Millennium director

["Beautiful Mind" was not affected by adverse rumors at all and became the biggest winner of this Oscar! 】

[Winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay, "A Beautiful Mind" won the Oscars this year! 】

[Denzel Washington fell into disgrace at the 73rd "Hurricane" and won the Best Actor Award in one fell swoop! 】

[The first black best actress in Oscar history was born, Halle Berry was crowned Oscar winner! 】

["Juno" won one of four nominations, winning the Best Original Screenplay Award! 】

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Judging from the results alone, the audience was somewhat surprised by the award presentation of the 74th Academy Awards.

In the past, although the Academy Awards were one of the most authoritative film awards in the world, in fact, like the Golden Rooster Awards, they could not escape the habit of dividing the cake.

But this year, the Academy actually awarded the two most important awards, Best Picture and Best Director, to "A Beautiful Mind." This is indeed surprising.

Just like the Berlin Golden Bear for Best Film and Best Director were both awarded to "The Embalmer", this is simply a miracle.

A professional film critic spoke on the Internet after the awards ceremony: "The Oscars are no longer the Oscars. Maybe the audience is growing, maybe the movie is declining, maybe there are other reasons, people who understand the rules of the game I will make my own choice..."

Some people commented dissatisfiedly: "It's such a coincidence that two black people won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards."

But all this has nothing to do with Wu Yuan.

Fox Searchlight was pretty awesome, and they really got the PR award for Best Original Screenplay.

Although Wu Yuan knew that "Juno" would win this award in its original trajectory, after all, this is not the same year, and it faces different opponents, and the format and situation are also different.

In the end, "Juno" still won this award, which made Wu Yuan feel a little lucky.

It's just that this movie was produced and distributed by Fox Searchlight after all. The mainstream media in Hollywood, when they celebrated "Juno"'s award-winning reports, they mainly praised Fox Searchlight and praised Fox Searchlight's discerning eyes...

Don't ask, the question is that Fox Searchlight spent a lot of money to bribe reporters, but Wu Yuan didn't spend a dime.

Therefore, most of this Oscar honor, at least in North America, belongs to Fox Searchlight.

In China, however, the news that Wu Yuan won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay spread throughout the country overnight.

Just after the Spring Festival holiday, Wu Yuan once again occupied the front pages of newspapers of all sizes across the country.

Wu Yuan, who was only a little famous in China, has become the one who doesn't know him this time. Grandpas and aunts in their fifties and sixties, as well as teenagers, all know that there is a man in China. A very awesome director who has won many awards abroad.

The photo of Wu Yuan holding the statuette in his hand once again massacred the pages of domestic newspapers.

If there was a Weibo in this era, he would definitely dominate the Weibo popularity list for a week!

Unfortunately, Internet entertainment in this era is still relatively poor, and people mainly obtain information through TV sets and newspapers.

But thanks to the constant news on TV and newspapers about Wu Yuan winning an Oscar, "The Executioner", which was released in China for half a month, once again ushered in a wave of movie-watching craze!

When Wu Yuan was still in the United States, "The Embalmer" was officially released in China.

With the title of Berlin's best director's work, "The Embalmer" received a box office of 7.5 million in its first week of release.

In the literary film market, this result is already very impressive.

"Happy Days", which director Yimou brought to Berlin, grossed less than 7 million at the mainland box office. This is still a film directed by Yimou.

That is to say, the news of the Berlin International Film Festival attracted enough attention and curiosity that "The Embalmer" achieved a box office of 7.5 million in its first week.

Of course, the movie itself is indeed better than "Happy Days". Director Yimou's first commercial attempt was quite a failure.

Moreover, generally when a movie is released, it will definitely have the highest box office in the first week. After that, the box office data starts to decrease. By the fourth week, there is basically no box office left to release.

But "The Embalmer" is different!

After the movie earned 7.5 million at the box office in its first week, viewers who watched the movie, their relatives, friends, and the Internet all praised the movie for how good it was!

"Although this is a literary film, the director did not use any mystique or stream-of-consciousness plot in the film. He just told a simple but touching story!"

"After watching this movie, I realized that there has always been a profession and group called "Encoffiners", who silently do the finishing work for people in the last leg of their lives."

"The son who wants to become a woman is accepted by his father, the old woman who wants to wear stockings wears them at the funeral, the woman who has spent her whole life spoiling her wife lets her husband know her beauty after her death, thinking that all these dreams come true after death, I suddenly feel... I feel like crying even more!”

"The most touching part of this movie is not about death and separation, but about reconciliation, reconciliation with the past, reconciliation with family members, and reconciliation with oneself."

"It was very humorous in the early stage and very tender in the later stage. I burst into tears in the cinema."

Perhaps 20 years from now, Chinese audiences will have seen too many movies that make people cry, and they will already be immune to it, and may even be somewhat resistant to it.

But in 2002, the last movie that made Chinese audiences burst into tears was called "Titanic". The movie's box office in the mainland was as high as 360 million yuan.

Nowadays, Chinese audiences really like touching movies that bring tears to their eyes!

The story in "The Embalmer" that makes people cry is not just love, but also family love, father-son love, mother-daughter love, which is healing and heart-warming!

After the first week of word-of-mouth fermentation, "The Embalmer" ushered in a box office explosion in its second week of release, earning a total of 18 million at the box office, more than double the first week!

In the third week, news spread back to China that Wu Yuan won the Best Original Screenplay Award at the Academy Awards.

The movie "Juno" cannot be seen by domestic audiences!

If domestic audiences want to understand Wu Yuan, why he won the best screenwriter award, and why he was able to make movies with hundreds of millions of dollars in box office abroad, then they can only go to the cinema and watch "The Embalmer"!

You will find the answer to all this in "The Embalmer"!

Ever since, when Wu Yuan took a plane back to China and set foot on the ground in the capital again, the mainland box office of "The Embalmer" had already exceeded 40 million yuan!

This box office result is just eight million short of breaking the 10-year-old box office record for mainland literary films held by "Farewell My Concubine"!

The audience's enthusiasm for watching movies is still exploding, and the box office can increase by two to three million every day!

It can almost be said with certainty that this record that has been maintained for ten years will definitely be broken by "The Embalmer"!

Director Han, who came to pick up Wu Yuan at the airport, said excitedly after receiving Wu Yuan: "Director Wu, you are really the most popular director in the country now. Director Kege asked me to give you a message to praise your greatness. Woolen cloth!"

"Farewell My Concubine has held the record for so many years, and finally someone can break it!"

"Where." Wu Yuan pursed his lips reservedly: "It can't be compared with Director Kai Ge."

"Back then, a movie ticket for "Farewell My Concubine" cost only 4 yuan, and the box office in the mainland was 48 million, which is equivalent to mobilizing 12 million people to go to the cinema to watch this movie!"

"The current ticket price for "The Embalmer" is 15 yuan a piece, which is nearly four times the price difference from "Farewell My Concubine" at the time."

Although in terms of box office results, "The Embalmer" will definitely surpass "Farewell My Concubine", in terms of the number of moviegoers, the gap between the two is still huge.

Wu Yuan is very clear in his heart, but he does not think that the box office performance of "The Embalmer" exceeds that of "Farewell My Concubine", which means that "The Embalmer" is more powerful and has more artistic value than "Farewell My Concubine".

Although the next few films that Director Kego will make are not very good, "Farewell My Concubine" is still worthy of Director Kego's lifetime praise as one of the top 100 films in global film history.

Director Han looked at Wu Yuan with a smile, his eyes full of appreciation and recognition.

This young man is good, he has not been dazzled by the hot results, and still maintains his consistent humility and calm character. He is really a beautiful treasure given to the Chinese film industry by God!

"That's right." Director Han remembered something and said with a smile: "Zhang Guorong's "Stealing Heart" has started filming. You, the producer, aren't going to help with the filming?"