Los Angeles.
The 46th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony held on January 28 became a complete joke in the eyes of many people.
Although there is no clear rule, according to the convention established over the years, film award selections usually have five nominations for one award.
However, this year's Golden Globe Awards completely let themselves go.
There are seven nominations for Best Picture in the Drama category; six nominations for Best Director; six nominations for Best Supporting Actor; even for Best Original Song in the technical category, there are still six nominations.
The film categories of the Golden Globe Awards are not as comprehensive as the Oscars. Four unconventional nominations appeared at one time, making the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards, which have been criticized for various scandals in recent years, look even more unprofessional.
If a series of unconventional nominations were just ridiculed, the final chaotic award results completely made the Golden Globes the target of a large number of media attacks.
It is not uncommon for film awards to have double yolks. The competition between two films of equal quality is so fierce that the judges divide the awards equally, and sometimes it becomes a good deal.
But, have you ever seen a three-yolk egg
There were five nominations, and three people won. How could this make the other two feel embarrassed
This happened at the Golden Globe Awards.
And there's more than one.
Counting TV awards, there were a total of two 'three-yolk eggs' and three 'double-yolk eggs' at the 46th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. When the three actresses Sigourney Weaver, Jodie Foster and Shirley MacLaine, who also won the Best Actress in a Drama Series, stood on the podium together, the camera was broadcast live, and the whole audience was Laugh awkwardly.
Then a series of three-yolk eggs and double-yolk eggs came one after another, and everyone was numb with embarrassment.
Moreover, the award results were completely unconvincing.
The best picture in the drama category was awarded to the biopic starring Sigourney Weaver. "Dead Poets Society" unfortunately failed to win, and the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards have already clarified that "Rain Man" did not apply for this year's award, which makes sense.
"The Fog" is indeed an excellent movie.
However, the Best Picture Musical Comedy category was awarded to "Working Girl," which surprised everyone.
During the initial nomination stage, the nomination of "Working Girl," a new film by Mike Nichols, the director of "The Graduate" and "The Last Night," had already caused some controversy. "The Graduate" and "The Last Day Out" are both classics, but "Working Girl," a business war movie that obviously followed last year's "Wall Street," is very mediocre, and its nomination is completely undeserved.
Compared with "Wall Street", which has highly professional content but is by no means obscure, "Working Girl" only tells a very clichéd workplace story.
Clerk Tessie (played by Melanie Griffith) provides a business plan to her female boss Catherine (played by Sigourney Weaver). Catherine claims that the plan is invalid, but in fact she wants to dominate the idea. Tessie accidentally discovered the truth and pretended to be her boss to directly contact the target company. She met Jack (Harrison Ford), an executive of the other company. Tessie and Jack had a spark, and with Jack's help, Tessie was promoted and Catherine was fired.
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"Wall Street" has professional business confrontations, fierce intrigues, and Gordon Gekko's "Greed is Good" that expresses the greedy nature of capital. As for "Working Girl," probably only Mike Nichols has the senior qualifications to win the Oscar for Best Director twenty years ago for "The Graduate."
The other four films nominated in the same period, except for Universal's not-so-great "Midnight Run", the other "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "A Fish Named Wanda" and "Future" are obviously better than "Working Girl" is excellent. What's more, there are "When Harry Met Sally" and "Steel Magnolias" produced by Daenerys Entertainment. These two films are obviously also qualified to win the Best Picture Musical Comedy category, but they were not even nominated. Get it.
In the face of intense controversy, the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards could only publicly explain that "When Harry Met Sally" also did not apply for nomination. As for "Steel Magnolias," the jury considered the film to be more of a drama and therefore did not give it a nomination in the musical comedy category.
Barabara.
Daenerys Entertainment did not go home empty-handed at the Golden Globe Awards, where someone clearly tried too hard on public relations. The awards for Best Director for "Dead Poets Society" and Best Supporting Actress for "Steel Magnolias" have already reached In line with Simon's expectations, he had no dissatisfaction.
In Simon's opinion, film awards that can be manipulated by influence are the best awards. If it is too fair, it will be very troublesome.
Of course, this indifferent attitude must not be shown.
Not only that, in order to put pressure on the upcoming Oscars, Daenerys Entertainment also launched a timely public opinion offensive to protest against the company's films that were unfairly treated at the Golden Globe Awards.
This strategy is usually very effective.
Just like in the original time and space, because there were no black people nominated for a certain Oscar, someone jumped out and shouted a few times, so the next year immediately gave a best film with an all-black production team, and all the director and actor award nominations were There were also black people, and a few statuettes were taken away. The proportion was staggering.
Then, Wednesday, February 1st.
The nominations for the 61st Academy Awards have been officially announced.
"Rain Man" produced by Daenerys Entertainment received 8 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.
Moreover, Simon's own name also appears in these eight nominations, and the nominated award is Best Score. Because Hans Zimmer, who was not yet famous, could not be found, after taking over the post-production of "Rain Man", Simon personally completed the film's score based on the version in his memory.
"Dead Poets Society" also successfully received two nominations for Best Director and Best Actor.
In order to avoid competition with "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily gave up its application for best picture for "Dead Poets Society", but another application for best original screenplay was not shortlisted.
In addition, the company also applied for three nominations for "Steel Magnolias": Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress. However, only Julia Roberts received the Best Supporting Actress nomination, and the other two nominations were the same. Failed.
In total, Daenerys Entertainment has received a total of 11 nominations at the upcoming Oscars.
This kind of achievement is not impressive. Warner has won a total of six films through "Dangerous Liaisons", "The Unexpected Passenger", "Danger in the Fog", "Parker", "Beetlejuice" and "Nothing Goes". 19 nominations.
However, except for "Dangerous Liaisons" starring Sandra, which received 7 nominations, the other films received basically non-core nominations.
On the other hand, because Orion still focuses its public relations on "Mississippi Burning", "Pulp Fiction", whose copyright is in the hands of the other party, only received one nomination for Best Actor in John Travolta this time, compared to The Golden Globes are also short of a screenplay nomination.
As the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, "Pulp Fiction" has unquestionable reputation and box office.
After returning empty-handed at the Golden Globes and then being ignored by the Oscars, many media outlets couldn't help but complain about the film. Because in this Oscar nomination, Mike Nicholson's "Working Girl" still scored a lot, winning a total of 6 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director.
A film critic for Variety magazine sharply criticized the Golden Globes and Oscar organizers after the Oscar nominations were announced for casting a film producer with titles such as "Rain Man," "Pulp Fiction," "Dead Poets Society," and "A Man Named Poets" "The Big Fish", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "When Harry Met Sally" and many other excellent films were forcibly downgraded into a mediocre movie through its own award selection full of insider information. 'Little Year'.
The critic also unabashedly took aim at the Writers Guild of America.
It is not difficult for careful people to find that in addition to the highly anticipated "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment's "Dead Poets Society", "Steel Magnolias", "When Harry Met Sally" and especially Simon's own " Other films such as "Pulp Fiction" were not nominated for screenplay awards.
Simon Westeros, as the best young screenwriter of the 1980s, has not even been nominated for two consecutive years. This is simply a joke.
The judges for the Oscar screenwriting awards are basically members of the Writers Guild of America.
Daenerys Entertainment's popular reality show "Who Will Be a Millionaire" almost wiped out the Writers Guild's strike last year. Although the strike was successfully settled in the end, the agreement reached was also severely reduced.
Under such a profound contradiction, the Writers Guild was already leaving room for itself by not ignoring "Rain Man". "Pulp Fiction" and other films under Daenerys Entertainment should naturally not expect any nominations.
Of course, as the strength of Daenerys Entertainment further increases, the conflicts between the two parties will gradually resolve.
Ultimately, the relationship between the screenwriter and the film company is always that of employee and boss. When it comes to their own jobs, whether they like it or not, most of the time people have to choose to forget or pretend to forget, and then compromise.
The turmoil in Japan's financial markets has not affected Daenerys Entertainment's operations.
After the Oscar nominations were announced, Ira Deutschman began the final stage of her public relations sprint.
At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment also released the first movie of the new year on February 3, Catherine's second theatrical feature film "The Blue Angel of Thunder".
Compared with blockbuster films such as "Rain Man" which are still steadily reaping box office revenue, "Blue Angel" has a pretty good reputation among film critics, with an average score of 7 points, but its box office performance is somewhat lackluster. In its first week of release, "Blue Angel" only earned US$3.81 million at the box office on a total of 1,121 screens in North America, and the total local box office is expected to be only about US$8 million.
The final production cost of "Blue Angel" was US$10 million, and the publicity cost was approximately US$3.5 million. The North American box office of 8 million US dollars, including other distribution income, is also destined to lose millions of dollars.
It's no secret within the community that Simon and Catherine have a special relationship.
Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment did not care too much about the failure of the film. Even if it has been selling well for a whole year and occasionally loses one or two movies, it seems to be good.
The world cannot continue to be abnormal.
On February 17, after more than a month of financial audit, Daenerys Entertainment’s 1988 financial report was finally released.
As of December 31, 1988, Daenerys Entertainment Group's total annual revenue reached US$708 million.
Because Daenerys Entertainment is still in the early stages of development, the revenue of each department of the company has not been divided too finely. It is currently only divided into three major business sectors: film, television and comics. The revenue scale of film and television derivatives is still very small. Income is directly consolidated and calculated, and expenses such as office space purchase and private jet leasing are also treated in the same way.
Among the three major business segments.
The total revenue from the film business was US$276 million, including various types of revenue sharing from a series of Daenerys Pictures films and revenue from theaters and video tapes of New World Entertainment films.
Daenerys Entertainment invested a large amount of money in film production, promotion and copyright procurement last year. Films such as "Rain Man" and "Dead Poets Society" did not bring returns to the company before December 31, 1988. , the income from various films under New World Entertainment is also very meager.
Excluding various costs and taxes, the net profit of Daenerys Entertainment's film business is only US$67.72 million.
In comparison, the TV business run by Robert Iger has revenue of US$361 million, of which "Who Will Be a Millionaire" alone contributed US$196 million. Other reality shows such as "Survivor" and TV series projects such as "The Age of Innocence" left over from New World Entertainment have brought in good revenue.
Due to the ultra-high profit margin of "Who Will Be a Millionaire", the net profit of the TV business unit is still as high as $165.75 million after excluding all costs from the revenue of $361 million.
Finally, Simon specifically requested that the Marvel Entertainment comics business be accounted for separately. The annual revenue was US$71.32 million and the net profit was US$5.26 million.
In fact, since 1975, Marvel has maintained a stable profit state under the management of Stan Lee and James Gold.
Although the North American comic industry has continued to shrink in recent years, and Marvel's net profit margin of less than 10% seems a bit low, but if it had not been for the bankruptcy liquidation of Marvel's parent company Candace Industrial Holdings Group in 1986, this comic company would not have been easily Sold.
Therefore, after all calculations, Daenerys Entertainment Group's full-year net profit in 1988 reached US$238.73 million.
The net profit is US$238.73 million. Not to mention the second and third tier Hollywood film companies, even among the seven major studios, only Warner, Paramount and Disney can exceed this figure in terms of profit scale. Among them, Warner calculates the performance of the entire Warner Bros. company, not just Warner Bros. Pictures.
As for the rest, Columbia and MGM suffered losses last year. Only Universal's "Brothers and Dragons" at the end of last year supported its film performance in the past two years. The entire MCA Group's profit in 1988 was less than 200 million US dollars. Barry Dee Le's business focus has been on expanding the television network, while Fox Studios is just barely holding on.
In fact, the current situation is not because of the lack of strength of Hollywood studios, but mainly because of the outstanding performance of Daenerys Entertainment.
Even if it expands to other corporate fields in North America, according to Forbes' revenue and profit data of the top 500 American companies, the statistics for 1988 have not yet been completed. However, referring to 1987, Daenerys Entertainment's profit scale of US$238 million is enough to squeeze into North America. Top 70 on the local top 500 list.
In this era, except for a few dozen companies such as Ford Motor and General Electric, the profit scale can reach the 1 billion level. More than 95% of the companies on the North American Top 500 list have annual profits of less than 1 billion US dollars, and net profits exceed 1 billion US dollars. There are only about 150 companies worth US$100 million.
Therefore, when this financial data was released that would definitely make too many people jealous, several senior executives of Daenerys Entertainment unanimously decided to keep it as secret as possible.
There have been various speculations about the size of Daenerys Entertainment's profits in 1988, and most of the media's analyzes have been very accurate.
However, just like many well-known closet cases in Hollywood, as long as a star does not come out publicly, no matter how many traces prove that he is gay, fans who are often unwilling to face reality are still happy to believe that this is not the case.
By the same token, as long as Daenerys Entertainment does not disclose detailed financial data, other Hollywood film companies will only subconsciously ignore this matter.