Saving the world is not as good as chasing stars [US Entertainment]

""Fingering Love" dreamed of breaking the Oscars and became a major injustice in history. The conservative academy judges refused to follow the mainstream humanistic care." - "Hollywood Reporter"

"Fingering Love, which has the potential to change the ecology of the entire film industry, lost to same-sex themes or public relations smears from competitors?" - "Variety Show"

"Harvey Weinstein's tried-and-true awards PR has exposed the Oscars' conservatism and embarrassment." — The Washington Post

"Fantasy and stunning "Fingers" is no match for a public-relations sleight of hand, Weinstein's obsession with smearing rivals, canvassing for votes, and giving gifts that look ugly." - The New York Times

"Academy Award for Best Picture was a big hit, fans all over the world angrily scolded - 'Oscar judges are a bunch of idiots!', the same-sex theme has become the biggest obstacle for "Finger's Love" to win." - "Time"

"North American and British online gambling suffered a major change. The odds of buying 9 to 1 "Finger's Love" became popular. The person in charge of the Canadian online gambling called the Oscar Academy office and scolded him for being stupid."—— The Chicago Sun-Times

After "Fingering Love" won two important weathervane awards for best film and best editing and best screenplay, it was finally out of the game. The media lost the best film award because of "Fingering Love", and Questioned the unspoken rules of acceptance of public relations by the academy reviewers.

The brutal Oscar Academy review angered millions of movie fans. After the announcement of the award results, hundreds of phone calls and emails were sent every day around the world to denounce. All the Academy staff in the Beverly Hills office Desperate.

In the face of doubts and denunciations from the media, critics and fans around the world, Frank Pearson, the chairman of the Academy, seemed a little helpless. He could not publicly say——

The reason why "Finger's Love" was out of the competition was because thousands of conservative Oscar judges were extremely resistant to homosexual themes. Among the 6100 judges, nearly 1400 judges refused to watch this movie.

The DVDs that the film company sent to the academy judges according to the selection process might be directly thrown into the trash can by these old guys.

Losing nearly a quarter of the votes before the start, being able to win four awards is almost a miracle.

It is worth mentioning that "Finger's Love" lost to "Chicago" by three votes in the best picture competition.

The Oscar judging system has as many as 6000 people, and the same award is rarely awarded to more than one person, but there have indeed been rare "double yolk eggs" draws in history.

According to Academy rules, if the difference between the votes of the two parties is less than 3, it is considered a tie.

In other words, after being smeared by competitors, "Fingering Love" lost a quarter of the votes because of homosexual themes, and then lost only one vote to "Chicago", which has extremely strong public relations. , almost created a rare draw.

With just one vote, "Fingering Love" regrettably lost, and the Academy Academy's conservative and moderate judging results, as well as the unspoken rules influenced by public relations tactics, were pushed to the forefront for a while.

If you were to ask academy president Frank Pearson who he hated the most, the Weinstein brothers would probably be particularly loud.

Weinstein used "Shakespeare in Love" to overthrow "Saving Private Ryan" in the past. He used public relations methods to create inside information to discredit the other party before the awards. Now, in order to deal with "Fingering Love", he undoubtedly used this method again .

In fact, the Academy Council does not care about the means used by the winners to achieve their goals.

But at this moment, when the fairness of the Academy Awards is openly questioned, everyone in the academy office building can no longer turn a blind eye as before.

The first cornerstone of any film festival and film award in the world to ensure its survival is absolute fairness and professionalism. If the most essential essence is doubted, its influence will only decline.

In desperation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences publicly issued a statement saying——

""Fingering Love" failed to break the tie by only one vote, and the best picture was finally awarded to the song and dance film. The judges hate war and chaos, and look forward to the hope of peace through singing and dancing."

This statement not only failed to quell doubts, but even once again aroused the anger of Margaret fans——

"Awarding a song and dance film means that you hate war and promote peace through singing and dancing? Doesn't the academy know that Margo is the victim who was once kidnapped by a terrorist organization? The judges were kicked by groundhogs?"

This time, it's not just fairness, even the public relations writers of the college council are beginning to be suspected of IQ——

Hate wars and terrorist organizations?And you gave someone else the award that should have gone to a victim of a terrorist attack?

excuseme?Is there something wrong with this logic?

The Board of Directors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did not issue another statement this time, but prepared to respond with silence. When the discussion heat subsides, it will naturally be able to successfully pass this crisis of doubt.

But at this moment, the Oscar judges were actually involved in the piracy scandal, which once again pushed the academy to the forefront.

In this way, a carnival of public opinion was opened.

Every year during the awards season, film companies will distribute film samples to Oscar judges, and it is not uncommon for such samples to fall into the hands of pirates and be illegally copied and sold.

In order to be able to select awards smoothly, the major film companies are worried about offending the Oscar judges by going too deep, so they have always turned a blind eye.

But this time, Universal Pictures is no longer silent. Instead, it unites with several major film companies to take immediate action to provide comprehensive evidence, proving that the sample films submitted for the Oscars were leaked by the judges, making their pirated versions appear on the Internet, causing a serious setback at the box office. .

Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. and Sony were the first to take the judge named Khalidi to court. Just a few days later, major film studios followed, and even the FBI joined the review. , triggering a major turmoil in Hollywood.

Pirated movies are a cancer in the film industry, which can cause losses of up to 35 billion US dollars every year. At this time, Universal Pictures and several major production companies counterattacked, which made all filmmakers applaud.

After all, one of the main reasons why major studios are keen on the Oscars is that winning can bring considerable box office and DVD income from re-releases.

The outflow of sample films by Oscar judges caused a flood of pirated DVDs, which directly damaged the interests of film companies.

The law of money is always the first priority in Hollywood. In front of the big studios that have hated piracy for many years, even the Oscar, the most influential movie award in the world, don't expect to get any good results.

In particular, the judge who was involved in the piracy scandal and leaked the samples had even been a judge in the academy for 20 years. Once this matter was revealed, the professionalism and fairness of the academy's evaluation would be severely damaged——

As a 20-year professional judge of the world-renowned film award Academy Awards, he was involved in a piracy scandal and blatantly violated the rights and interests of the film company?

The feast of public opinion is slowly opening, and this is just the beginning——

When the Khalidi judge was brought to court, he revealed that Harvey Weinstein had sent letters to many judges in violation of the rules, saying, "We need a good musical film that pays homage to the golden age of Hollywood, not two. An impersonal kissing show by a European girl."

Weinstein's involvement in illegal canvassing has once again added to the turmoil of public opinion. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn't know whether it should be thankful that someone shared the scolding, or angry that the Weinstein brothers added fuel to the scandal.

When the academy was preparing to issue a statement on Harvey Weinstein’s illegal canvassing, Weinstein unexpectedly broke out again——

Harvey Weinstein has sexually harassed and molested female employees for many years. Actor Ashley Judd and other victims have spoken out and confirmed that Ashley even claimed that she was forced to "appreciate" Harvey Wein a few years ago Stan takes a bath.

After the sexual harassment scandal and the storm of public opinion quickly swept across the United States, the film producer Michael Moore added another fire——

Michael Moore has filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein brothers, accusing the pair of falsifying their finances by using "false accounting methods" to divert profits from the film.

Weinstein, who was deeply involved in the public opinion scandal due to sexual harassment and falsified financial statements, was struggling. The board of directors of Miramax Films announced:

Harvey Weinstein is taking an "indefinite" leave of absence from the company, to be temporarily replaced by a top executive at parent company The Walt Disney Company.

While Oscar and Weinstein were struggling, Margot was leisurely vacationing in the Mediterranean town of Cannes in southern France.

By the way, before dinner, drive the speedboat ashore and receive the Palme d'Or and the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Adjani's loss at the Oscars made European film festivals even more convinced that she deserved the award.

The three major European actors and the Oscars have always looked down on each other. Oscar supporters believe that there is no one among the three major European actors and actresses, and the award has little effect on the career of actors.

However, the three major supporters in Europe believe that the Oscars are conservative and mediocre, and they dare not even award excellent films that are extremely innovative and groundbreaking.

The failure of "Fingering Love" at the Oscars undoubtedly aroused the great favor of the three major European films for this groundbreaking film——

The Cannes Film Festival not only awarded Adjani the Palme d'Or and Best Actress, but even stated that it will officially set up a Gay Palme Award unit in the future, targeting all gay, bisexual and transgender-related films during the festival.

Not only the Cannes Film Festival has a preference for this French rose, but even the Venice Film Festival, which will be held in September, later announced that it will set up the Queer Lion Award, intending to reward outstanding LGBT films in the Venice Film Festival.

It is obvious that the three major European companies do not mind throwing stones at Oscar, and compare Oscar's conservative embarrassment with their own enlightened innovation.

In North America, although "Fingering Love" lost the Oscar for Best Picture, the home video DVD has been selling well for several months, and it continues to occupy the top spot on Amazon's sales list, causing heated discussions.

At this time, superheroes and dangerous villains who are obsessed with star chasing all over the world are watching the DVD movies shown on the TV——

An elegant and classical beauty like a white dove, full of indifference and ruthlessness, yet so beautiful that it makes one's heart tremble.

Everyone couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved——

Margo didn’t allow us to have fun, so we had to avoid it. If we took some civilized measures to deal with Oscar and Weinstein, the effect was barely passable?