Chatty Hollywood

The Saturn Awards were founded in 1972 by the American Science Fiction and Horror Film Academy.

It aims to reward and promote outstanding works in the science fiction and horror genres in the film and television fields of the year, as well as outstanding works with breakthrough and innovative significance.

Compared to the Oscars, which have a cold attitude and are very unfriendly to science fiction and horror films, the Saturn Awards can be said to be the home base of these two genres.

It can even be said that the Saturn Award is the result of practitioners from these two major commercial film genres joining together to keep warm despite being ignored by the Oscars.

Compared with some of the Oscar-winning works, especially those in the acting category, which were very unknown before winning the award, the Saturn Award-winning works tend to choose relatively well-known commercial works.

Simply put, the Oscars make the winning works famous, and the Saturn Awards select famous works to win.

From this perspective, the Saturn Awards are not as powerful as the Oscars.

But on the other hand, the Saturn Awards are not prone to situations where many viewers are unfamiliar with nominated and winning works.

Of course, overall, the distance between the Saturn Awards and the Oscars is still very large.

However, this is the closest award to Charlotte.

In fact, the producer Mr. Westwood also worked on the crew of "Happy Death Day" at the 67th Oscars that ended previously.

At that time, he applied for several awards including Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Actress, but he didn't receive any nomination for the last one.

Mr. Westwood was very angry and said that this was the Academy's habit of discriminating against horror films, but Charlotte thought it was normal.

After all, 1994 was the year when a lot of masterpieces such as "Forrest Gump", "Shawshank Redemption" and "Pulp Fiction" were produced.

It's a super Oscar year.

In such a competitive year, it is already very good to get a nomination.

As for the "Happy Death Day" crew, from the director to the actors, everyone has very little qualifications, the production and distribution company behind it is not strong, and the investment in public relations is low, so it is normal to do nothing.

In contrast, Charlotte has some expectations for the Saturn Awards, which focus on commercial films.

The truth was as he expected.

Nominations have been announced for the 21st Saturn Awards scheduled to be held on June 26, 1995. There are several things related to Charlotte here——

Among the Best Horror Film nominations, "Happy Death Day" squeezed in, but it's hard to say how it went;

Charlize was nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Happy Death Day;

Among the Best Director nominations, Charlotte was lucky enough to get a spot for "Happy Death Day", but considering that the people in the same group are big names like Cameron and Robert Zemeckis, don't even think about it;

Nominated for Best Screenplay, Charlotte was strongly nominated for the unique infinite loop structure of "Happy Death Day". He is determined to compete for this award;

Among the nominations for Best Special Effects was "Fatal Turn", which was really beyond Charlotte's expectation, but think about the unprecedented second-hand special effects...

Now, what Charlize comes to Charlotte to discuss is these nominations——

"Sally, are you a little nervous when it's your first time to be nominated for an award?"

Faced with Charlotte's teasing, the girl rarely fought back.

"It seems to be true!"

Faced with a girl who rarely showed such an expression, Charlotte couldn't help but stretched out her hand and rubbed her head,

"Actually, there were previous Golden Globe Awards and People's Choice Awards. If "Happy Death Day" can be released earlier, we should have some chances."

"Unfortunately, it was released on Christmas. Although it allowed us to crush the entire Christmas schedule, it gave us too little time to win public relations awards."

Of course, this statement is actually relative.

For those films that aim to win awards from the beginning, this is actually not a problem. They will start public relations from the moment it is released.

Actually,

This is what most art films do.

Most of them will choose to release the films in December, and often adopt a spot-screening model, just to be closer to the Oscar awards time.

After all, even if a movie released at the beginning of the year or in the middle of the year performs well, the judges' memories will be blurred by the time of the Oscar selection at the beginning of the next year.

How can a film that comes out at the tail end of the year and is being shown in cinemas during the awards ceremony be more memorable for the judges?

However, this screening strategy must be used in conjunction with the public relations plan for winning prizes.

If you wait for the movie's audience reputation to come out, or even the box office harvest is almost there, and then think about going to public relations to win awards, then there is basically no hope.

——This is the dilemma "Happy Death Day" faced during the awards season at the beginning of the year.

After all, this is also related to the fact that "Happy Death Day" is a three-party film project.

Whether it's New Line, Orion or Jodie Foster's "Egg", the three companies have an attitude towards the movie "Happy Death Day".

This attitude was okay during the early stage of publicity. After all, it was agreed upon. But in the later period, everyone wanted to "borrow the east wind" to win prizes.

As a result, the three monks had no food to eat, and "Happy Death Day" became completely transparent during the awards season.

Of course, as a youth campus horror film, "Happy Death Day" does not rely on awards to survive. The three companies do not compete for prizes, perhaps because they understand this too clearly.

As for personal public relations for the awards?

All I can say is stop joking.

At the beginning of 1995, although "Happy Death Day" was a hit, the related balance was not available for a while.

At that time, both Charlotte and Charlize were in a state of poverty. Where did they get the money to hire a publicist?

Anyway, Charlotte didn't have that intention.

However, now that she has received the share of "Happy Death Day" and her pockets have become richer, Charlotte's thoughts have also changed——

You know, although the Saturn Awards are not as good as the Oscars, they still hold a lot of weight in the hearts of fans of science fiction, adventure and horror films.

"Sally, did you know? Compared to the Oscars, which are confusing before the awards are announced, the Saturn Awards can be said to be completely transparent."

Charlotte began to analyze Charlize,

"Although their awards also require public relations, they are much simpler. It can even be said that there is no need for public relations to a certain extent - because they will always choose the most famous works."

"is that so?"

Charlize didn't believe it. In response, Charlotte shrugged.

"Actually, I can't tell. After all, this is also the rumor I heard. In short, Sally, your best heroine has a very strong opponent."

He explained,

"Sandra Bullock in "Speed" and Jamie Lee Curtis in "True Lies", these two can be said to be your biggest opponents."

"In a pure competition of influence, "Happy Death Day" cannot compare to them."

Charlize knows this very well.

"That's right!"

Charlotte nodded,

"However, you are the absolute protagonist in "Happy Death Day", unlike them, who are just a vase in their respective movies. This is your advantage, but it is not clear whether you can win the award."

"But if your agent, Pat Kingsley, has any ideas, you might as well ask her to give it a try."

PS1: "Saturn" is a horror film released in 1999, directed by Rob Schmidt. PS2: Sorry, I accidentally mentioned a chapter about awards.