Chapter 580 Awards Season and Chris Liu

"Margarita, get up quickly and don't roll on the ground."

Ivaca shouted.

"Ouch!"

The little guy rolled around a few times. Seeing that Selena was getting up, he slowly stood up with his little butt stuck out.

After playing at the private skating rink for more than an hour, the group took a car and went to the next children's playground. In the past, when there were no children, Link, Ivaca and Taylor would go to movie theaters, concert halls, shopping malls and bars to chat when they went out to play. The topic is all about love and love. After having three little ones, most of the time we talk about the children.

After wandering around several lively neighborhoods in Manhattan, the group returned to their Yorkville apartment to rest until Sanxiao was tired and fell asleep in his arms.

After Christmas, Taylor stayed in New York for a week and continued to promote the album.

Now her album "1989" has sold 3.52 million copies in the United States, making it the highest-selling album in the United States last year and the only album besides the "Frozen" movie album to sell more than 3 million copies.

Overseas, after more than two months of publicity and promotion, the total sales of "1989" have exceeded 10 million, which is a pretty good result.

After the holidays, Link and Iwaka did not immediately return to Los Angeles and continued to stay in New York to handle various tasks.

At the end of December, the shortlist for the 72nd American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards was announced. This year, Lionsgate Pictures has six films shortlisted, with a total of 21 nominations.

Among them, "Birdman" and "American Hustle" both received 7 nominations at this year's Golden Globe Awards. They are the two films with the most nominations among all shortlisted films, including Best Picture Musical Comedy, Best Actor, and Best Director. , Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Score, etc.

"Gone Girl" has four nominations, including Best Director, Best Actress in a Drama Series, Best Screenplay, and Best Score.

1 award for "Breaking Drummer", Best Supporting Actor.

"The Grand Budapest Hotel" won 1 award, Best Film - Musical Comedy.

"The Hunger Games 3" 1 award, Best Original Song.

Accounted for 3/10 of all nominations.

In the past few years, Lionsgate's films have received more than ten and twenty nominations every year. This time, Lionsgate has received 21 more nominations. It has not caused much sensation in the media. It seems that everyone has been used to this for a long time. thing.

If Lionsgate didn't get more than ten nominations, it would be big news for the media.

This year's Golden Globe Awards did not give Link a nomination, but invited him to be the presenter. Link refused. He does not lack exposure, and does not need to go to the award ceremony to gain a sense of presence, nor does he want to be popularized by the Golden Globe Awards. , when used as a tool to improve ratings.

In addition, when chatting on Christmas night, Taylor said that he is now a big boss and should keep a low profile, appear less in public, and expose his private life less, which can increase his mystery in the public mind, such as Bill Gates, Rockefeller, and Rothschild. A member of the De family.

Although Taylor said these words because he wanted him to be a dad at home with peace of mind, the purpose was not simple, but there was some truth in it.

After deciding not to participate in the Golden Globe Awards, Link took care of his baby training at home. By the way, on New Year's Day, he participated in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra's performance at Lincoln Center for the Arts. As a pianist, he performed the music "Victory" in conjunction with the music scene.

After the New Year, the Philharmonic Orchestra played 12 performances in four cities, and the venues were full.

Link also changed from a simple singer to a musician and a famous pianist.

And every time he performed, Ivaca would watch from the audience and send him flowers and applause, as if he was more proud of being a pure music player than a singer.

Taylor was rather envious of him being able to perform with the Philharmonic Orchestra. When he called, he asked him not to forget who he learned his piano playing skills from.

Link's answer was rather rude, asking her to come back soon and wanting to have sex with her, even on the piano.

Then he was scolded severely by Taylor.

While in New York, Link also dealt with some academic issues.

Last year he successfully graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in sports management.

Because he had good grades in professional courses during school, he also did well in subject research and papers. He took the boxing industry as his research object and published many articles in top economics journals such as "Econometrica" ​​and "RES".

The school suggested that he continue his studies and study for a master's degree and a doctorate.

After thinking about it, Link refused. The reason why he took the SAT exam and entered New York University was to get a diploma so that others would not regard him as an illiterate who had not finished high school, and to experience college life.

It’s just that I have been very busy with work in the past few years. Apart from taking exams and participating in sports games every year, I rarely come to school, and I have no chance to experience campus life.

There is no need to further your education.

In early January, his negotiating team also helped him obtain 100% of the equity and land ownership of the 222 Fifth Avenue Building in Manhattan. The total cost was as high as 1.85 billion U.S. dollars, which was 3.0% higher than when the Kunas family acquired it in 2006. More than 100 million US dollars.

After taking over Building 222, Link did not move in. The building was built in the mid-1980s. For more than 30 years now, the annual maintenance cost alone has reached more than 5 million U.S. dollars. For this reason, he spent another It was renovated with a cost of US$200 million and named LINK Building.

LINK Tower has 41 floors and is 145 meters high.

Although the height is not as high as the Rockefeller Building and the old father-in-law's building, the building's foundation covers a larger area, with a total area of ​​696,000 square feet.

After the renovation, the main part will continue to be used as an office building, the lower floor will be used as a hotel restaurant, and the upper floor will be used as a high-end apartment. If it is operated properly, it can earn tens of millions of yuan in rent every year.

At the beginning of the year, after finishing these tasks, Link flew to China by private plane like last year, on the one hand to handle work, on the other hand to accompany the little ones to celebrate the Spring Festival, fulfill some of his father's responsibilities, and by the way, he also paid attention to this year's Golden Globe Awards.

This year's Golden Globe Awards are still held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. After the Golden Globe Awards began, Sina Sohu and other websites broadcast live through text and picture mode.

The biggest winner of this year's Golden Globe Awards is "Boyhood", which won the Best Picture in the Drama Category and the Best Director Award.

The director of the film is Richard Linklater, the director of the "Before Sunrise" trilogy. He started in 2002 and spent 12 years to shoot "Boyhood".

When the filming started, the male lead Ethan Hawke was a 32-year-old handsome young man. When the film was finished, he became a middle-aged man with wrinkles on his face. The actors who played his son and daughter also grew up little by little under the camera, without makeup and without changing actors.

Such movies are very rare in the history of world cinema, and it is well deserved to win the Best Picture in the Drama category.

Several films of Lionsgate also performed well.

"American Hustle" won the Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category, Best Actress-Amy Adams, "Birdman" won the Best Actor in the Musical Comedy category-Michael Keaton, Best Supporting Actress-Emma Stone, and Best Screenplay.

"Whiplash" won the Best Supporting Actor-J.K. Simmons.

Received 6/14 of all awards.

This result is not bad.

In terms of TV series, "House of Cards", "Orange Is the New Black", "True Detective" and "American Horror Story" co-produced by Lionsgate and Netflix last year received a total of 8 nominations and won two awards.

This year, Weinstein Pictures also had two films nominated for the Golden Globe Awards. "The Imitation Game" and "Big Eyes" received a total of six nominations. Unfortunately, there were too many good movies this year, and these two movies failed to win any awards.

Three days after the Golden Globe Awards, the list of nominees for the 87th Academy Awards was announced.

This year's Academy Awards has a total of 24 regular awards, 2 honorary awards and 5 science and technology awards.

Lionsgate released a total of 5 films nominated and received 35 nominations.

"American Hustle" led this year's Academy Awards with 10 nominations, and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

"Birdman" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" received 9 nominations and ranked second.

"Whiplash" received six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, etc.

"Gone Girl" received one nomination, Best Actress.

After the announcement of the shortlist, the number of award nominations for Lionsgate's films also caused many media to marvel.

Although 35 nominations is not the highest in history, the most nominations was in the 75th Academy Awards in 2003, when Miramax Films received 40 nominations for films such as "Chicago", "Gangs of New York" and "The Hours".

It was also from that year that Harvey Weinstein was called the King of Oscars.

However, since 2013, the films released by Lionsgate have been nominated for more than 20 Oscars for three consecutive years, which no other film company can do for the time being.

In addition, there are 8 films nominated for Best Picture this year, 4 of which are from Lionsgate, and almost all the actors in the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress awards are from Lionsgate films.

For this reason, during the second round of voting for the Oscars, many peers who were jealous of Lionsgate Films spoke out in the media.

They asked the Film Association to launch an antitrust investigation against Lionsgate Films.

If we watch Lionsgate's films occupy most of the Oscars every year and ignore it, in a few years the Oscars will be renamed the Lionsgate Awards, and all film awards will be decided by Link alone.

Some filmmakers with ulterior motives have publicly suggested that Oscar judges should not vote for Lionsgate's films and condone Lionsgate's arrogance.

In response to this rumor, Lionsgate has made a strong counterattack. On the one hand, it has set up a best movie voting system on the Netflix website and invited all Netflix members to participate in the voting to select the 10 best art films of last year.

On the other hand, a Lionsgate spokesperson criticized famous filmmakers including Harvey.

These people criticized Lionsgate out of jealousy, not because Lionsgate made any mistakes. Lionsgate hopes that they can make more good movies in the future and compete with Lionsgate in the film market, rather than verbally spreading rumors.

During the second round of Oscar voting, the publicity department of Lionsgate Films spent more than 20 million US dollars on publicity in many media, saying that Lionsgate Films' films won the love and support of the audience because they were good enough, and they won the support of most judges and received 35 nominations because they were good enough and classic enough.

If you don't vote for Lionsgate because of the jealousy and slander of your peers, it will be a stain on the Oscars, the art of film, and excellent films, and it will also be a shame for the hard work and sacrifice of filmmakers.

Lionsgate said it believes that the Oscars are awards set up to encourage excellent films and excellent filmmakers, not consolation prizes for losers, speculators, and people who can only play tricks in secret but cannot make good films.

During the promotion period, Netflix also selected the top ten art films of the year. American Hustle, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Whiplash, and Gone Girl were all in the top 20.

Among them, Birdman ranked first, with 312,557 members supporting it.

American Hustle ranked second, The Grand Budapest Hotel ranked fifth, Whiplash ranked tenth, and Gone Girl ranked 16th.

Although many people disagree with the results of this selection, believing that Lionsgate and Netflix are one company, and the selection on the Netflix website is unfair.

But this selection is highly consistent with the latest top ten films of the year selected by the New York Times. Birdman was ranked first in the top ten films of 2014 by the New York Times, and Budapest ranked third.

The New York Times is considered the most credible media in the United States, and the top ten movies selected every year are also highly recognized.

This time, the opponents have nothing to say.

With the help of several lists, Lionsgate has been promoting several of its films. During the Oscar selection period, several nominated films under Lionsgate have achieved good growth in box office.

It is considered a relatively successful hype.

"How many awards does Lionsgate plan to win this year?"

In the courtyard, Chris Liu asked while flipping through the newspaper.

"At least 10, no upper limit."

Link hugged the girl's slender waist and smiled.

"There are only 24 awards in total, and Lionsgate took half. After the Oscars, those competitors will say that Lionsgate has a monopoly."

Chris Liu smiled slightly.

"It doesn't matter. Our movies have made money and won awards. It's normal to be envied. We can't be afraid to become excellent because of the fear of being envied."

"This is our difference. We advocate the doctrine of the mean, that is, to make a fortune quietly."

Chris Liu said with her fair jade fingers holding her hair.

"It's difficult. After all, Lionsgate has become the number one in the film industry in the world, both in box office and awards. It's hard to keep a low profile."

Link shrugged and said.

"Don't be too proud. You must know that the wind will not last all morning and the rain will not last all day. That is to say, strong winds and heavy rains cannot last long. You must learn to be steady and sustainable."

"I am the peak when I reach the top. I will talk about other things after I reach the top."

Link shook his head and kissed the girl's hair.

Chris rolled his eyes at him and moved his body to get away from him.