Chapter 47: New Wave Award

On the evening of November 17, 2001, the award ceremony of the 6th Busan International Film Festival was about to kick off.

Chen Hao put on the suit he bought when he went to Nongfu Spring for an interview, and turned around in front of Son Yezhen and said, "How do you feel?"

"It's handsome!" Son Ye-jin said with a smile.

Chen Hao felt the reluctance of Son Yezhen's smile, and walked over with a smile and pulled the pretty face of the beautiful woman hard, making Son Yezhen show a big smile, "Don't think too much, let's go!"

Hearing this, Son Ye-jin took a deep breath and nodded, reached out to hold Chen Hao's arm, and said with a smile, "Let's go!"

When Chen Hao and Son Ye-jin appeared on the red carpet of the film festival, the flash of the media kept clicking, and a pair of handsome men and beautiful women murdered a lot of films.

The Busan International Film Festival is heavily funded by the South Korean city government, the film industry, and the business community, and South Korea is also interested in creating a Hallyu export, so the three major newspapers in South Korea have given it great coverage.

The result of this is that "Comet" and Chen Hao also became famous in South Korea.

Chen Hao is such a young director, and his talent goes without saying, as evidenced by the praise of the media and the audience.

At the same time, its appearance is also a highlight, in South Korea, where the culture of the fan circle is prevalent, Chen Hao has a group of appearance fans.

Son Ye-jin, as one of the newcomers in the South Korean film and television industry this year, also has a lot of attention.

Especially after intersecting with Chen Hao, it caused a lot of speculation and gossip, so as soon as the two appeared, they became the focus of the media and fans.

After walking the red carpet, Chen Hao and Son Ye-jin came to their seats.

Chen Hao's right hand is Son Ye-jin, and on the left hand is the director of the Xiangjiang movie "Seafood", but the two are not familiar with each other, so they just nodded to each other.

"Ye-jin, thank you for the past few days. Chen Hao looked at the beautiful woman with exquisite makeup beside him and said gratefully.

"You're welcome, I've had a great time these days. Son Ye-jin looked at the handsome face in front of him and smiled.

"Remember when I said I wanted you to be my heroine?" Chen Hao said admiring the beauty of the prosperous world.

"Remember!" Son Ye-jin also looked at Chen Haodao, her eyes did not dodge.

"What I said is true, when I have the ability in the future, I will definitely come to you. Chen Hao affirmed.

"Really?" asked Son Ye-jin with a hard time hearing this.

"The only good thing about me is that I never lie to beautiful women!" Chen Hao swore to himself.

Son Ye-jin couldn't help but smile when she saw this, and wanted to say more, but the award ceremony officially began.

"Hello to the audience and friends in front of the TV, and welcome to the 6th Busan International Film Festival Awards Ceremony and Closing Ceremony. ”

The shortlisted films were reviewed on the big screen, and then the awards began.

The first award will be given to the winning films of the "South Korea Panorama Section", which must be artistic, work-oriented, and enterprising.

As a result, director Heo Qinhao from South Korea finally won the award for "The Passing of Spring".

"The winner of the Best Asian Short Film Award at the 6th Busan International Film Festival was Jeong-gu Kim's Hard Romance!"

"The winner of the South Korean Film Meritorious Award at the 6th Busan International Film Festival was, Eva Zaoralová!"

"The winner of the Audience Award at the 6th Busan International Film Festival is, Chen Hao, "The Night the Comet Commet"!"

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"Chen Hao, you have won the award!" Son Ye-jin happily pulled Chen Hao's arm and said excitedly.

Chen Hao stood up and gave Son Ye-jin a hug, "Thank you!"

Immediately walked to the stage in everyone's attention, in fact, the suspense of this award is smaller, because "Comet" is the film with the most viewers at the film festival, and its reputation is very good, there is almost no suspense.

After receiving the trophy, Chen Hao took a closer look, this is his first trophy in this world, and the first time is always unforgettable.

"Thank you, thank you for your affirmation and love, I am very encouraged by this trophy, and I hope to continue to bring you more wonderful movies in the future. ”

Chen Hao simply said two words and walked down, his ultimate goal is the New Wave Award.

However, in addition to the trophy honor, the audience will also be able to receive an additional $10,000 in prize money, which is a bonus.

"Show me the trophy. Son Ye-jin said after Chen Hao returned to his seat, it seems that women are always interested in shiny things.

Chen Hao smiled and handed the trophy to Son Ye-jin, and continued to present the Asian Film Promotion Organization Award on stage.

The award is given only to South Korean films, and Chung Jae-eun's "Cat Girl" won the eventually, along with the Asian Film Promotion Agency Award - Special Mention, which is considered the second place in this award.

"The honorable mention of the 6th Busan International Film Festival is Hou Hyo-hyun, Shin Sang-ok, Choi Eun-hee, Jeanne Morrow!"

In addition to coming to the film festival to be the chairman of the jury, Hou Xiaoxian also won an award by the way.

The next award, called the Woonpa Prize, will be awarded to the winning Asian documentaries in the "Wide Angle" category, and the winning directors will each receive a 10 million won prize to fund their next film.

Then, the atmosphere became even more tense as there were only three awards left for the ceremony, which were also the final prizes of the evening.

The three awards are the New Wave Award, the New Wave Section – Special Mention, and the International Society of Film Critics Awards.

The New Wave Award is actually the equivalent of the Best Director Award.

The New Wave Special Mention Award is the second best director's award.

The International Society of Film Critics Awards are the equivalent of Best Picture!

Generally speaking, Best Picture should be the highest award at the festival, and Best Director is also an award, but it is relatively lower than Best Picture.

Just like the Berlin International Film Festival, the best film is the Golden Bear, and the best director is the Silver Bear.

But the Busan International Film Festival is slightly different, its main competition unit is the New Wave section, and one of the main purposes of this unit is to discover new directors.

So, you can see that it has set up the New Wave Award and the New Wave Section-Special Mention Award, which is equivalent to the top two for Best Director, in order to launch as many new directors as possible.

Therefore, relatively speaking, the New Wave Award is the highest award of the Busan International Film Festival, which is also Chen Hao's goal tonight.

In the midst of everyone's gaze, the award presenters came to the stage with envelopes, and the first thing to be presented was the International Association of Film Critics Awards.

This is undoubtedly an award, but Chen Hao and Song Yikun, the director of "Island of Flowers", are a little resistant.

Because of winning this award, it is likely to pass by the ultimate prize, the New Wave Award.

Unless you can win Best Picture and Best Director at the same time.

It's just that when Chen Hao and Song Yikun are both big hits, there should be no situation where one side directly crushes the other.

Of course, there may also be a big hit and death, and the final jackpot is not these two people!

"The winner of the International Film Critics Association Award at the 6th Busan International Film Festival is, Jung Jae-eun, "Cat Girl"!"

Chen Hao's heart was relieved when he heard this, he still had hope, but then it was the moment of life and death.

Who's the best, who's second, one is revealed, and the other basically doesn't run.

"The winner of the 6th Busan International Film Festival New Wave Section - Special Mention Award was ......"