"Let's start with the Golden Dragon Award for Best Original Film Music in 1997. Please take a look at the list of nominees!" In the audience's anticipation, Boss Jia finally began to announce the first official award, which was voted by all the audience.
"The nominees are: Independence Day, Men in Black, Starship Troopers, Life is Beautiful, and The Fifth Element." Boss Jia first read the names of the five nominees, then explained, "Everyone must be very curious about how these five nominees were decided!"
"Everyone, please look at this ballot in my hand. The ballot asks all the audience to give a rating to the different content of a movie, and the score is from 1 to 10. However, because the number of people watching a movie is different, the total score is not correct. We will take the average score for comparison. "
"However, a simple average score can't fully reflect the value of a movie, because there are some niche movies that have a relatively small number of people watching them, so the average score is not universal. Especially considering that in the future, some movie producers may deliberately cheat the movie's score. After all, as long as the number of people watching the movie is small, the cost of cheating the movie's score is very low! "
"So, in the final calculation of the average score, we will exclude 45% of the votes with the highest score and 45% of the votes with the lowest score, leaving only the last 10% of the votes in the middle for the calculation of the average score!" Boss Jia said.
"That's a good move!" Hearing Boss Jia's words, many people exclaimed.
After all, whether it was a good or bad review, the votes would definitely be either high or low. So, the votes with extremely high or extremely low scores could be manipulated.
The scores in the middle were about the fairest among all the votes.
As for whether this would hurt the movies that didn't cheat, in fact, it wouldn't. Because if a movie was really good or bad, the overall score of the votes would be high or low.
The 10% of votes in the middle would naturally be high or low, and all the movies were judged in the same way. So, relatively speaking, it was very fair.
"But what if someone manipulates 90% of the votes in one go?" The guests in the audience murmured. As soon as they asked, they heard Boss Jia say, "I know many people are still worried. What if a large number of votes are manipulated? After all, many arthouse movies have very small audiences. Maybe only a few tens of thousands of people have seen them in the whole world. This way, the votes will be very easy to sweep! "
"In fact, it's not impossible to buy hundreds of thousands of movie tickets if you want to!"
"Regarding this, I made a difficult decision. Any movie that can be counted with less than 200,000 votes will not enter the scope of the regular film awards. Instead, it will enter the selection for the Golden Dragon Award for Best Non-Commercial Film."
Boss Jia's words made the audience nod their heads involuntarily.
"Lastly, there's another very crucial factor, and that's the idea of a high score in our country!" Boss Jia said with a smile, "It's simple. Audiences in every country want their country's movies to achieve outstanding results so that they can win a trophy at the Golden Dragon Awards!"
"Therefore, these audiences will often deliberately give their country's movies high scores. If it's a country with a small population, it's fine. However, if it's a movie market with a large population, then there will be serious unfairness!"
"For example, in the North American movie market, 65% of the world's movie box office comes from the North American movie market. The North American audience will definitely deliberately give their country's movies a higher score. Therefore, when the box office selection is done, the principle of local avoidance will be applied!"
"Simply put, if more than 50% of the actors in a movie come from the same country, then the movie will be considered a movie from that country. When the votes are calculated, the votes cast by all the audiences in that country will not be included in the average score. This is the principle of local avoidance!"
"I know that such a rule will definitely be very harsh on those who give honest ratings and have a high moral character. At the same time, it will hurt their feelings. However, please understand that in order to ensure the fairness of the score, the votes of these movies must be excluded. Thank you, everyone! "
When Boss Jia finally mentioned the principle of local avoidance, all the audiences were shocked. However, after thinking about it carefully, they all felt that what Boss Jia said was very reasonable.
The audiences in their own country would definitely give their country's movies high scores. This was something that even an idiot would know. Therefore, the votes of these audiences were naturally biased and not objective.
This was especially true for the Republic of Korea. Once the people in that country knew that their country's movies were going to participate in the competition, they would definitely give all of them a full score of 10. There was no doubt that the Koreans would do such a thing!
On the contrary, only the audiences from other countries would be relatively more objective in their ratings because the movie was not from their own country.
Of course, this would lead to a new problem, and that was the problem of bad reviews from other countries. For example, if the Koreans saw a movie from the Fusangs, they would definitely give it a low score.
If the Iranians saw a movie from the United States, they would also give it a low score.
However, at this time, the rule of eliminating high and low scores became very important. Those who deliberately gave high and low scores would be eliminated, leaving only a portion of normal scores in the middle.
It was worth mentioning that after Boss Jia announced this rule, many Hua Xia people felt that it was a great harm to Hua Xia movies. This was because most of the Hua Xia movies could not be released internationally. Many foreigners did not understand Hua Xia culture, so Hua Xia movies would naturally have low scores.
Well, they were thinking too much. In fact, removing the ratings from Hua Xia movies was a good thing for Hua Xia movies. Before 2010, all Hua Xia movies' ratings on Douban would naturally drop by one point.
On the contrary, foreign movies would naturally have one more point. Therefore, removing the ratings from Hua Xia movies was a great thing. At least, it would become more objective.
As for after 2010, Boss Jia believed that if he continued to work for more than 10 years and still couldn't make Chinese movies popular all over the world, then he would really have lived in vain if he couldn't make Chinese movies be released all over the world.
In general, this set of rules was released after a very comprehensive discussion and evaluation by Boss Jia and his team.
Of course, there were no perfect rules in the world. If there were really problems, such as a movie deliberately giving high or low scores, the Golden Dragon Awards Board would intervene.
That was, if more than 70% of the Board members felt that a movie's box office was problematic, and the score did not match the quality of the movie, the Board would intervene and investigate the score problems. Finally, based on the problems, a portion of the votes would be eliminated.
Some people might say, "Isn't this going back to the path of the Oscars?"
Of course not. The Oscars were completely scored by the judges. However, the Board's intervention would only eliminate the votes. The final score would still come from the normal votes of the audience.
Ahem, I said too much. After Boss Jia roughly explained the rules of the average score, the exciting moment finally began.
As the screen behind Boss Jia kept scrolling, Boss Jia said loudly, "I hereby announce that the winner of the Golden Dragon Award for Best Original Movie Music is' The Fifth Element ', with an average score of 8.36 points!!"
"It's actually him!" The guests were shocked. After all, 'The Fifth Element' was a real flop!
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