Chapter 1244: I Won't Watch the Golden Rooster Without You

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Double winners aren't a rare thing in world film history; didn't Cannes just have a double Best Actor winner a while ago?

Although two people won the award, it didn't affect the gold content of the two Best Actors at all.

In fact, things are valued because they are rare; double Best Actor winners are even easier to be remembered by people than ordinary Best Actors.

If after the double Best Actor, there comes a double Best Actress, then this matter would be very topical.

Considering that Miss Luo Quan and Seeing Wen Xia both acted very well this time, maybe the Cannes Film Festival next year will really pull off such a good stunt.

However, before that, what Miss Luo Quan and the others are about to face is the annual Golden Rooster Awards.

As one of the three major awards in mainland China, the Golden Rooster has always claimed to be impartial, using art as the only criterion for judging awards, and has always been looking up to the Oscars.

Ever since the Golden Horse Awards cooled down, the Golden Rooster Awards have taken on the burden of being the authoritative award for Chinese-language films.

"How to evaluate the nominations for this Golden Rooster Award?"

"The answer is obvious."

Compared to Cannes and Venice, the Golden Rooster is still lacking in prestige.

Just give you a few important awards to show some meaning, and leave those secondary awards to others; everyone will remember your kindness.

"These movies that didn't get nominated actually don't need the Golden Rooster to prove themselves; on the contrary, the Golden Rooster needs them to enhance its own credibility."

But there's no need to be too entangled; maybe Miss Luo Quan can film a better movie next year, continuing to dominate all the same.

Then the art films inside, regardless of their level, as long as they are niche enough and can reflect the judges' uniqueness, they can get a nomination.

The weight is quite heavy, but this is completely inconsistent with the initial expectations.

Of course, Miss Luo Quan herself also knows that everything needs to have a degree.

However, rationally speaking, this nomination definitely shouldn't be given like this.

What's more, if the Golden Horse Awards hadn't had those incidents, the Golden Rooster's status in the country wouldn't be so high.

Now netizens are just regretting that if *Sea* could have been released a month or two later, Miss Luo Quan could have had a bumper harvest of awards for two consecutive years, directly starting her era of domination.

As for Miss Luo Quan, she already knew this situation would happen last night.

Therefore, be forgiving when you can.

This year can be called a year of explosive growth for the Chinese-language film box office market; every quarter had several blockbusters, with box office results far exceeding previous years.

He was one of the earliest viewers of this movie, far earlier than the cinema audience, and cried much earlier than those viewers.

"Good idea, and I think the probability of winning is really quite high."

Originally, Director He was worried that Miss Luo Quan was young and energetic and couldn't accept such an arrangement, especially after just filming a masterpiece like *Sea*.

"Hahahaha."

But then again, which year's nominations didn't have controversy?

No award can achieve complete objectivity and fairness.

Once, twice, and then three times; as long as this kind of thing starts, there's no need to even notify specifically in the future.

Besides that, there is serious "pork-barrel" distribution; awarding prizes based on merit rather than level.

………………

And *Sea*, which was originally predicted to sweep the Golden Rooster, only received three major nominations: Best Actress, Best Film, and Best Supporting Actor.

Fortunately, Director He didn't let her suffer a loss; anyway, he promised a bunch of benefits.

"I have an idea: let *Memories of Murder* compete in Cannes and *Sea* in Venice; can we have a double happiness then?"

"Objectively speaking, Bo Ge has improved a lot this time; although his cultural level is still not high, the acting is much better than before, but whether it's worth a Golden Rooster nomination is really open to question."

The midnight programs on Douyu and Huya are the best examples.

Actually, it's not just the fans; the public opinion on the entire internet is also like this.

This is the point Miss Luo Quan values most.

………………

In short, Miss Luo Quan accepted Director He's arrangement with a very broad perspective, giving up a portion of the Golden Rooster nominations.

"These people can't tolerate Luo Bao; it only shows that either their minds are too narrow or Luo Bao's personality is too great."

"Jokes aside, this technique plus acting in *Sea* belongs to the top-tier level even if you go back a dozen years; not winning an award is definitely a dark operation!"

This is the basic condition for absorbing a large number of users and creators.

"Tell a joke: Bo Ge nominated for Golden Rooster Best Supporting Actor."

It's understandable to distinguish between commerce and literature, but for a movie like *Sea*, you can't say it has no substance just because it has commercial nature.

"Completely unable to understand how this nomination was proposed; it actually includes a traffic star; the way of eating is truly a bit ugly."

The most important of which is the further relaxation of content review for Bilibili.

To be reasonable, every award in the world has this point, but having it once or twice per session is fine; if it's too rampant, netizens are of course unhappy.

"You wouldn't think these two movies don't deserve awards just because their box office is high, right? High box office means they are very popular in the market, but it doesn't conflict with artistic achievements!"

Relaxing content scale means Bilibili can attract many users.

But you are happy sweeping all the awards, what about other Chinese filmmakers?

They need these authoritative awards to raise their status, and those juniors also need these awards as motivation.

A few days later, the Golden Rooster nominations came out.

"Better not give it; can't afford to lose that face."

"Luo Bao didn't name names, and besides, she didn't scold wrongly."

However, Murphy's Law proved once again that some things you think are foolproof sometimes just want to cause you some trouble.

Wanting artistry, popularity, mainstream themes, and to be fair to everyone.

At the beginning, the reputation was quite good, but in the last two years, it has received quite a lot of negative reviews.

The good news is that this Golden Rooster Award explicitly stated it would focus on the artistic field and select the most excellent movies.

Netizens feel the Golden Rooster Award is too conservative; many awards could actually be updated, but they have always been kept to give honors to those with vested interests.

On the contrary, its story is much better than many art films that people can't understand at all.

You are a genius, filming so many movies a year, and they are all well-received and popular; Douban 8.9, 9.0, all are good works that can enter film history.

Miss Luo Quan took a sip of the first milk tea of winter, exhaled a puff of hot steam, and said: "So I told everyone before, don't be blindly confident in my movies, because you are not the judges and cannot decide who can be nominated.

But now, these awards weren't given to the right people, so that's a proper dark operation.

At the beginning of the year, *Memories of Murder*, at the end of the year, *Sea*; either one is a killer for winning awards; both coming out together would likely sweep any award.

"I could tolerate Huabiao doing this, after all, they have always been like this; if you Golden Rooster also do this, I can only say you might as well go die with the Golden Horse."

Look, isn't everyone's face slapped now?"

The last time before this was more than a decade ago.

The highly anticipated *The Wandering Earth 2*, *Memories of Murder*, and *Prehistoric* only had two nominations combined.

Since 2019, the Golden Rooster Award has changed from biennial to annual.

As for the specific reason, it's actually similar to the situation of the Universe Girls.

You've occupied all the resources, what should other peers do?

"Indeed, the sense of immersion is too strong; it's hard to imagine this movie was filmed in just one month."

Such a standard is too biased.

Touching a little bit of everything, finally turning into something that is neither fish nor fowl.

Before, on Bilibili, if cosplayers showed a little skin, they would have their videos taken down by review.

Perhaps many years later, looking back at this nomination, netizens will feel it was a battle of gods, feeling that no matter who the award is given to, it is extremely difficult to choose.

"Sweeping all major awards?"

This is the barrage that countless fans have been spamming before Miss Luo Quan started her livestream at night.

Commercial blockbusters like *The Wandering Earth 2* and *Prehistoric* don't deserve to participate in the competition for awards.

In fact, she doesn't really care.

"Still claiming to be impartial, but this time it's full of mainstream themes; no matter how you film, as long as your stance is correct, you can get a nomination."

"By comparison, the four characters in *Kong He Lan* have become pleasing to the eye."

"So people are compared; scolded for half a year at the beginning of the year, now that someone worse than him comes, the reputation of the four characters instantly warms up."

The most important point is that the Golden Rooster Award is too greedy.

"The only good news is that Miss Luo Quan and Seeing Wen Xia were both nominated for Best Actress this time; it's very likely to be a double winner."

But these high-box-office movies, without exception, flopped on awards, with few nominations.

In the eyes of netizens, this movie should have at least nine nominations to be considered reasonable.

Thinking they could achieve perfection, but the actual situation is that they didn't get what they wanted, instead lowering their own gold content.

Miss Luo Quan couldn't help but laugh when she saw the bragging of the fans: "How is that possible? Even *Farewell My Concubine* didn't do that back then; I can only say I'll strive to get those important major awards."

Netizens are speaking out for many movies.

As a result, there are only a mere three now, and it's not certain they can be won, which is really unacceptable.

Clearly, the fans already think Miss Luo Quan sweeping the Golden Rooster this time has no suspense.

"Holy crap, listening to this, it actually sounds quite exciting!"

Emotionally, he certainly felt *Sea* could take all the awards; after all, the last time he saw such an excellent movie was when *Farewell My Concubine* was released.

"I can't figure out no matter what, why that traffic star can be compared with Teacher Ni Xuejian."

Now it's different; through Miss Luo Quan's efforts, Bilibili finally obtained the review environment it should have had, and creators don't have to be so cautious and create with shackles anymore.

But after the mainlanders stopped participating, the popularity became lower and lower, and now basically no one will mention it anymore.

And you, Miss Luo Quan, are already at this status, why bother competing with these mediocre geniuses?

"Indeed, can't think of any movie that can compete with these two."

If it continues to improve, then Bilibili might become one of the most relaxed platforms in the entire internet environment.

"Say, could it be that Luo Bao's speech at the Huabiao Awards last time offended too many people? Although the scolding was very exciting, many people in the audience had ugly expressions."

Looking at the other nominations for this Golden Rooster, mainstream themes, niche, art, low box office, traffic stars.

"A director who doesn't want to win an award is not a good streamer."

To be strict, the Golden Horse is still the most valuable award for Chinese-language films at present.

Also worried that she was young and energetic and couldn't accept it, so he thought of a lot of persuasive words and compensation methods.

"*Little Broken Book 2* and *Prehistoric*, these two milestones of Chinese special effects industry, only have these few nominations; are you sure the jury isn't joking?"

"Although there are many competitors this year, with *Memories of Murder* and *Sea* placed here, I only feel two words—invincible!"

Since she has the ability to win international awards, then just take these domestic awards if she can; it doesn't matter if she can't.

Actually, not just this time, future awards will probably be arranged like this too.

If all are given to Miss Luo Quan, then what will be judged in the future?

Therefore, whether the operation of "pork-barrel" distribution is fair or not depends on the specific situation.

"Luo Bao will get soft hands from winning awards this time."

He knew that this was definitely unfair to Miss Luo Quan.

"And every frame of the image inside is so beautiful; any screenshot is art."

"Doesn't matter, wait for the three major festivals and the Oscars next year; I don't believe we won't meet someone who knows the goods."

This is what Director He said when he persuaded her; it sounds very similar to what was heard on the Universe side.

As a result, there were only so few nominations in the end.

It's just that Miss Luo Quan agreed to this arrangement as soon as she heard him finish, as if she didn't particularly care.

This Golden Rooster nomination caused great controversy.

Miss Luo Quan comes to do this every two or three years, coming to the award ceremony to stock up; might as well just call it the Miss Luo Quan Award.

After the nominations came out, netizens instantly exploded:

"Still need to question? Isn't it obvious that the organizer wanted traffic, so they nominated them?"

………………

Plus there are so many excellent movies this year, it can be called a battle of gods, so this Golden Rooster nomination is still very worth looking forward to.

The Nobel and the Oscars also need to serve politics, and there will also be times when they cause huge controversy.

According to the rules, of course, all are worthy of nomination, and all are worthy of winning awards,

No way, Bilibili's user base determines that it must be so strict; even if it's over-correction, it must be done.

It turns out that the "impartiality" mentioned by the judges specifically refers to commercial films.

If one behaves too wildly and rampantly, one will definitely be severely sanctioned.

Therefore, Miss Luo Quan doesn't intend to really turn Bilibili into that kind of platform with no taboos.

Just trying to make it as free as possible. ===== CHAPTER 1245 =====