Chapter 176: Golden Qilin Award
The time when Quan Baoya came to Fusang was about ten days later than Gu Cheng. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info is mainly limited by the guest schedule for S-BS TV's "Girls' Generation" program on Dongyi's side.
So when she gets out, it means that the result has already been decided.
According to the audience's response, S-M Company selected five girls, Lim Yoon-a, Jung so-yeon, Kwon Yoo-ri, Choi so-young, and Kim Hyo-yeon, to form the artist group "Girls' Generation" and officially released a set of debut singles.
In order to gather popularity, S-M has allowed this group of singles and music videos to be played for free on Dingdang.com and NICONICO, as long as websites such as Niconico promise to arrange recommendations for new songs from "Girls' Generation" on music channels for the remaining two months of the year.
As for how popular this girl group will be in the future, except for Gu Cheng, no one has a bottom in their hearts.
In addition, AKB48's organizer Yasu Akimoto also asked Gu Cheng to let Kwon Bo-ah make a guest appearance in a few episodes at the end of the AKB season to attract some popularity for AKB. At that time, Gu Cheng asked Quan Baoya's own opinion, and then agreed.
It's only 2005, AKB is just a draft gimmick that has just made a fuss, and Kwon Bo-ah is a little diva that no one can shake in the Fuso music scene until last year. Even if she is semi-retired this year, Namie Amuro's second spring has not yet returned. Bringing Kwon Bo Ya to make a cameo a few times will undoubtedly provide countless benefits to the budding AKB.
This is why Quan Baoya will return to Fuso this time, and will probably stay in Tokyo until the beginning of December, with plenty of time to accompany Gu Cheng through the film festival.
After learning that Sun Zhengyi was deflated by SoftBank's major shareholders, Gu Cheng and Quan Baoya opened a bottle of red wine that night, drank it well, celebrated a little, and fell asleep after returning to the hotel.
The next day, I attended various events in a row, and on November 4th, it was finally the day when the Tokyo International Film Festival finally decided on the awards.
Kwon Bo-ya dressed up carefully and attended the awards party in Roppongi Hill with Gu Cheng.
This is the first time she has appeared in public media without a wig since she was injured and shaved her hair in March.
's crisp and beautiful short hair actually made many female fans worship her even more. When she walked the red carpet at the entrance of the Roppongi Hills Building, even many female entertainers screamed when they saw Kwon Bo-ah's style, praising her handsomeness and heroic posture.
Roppongi Hills is a 53-storey, drip-down CBD business complex that houses facilities such as the Hyatt Regency Tokyo, art galleries, TV Asahi headquarters, Lotte Mart, and Roppongi Hills TOHO Cinema (TOHO is the cinema chain of Toho Pictures).
As the main venue of the film festival, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in the building has been chartered by the organizers two days before the awards day, and all guests will be assigned rooms as long as they are willing to stay here. The final award ceremony will be held at the TOHO Cinema in the building.
Gu Cheng had actually moved in the day before yesterday, if it weren't for the grand occasion of walking the red carpet for the reporters, he wouldn't have to go downstairs to the open-air square at the gate to walk around.
Entering the TOHO venue, Gu Cheng and a few colleagues such as Cai Mingliang and Maki Horikita nodded in greeting, and then sat down in the designated seats.
The Tokyo International Film Festival's main competition unit has relatively few awards, while the awards in the secondary competition unit are not awarded on the same day, but have been released one after another a few days ago. Therefore, the number of people who stayed until the end of each popular movie crew to attend the ceremony was relatively small.
In fact, this is also a common feature of all international film festivals relative to the national academy awards.
For example, the three major academy awards of the Oscar, Fuso, and the British Academy Awards in the United States, when selecting the actor awards at the end, there are at least four awards of "Best Actor/Actress/Supporting Actor/Supporting Actress", as well as the Best Newcomer Award.
Many of the world's nine A-category film festivals only have the "Best Actor/Best Actress" award, and there is no leading role or supporting role, nor does it set up a newcomer award, so there are a lot fewer awards that can be "divided into pork", and the size of the crew receiving the award is also much reduced.
The main competition unit of the Tokyo International Film Festival has only eight awards, in addition to the largest Golden Kirin Award (or "Sakura Award"), which is the international jury award, and then the director, actor and actress, artistic contribution, audience award and lifetime achievement award.
The Golden Kirin, the Jury Award, and the Audience Award must be awarded to different films, and it is impossible to coincide. The Lifetime Achievement Award has nothing to do with the performance of the year, and is completely used to cover the coffin of the senior filmmakers who have made great contributions to the history of the young people.
So theoretically, a film can win up to five awards in the main competition - of course, this is only theoretical, in fact, it has never been.
Throughout the history of the Tokyo International Film Festival in the more than 20 years since its establishment, the highest record is that a film has won three of the five major awards in the main competition unit, which is unprecedented.
The lights in the venue dimmed, and the host took the lead on the stage to give an opening remarks and arrange two hot performances, followed by the introduction of the members of the presidium of the jury, and the representative of the jury spoke.
Quan Baoya accompanied Gu Cheng to join in the fun, so she didn't know anything about this year's jury. When she saw the hostess invite the chairman of the jury to give a speech on stage, she was a little surprised:
"Huh? This year's chairman of the jury is actually from Huaxia? Is this what you arranged?"
She looked at Gu Cheng with a suspicious face, and thought that it was Gu Cheng who used his hands and eyes to make money.
Gu Cheng smiled bitterly: "It's all about me, it's a complete coincidence." ”
It turned out that in the year 05, the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival, the chairman of the jury was Zhang Yimou, the number one director in China.
This is also the first time in history that a Chinese director has served as the chairman of the jury of the Tokyo International Film Festival, and in another time and space, it will not be until eight years later, in 2013, that the second Chinese director Chen Kaige will take on this job.
"Will that form a tilt in the lobbying of the awards? "Sunset at the Third Chome" should have had a chance to win an award, but I am afraid that when the time comes, some people will say that the jury is unfair. Quan Baoya questioned worriedly.
Gu Cheng analyzed in a low voice: "It shouldn't be, in order to highlight the characteristics of 'international' at the Tokyo International Film Festival over the years, most of the Tokyo International Film Festival will leave the Golden Kirin Award for overseas participating films, and then leave one or three places for Fuso's domestic films in the four small awards or jury awards." There must be a little bit of suspicion of dividing pork, at least not as fair as the three major European film festivals. But it's certainly fairer than those domestic academy awards. ”
Gu Cheng's statement can be regarded as a commonplace cliché, but he doesn't know that the year 2005 is a bit special.
Perhaps because this year is the first time in the history of the film festival that the co-organizer of online new media has been joined, for the sake of influence and national attention. In another time and space, this year's Golden Kirin Award was awarded to Fuso's native director Negishi Yoshitaro's art film "Wish to the Snow" - and before that, only the first edition in 85 years was awarded to Somi Shiji's "Typhoon Club", and no Fuso domestic film has won the Golden Kirin Award for 20 years since. For more than ten years after that, no Fusang film has won this award.
At the same time, perhaps considering the penetration of the Chinese film market, this year's Tokyo International Film Festival, which is in another time and space, finally left three positions for Chinese films among the remaining seven main competition unit awards, which can be regarded as the year in which Chinese films have won the most awards at the festival.
Gu Cheng came to participate in the competition this year, although he listened to Cai Mingliang's instigation at the beginning, but he also invisibly hit the luck and caught up with the right time, place and people.
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Gu Cheng is very relaxed, and he is completely in the mood of watching the excitement with his sister.
The links on the stage flowed step by step, and the Lifetime Achievement Award was first awarded to Hou Xiaoxian, director of Huaxia Wanwan, in the honor link. He was presented with the award by director Yoji Yamada, the winner of the last Lifetime Achievement Award.
When Hou Xiaoxian came to power, Gu Cheng and Cai Mingliang were also sincerely happy and applauded. However, there is also a hint of doubt in his heart, as it seems that this year he is particularly inclined to East Asian films, especially Huaxia and Fuso, and is not very friendly to the participating films from West Asia and other continents.
The subsequent Artistic Achievement Award was won by a Chinese director Yang Yaya, and the corresponding film was "Loaches Are Fish".
Gu Cheng frowned slightly, he originally thought that his "Sunset of the Three Chome" was still very high in terms of artistic achievements, and he could give it a go, but he didn't expect it to be brushed.
But if you think about it carefully, you will be relieved - his "Sunset in the Three Chome" is not abusive enough after all, it is too hardcore, it is true to say that it has social value and social significance or can be reflected on by futurists, but it is a little short of fire when it comes to pure "artistic achievements".
The "artistic achievement" in the three views of the A-category international film festival and the "artistic achievement" in some academy awards are not the same concept.
The subsequent audience award went to Yoshitaro Negishi's "Wish to the Snow", further raising suspicions that this edition of East Asian cinema seems to have received extra care.
Thankfully, the Special Jury Prize that followed was a slight dispel of the doubts, and finally gave the first director outside of Asia a chance - to Hans Cassano, the director of "The Story of an Amnesiac Girl".
Generally speaking, it is generally accepted that the Special Jury Award is the second most prestigious prize at the festival after the Golden Unicorn Award.
However, when I heard the name of the movie "The Tale of the Amnesiac Girl", I also knew that it was another film that caters to the cultural background of Fuso. The cultural tendencies of this year's film festival are also gone. Whenever Europeans are willing to seriously examine Fusang culture and social phenomena, Fuso people always have to give each other some sweetness.
After the four minor awards were awarded, only the final director, actor and actress and the Golden Kirin Award remained.
"Best Director Award - "Sunset in the Third Chome", Cai Mingliang!" Chairman Zhang Yimou personally announced the result.
The applause from the audience rang out in an uproar, and Cai Mingliang was so excited that oil appeared on his bald head, and he happily came to the stage to accept it and make a speech.
"Best Actress - "Conversations with Women", Helena Carter!
I heard that the Best Actress Award was awarded two exceptions, and the audience was even more suspicious of dividing pork, but the award-winning actors were finally excellent, and everyone was finally convinced.
"Best Actor - "Sunset in the Third Chome", Gu Cheng!"
"Golden Kirin Award - "Sunset of the Three Chomes"!"