Seeing the passion in Naomi Watts’ eyes, Li Yishu smiled and said, “Hollywood is ultimately dominated by commercial films, and art films are just a dessert.”

“No no no.”

Harvey, who was sitting opposite, shook his head and said, “Lee, you still underestimate yourself. Miss Watts is right. You are the only four-time Grand Slam winner in the world. You have an amazing influence in Europe. If you are willing, I am always willing to work with you on another art film.”

Lee Yi-su is the gold medal winner at the four major European film festivals, the only Grand Slam winner, and has also achieved outstanding results in the field of commercial films.

Whether it is “The Sixth Sense” or “Chicago”, they are the perfect embodiment of the combination of literature and art with commerce.

The former grossed over $4 million worldwide, while the latter earned $1.2 million.

Not to mention the martial arts and kung fu films such as “Sword Rain” and “Rumble in the Bronx”, which have achieved very good results.

It can be said that Lee Yi-su is famous in Hollywood, and quite famous, but he himself does not often stay in the United States and is not aware of how famous he is here.

But Naomi Watts is different. She has been staying in Los Angeles and naturally understands how outstanding the man in front of her is.

Even though he is not as successful as big commercial film directors like Spielberg, he has made more than a dozen films, and none of them has lost money.

This is true even for art films, which is very remarkable.

“Haha, let’s work together on another movie when we have the chance.”

Li Yishu laughed and didn’t care about Harvey’s words. He was not going to cooperate with Harvey anyway.

“It’s settled then.” Harvey’s eyes lit up. He didn’t hear any perfunctory tone in Li Yishu’s words. Instead, he was eagerly looking forward to this day coming as soon as possible.

The success of “Chicago” allowed Harvey to find a way to get through to those old white men at the Academy Awards.

Musicals are about sentiment, so there must be subject matter that would interest these old white men.

As long as he can find out the hobbies of this group of old white men, Harvey may be able to influence the Oscar awards.

A few people were chatting, and suddenly Naomi Watts said: “This time Hanks’s “Apollo 13” has received ten nominations, and our “Chicago” has also received ten nominations. I’m afraid he will be the big winner of this year’s Oscars again.”

This time, Tom Hanks did not travel with the crew of “Chicago”.

Because this year he has another starring movie “Apollo 13” nominated for an Oscar.

Not only was he the absolute leading male star in this movie, he also participated in the investment and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.

Compared to “Chicago”, Tom Hanks naturally cares more about “Apollo 13”.

“That may not be the case.” Harvey shook his head. “Hanks was a huge success last year. No matter what, there is no way he will win an Oscar this year.”

“Yes, what Harvey said makes sense.”

Li Yishu nodded and said, “I’ve seen the videotape of Apollo 13. Hanks performed very well. If he didn’t win an award last year, he would have a great chance of winning this year.”

A few days ago, after learning that Lee Yi-su had come to the United States, Hanks personally called him to explain that he could not participate in the red carpet walk with the “Chicago” crew.

Even if Li Yishu was unhappy about this, there was nothing she could do.

Hanks doesn’t have many roles in “Chicago”. Although he is the male lead, this is actually a movie with two female protagonists, and the male character just plays an excessive role.

Not to mention that he didn’t receive any nominations for “Chicago”.

Cindy Crawford asked curiously: “So, Hanks won’t get the award this time?”

“It’s hard.”

Harvey laughed and said, “He’s too popular right now. If he wins another award, the Oscars won’t be happy. But the movie is pretty good. If there’s an acting award, it will most likely be for Supporting Actor.”

He really understands those old white men at Oscars.

Tom Hanks is currently at the peak of his career in Hollywood. Last year’s “Forrest Gump” made him famous all over the world, and this year’s “Chicago” and “Apollo 13” were both nominated for Oscars.

In terms of popularity in the past two months, even Tom Cruise is inferior to him.

Under such circumstances, if Hanks were to be awarded the award again, regardless of whether the public approves or not, the group of old white men in the Academy of Oscars themselves would not be happy about it.

The Academy Awards have been established for nearly 70 years. The reason why this group of old white men in the Academy have controlled it for so long is not just because of their qualifications, but because of the relative fairness and suppression of the awards.

When many people think of the long road to an Oscar, the first person they think of is Leonardo DiCaprio, who was a runner-up for the Oscars for 22 years before he won the Best Actor award for “The Revenant.”

But in fact, there is another veteran actor, Al Pacino, who has also been running for 20 years.

Al Pacino has starred in “The Godfather”, “Clash”, “The Godfather Part II”, and “Dog Day’s Afternoon”, and has been nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor more than a dozen times, but has been a runner-up for 2 years without winning any.

It was not until 1992 that he won the Best Actor Award for his superb acting skills in the classic “Scent of a Woman”.

Does that mean he couldn’t win any awards for his acting skills in the past?

Not necessarily.

What it all comes down to is that while the Oscars were intentionally suppressing it, they still didn’t forget to give Al Pacino hope of winning the award.

Although Li Yishu did not understand the logic of the Academy Awards, he had memories of the future, and combined with a series of Oscar scandals that followed, he naturally understood what Harvey meant.

Time passed little by little, and more than ten minutes passed.

When the extended Lincoln slowly stopped in front of the red carpet.

Harvey was the first to get out of the car with his female companion.

Reporters on both sides of the red carpet began to take pictures with their cameras, but not many. Harvey is indeed somewhat famous in Hollywood now, but more as a film company owner and producer.

He had not yet become the Oscar promoter who could later influence the Oscars and help others win major awards.

Naturally, it is difficult to attract the attention of reporters.

But then Lee Yi-su got out of the car first, holding the hands of Naomi Watts and Cindy Crawford.

When this combination of one king and two queens appears.

The reporters around were pressing the shutter buttons desperately as if film was free.

For a moment, the scene was illuminated by the flash lights as bright as day.

“Lee! Look over here!”

“Nawo, Nawo!”

“Cindy, Cindy, look at me!”

“I love you Nawo!”

“…”

The shouts and cheers from the reporters and fans at the scene came one after another.

Fans Zone.

Cate Blanchett watched this scene with excitement.

She has successfully joined the company as Li Yishu’s personal assistant.

Considering that Li Yishu was going to attend the Oscar dinner tonight and would definitely have to drink some wine and socialize with people, she brought two of Li Yishu’s bodyguards and arrived at the gate of the Los Angeles Music Center in advance.

After waiting for the award ceremony to end, the group set off for the hotel.

Originally, when Hollywood stars appeared on the red carpet, Cate Blanchett was mainly there to watch the fun.

But when I saw director Lee Ye-su appear with her fellow countryman Naomi Watts.

An emotion called ambition began to spread in her heart.

They are all actresses who came to Hollywood from Australia. How come Naomi Watts was so lucky to catch Li Yishu’s eye and star in a movie that sold 1.2 million US dollars worldwide?

Moreover, it is a movie with two female protagonists. Nawo has a lot of roles in the movie, and there are many wonderful scenes. Why can she do it but I can’t?

When it comes to her acting ability, Cate Blanchett is very confident in herself, which was the confidence she brought when she participated in a drama in Sydney.

Now she felt that all she lacked was an opportunity, a chance to act in a movie in the United States, and it had to be an important role.

Watching Li Yishu and his group walking into the music center step by step, Kate took a deep breath and made up her mind that as Director Li’s assistant this time, she must serve this great director well.

As long as she serves this great director well and demonstrates her acting skills, she may become the next Naomi Watts.

6 o’clock in the evening.

As guests arrived one after another and filmmakers took their seats, the Academy Awards officially kicked off.

This year’s host is Whoopi Goldberg, who starred in the 1990 film “Ghost” and played the role of a witch in the film. She later became famous in North America with the “Sister Act” series.

As a black actress, she was absolutely ecstatic to be able to host the Oscars.

So as soon as she came on stage, she seemed very active. She began to speak incessantly the lines she had written in advance, and at the same time combined them with the nominated movies. The atmosphere on the scene was very lively, with laughter coming from time to time.

Li Yishu was not impressed by this kind of American joke, but she smiled along with the people around her.

Seeing the director gesturing towards him, Whoopi Goldberg immediately said, “The 1996th Academy Awards Ceremony of 68 is now officially starting!”

As the host stepped down, the live broadcast sounded: “For the Best Costume Design Award, the nominated works are “Brave Heart”…”

The plot of the movie appeared on the big screen.

As the shortlisted candidates were announced one by one, three award presenters soon walked onto the stage.

One man and two women, namely: Pierce Brosnan, who played 007, Naomi Campbell, one of the top five supermodels in the world, and Claudia Schiffer.

Looking at the two supermodels with the same name as herself on the stage, Cindy Crawford’s mouth corners slightly raised.

Even though the other person is standing on the stage while you are just sitting below, this is not just a matter of one on the stage and the other below the stage.

The competition between the five supermodels is very fierce.

Although Cindy Crawford is very famous and has the best beauty among the five, the fashion industry is not just about appearance.

After being selected as the top five supermodels, the five teams competed against each other to a very intense level.

From luxury goods endorsements to advertising magazines, they are competing for everything.

But now, she, Cindy Crawford, has become a Hollywood movie star with “Chicago”. After the movie was released last year, she also participated in the filming of several movies, although they were mainly vase roles.

But it also opened a channel for Cindy Crawford to Hollywood.

Compared with the other four supermodels, she has one more way out.

Thinking of this, Cindy felt a sense of superiority for a moment. She glanced at Li Yishu beside her, reached out and grabbed his hand.

Li Yishu felt touched and looked sideways at Cindy, only to see her eyes moving and her palm being tickled.

Is this woman horny?

Li Yishu was confused and didn’t understand why she suddenly teased him.

Come to think of it, he and Cindy haven’t had much contact since the movie came out last year.

To put it bluntly, there was only one reason for choosing her, and that was to take revenge on Richard Gere.

He deliberately brought Cindy into the group to create conflicts between her and Richard Gere, leading to their divorce.

As for the fact that they hooked up together later, we can only blame it on the supermodel’s charm.

Li Yishu is not a good guy. If he doesn’t have fun, wouldn’t it be a waste of his rebirth?
But since then, the two have not had any contact.

what is it today?
Although she was confused, Li Yishu naturally would not be reserved when she had the chance to play again. She patted the other person’s hand, indicating that they would talk about it later, and continued to look at the stage.

Now for the Best Makeup Award.

The award presenter was a very beautiful blonde named Alicia Silverstone, but Li Yishu didn’t recognize her.

His understanding of Hollywood stars is still the ones that the public is familiar with.

Time passes little by little.

With some smaller awards being given out, it soon came to the Best Supporting Actress award.

This time, “Chicago” was nominated for five awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design.

The last three have already gone down the drain.

Only Best Director and Best Picture are left.

Under normal circumstances, any local film nominated for an Oscar will win at least one award.

Of course there are exceptions.

“The winner of Best Actress is…”

Tom Hanks, the winner of the best actor award last year, was invited to present the best actress award this year, which is a tradition in the Oscars.

The previous session will present awards to the next session, with men and women switching places, with the Best Actor award given to women and the Best Actress award given to men.

“Susan Sarandon — Dead Man Walking!”

There was thunderous applause.

There is only one award left for Best Director and two awards left for Best Picture.

Li Yishu was still a little nervous.

If he can win it this time, it can be said that he has completed his goal in terms of awards.

And to be honest, after this year, it won’t be that easy to win an Oscar in the future.

With the Best Actor award going to “Leaving Las Vegas” starring Nicolas Cage, now only Best Director and Best Picture are left.

Harvey, who was sitting not far away, called out “Li” and then gave a wink.

Understanding his look, Li Yishu nodded and waited silently.

Soon it was time for the Best Director Award to be presented. After the guest’s speech, it was announced that the winner was Mel Gibson!
Li Yishu felt worried.

There is only one grand prize left.

Not only was he nervous, Harvey was the same, although he received some response during the public relations, indicating that he had a great chance of winning the Best Picture.

But before you get it, everything is just a dream.

After Mel Gibson left the stage, black actor Sidney Poitier walked onto the stage after being solemnly introduced by the host.

He is considered a veteran black actor in Hollywood.

He started appearing in movies as early as the 40s, and was the first black actor to be nominated for Best Actor, and also the first black actor to win the award!

His influence among black people in North America is much greater than that of Morgan Freeman.

Sidney Poitier opened the envelope, glanced at the name on it, and raised his lips slightly: “This is a director I like very much. He is also the most famous director in Asia and is known as the Godfather of Asian Films…”

As soon as these words came out.

Li Yishu’s originally nervous heart relaxed instantly, and the guests around him looked at him frequently.

“That’s right, the winner of the 68th Academy Award for Best Picture is Chicago… Art Li, let’s applaud and congratulate him!!” (End of this chapter)