of directly changing the list and changing the number of votes is simply desperate.According to a poll by "USA Today", the public's trust in the Oscars has dropped to 13%, and as many as 65% of the people believe that the Oscars should be cancelled.Things have developed to this point, and even the U.S. Department of Justice can't sit still.Because the scope of the Oscar awards covers the entire United States, the US Attorney General directly announced that the FBI would be ordered to investigate the case without waiting for the Los Angeles District Attorney to make a statement.At the same time, the U.S. Treasury Department also made the Internal Revenue Service responsible for investigating whether there were more serious economic crimes.

As more and more people participated in the investigation, many people gradually discovered that there was a so-called "Oscar Glory Club" organization behind Oscar.They control almost all the Oscar awards, and in this glorious club, apart from the shadows of some Oscar judges, there are also the shadows of several entertainment companies, and Sony Pictures is the first to bear the brunt.After Sony Pictures was the first to point out that it was related to this black transaction, it immediately clarified that the company had never participated in or authorized anyone to participate in such a thing.However, the representatives of the most implicated manufacturers are the executives of Sony Pictures, which makes Sony Pictures have no idea how to explain it.After Sony Pictures, Disney executives were also implicated.And Universal and Warner were vaguely involved in this black deal, and everyone in Hollywood was in danger.

Because the fairness of this Oscar nomination list has been questioned, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had to temporarily announce the withdrawal of the nomination list.What hurts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the most is that organizations such as the directors' union have announced the establishment of a Hollywood film practitioners' federation to temporarily replace the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar.Although the Academy stated that Oscar is their registered trademark, they wisely chose to back down in the face of the anger of the entire Hollywood.

Five days after the nomination shady broke out, a new list of nominations was announced by the Hollywood Film Practitioners Federation.This time the list was born under the overall supervision of various labor unions, so although the tastes are quite mixed, it basically represents the best movies of the year.Not beyond the expectations of the reporters, Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group, which performed well in the summer, became the big winner, but MGM, Warner, and Fox followed closely behind. Paramount, CBS Films, etc. were not nominated The company also nabbed several nominations.