Chinanews Client Beijing, March 16th (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) A few days ago, the 93rd Oscar nominations were announced. The movie "Youth You", directed by Zeng Guoxiang and starring Zhou Dongyu and Yi Qianqianxi, was nominated for the best international film. It is also the 8th Chinese film nominated for this award. Can "You Are a Young" succeed this time?
"Young You" nominated Oscar
Is it possible for "Young You" to win a prize?
"Young You" was created by the original crew of "July and Ansheng", directed by Zeng Guoxiang, and produced by Xu Yuezhen, starring Zhou Dongyu and Yi Yang Qianxi.
This film about campus bullying has received a lot of attention since it was released, with a box office of 1.558 billion yuan and a Douban score of 8.3.
In the past two years, the film has received a lot of professional awards. At the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards, "You are a teenager" won the best film, best director, best screenwriter, best actress, and the most 8 awards including Jiaxin actor.
In addition, the film also won many awards such as the Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Films, the Asian Film Awards, and the 2019 China Film Directors Association Commendation Conference.
"Young You" poster
In this year’s Oscar nomination list, the co-finals for the best international films are "The Collective", "The Alcohol Project", "The Skin Dealer", and "What happened to Ada".
Among them, "The Collective" is a Romanian documentary about a fire in 2015, which caused 27 deaths and 180 injuries, and detonated all aspects of Romanian society.
In addition to the Best International Film Award, the film was also shortlisted for this year's Oscar for Best Feature Documentary. It has previously been nominated for multiple international awards, and also won the 92nd National Critics Association Award for the best five foreign language films of the year.
"The Alcohol Project" is a Danish feature film. In the film, four high school teachers start an experiment of continuous drunkenness in order to get rid of daily routines, which creates a lot of trouble.
The film was also shortlisted for this year’s Oscar for Best Director, and previously won the Best Actor Award at the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival, the 33rd European Film Awards, and the 46th French Film Caesars Awards. Many awards, quite competitive.
In addition, "Skin Trafficker" tells the changes in the life of Syrian refugee Sam Ali and won the best international co-production film at the 26th French Film Lumiere Award.
"What's wrong with Ada" tells the story of the United Nations translator Ada, his family and thousands of other people seeking protection in the UN camp. The film was shortlisted for the main competition of the 77th Venice International Film Festival.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" poster
What other Chinese films have been shortlisted?
For filmmakers, the Oscar for Best International Film (Best Foreign Language Film) has always been of special significance.
The establishment of the award began in 1947. It was originally awarded to some outstanding foreign films in the form of an Oscar honorary award. Since 1956, the best foreign language film has become a competition unit, and the judging method has been formally formulated.
From the perspective of the film's country, Italy and France are the countries that have won the most awards.
In 2019, the Oscar organizers revised the Oscar rules and changed the best foreign language film to the best international film. Last year, the award was won by the Korean film "Parasite".
In addition to "Young You", there have been 7 Chinese-language films shortlisted for this award before, namely "Ju Dou" in 1991, "Raise the Red Lantern" in 1992, "Farewell My Concubine" in 1994, and 1994 "Wedding Banquet" in 1995, "Diet for Men and Women" in 1995, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2001 and "Hero" in 2003.
"Hero" poster
Among them, with the exception of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Chinese-language films have not gained anything at this award, and it has been 18 years since the last nomination.
In recent years, many excellent Chinese films have hit the Oscars, and the themes and types have become more diverse.
The works of major directors are still important choices, such as Zhang Yimou's "Ambush on Ten Sides", "Full of Golden Armor in the City", "Thirteen Hairpins in Jinling", Chen Kaige's "Promise", "Mei Lanfang" and "Search", Feng Xiaogang's "Tangshan" "The Great Earthquake", "1942" and so on.
In recent years, commercial films with big box office harvests such as "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Nezha: The Devil Boy" have also begun to be selected.
In addition, there is a romantic comedy "Get Out!"
Tumor King", the drama "Datang Xuanzang", etc.
In 2021, the representative of Mainland China competing for the award is the sports film "Win the Championship" directed by Chen Kexin.
From the perspective of story content, in recent years, "Olympic bidding" movies have gradually stepped out of specific types such as martial arts and rural themes, presenting more diversified Chinese stories, and the selection of commercial films is also closely related to the development of the Chinese film market.
More importantly, domestic audiences gradually relaxed their mentality towards "Chong Ao", and the "Oscar complex" began to fade.
The Oscar nomination for "Young You" is a kind of affirmation, but each film award has its own specific evaluation criteria. Perhaps we should think more about how to improve the level of domestic films and make more good films.
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