[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-academic-director-reborn-in-the-film-industr":3,"chapter-the-academic-director-reborn-in-the-film-industr-the-academic-director-reborn-in-the-film-industr-chapter-403":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Academic Director: Reborn in the Film Industry",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2297403,4493,"Chapter 403: Congratulations Are Over, Right?","the-academic-director-reborn-in-the-film-industr-chapter-403",403,"\u003Cp>In this era, why do the Oscars make people in China feel they are so prestigious? Even if most ordinary viewers might not know much about the three major European film festivals, they definitely know about the Oscars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, Hollywood films have been constantly conquering territories globally, occupying the film markets of almost all mainstream countries and leaving the local films unable to find their bearings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the domestic market hadn't taken a series of measures in time—such as limiting import quotas, letting Hollywood blockbusters crowd each other out, and creating a \"domestic film protection month\"—it would surely have been fully occupied just like Europe, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, leaving them only able to develop genre films.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, domestic media and directors shout \"Charge the Oscars!\" every year, yet almost every attempt ends in failure, which invisibly raises the prestige of the Oscars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking back at the twenty-some years of the \"Charge the Oscars\" journey since China's reform and opening up, every year the Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong each select one film to \"charge the Oscars.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up to now, only Zhang Yimou’s *Ju Dou*, *Raise the Red Lantern*, and *Hero*, along with Chen Kaige’s *Farewell My Concubine*, have received nominations for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film from the Mainland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taiwan’s Li An also had three films receive nominations for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film: *The Wedding Banquet*, *Eat Drink Man Woman*, and *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*, with *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* ultimately winning the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the only time a Chinese film has successfully \"charged the Oscars.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Hong Kong films, they select one every year, but sorry, not a single film has ever received a nomination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, over these twenty-some years, the Mainland has had four films nominated, Taiwan has had three films nominated, and Hong Kong films have scored a zero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, at least on the surface, the Oscars seem much more difficult than the three major European film festivals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this year's Oscars, the two sides of the strait and the three regions have each selected one film to \"charge the Oscars.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taiwan sent *Etude*, and Hong Kong sent the film *Exiled* directed by Du Qifeng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the Mainland side, the final candidates were *The Knot* and *Sacrifice*, and in the end, the Film Bureau chose *Sacrifice*, which had won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, between the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Films directed by Cao Yang are never submitted to compete for a nomination spot for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Film Bureau would still ask him if he wanted to participate in the first two years, but later, after Cao Yang won Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars, they stopped asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Zhuangzhuang is different from Cao Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, he still places great importance on the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, the process for generating the nomination list for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film is relatively \"populist.\" In plain terms, it is highly random, not very professional, and the fairness... well, if you only look at the process, it appears fair on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the organizations of various countries or regions finish submitting their entries for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, the Academy recruits volunteers in Los Angeles who understand foreign languages, numbering between roughly 320 and 400 people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then these people are divided into several groups, and the submitted films are distributed to these groups simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching the films, the volunteers score them, with 10 being the highest and 7 the lowest, and then the scores are tallied; the top six films enter the shortlist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shortlist is divided into two parts: one part consists of the six films with the highest scores from the volunteers, and the other part, supposedly to check for omissions, consists of three films selected by the members of the Academy's internal foreign-language film executive committee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the 6+3 shortlist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, it is still not the final list of 5 nominations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the Academy organizes a nomination committee, whose members are all well-known filmmakers, and these people then select the final 5 films to become the Oscar nominees for Best International Feature Film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nomination list for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film goes through these three procedures and looks very fair, but those in the know understand that there is still a great deal of room for maneuvering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selected by volunteers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These 3 films can be very high-quality films, or films chosen entirely based on the director's fame, or films that have been lobbied for... in short, the potential for manipulation is very high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yang did not lobby for the nomination list for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for Tian Zhuangzhuang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, there was no great need.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was the volunteers or the people on the Academy's internal foreign-language film executive committee, they might not necessarily know who Tian Zhuangzhuang is, but the Venice Golden Lion award mentioned in the materials, plus the producer and screenwriter's name written as \"Cao Yang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just these two points were enough to guarantee that *Sacrifice* would enter the nominations for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result was as Cao Yang expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taiwan's *Etude* and Hong Kong's *Exiled* both failed to make the nomination list, while Tian Zhuangzhuang's *Sacrifice* successfully entered the final list of 5 Oscar nominees for Best International Feature Film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this, besides Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang has now been added to the list of Mainland directors who have \"charged the Oscars\" and entered the nomination list.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since *Sacrifice* received an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film, Tian Zhuangzhuang definitely had to come to Los Angeles to attend the Oscars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yang drove to the airport to pick up Tian Zhuangzhuang, who also brought along Fu Dalong, Hui Yinghong, and Ning Hao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, Cheng Jianye also came with Tian Zhuangzhuang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Hao is the assistant director of *Sacrifice*, and he had another purpose for coming; Cao Yang wanted to let Ning Hao start preparing for the relevant filming matters of *Joker* after the Oscars ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Cheng Jianye, he is the executive producer Cao Yang sent to *The Fault in Our Stars*; this time, *The Fault in Our Stars* has a nomination for Best Picture, and Cao Yang wanted him to come and show his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although as an executive producer, even if *The Fault in Our Stars* wins Best Picture, he cannot go on stage to accept the award while the producers are present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after the fact, when accepting interviews with the subtitle \"Executive Producer of the Oscar-winning Best Picture\" displayed, it is still quite prestigious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is worth mentioning that *Juno*, for which Cheng Jianye was sent by Cao Yang to be the executive producer, also won an Oscar for Best Picture back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If *The Fault in Our Stars* can win this time, he will be the executive producer of two Oscar-winning Best Pictures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is already a very remarkable achievement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yang took them out for a meal and then sent them to the pre-booked hotel; after such a long flight, everyone must have been very exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, the crew of *Pirates of the Caribbean* also arrived in Los Angeles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Depp, as the person in the crew who received a nomination for Best Actor, naturally treated everyone to a big meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Depp and his agency did not lobby for the Best Actor award.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because it was a very obvious matter; even if Depp acted well and the character had unique features, it is simply impossible for a commercial film with a box office in the billion-dollar range to win individual awards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as a two-time consecutive Oscar Best Actor winner, being nominated for Best Actor again, treating people to a meal was a must.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the meal, those who had houses in Los Angeles went home, and those who didn't went to the pre-booked hotels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Eva Green, who neither had a house in Los Angeles nor booked a hotel, got into Cao Yang's car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people in the crew saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no one was curious, and no one even took a second look, as if this were a very natural thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, it wasn't that Eva Green had nowhere to go in Los Angeles; although her boyfriend hadn't bought a house in Los Angeles either, he had rented an apartment, and it wasn't far from the Arcadia villa where Cao Yang lived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shall I take you back?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Eva Green fastened her seatbelt, Cao Yang asked with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eva Green was silent for a moment, then immediately unfastened the seatbelt she had just fastened, hunched over, and prepared to crawl toward Cao Yang's driver's seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, she didn't forget to say: \"The parking lot is also not bad; I haven't tried it yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yang was stunned for a moment; this was not what he had in mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was just a casual question; what had Eva Green interpreted it as?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he reacted, Eva Green's upper body had already crawled over, and her hands were not idle either, as she was preparing to help Cao Yang remove his restraints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yang hurriedly asked: \"What are you doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eva Green, on the contrary, raised her head with some confusion and asked uncomprehendingly: \"Didn't you not want me to go to your place? And you didn't object when I got into your car, so isn't it here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this all about?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn, your train of thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when I said I'd take you back, you interpreted it as not letting you go to my place?\u003C\u002Fp>",1647,"2026-06-20T05:36:33.656Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","1f5e4add1a67895e803c38f6ec2774b7d3c39c5b36c8b09bca978512ff14a583","the-academic-director-reborn-in-the-film-industr-chapter-404","the-academic-director-reborn-in-the-film-industr-chapter-402",411,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-academic-director-reborn-in-the-film-industr-cover.jpg"]