At the end of November, the Gotham Independent Film Awards announced its nomination list, and the Hollywood Film Awards Season officially kicked off.

However, Murphy and "Dark City" failed to win this award, and the reason can be seen from the name of this award is that "Dark City" is a standard mainstream commercial masterpiece, not an independent film. The Gotham Independent Film Awards are basically independent films that have not been released in mainstream theaters in North America, and the boundaries between them and mainstream commercial films are very clear.

Then, as time entered December, nominations were announced. In the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, New York Film Critics Association Awards and Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, "Dark City" won four important nominations: Best Director, Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress!

Immediately afterwards, the Golden Globe Awards of the United States Film and Television also announced the nomination list. Like the Film Critics Association Awards, "Dark City" once again became the big winner in the nomination list, winning a series of awards such as Best Director, Best Drama, Best Actor and Actress.

With the announcement of numerous award nominations, Murphy can also see which competitors are the strongest in this awards season, The Great Gatsby, The Gravity, The Blue Jasmine and The Dallas Buyers Club.

The awards season has also entered the hottest publicity and public relations stage.

Like other industries, the film industry also focuses on sorting and summarizing the annual results. The awards season is the product of this sorting and summarizing, and is Hollywood's "annual summary".

To be the big winner at the Academy Awards, Dark City must overwhelm them.

The Golden Globes had just announced the nomination list, and AA, who represented Murphy, negotiated a series of conditions with the Los Angeles City Hall. Then Murphy signed a formal agreement with them. The next day, the two sides held a joint press conference to announce the arrival of the Murphy-Stanton Film Memorial Hall in Angel City.

The two sides jointly announced to the news media that Los Angeles will invest $1 billion to build the "Murphy-Stanton Museum of Art" in the Expo Park, which will collect a large collection of various films carefully preserved by Murphy himself and Stanton Studio.

The art museum will have a construction area of ​​up to 25,500 square meters. The venue designed by the famous Chinese architect Ma Yansong will exhibit more than 10,000 paintings, illustrations, costumes, film art, digital art, etc., including but not limited to "Hard Candy in Fruit", "Saw", "Scary Planet", "City of Sin", "Deadpool", "Game of Thrones", "Gone Love", "Body of Steel" and so on directed and participated by Murphy...

Of course, in addition to the things retained by Murphy and Stanton Studios, the museum will also display a large number of exhibitions about movies.

Although the investment is as high as $1 billion, Los Angeles City Hall will not do a loss-making business. They have conducted enough investigations and verifications, believing that with the horrifying appeal of the brand Murphy Stanton, the Art Museum will bring at least $200 million to the local area every year, and the returns are also huge.

“Constructing the Murphy Stanton Museum of Art will be a very meaningful move for Los Angeles.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garsetti said at a press conference, "As a director who grew up in Los Angeles, Director Murphy Stanton has achieved great achievements and is an outstanding representative of Los Angeles citizens..."

In short, Murphy was almost exaggerated.

In this situation, Murphy naturally couldn't help but say a few words in front of the media.

"This is a huge honor for me and has fulfilled my wish. I hope that more people can like movie art, understand movie art, love movie art, and even become the one who creates movie art..."

This is a good opportunity to promote yourself in the awards season, and Murphy will certainly not let it go. "Hollywood is already at the forefront of world movies. If you want to maintain your world's leading position, more talented people will also need to join in."

He had been prepared before, "In addition to providing exhibits for the art museum, I will also set up a film foundation under the name of the Murphy Stanton Museum of Art to provide learning funding for those who are interested in joining the industry!"

There was applause at the press conference.

A successful director will not forget to support the future of making materials, which will win the favor of many people.

After the press conference, Murphy walked out of the news hall and was surrounded by reporters, all they asked were questions about this.

"Director Stanton, what advice do you have for new directors, especially those who want to form a self-style like you?"

Hearing this question, Murphy stopped and said briefly, "Don't think about personal style when shooting movies. Style is something that people without style worry about."

He thought for a while and said, "Let me say that, I basically don't think about personal style. When I think of personal style, the so-called knowledge and psychological obstacles arise, and my personal things cannot be used."

Another reporter asked, "Do you have anything else to say to newcomers who want to enter this industry?"

"The only thing that can withstand the destruction of time in this world is talent." Murphy came to the car, opened the car door, and said the last sentence, "Those who make movies do not need others to encourage, and those who need encouragement cannot make movies."

After saying this, he got into the car, and Gal Gadot, who was sitting on the other side reading the newspaper, whispered to the driver, "Drive, go back to Beverly Hills."

Murphy turned to look at the newspaper in her hand, and saw that it was a copy of "The Hollywood Reporter" and asked, "Are there any other videos doing PR?"

The Hollywood Reporter is the most important publicity base during the awards season.

"Leonardo DiCaprio has made a big deal and bought six pages. This is the second consecutive issue." Gal Gadot handed the newspaper to Murphy, "It seems that he is bound to win the best actor."

"He has accumulated enough qualifications." Murphy opened the Hollywood Reporter, "If you can do your job, you may be sure that the college will really give him a little golden man."

Looking at the reports on "The Hollywood Reporter", it was full of flattery about Leonardo DiCaprio.

Just as the Oscars are always affected by external factors now, these toasts are not limited to movies, and Leonardo DiCaprio's team clearly sees the development trend of the Oscars very clearly.

Best Actor is also the award that "Dark City" and Murphy want to compete for, so he started to watch it carefully.

"The best actor in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental protection career is more exciting than his personal film history!"

After reading the title of one article, Murphy had to admire the cleverness of Leonardo DiCaprio's team. Just like liberalism, environmental protection is also one of the most concerned slogans for Hollywood people and the most popular self-marking slogans.

This article reports in detail Leonardo DiCaprio's contribution to environmental protection.

“On July 14, 2011, the foundation under Leonardo DiCaprio announced that it would donate about $9 million to several wild conservation and environmental protection groups. In his statement, he said: ‘The earth is continuing to destroy at a pace that we cannot afford and cannot ignore. We have a responsibility to create a new future and we should not threaten the living environment of the planet.’ Since February last year, Leonardo has donated more than $12 million, and in the statement, he also said: ‘I am very honored to support these organizations that work hard to solve the most difficult challenges of mankind.’”

"On May 13, 2013, Leonardo held a charity auction at Christie Auction House in New York to raise funds for environmental and wildlife conservation. The auction of 33 artworks raised a total of $38.8 million. In November, Leonardo turned his birthday party into a charity party, and the proceeds were donated to his environmental protection funds. The auction included a batch of precious champagne, which raised a total of $3 million in donations on site."

"In May 2007, the Cannes Film Festival released the environmental documentary "11th Hour", produced and commented by Leonardo. The film studies the global environmental situation and discusses solutions to the earth's problems. This documentary lists the impact of human activities on global warming, emphasizing how fragile our earth is after a series of natural disasters in recent times. In the film, 12 experts discuss whether human society will be destroyed if the world continues to warm."

Seeing the time listed in the reports, even Murphy believed that Leonardo DiCaprio was really an environmentalist.

Unfortunately, as a Hollywood insider, he knew very well that, like the so-called United Nations title, this is just a way to provide his own style.

To put it simply, these are no different from the red carpet, they are all show.

As for the real money donated, it is all the money raised and it cannot cost the celebrities themselves. Why not do it?

"In September 2012, Leonardo DiCaprio, as an activist in Hollywood who is concerned about climate change, participated in the climate summit on the morning of the 23rd local time, along with climate experts such as diplomats, national leaders and scientists from all over the world, and made a thought-provoking personal speech at the meeting, earnestly calling on everyone to act together to organize climate deterioration. Leonardo said in his speech: Now I stand in front of you, not as an expert, but as a citizen who is concerned about this matter, as one of the 400,000 people walking on the streets of New York and one of the others who want to solve the climate change crisis in various places."

Seeing this, Murphy put down the Hollywood Reporter. Now that the Oscars are becoming more and more severely affected by the outside world, Leonardo DiCaprio is indeed a very clever way to play such an environmentally friendly card outside the movie. Maybe he can change the fate of the runners.

Whether it was for James Franko and "Dark City" or the grudges at that time, Murphy didn't want to see him win the award.
Chapter completed!