Chapter 305: Well deserved
Although Zhao Zhenghao is full of confidence in his performance in "Infernal Affairs", he does not have much confidence in his heart about whether he can win the award.
The awards of the three major film awards ceremonies in Dragon Kingdom are not voted for by fans, so the high box office of "Infernal Affairs" and his high popularity do not increase the probability of him winning the award, but to some extent, it is an obstacle.
In the prediction in advance, Zhao Zhenghao's call for winning the award is very high, but he himself knows that those are all false, and whether he can win the award or not is in the hands of the nineteen final judges of this year's Golden Goat Award.
The final jury, which is composed of senior film practitioners and professional film critics with an average age of 48, is not sure what Zhao Zhenghao thinks of him.
In fact, in a smoky conference room one afternoon a few days ago, the nineteen final judges were not as entangled as the outside world speculated when discussing the "Best Actor" candidate for this year's Golden Goat Awards.
The 19 final judges, when selecting an award, will generally conduct three rounds of voting, the first round to eliminate the two candidates with the fewest votes, the second round to eliminate one more, and the third round to get the result.
However, there is also an unwritten rule when voting, if in the first round there is a candidate who receives more than two-thirds of the votes, or in the second round of voting, a candidate who receives more than three-fourths of the votes, the president of the jury has the right to decide the result directly so as not to waste time.
Under normal circumstances, it is rare to get results in the first two rounds.
Although the number of the final jury of the Golden Goat Award is small, they are all big names in the circle, and they are all upper-class people with a certain reputation, and the results of the selection cannot be satisfactory to everyone, but at least they cannot make people find too many mistakes.
An award like the Golden Goat Award is indeed the best of the best, every candidate has the possibility of winning the award, and everyone has a reason to win, and there will be controversy about who the award is awarded.
The final jury cannot be exhaustive, but the candidates selected must at least convince the vast majority of people.
Like this selection of "Best Actor", Xie Xin and Song Yan are relatively weak, in terms of performance in the film alone, they are slightly inferior to Zhao Zhenghao, Guo Ziping and Yang Chen, if the final selection result is one of them to win the award, the controversy will be bigger.
Among Zhao Zhenghao, Guo Ziping, and Yang Chen, how to select a convincing winner is also a head-scratching problem.
According to the professionalism of these final judges, the performance of Zhao Zhenghao, Guo Ziping, and Yang Chen has reached the actor level, and it is not surprising if it is placed in the selection of a certain opponent's generally weak performance, and the results are decided in the first and second rounds.
No matter how difficult the problem is, it must be solved, after all, the Golden Goat Award is different from those messy small awards, in the case of several candidates who are difficult to decide, double yolk eggs can be awarded, or even triple yolk eggs!
That's fooling people!
The reason why the number of final judges is set at 19 is also to avoid the result of a tie vote.
As for the final jury in the voting process, there is no abstention to vote, you are elected to make a decision, what does abstention mean?
Originally, handing over the Golden Sheep Award, which has established its status in the circle and began to plan to go out of the Dragon Country and go to the world, to nineteen people, has already been criticized, thinking that it is not rigorous and prone to dereliction of duty.
However, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, so can we avoid all problems by increasing the number of final judges?
No way!
Unless the number of judges is expanded to hundreds or thousands, as Oscar did, can basic fairness be ensured on a larger scale.
However, even the Oscars, the public relations behavior in the selection stage is endless, and it has become a tacit custom.
Only 19 people are selected as the final judges, and the bet is on the professionalism of these 19 people, and these 19 people accept the invitation of the Golden Goat Award Organizing Committee to serve as the final judges, which is also to gamble on their own reputation and strive for fairness and justice.
Judging from the results of the previous 31st selection, such a final review rule has a good effect.
This is also the most important reason why the Golden Goat Award can stand out among the awards ceremonies and rank among the three major film awards ceremonies in Dragon Kingdom - the results of the selection are convinced and bought by fans.
When the selection of the "Best Actor" of this year's Golden Sheep Awards began, Hu Zhenlong, the chairman of the final jury, was ready to fight a protracted battle, and was ready for a very small difference in the third round of voting.
However, when the results of the first round were summarized, Hu Zhenlong frowned, an unexpected accident happened in his unexpected, in this round of voting, there was a situation of returning votes, and the votes of a certain candidate exceeded two-thirds of the number of judges!
According to the conventions, Hu Zhenlong can directly seal the results at this time and regard the voting results of this round as the final result.
However, Hu Zhenlong looked at the name of the candidate who received more than two-thirds of the votes in this round, and hesitated a little, although his vote was also for this person, but this person could win so easily, it was still beyond his imagination.
After several calculations, Hu Zhenlong decided to be more stable, not in a hurry to get the results, and launched the second round of voting.
The results of the second round of voting made Hu Zhenlong feel even more helpless, after subtracting the two candidates with the least votes in the first round of voting, the votes of the candidate who had been able to win in the first round of voting increased instead of decreasing, reaching three-quarters of the number of judges!
The results of the two rounds were all unexpected by Hu Zhenlong, but this situation is also reasonable when you think about it.
Hu Zhenlong did not bother to conduct the third round of voting, and directly sealed the voting results of the first two rounds, and said with action that the actor of this year's Golden Goat Awards has decided the final candidate.
The other eighteen final judges, seeing this, had their eyes flashing, looked at each other left and right, and had a tacit understanding.
In order to ensure the secrecy of the selection results, each round of voting is carried out by secret ballot, but the results are not recorded, so before the final announcement of the results at the award ceremony, only the chairman of the final jury, a teller from a third-party organization, and a notary public from an impartial institution know the results of the award.
Although the judges have some speculation about the results, due to the constraints of rules and professional ethics, they will not ask each other about the results of their votes before the award ceremony.
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At the moment when Zheng Jiaxiao announced the ownership of this year's Golden Sheep Award actor, Zhao Zhenghao's originally highly concentrated attention suddenly fell into a trance, and he didn't hear the results of the award at the first time, until Feng Xiaojing, who was sitting next to him, jumped up, pulled him up from his seat, and shouted excitedly in his ear, "Brother Hao, you are the actor now! I know that you will be able to do it! Hurry up and receive the award!"
As he spoke, he pushed him onto the stage.
Zhao Zhenghao looked around blankly, and everywhere he could see, there were kind smiles and sincere applause.
Guo Ziping, who was sitting two people away from him, also stood up, gave him a warm hug, as if venting the failure of the competition, punched him twice in the back, and said in his ear, "Congratulations!"
Zhao Zhenghao can also be regarded as a little expert in winning awards, almost all the awards that can be won in the music industry, and the trophies are filled in a storage room; After crossing over to the film industry, although he was not treated by the most authoritative Dragon Country three major film awards ceremonies at the beginning, he also won many trophies in the second-level award ceremonies, and he didn't know how many trophies he won for the "Most Popular Movie Actor".
In his opinion, Chen Yongren played by him, not to mention surpassing the interpretation of Liang Chaowei in the original version of "Infernal Affairs", is also half a catty and eight taels, and each is good at winning.
His biggest competitor for the award, Guo Ziping, played Liu Jianming, is slightly better than Liu Dehua's interpretation in the original "Infernal Affairs", but compared with him, he is still slightly inferior.
As for Yang Chen, in "Taiping", he did dedicate his perfect acting skills and deserved the affirmation of an actor trophy, but in terms of the difficulty of acting, the character he played was still slightly inferior to Chen Yongren played by Zhao Zhenghao.
As long as the judges maintain absolute fairness and impartiality in the selection and do not have any prejudice against him, then Zhao Zhenghao believes that the probability of him winning the award is at least 50%!
However, when the final result was announced that he had really won the award, Zhao Zhenghao still felt a little unreal.
Walking to the stage, he shook hands with Zheng Jiaxiao politely, and took the trophy and award envelope from his hand, Zhao Zhenghao subconsciously scanned the information on the award card, and made sure that his name was printed on it, and then let out a long breath.
At this moment, in the ordinary audience under the stage, Zhao Zhenghao's fans were already jubilant, chanting "Brother Hao" in unison, waving all kinds of support cards in their hands.
In front of the TV and mobile phone, Zhao Zhenghao's tens of millions of fans and fans are also rejoicing.
In the exclusive post of the Golden Goat Award Ceremony in the "Mouse Nest", the instant posting of the little rats turned out to be so large that the post bar was stuck and collapsed directly.
Zhao Zhenghao released the departure information on the scarf before the award ceremony, and the congratulatory replies from fans instantly increased by one million, and it is still increasing rapidly.
After Zhao Zhenghao's acceptance speech, the number of replies has broken through the 10 million mark, becoming Zhao Zhenghao's 21st scarf with more than 10 million replies.
"Thank you! Thank you to my fans for their unremitting support! Thank you to the studio partners for their support and tolerance! Thank you to your family for your support and understanding! Thank you to the judges for their affirmation!"
"I am in the film industry, I am still a newcomer who has just started on the road, and I still need to continue to work hard and improve in many aspects, this award, while affirming my work in the previous stage, is also a spur and encouragement to me, I will continue to work hard to dedicate more and more wonderful performances to everyone!"
"I want to give this award to my daughter, I hope she can grow up healthy and happy!"
"Thank you!"
In his acceptance speech, Zhao Zhenghao did not say too many sensational, chicken soup words, nor did he pretentiously evaluate other competitors.
Putting aside the fans who are boiling and anti-Yingtian for the time being, the hundreds of insiders sitting in the audience at the moment are slightly surprised by Zhao Zhenghao's award, but there are not too many surprises.
The Golden Goat Award, which is based in an inclusive international metropolis like Yangcheng, has been known for "daring to break through the old shackles" since its inception, and many "youngest" records in the history of Dragon Kingdom films have been created at the Golden Goat Awards.
For example, the "youngest actor" of the three major film awards ceremonies in the Dragon Kingdom appeared at the 23rd Golden Goat Awards, and the winner of the "Best Actor" of the Golden Goat Awards was only 16 years old, and when he won the award, he was only a sophomore in high school.
Zhao Zhenghao was able to be nominated for the "Best Actor" of the Golden Goat Award this time, which already represents the affirmation of his acting skills by the Golden Goat Award Organizing Committee, and his performance in "Infernal Affairs" is impeccable.
If you put aside all external factors and only talk about performance, Zhao Zhenghao is undoubtedly the best one among the five candidates for the "Best Actor" of the Golden Goat Awards!
Even his direct competitor Guo Ziping is convinced by this conclusion.
The reason why Zhao Zhenghao did not receive unanimous support in the public opinion before the award ceremony is mainly because of his background as an idol singer.
However, he has already proven his acting skills in "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West" one after another, and the explosion in "Infernal Affairs" can be regarded as a matter of course.
Now, no one will criticize him for his "idol singer" background, because his performance in "Infernal Affairs" is obvious to all!
He won the Golden Goat Award for Best Actor, and he deserves it!
However, tonight's Golden Goat Awards seems to be holding back its strength to make a big news, just awarding Zhao Zhenghao an actor, not satisfied, in the subsequent "Best Director" awards, the mouth of the award presenter, once again shouted Zhao Zhenghao's name!
"The 32nd Yangcheng International Film Festival Golden Sheep Award 'Best Director' Award, the winner is ......"
"Zhao Zhenghao! ”
At this time, Zhao Zhenghao had just finished the routine post-award process backstage, and had not yet returned to his seat under the stage, so he could only urgently go directly to the stage from the backstage and take over the third trophy tonight from the award presenters.
The Golden Sheep Award has released another big satellite!
The age record of the winner of the "Best Director" in the history of Dragon Kingdom cinema has been broken!
At the age of 30 years and 7 months, Zhao Zhenghao has set a new age record for the winner of the "Best Director" award ceremony of the three major film awards in the Dragon Kingdom!
This result is even more surprising than the actor just now.
Zhao Zhenghao was not the biggest favorite for the "Best Director" award in the public opinion before the award ceremony, and there were two biggest reasons, one is age and the other is background.