The director and the main crew members of the Lord of the Rings went on stage very calmly. After all, everyone knew that they had won the award. This award only belonged to the global box office champion, so they were not surprised.
However, when Boss Jia pushed the 10 million USD cash onto the stage and announced that all the crew members, including those who were in charge of cleaning up the trash, would receive a bonus as long as they were contracted members of the crew, the thousands of people in the crew cheered, regardless of whether they were present or not.
Of course, the bonus was nominally awarded to the crew, but in reality, the distribution rights were in the hands of the person in charge of the crew, which was the production company. The production company had the final say on how much money the crew members could receive.
However, the production company of the Lord of the Rings was Boss Jia, so Boss Jia was very generous. All the bonuses, whether it was the director, the lead actor, the supporting actor, or the crew, as long as they had contributed and did not make any mistakes, they would all share the bonus equally.
Yes, that's right. Everyone would receive the same amount of bonus. Although the lead actor and director might be dissatisfied with such an order, the entire crew was sincerely convinced and grateful to the Daqian.
As long as the crew was stable, it did not matter if they changed the director or lead actor.
Boss Jia had never believed that any famous director or celebrity had the ability to turn something rotten into something magical. The deeds of those popular celebrities who made movies proved that no matter how popular a celebrity was, if the movie was a pile of sh * t, it would be a waste. The audience would not buy it for a celebrity.
Some people might think that this was the fault of the popular celebrities. However, if it was a celebrity with both strength and popularity like Brother Long, Huazai, and Xingzai, it would be different.
Well, the people who said this definitely had not watched "Detective Pu Songling", "Living in the Mountains of Fuchun", and "Journey to the West: Demon Subduing".
All in all, celebrities were never important to movies. Otherwise, "Wolf Warriors 2" and "Wandering Planet", which had almost no celebrities, would not have dominated the Chinese box office rankings.
This was something that even ordinary people could understand, but many capitalists could not, so they insisted on hiring big stars.
Logically speaking, instead of spending 10 million to hire a big star, it would be better to spend 10 million to bribe the media and let them praise you crazily. The effect would be better than hiring a celebrity.
As for directors, there was no need to even mention them. The so-called three-horse carriages in the Hua Xia film industry were all nonsense.
Of course, there seemed to be many invincible directors overseas, such as Spielberg and Cameron. Their movies seemed to have never failed at the box office.
Cameron, in particular, had always been at the top of the box office.
However, this was not the ability of the director alone. These directors had the ability to gather the best crew in the world, find the best scriptwriters, music producers, costume designers, special effects production companies, and so on. In addition, the directors were serious and dedicated, taking care of and sculpting the movies as if they were their own children. Only then could these movies reach the pinnacle.
The best film crew in the world, Boss Jia, had been stabilized. As for the dedicated directors, they would not be dissatisfied and run away just because the members of the crew received the same bonus as them.
'Eh, it seems that I've talked too much.'
Back to the main topic, after the Most Commercially Valuable Award, it was still the 1998 Golden Dragon Award for Best Original Music.
However, unlike the previous award, everyone knew that there wasn't even a segment to nominate a film.
From this award onwards, everything was unknown. It was so mysterious that even the nominated films were not announced to the public.
However, the Golden Dragon Award committee would notify the nominated film crew a month in advance. Otherwise, if the nominated film crew did not know that they were nominated and did not come to the scene, it would be very awkward.
However, the committee and the film crew had to sign a contract. Ji Ming's situation could not be leaked, or they would have to pay a huge compensation.
Because many movies would be nominated for many different awards, the media could not guess which movies were nominated based on the film crew that came to the scene.
Therefore, when the list of nominees was announced, many reporters began to get excited.
"I announce that the nominees for the Best Original Music Award for this year's Golden Dragon Award are: the animated film Mulan, Saving Private Ryan, Life is Beautiful, Bug's Secret Service, and Godzilla."
"It's actually these five movies!"
"Yes, compared to the Oscar nominations, only two animated films are matched."
When the final nomination results were announced, the reporters at the scene were the first to discuss it.
This award directly reflected the huge gap between the Golden Dragon Award and the Oscars. This was because only two animated films, "The Bug's Secret Service Squad" and "Mulan", were nominated for the same award. The other three films were completely different. As for the final film that won the award, it was completely different.
The Oscars were won by the joke "The Love of the Sandman". As for who the Golden Dragon Award would be and who the audience would choose, it was very curious.
Soon, the hosts of different live broadcast television stations around the world began to guess which movie would win the award. Many media outlets felt that the winner would either be Saving Private Ryan or Godzilla, because these were the two best-selling movies among all the movies.
Therefore, in the anticipation of countless audience members, the host deliberately kept them in suspense for a while before finally announcing, "I announce that the final winner of this year's Golden Dragon Award for Best Original Music Award is Mulan!"
"Let us congratulate the Hua Xia production team from Disney. They used the exquisite Hua Xia music that even the Hua Xia people praised to bring people around the world a new movie music experience. Let us congratulate Hua Mulan!"
"Uproar!" The lights at the scene suddenly changed and the screen behind them showed a clip of Mulan's movie. Then, the crew members of Mulan covered their faces and stood up in disbelief amidst the applause of everyone around them.
They never thought that they would be the first to win a suspenseful award. They were completely unprepared.
Well, in fact, they were there to make up the numbers. Since ancient times, animated films were not worthy of a non-animated award. Therefore, the crew of Mulan was really there to join in the fun.
Because the Oscars did not place much importance on animated films, and the crew members of animated films were basically behind-the-scenes workers, the ban of the Oscars did not mean anything to them.
Similarly, the ban of the Golden Dragon Award did not mean anything to them. Therefore, the crew of Mulan appeared at both the Oscars and the Golden Dragon Awards. Therefore, they were probably the only crew in the entire scene that would not change their position because of the awards ceremony. They were purely there to join in the fun!
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