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It is said that the Palais du Cinéma, which will be abandoned in three years, has been decorated with 60 statues of golden lions in front of the Palais du Cinéma. The 60 Golden Lions represent the 60 highest awards awarded by the festival since 1932, and on the pedestal of each Golden Lion, the names and years of directors who have won the Golden Lion are indicated, including Zhang Yimou's "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and "No One is Missing".

When night comes, these golden lions, which are silent during the day, seem to come to life in the colorful and changing lighting effects, making the old movie palace look stylish and dynamic.

However, because the awards ceremony took place on September 11, which was 911 anniversary, the festival was threatened with a terrorist attack. Due to safety concerns, the awards ceremony was moved to the Fennis Theatre on the main island, and even the red carpet ceremony was canceled.

Although there was no red carpet ceremony, Zhang Ran still did not snub the media reporters. Before entering, I said hello to the Chinese reporters. The reporters were very excited when they saw Zhang Ran, and they asked him one after another: "Director Zhang, tell us what the award is!"

Zhang Ran smiled and waved his hand: "I want to know too! You don't know, when I received a call from the organizing committee, I fooled for a long time, but the little girl from the organizing committee just didn't say anything, which made me depressed!"

The reporters burst into laughter, this little girl is definitely not a fan of Zhang Ran. Someone asked: "Director Zhang, which award do you think is the most promising to win?"

Zhang Ran said very seriously: "Best Actor, Best Actress is definitely not a play, Javier Bardem in "Deep Sea Sleep", Imelda Staunton in "Vera Drake" are too strong, the best actor and actress should be them." Everything else should be possible, and if there's hope, I'd like to be able to take the Golden Lion!"

A reporter asked: "The award is about to be awarded, how are you feeling now?"

Zhang Ran tilted his head, pointed to the smile on his face and said, "Look, I'm almost laughing from ear to ear." The mood is cool now!"

Zhang Ran chatted with reporters for a few words, and then disappeared at the door of the Finnis Theater with the crew members.

The Finnis Theatre is already crowded, and the theatre with nearly 2,000 people is almost full. After Zhang Ran and the others entered the theater, under the guidance of the staff, they found their place and sat down, waiting for the award ceremony to begin.

Different from the award ceremonies of the Oscars and Golden Globes, the award ceremonies of the three major film festivals are relatively simple, not a grand party, no singing and dancing performances, and no exciting award process, but more like a simple commendation conference.

Soon, the lights in the hall dimmed, the stage flickered, and the originally chaotic scene suddenly fell silent, and everyone turned their eyes on the stage.

"Hello ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to the 61st Venice Film Festival Awards Ceremony. Tonight, at least seven people will change their fate......" In the eyes of the anticipation, the host took to the stage to kick off the awards ceremony.

After a brief opening remarks, Mark Müller, President of the Festival, took the stage to deliver a speech before officially entering the award process.

First up was the award-winning film from the Horizon section. The Horizon section is similar to a kind of attention unit of the Cannes Film Festival, and the films that are of good quality, but not enough to be shortlisted for the main competition unit, often enter this unit, focusing on new directors and encouraging innovation. The Horizon unit is also divided into awards such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. However, the award-winning film Zhang Ran has not only seen it, but has not even heard of it, it is an unknown movie.

Next up was the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was awarded to two people, one is the American director Stanley Donnan, who is the director of "Singin' in the Rain", and the other is the Portuguese film master Manuel de Oliveira, who is 96 years old and has been in the film industry for 76 years, and his creative career has gone through silent films, sound films, black and white films, color films, and digital films, which is a real living fossil of cinema!

When Oliveira walked on the stage, there was no one sitting in the whole hall, and the audience stood up and paid tribute to this master who loves movies to the soul!

Hearing Oliveira say, I will continue to shoot, I hope that the day I die is standing behind the camera, Zhang Ran's heart trembled, the old man is 96 years old, he still maintains a strong creation*, he will make a movie every year, this is really love movies to the core.

Immediately afterwards, the award ceremony entered the main event, and the awards of the main competition unit began. In addition to the Golden Lion Award, the highest award, the main competition unit also includes the Jury Award, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Artistic Achievement Award, and Best New Actor Award, a total of seven awards.

After Johann Baumann, the president of the jury of the main competition, took the stage and gave a brief speech, the other eight judges also took to the stage and took their seats on the right side of the stage dedicated to the nine judges.

The main competition unit was first awarded the Mascuiani Award, which is the Best New Actor Award, named after the greatest Italian actor, Masciuani. The nature is the same as the Golden Rooster Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer, which is a rather small award.

Zhang Ran joked with Zhang Jingchu with a smile: "Jingchu, it's a pity that you have already starred in several movies, otherwise there is hope to win this award." ”

Zhang Jingchu tilted her head, looked at Zhang Ran, and said with a smile: ""The Aviator" is your first time acting in a movie, you should have a chance." Didn't you win some kind of Best Actor award yesterday?"

Zhang Ran didn't have much hope for the award before he came to Venice, but now that there is a prize, of course he hopes to win the award, the bigger the better, and waved his hand: "I don't want this award." If you win a small prize, you will have fewer chances to win a big prize, and I hope to win a big one!"

The awards at the festival are a bit of a pork split, and the judges want to make as many films as possible win awards, because once a film wins, it gets a lot of attention, which is very important for art films. Therefore, unless the film is particularly prominent, there is only one award for a movie, for example, if you win the Best Director Award, then it is difficult for you to win other awards.

If "The Aviator" wins the Best New Actor Award, the hope of winning other awards will be reduced.

At this moment, the award presenter Scarlett Johansson on the stage began to announce the results after finishing her award speech: "The winner of the Best New Actor Award is Zhang Ran of "The Aviator"!"

Zhang Ran was stunned for a moment, and laughed helplessly, he was really afraid of something! But it is better to have a prize than no award, although the hope of winning the best newcomer award and winning other awards is small, but it is not without a chance. Thinking like this, Xinyue suddenly rippled in Zhang Ran's heart, and he smiled from the bottom of his heart.

The audience at the scene was applauding, and the other crews were also applauding, and the crews of "Empty Room", which regarded "The Aviator" as their biggest competitor, were particularly hard. "The Aviator" won the Best Newcomer Actor Award, so the hope of winning the award again in the future will be reduced, which is a good thing.

Zhang Jingchu jumped up from her seat and shouted uncontrollably: "You have won the award! Zhang Ran, you have won the award!"

Huang Lei and the others also stood up and applauded to congratulate Zhang Ran: "Zhang Ran, congratulations!"

"Director, congratulations!"

"Director, you're amazing!"

Zhang Ran hugged Zhang Jingchu with a smile, then Huang Lei and Zhao Fei, and then smiled and strode onto the stage.

"Congratulations! I'm a fan of your movie, and I love your movies. I hope to have the opportunity to work with you!" Scarlett Johansson hugged Zhang Ran and handed the trophy to Zhang Ran.

The current Scarlett Johansson has not taken the sexy route, and the movies are mainly art films, which belong to literary young women. It is her sincere words to hope to cooperate with Zhang Ran, and she really likes the movie "Aviator" very much.

Zhang Ran smiled and nodded: "Thank you, I've watched your "Lost in Translation", the acting is awesome! I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate!" Zhang Ran's words were purely perfunctory, Scarlett Johansson is too sexy, unless it is a role that needs to be undressed, it may not be a good thing for the movie to use her.

Zhang Ran raised the trophy in his hand and said into the microphone: "Thank you to the jury for awarding this award to me, as an acting teacher, I am very happy to receive this award." In this way, it will be very convincing for me to put the trophy on the podium in the future. Thank you to all the actors, thank you to our team, thank you!

In the applause, Zhang Ran walked back to his seat with solid steps, facing the dazzling flashing lights, in the eyes of everyone.

"Zhang Ran, you are really handsome on stage!" Zhang Jingchu snatched the trophy in Zhang Ran's hand, looked at it over and over again, and thought about where to put this trophy after taking it back.

Zhang Ran scratched his hair: "No way, it's hard to give up on being naturally beautiful!"

The award ceremony continued, and the award for Outstanding Technical Contribution went to Howl's Moving Castle. However, Miyazaki was not present, and the producer accepted the award on his behalf.

Zhang Ran had to convince that the master was so awesome, how many people squeezed their heads for the three major awards, and people didn't pay attention to it at all, and they didn't come!

Imelda Staunton, the heroine of "Vera Drake", is the biggest favorite of the actress, although the Chinese media believes that Zhao Tao has a chance to win this award, but unfortunately, Imelda Staunton's performance is indeed a cut above other actors, and the laurel of the actress still falls into her hands.

The shape of Best Actor is similar to Best Actress, and Javier Bardem, the star of "Deep Sleep", gave a perfect performance, and he impressed countless audiences with his real and delicate performance in the film, which made people applaud, and finally the crown of best actor fell to Javier Bardem unsurprisingly.

And the award for best director fell into the hands of South Korean director Kim Ki-duk, who won the Best Director Award in Berlin for "Samaritan Girl" at the beginning of this year, but he didn't expect to win the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival in just half a year. This year, from Berlin to Cannes to Venice, Korean filmmakers are using awards to announce to the world that Korean films are on the rise!

The four films of "The Aviator", "Vera Drake", "Deep Sea Sleep" and "Empty Room" are recognized as the favorites for the Golden Lion Award, but so far, the four films have each won an award, and everyone is standing on the same starting line, and the ownership of the Golden Lion Award has become more confusing.

Huang Lei whispered: "Zhang Ran, our award is the lightest, and now we have the greatest hope of winning the Golden Lion!"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "If it's just our four movies fighting, it should be our hope for the biggest." But the Venice Film Festival is often a hit, and it's hard to say what the end result will be. Didn't the Italian newspaper say that the Golden Lion was already theirs!"

This morning, mainstream Italian newspapers declared that "Room Keys" directed by Italian director Giani Améglio is the de facto winner of the Golden Lion. Italy's "La Repubblica" even declared that if the Italian films at the festival were to remain empty-handed, Marco Müller might be removed from the chairmanship.

Therefore, it is difficult to say where the Golden Lion Award belongs, everything is possible!

But now only the Grand Jury Prize and the Golden Lion Award remain, and the final mystery is about to be revealed. (To be continued.) )