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Chapter 310: The Prelude to Awards Season
🕑 Added 2025-04-25 15:18:34 +0000 UTC"Congratulations, Ms. Tohsaka."
The award presenter handed the trophy to Rin with a smile.
"Thanks."
Perhaps because of her recent contact with Illya, the smile on Rin's face looked very friendly, but upon closer inspection one could still sense a bit of a formulaic quality.
Maybe the guests in the audience couldn't sense anything wrong with Rin's smile, but the award presenter who was closest to her could still see something.
However, the emcee didn't know what had just happened in the audience. He thought Lin didn't care about such a small prize.
[Has our award become so bad? Winning the award is the same as not winning it. I hope this award ceremony can bring some new popularity to this award.]
The MC thought gloomily as he clapped along with everyone else present.
However, Rin herself did not have such thoughts. She stood on the stage and gave her acceptance speech with a smile on her face: "I am very happy to receive this award. Thank you to all the judges and the audience for your love for me."
"Ah, I'm a little envious. Rin really took advantage of Oni-chan this time."
Illya said with some jealousy while looking at Rin on the stage.
"Well, I don't deny that."
Nanaya actually has a good idea of how good Rin's acting skills are.
If we use idol standards, then Rin can indeed reach the pinnacle of this industry.
But one should not tell lies. From an actor's perspective, Rin's acting skills are not really a highlight.
If we were to give a score, Nanaya thinks that Rin should get around 65 points as an actor, which is passing but there are still many problems.
Based on the attitude of the Japanese film industry in previous years, an actor like Rin who starred in a hit movie but had average acting skills could at most get a nomination to take advantage of the organizers' attention and that was that.
However, the situation this year is a bit special. The box office of Fate, the global runner-up, is nothing special to the American academic school, and they just despise commercial films as usual.
But for the Japanese circle, the box office performance of fate movies has overwhelmed its shortcomings in artistry.
Such works must be praised, and they must be praised greatly.
Because if they don’t do this, the academic school will lose credibility in the eyes of most audiences.
Even though the academic community always likes to have fun on their own, they have to consider the audience's feelings if it angers the public too much.
Just like the North American Academy Awards in February last year.
Faced with the aggressive "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", even if these old men in the academic school dislike fantasy movies, but facing the vast audience and the epic trilogy of the Lord of the Rings, they still reluctantly let it get the honor it deserves.
The Fate series certainly cannot be compared with "The Lord of the Rings", and there is no need for the North American academic community to change their persistence for a film that ranked second in the global box office.
But for the Japanese academic community, it is rare to have a movie that becomes a big hit, so even if they dislike it, they have to accept it.
Of course, these arrogant old men will not just give the award to the Fate crew, otherwise they will lose all their face.
So they came up with what they thought was a brilliant idea - to make the Hochi Film Awards the main award-winning area for Fate.
Because one of the biggest features of the Hochi Film Awards is that readers can participate in voting and selection.
However, the influence of the academic school in the previous years' "Hōchi Film Awards" is still sufficient, and various guidance is still available.
For example, manipulating the nomination and limiting readers' choices, just like a few years later, when Americans had to choose between Hillary and Trump.
But this time, the old men from the academic school said: We don’t care, let the readers do whatever they want.
Because compared to those professional judges, readers or moviegoers will definitely vote for their favorite characters and movies.
In this way, the status of these old men can be more or less preserved.
It's not that we bow to money, it's the readers who voted for us and have no appreciation level.
Similarly, according to the law of dividing the cake, since your fate has won so many awards in the Hochi Film Awards, you should be more humble when it comes to other awards.
Nanaya had only one thought about these shameless old men -
You have to take off your pants just to fart, aren't you exhausted?
Nanaya had this idea because the Fate series no longer needs to rely on winning awards to gain world recognition.
It's like Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe have never won any major awards at the Oscars, but this never takes anything away from their achievements.
Of course, you should be happy after winning an award.
[What posture should we use to celebrate tonight? 】
"Ouch."
Before Nanaya could decide whether to unlock a new posture, his ears were pulled up by someone.
"Oni-chan, are you thinking about something bad again?"
Illya's smile at this moment already had some of her mother's charm - the kind that was obviously sinister in its original intention, but gave people a very innocent and pure feeling.
"How is that possible? That's not happening!"
Of course Nanaya would not admit it and immediately put on a serious look.
Illya looked at Nanaya with disdain: "I thought you were going to prepare to spend the night with Rin later, Oni-chan."
"..."
Nanaya suddenly became interested in the chandelier on the ceiling.
"Nanaya, how about this trophy!" When Rin came down with the trophy, his face was full of excitement. "This is the first trophy in my life!"
In fact, this trophy is no different from the one Ori has won before, except for the number marked on it.
But Nanaya still happily gave his blessing: "Not bad, a very beautiful trophy."
Rin smiled calmly and handed the trophy to Nanaya, seemingly letting her director admire it.
But when the two of them turned their heads to the side, Lin whispered to Nanaya: "Do you want to go to your villa to celebrate tonight? I can..."
Rin whispered something in Nanaya's ear, so softly that no one else could hear it except the two of them.
But the expression on Nanaya's face showed that Rin's suggestion was very tempting.
Even Nanaya subconsciously nodded and agreed.
"Okay... let's talk about it later."
Lily and Illya's dissatisfied looks startled Nanaya, and he could only regretfully postpone Rin's invitation.
Of course, Rin also noticed these two little bitches who were in the way. She deliberately said angrily: "After today, it won't work. You'd better be mentally prepared."
"Let's talk about it later."
Of course Nanaya wouldn't be stupid enough to make a decision now. He has to wait until the reporters are gone.
Stare ————*3
Feeling the pressure, Nanaya quickly pointed to the podium and said, "Look, they are giving out awards again."
After the Best Actress, the award was presented for Best Actor.
Unfortunately, Sugiyama did not win the Best Actor award. This award was given to Hidetaka Yoshioka, the male lead of "ALWAYS The Sunset on 3 Chome".
When the award list came out, Nanaya was a little surprised.
Nanaya had expected that Sugiyama would not win the award. After all, the character Emiya Shirou he played did not have any outstanding features in the plot.
In fact, among the main characters of Fate, Shirou Emiya has always been criticized by fans as a drag.
Many of Artoria’s fans think that the master and servant positions of the Archer group and the Saber group should be swapped, which would make them look much more pleasing to the eye.
For these fans, Nanaya believes that after UBW is released, they will complete the ultimate transformation from [Shirou Emiya is a rookie] to [Shirou Emiya is so handsome].
What Nanaya cared about was that the winner of the Best Actor award this time was actually Yoshioka Hidetaka, and not Ichikawa Somegoro in his memory.
Don’t underestimate this as just a small change. You have to know that in the 2005 Japanese award season, "ALWAYS Sunset on 3-Chome" swept everything.
This movie's awards season performance is like Lord of the Rings 3 plus Titanic times The Silence of the Lambs.
[Hochi Film Award] This kind of film award is considered good. In history, "San Chome" (abbreviation) has only won 3 awards.
In this life, because of the sudden appearance of Nanaya's Fate, it only won two awards: Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
Yes, Lily did not win the Best Supporting Actress award, which Nanaya thought should have been hers.
Nanaya thought the reason was simply that the old Japanese men were unhappy with Lily as a foreigner.
Especially since Rin, who is Japanese, is the heroine, but her global popularity is not as high as that of the supporting actress Artoria.
This situation made these xenophobic old men very unhappy, so they made things difficult for Lily when it came to film awards.
But Nanaya wouldn't be sad for Lily, because outside of Japan, Lily would crush Rin.
Let’s get back to the topic just now. In the original world, "San Chome" won all the film awards except the Best Actress at this year's Japanese Oscars.
The reason why "San-chome" lost the Best Actress award was that the winner was Sayuri Yoshinaga, who is the aunt of the actress Yoshinaga Yukari who worked under Nanaya.
It has been mentioned before that Sayuri Yoshinaga has a high status in the Japanese entertainment industry, which even Toho cannot shake even if it wants to cheat.
[Wait...I remember Washimine is also one of the organizers of the Japan Olympics. ]
"Hey, Illya."
"Oni-chan, what's wrong?"
"Is the movie "San Chome" invested by your family?"
"Yes." Illya nodded. "This is Kiritsugu's most proud project this year. He plans to make this movie a favorite during award season. Any questions?"
"No, there is no problem at all."
Nanaya smiled like a three-year-old child.
He originally thought that Japan's award season was no longer important, but now, he suddenly began to look forward to this year's award season.
