When an outsider mentions the best foreign language film, his first reaction is "what". Since the mainstream movies around the world are still English works, the difficulty of foreign language films to be further promoted has increased exponentially. For most ordinary movie viewers, they may not necessarily watch a foreign language film for a year.

However, when insiders mention the best foreign language film, they will be blinded and find it difficult to excite themselves. Even professional fans who are dissatisfied with the increasingly commercialized Oscars are no exception. Because they all know clearly that compared with the best films in which American and British films occupy the protagonists, the competition for the best foreign language film is ten times more intense, a hundred times more.

Every year, the best foreign language films will gather works selected by more than 100 countries around the world, especially the European continent, which is a natural hotbed of art films. The competition among European countries is already extremely fierce. After being given to the Golden Globe Awards, British Academy Awards or Oscars, more than 100 works with different styles and excellent quality will only select five works to be shortlisted, and then the final winner will be selected. It can be said that the best foreign language film is truly one in a hundred.

In the eyes of truly senior professional film fans, the best foreign language film not only has higher gold content, but also has almost impeccable quality. Perhaps the best film will have controversy like "Shapes' Love History", but the best foreign language film has never been. Therefore, those directors who can win the best foreign language film are definitely real and have been famous in history.

As a Swedish national treasure director, Ingmar Bergmann won numerous international awards, but what is puzzling is that he has always missed the highest award and only won one Golden Bear Award among the three major European film festivals. He won three Best Foreign Language Film Awards in the Oscars of the English film lead, and his status as a master is unshakable.

Federico Fede Nicholas Cofellini is an absolute master of Italy. She has created many classic works that have been recorded in history. Although she has never been involved in the Golden Bear Awards. However, the winner of the four-time Academy Awards, the Palme d'Or and the Two Silver Lion Awards have become the most brilliant in his career, and no one has surpassed it yet.

It can be said that although the best foreign language film is just an award, it is enough to compete with the best film and the best director. This award is often the most competitive department. Even winning the nomination is a huge victory.

"City of God" has won praises since the Sundance Film Festival, and has performed well in box office. Coupled with the unique way of blog promotion, it became the seed player of the best foreign language film in the year-end awards season early in the first half of the year. Although after the second half of the year, the name of "City of God" has gradually been forgotten, and Roger Ebert and Lauren Stupman's comments seem to be slower and failed to awaken people's memories in time; but even so, "City of God" successfully won the Golden Globe nomination for the best foreign language film.

As a new director, Reims achieved the biggest breakthrough of Brazilian films since "Central Station", which caused a sensation in an instant.

"City of God" will compete with Germany's "Goodbye Lenin" in the Golden Globes, Canada's "barbaric invasion", "Russia" and Afghanistan's "Girl Osama". Among these five works, there is no weak.

"Goodbye Lenin" is the biggest winner of this year's European Film Festival and German Film Awards, and he dominated Europe with a sweep; "Return" is the winner of the Venetian Golden Lion Award; "Brutal Invasion" won the Best Screenwriter and Best Actress Award at Cannes, and then won the trophy at the French Caesar Award and the Toronto Film Festival respectively; "Girl Osama" also won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

Relatively speaking, the "City of God" that only won the Sundance Jury Award is the weakest.

Of course, the competition for the best foreign language films every year is particularly fierce, with sparks everywhere, and the nomination for "City of God" is still well deserved.

However, although "City of God" has won a place for the Best Foreign Language Film, this is the only nomination for "City of God" at the Golden Globes. More importantly, the Best Foreign Language Films at the Golden Globes are not worth a lot of gold. The focus is generally not high every year. The Hollywood Foreign Journalists Association focuses more on works in the United States. This is also one of the important reasons why the Golden Globes have been criticized. This also prevents the news that "City of God" won the nomination and is soon submerged in the wave of "Cold Mountain", "Lord of the Rings", and "Lost Tokyo".

If Roger and Lawrence fans had not reawakened people's admiration for "City of God". It seems that many people would not realize that "City of God" actually won the Golden Globe nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film.

This is also the most interesting part. When the discussion on the Golden Globe nomination list slowly cooled down, "City of God" unexpectedly occupied a lot of people's attention, especially the college judges and senior movie fans who are quite interested in the awards season. The reviews of Roger and Lawrence seem to be a bit slower, but is it really the case?

In any case, even if the topic of "City of God" is back in warmth, it still has no comparison compared to "Lost Tokyo". The gap between the two is like the difference between lightweight and heavyweight. One is the focus of the crowd, the other is the limited attention; the other is the emergence and the leading the way, the other is the thrilling shortlist, and the strong enemy is fed around. Not to mention the comparison at the company level, Chaos Pictures is still an unknown production company, and Diorama Pictures has ushered in a heyday with the momentum of "Troy", "elephant" and "Lost Tokyo".

Looking back on the twists and turns in the past year, first Lance destroyed the cooperation between Diorama and Warner Bros. at the funeral, and almost caused the "Lost Tokyo" project to slide away from Ryan's fingertips. Finally, Ryan spent a lot of effort to negotiate a cooperation with Focus Pictures. Then, the action of interfering with the crew of "City of God" failed to succeed, but instead made "City of God" unexpectedly a hot topic for the media, laying the groundwork for the success of the movie later; again, because the post-production of "Lost Tokyo" was not completed on time, he missed the Sundance Film Festival, allowing "City of God" to win the jury award and emerged from nowhere.

Then, because of the quagmire of the Iraq War, Diorama Film had to be careful. In the panic in the entire circle, Ryan and the others could only watch the "City of God" win an incredible box office victory with the help of the east wind; again, because of Lance's activity, Diorama Film was passive. Once, Lance was infinitely close to works such as "Troy" and "King Arthur". Any mistake could lead to the reversal of the situation between Diorama Film and Chaos Film. Ryan made up his mind at the critical moment and regained the advantage in the hands of Diorama Film; finally, because of the head-on conflict between Lance and Gao Wen, the entire office of Diorama Film was in a mess, but he had to swallow his anger.

Just one Lancelot Strello disrupted the overall development plan of Diorama Film. With their absolute advantage, they encountered so many dangers and almost stumbled all the way to the present. The inner aggrievance could not be described in words. Everyone, including Ryan and George, held their breath hard, hoping to teach Lance a lesson, and then really straightened their backs in front of Lance, raised their chin, and showed their advantages and arrogance.

Now, the day they have been waiting for has finally arrived. Diorama Film Company scanned the decline in the first half of 2003

After the "Elephant" landed in Cannes in May, it gradually regained its advantage in the confrontation with Chaos Pictures. The subsequent "Troy" huge press conference triggered the enthusiasm of the entire North American film market, and relying on the strong momentum of the awards season to widen the gap. Not to mention Tak Toure, Jason Berkeley, even Ryan Cavalug and George Clooney showed long-lost smiles.

The head-on collision between "Lost Tokyo" and "City of God" achieved a huge advantage. Everyone was relieved. The strings that had been tense for more than a year were finally relaxed a little, which made Tucker a little forgetful. After the list of nominations for the Golden Globes came out, he even proposed a bold idea to ask George to go to Jean Rance for an voluntary meal. Then they planned to pretend to be an accidental encounter and humiliate Lance in person.

Ryan and George did not object to this act of exposing George's identity as a spy. After laughing and scolding Tucker, they acquiesced for the first time, which shows that they were suppressed anger and frustrated in their hearts.

Unfortunately, George took the initiative to make an appointment with Lance twice, but he failed to succeed. After returning from Montreal, Lance devoted himself to the post-production and trailer editing of the "day-to-day acquired" and devoted all his energy to this work without leaving home.

This really disappointed Tucker.

However, Tucker's disappointment will not last long, because on January 25, the 61st Golden Globe Awards ceremony officially kicked off. "Lost Tokyo" is a popular winner, Ryan, Tucker and Jason were invited to attend, not to mention George, which will also be an excellent opportunity for Diorama to step into the front of the stage for the first time after Diorama gets rid of the shadow of Reims.

"How, how?" Tucker looked at Ryan who hung up the phone. At this moment, they were sitting in an extended Lincoln sedan, less than fifty yards away from the Hollywood Hilton Hotel, where the Golden Globes ceremony was held. Although there was no grand occasion on the red carpet for the time being, the long standby vehicle in front still outlined the heat in the air.

Tucker's mood couldn't help but rise, his eyes flashed with excitement, "What did George say, when will Lance arrive at the scene? I've already thought about my opening remarks." After saying that, Tucker sorted out his bow tie with a serious expression, "Congratulations to the City of God for winning the nomination for the best foreign language film, the only nomination." Then Tucker raised his head and laughed. Jason, who was sitting opposite, rolled his eyes speechlessly and looked out the window.

Ryan did not laugh at this time, and his expression seemed a little playful, "Lance will not attend today." To be continued.

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