Chapter 867: Your father is still your father

One day later, the Oscars announced this year's nomination list.

Every time the nomination list is announced, there is a special live broadcast.

The *The Original Father* crew even considerately came to ask Lu Yanhe if he needed a day off to rest when the live broadcast was announced.

Lu Yanhe already knew the result in advance, so of course he didn't need to.

The first nomination list announced was Best Supporting Actor.

Wen Shengming was prominently listed, the only Asian actor among them.

Very conspicuous.

Lu Yanhe's mobile phone started receiving messages non-stop.

Everyone came to congratulate and celebrate with him.

Lu Yanhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry; Teacher Wen Shengming was nominated, why congratulate him—

Well, everyone knows how this nomination came about.

And when the nomination list for Best International Feature Film was announced, the messages immediately decreased.

*Storm Calmer No. 1* was not nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

A big surprise.

Mainly because the early momentum had already hyped up the shortlist to be a sure thing.

But the result was not so.

Why did such a situation occur?

For a time, many people on the Chinese Internet felt puzzled, or even questioned it.

This was a complete upset.

Not only were many people on the Chinese Internet puzzled, but even many foreign media used headlines like "Upset! *Storm Calmer No. 1* out of Oscar Best International Feature Film" to report this matter.

Almost immediately, Darren Wilson contacted him, saying that many media outlets wanted to interview him and asked him to express his response to *Storm Calmer No. 1* dropping out of the nomination.

Lu Yanhe thought for a moment and decided to accept an interview with *Variety*. Five minutes later, the person called, and Lu Yanhe said: "First of all, congratulations to Teacher Wen Shengming for being nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Of course, *Storm Calmer No. 1* not officially entering the shortlist for Best International Feature Film makes me a bit disappointed. Undoubtedly, whether from industry evaluation, media word-of-mouth, or box office figures, this is a very outstanding film. Director Liu Bige shot a masterpiece, and it tells a theme with universal value, awakening. Therefore, although disappointed, as the lead actor of this film, I will not think it is worse than other nominated films just because it was not shortlisted for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. Awards and honors are a way to prove the value of a film, and time is also a way."

Lu Yanhe's response was reported by major media outlets around the world immediately afterward.

Such a response can be considered reasonable and well-founded, and also quite dignified.

Of course, he couldn't curse and say that these Oscar judges were all big idiots at such a time, nor could he break his defense and express righteous indignation at this matter.

To put it bluntly, he didn't want anyone to feel that the Oscar for Best International Feature Film was so precious that not getting a nomination was enough to make him lose control now.

Still the same sentence, the Oscar for Best International Feature Film is just an award that allows Europe and America to pay more attention and importance to a film.

That is not everything, let alone the only way to prove it.

Until Lu Yanhe's response appeared in major media reports, the official Weibo of the *Storm Calmer No. 1* crew released the Galaxy Awards winning poster, and then released another poster congratulating Wen Shengming on being nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

In the *The Original Father* crew.

Huang Tianlin said to Lu Yanhe: "*Storm Calmer No. 1* should have received a nomination for Best International Feature Film; they are deliberately targeting it."

Lu Yanhe shrugged his shoulders and said: "Perhaps that's the case. The Oscar is ultimately an award dominated by Americans. It must be admitted that even if we have been recognized by it, we are only guests."

Huang Tianlin sighed.

Not only Huang Tianlin, but afterward, quite a few people sent him comforting messages.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that in this year's North American awards season, Lu Yanhe, in the case of his personal hope for a Best Actor nomination being slim, actively participated in various PR activities and cared so much about *Storm Calmer No. 1*. It can be said that more than half of the momentum of *Storm Calmer No. 1* was run out by Lu Yanhe himself.

Of course, no matter what, *Storm Calmer No. 1* received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and was not completely ignored. All their previous efforts were not in vain.

Regarding the fact that *Storm Calmer No. 1* was shortlisted for the Oscar Best International Feature Film top nine list but not shortlisted for the official nomination list, for the Film Bureau, it was naturally a huge regret.

No one would be blamed for this—

Because everyone knows the difficulty of this matter, and the special nature of the theme of *Storm Calmer No. 1* destined that this matter could not be guaranteed.

It was just that the early momentum was too clear, making everyone have expectations.

However, at this time, someone proposed that if *The Pianist* could have had the momentum of *Storm Calmer No. 1* in these few months, it would definitely have entered the nomination list.

Such voices spread, somewhat disgusting. Some even said that if Lu Yanhe could use his influence in Hollywood on suitable films, with the changes in the Oscars in recent years, maybe he could make a film that fits the Oscar's aesthetics a big trend film, winning nominations for multiple key awards.

Such voices only circulated internally at first, and slowly, I don't know how, it spread to the outside, and even spread to the Internet.

A group of people really appeared, saying that Lu Yanhe was too selfish, in order to push the film he starred in, he used his influence overseas to force the Film Bureau to have to choose *Storm Calmer No. 1* to sign up for this year's Oscar Best International Feature Film. Otherwise, if *The Pianist* had really been submitted, this character biography film that fits the Oscar's taste more would definitely have had more hope of being shortlisted.

Lu Yanhe's fans and followers were so angry that their faces turned green when they saw such words.

Are you kidding?

*Storm Calmer No. 1* was shortlisted for Best International Feature Film in a series of authoritative awards such as the Golden Globe Awards, the British Academy Film Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was also shortlisted for the Oscar Best International Feature Film top nine. In this year's American film awards season, it was very eye-catching, and the number of reports by media in countries around the world remained high. In this case, you want to say it's a pity that it didn't get nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, fine, but you say that *The Pianist*, which had already been eliminated in October, was eliminated because of Lu Yanhe's favoritism toward *Storm Calmer No. 1*?

Is there something wrong with your brain?

Are you not clear-headed?

Scolding everywhere, arguing with each other.

In this public opinion environment, Lu Yanhe and the *Storm Calmer No. 1* crew simply didn't make a sound. Because there was no need to make a sound at this time. Those who know what this matter should look like know it without explanation. And those who turn black and white at this time are not looking for the root cause or really looking for any truth from the beginning; they just want to take this opportunity to step on Lu Yanhe a few times.

Just then, the main competition unit of the Xitu'er International Film Festival announced the first round of the film list.

*The Boat*, directed by Luo Yuzhong and starring Lu Yanhe, Wen Shengming, and Yu Mengling, was prominently listed, the only Chinese-language film in the main competition unit of this year's Xitu'er International Film Festival.

Lu Yanhe's fans directly made a topic called #Your father is still your father#.

In this topic, Lu Yanhe's fans questioned the fans of *The Pianist* and Chen Pinhe sentence by sentence.

Why didn't we see you in the main competition unit of the Xitu'er International Film Festival this year?

Aren't you very capable?

Lu Yanhe snatched the halo of your Chen Pinhe.

*Storm Calmer No. 1* snatched the limelight of your *The Pianist*.

Lu Yanhe is a cancer of Chinese-language cinema, insidious, selfish, oh, what's going on, why is the film he starred in shortlisted for the Xitu'er International Film Festival again? Why is it Lu Yanhe's film that is winning glory for Chinese-language cinema internationally again?

Oh, oh—kid, get it straight, your father is still your father, understand?

Chen Ziyan saw this hot search entry and the various discussions within it, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

Although she knew that netizens were playing memes, but this meme...

This meme is easy to cause someone to have a heart attack.

Chen Ziyan burst into a bright laugh.

"Yo, what good thing is it?" Lu Qingzhen also walked in with a happy face.

Chen Ziyan turned the computer screen toward Lu Qingzhen and said: "Look."

Lu Qingzhen leaned over to take a look and clicked her tongue, "Killing people and condemning the heart, Chen Pinhe's side is probably going to think it's a hot search bought by your side, tsk tsk, such a big film emperor senior, but was treated as a father by a junior."

Chen Ziyan smiled and didn't explain further the origin behind this entry, asking: "What about you? What good thing happened to you? So happy?"

"I negotiated a super big endorsement for Yan He! A world-class car brand, directly a three-year long-term endorsement from the start, with an endorsement fee as high as 30 million US dollars, and, it will also provide 30 million US dollars to carry out charitable and public welfare cooperation with Lu Yanhe." Lu Qingzhen looked at Chen Ziyan very proudly, "Such a brand endorsement, even a top star in Hollywood would find it difficult to obtain."

It's not that the 30 million US dollar endorsement fee is difficult to obtain, it's that it's too difficult for a world-class car brand to give a 30 million US dollar endorsement fee.

The more top-tier the brand, the lower the endorsement fee they actually give. This is because the more top-tier the brand, the less "leverage" they have on the spokesperson, and instead, it will raise the artist's status. Placed around the world, this is universal.

This is indeed a very top-tier endorsement.

Chen Ziyan asked in surprise: "Could it be Seth?"

"That's right." Lu Qingzhen nodded, "And, Seth also took the initiative to propose that if Lu Yanhe needs to use cars in the future when filming movies, various models, they are willing to provide sponsorship."

Chen Ziyan: "This is indeed a very awesome brand, but Seth has never hired an Asian spokesperson, right?"

"Yes, to be precise, they have only hired 2 spokespersons in the past twenty years." Lu Qingzhen said, "They don't have spokespersons all the time. Their slogan is that only when a spokesperson worthy of Seth's image appears will they invite cooperation."

Chen Ziyan asked: "Then was this endorsement found by them, or?"

"I connected with their PR director at a cocktail party and chatted slowly." Lu Qingzhen said, "They believe that Yan He has shown an increasingly firm, strong, and decisive temperament in the past two years, and this point has been established and spread worldwide, which is consistent with the brand image conveyed by Seth and consistent with Seth's target customers."

Chen Ziyan: "This good news, when Yan He comes back, you tell him yourself."

Lu Qingzhen said: "It's the same whether you say it or I say it."

Although that was the case, Lu Qingzhen didn't refuse.

Chen Ziyan smiled slightly.

The Xitu'er International Film Festival in February is held even earlier than the Oscar awards ceremony.

Lu Yanhe didn't know if he would have time to attend.

Of course, Huang, he could go; anyway, he was not in a hurry to finish filming *The Original Father*, and could shoot it slowly.

No actor would ask for a raise because of frequent returns for reshoots; the cost of filming locally in Malaysia, under the investment he got for this film, could afford his squandering.

Huang Tianlin dared to shoot *Tropical Rainy Season* according to his own wishes, "unhurriedly, motionless as a mountain," let alone this film.

Huang Tianlin didn't care about Lu Yanhe asking for leave to go out, he only cared that Lu Yanhe must come back.

Lu Yanhe didn't want to leave so frequently, as this would greatly interrupt his state of filming.

Of course, with Huang Tianlin, it might not matter. You can take several days to find the state—at worst, the scenes shot in these few days will be voided and not used.

Lu Yanhe knew he hesitated for a long time and decided not to attend this year's Oscar awards ceremony.

Since Best International Feature Film didn't get a nomination, what was the point of him going when he didn't get a personal award nomination either?

After Lu Yanhe's refusal was reported by *Variety*, it was interpreted by many people with other meanings.

—Don't look at how generous Lu Yanhe was when he responded before; in fact, he was still dissatisfied that *Storm Calmer No. 1* did not receive an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film.

Lu Yanhe was too lazy to respond to such questioning.

As for the premiere of *The Boat* at the Xitu'er International Film Festival, Lu Yanhe hadn't made a decision yet.

He planned to see the situation before deciding.

Whether it was Wen Shengming or Yu Mengling, it was enough to make the starlight of the film *The Boat* no weaker than other shortlisted films. He didn't have to appear.

Finishing the film *The Original Father* well is the real business.

Lu Yanhe calmed down and let himself stay in the state of the character for a long time.

A Lang.

He didn't know why, inexplicably, these past few days, he suddenly fell in love with looking in the mirror.

He discovered this point when he was in the restroom.

When washing his hands, looking at himself in the mirror, himself turned into A Lang's appearance, it was easy to look into it, and then, unconsciously, he started to say some lines from the script to himself in the mirror.

"I thought I would never come back, later I realized, many times when I thought something, actually, it was just because it hadn't reached that turning point node yet."

"I forgot when I started, I felt I was no longer a child, perhaps my past never had the concept that I was a child."

Lu Yanhe almost memorized the entire script.

Those lines were already well-known by heart.

Quite a few people in the crew even bumped into him standing in front of the mirror in the restroom "talking to himself" like this, with all kinds of expressions.

At first, they all thought this was just Lu Yanhe's habit.

But over time, the look everyone gave him became a bit strange.