Chapter 1022: The Golden Statue (Part II)
The live camera swept across the stage, and sharp-eyed viewers would notice a few sporadic seats in the front row.
Zhou Yunfa and Zhou Xingchi were absent from tonight's awards ceremony because they were filming in the United States, and the six candidates nominated for the Best Actor Award were actually only four of them, and except for Zhang Yurong, the other three people, including Liang Chaowei, all had nervous expressions on their faces.
Liu Qingyun walked up to the stage with an envelope containing the list of winners, and Huang Qiusen was joined by him.
"Why did someone else come to the stage to present the award, and the partners are all beautiful women, but my partner is you?"
Liu Qingyun looked at Huang Qiusen with his hands in his hands, looking puzzled.
Huang Qiusen pouted, "You don't understand this, the Academy Awards Organizing Committee arranged it like this, all for your own good." β
Liu Qingyun was surprised, "Is there one?" Why don't I feel it at all? β
"Do you think, if you arrange a beautiful girl to present the award with you, the audience will definitely think in their hearts when they see the two of you standing on the stage, it will be perfect if Liu Qingyun is replaced by Liu Dehua, beautiful women and handsome guys standing together are eye-catching, and you will be compared to each other, which is very embarrassing."
Huang Qiusen's words made Liu Qingyun not depressed, "You mean to say that I am not as handsome as Liu Dehua?" β
Huang Qiusen patted Liu Qingyun on the shoulder, comforted Liu Qingyun and said, "You are also very handsome, but you are not as handsome as Liu Dehua." β
"Then what does the Academy Awards Organizing Committee mean by arranging for you to present the award with me?"
"Let me foil you? I don't believe you can go to the audience and ask someone if the two of us will have such a feeling when we stand on the stage. Compared with Huang Qiusen. Liu Qingyun is actually quite handsome. β
Huang Qiusen's words caused a burst of laughter from the audience. Everyone knew that he was joking, but they were amused by his humorous self-deprecation.
After waiting for the quiet below, Liu Qingyun took over and said: "Actually, you are wrong, the real intention of the Academy Awards Organizing Committee is not to let you set off me, but to let the two of us set off tonight's actor, didn't you find that the six finalists this time are all handsome guys?" β
said that the huge electronic screen behind the stage played the photos of the six actor candidates, and everyone saw that Liu Qingyun's words were really correct, at least most of them were correct.
Zhou Yunfa and Zhang Yurong are already veteran handsome guys in the Hong Kong entertainment industry. Needless to say; Liang Chaowei and Zhang Xueyou are rising stars, and they are not inferior to the two predecessors in terms of appearance and popularity; Of course, compared with the previous four, Zhou Xingchi may have to suffer a little loss, but among comedians, his appearance is already very worthy of the audience, and there is no problem with the evaluation of at least a handsome guy.
Among the six nominated candidates, the only one who is not handsome is Ge Minghui, who was shortlisted for the film "Three Teenagers in Love", and the guy has a simple smirk on his face in the photo, especially when put together with five handsome actors, which is even more abrupt.
The six nominated actors have been introduced. Huang Qiusen couldn't help but joke that Ge Minghui must have been happy offstage just now. Because this is definitely the first time that someone has praised him for being handsome on such an important stage as the Academy Awards.
The live broadcast camera also focused on Ge Minghui, who was sitting in the audience, he smiled and raised his hand to say hello to the audience in front of the TV, it seemed that he didn't mind Huang Qiusen making fun of him.
In fact, Ge Minghui and Lin Haifeng's "soft and hard heavenly master" is still very famous in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and Ge Minghui's acting skills also correspond to the name of this group, which is quite a bit of a soft and hard all-of-a-kind feeling, and this time the work "Three Teenagers in Love" who helped him shortlist for the best actor is also a work in Hong Kong films that seriously explores how homosexuals' life feelings and sexual orientation affect their personalities.
The whole film is quite sincere and moving, and Ge Minghui's performance is particularly good, so it is well deserved to be nominated for an Academy Award.
It is said that after filming this film, Wang Jing took a fancy to Ge Minghui at a glance and decided to use him as the leading actor of "Gambling Saint 2".
The live camera returned to the stage, and Liu Qingyun had already opened the envelope under the urging of Huang Qiusen.
"The winner of the Best Actor Award at this year's Academy Awards is ...... "Chongqing Forest", Liang Chaowei!"
Liu Qingyun announced the results of the award, and Huang Qiusen followed with a word of congratulations.
Offstage, Liang Chaowei was stunned for a full three seconds, and then suddenly stood up from his seat and did something that everyone didn't expect.
In front of the eyes of nearly 1,000 people at the scene and the lens of the live TV broadcast, Liang Chaowei and his girlfriend Liu Jialing, who accompanied him, had a kiss beyond the ordinary intimate scale.
At this moment, many people froze, and after a few seconds of delay, the scene burst into applause.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this kiss is just over-excited, but in the eyes of the good news media, this kiss was interpreted as evidence that "proves that the two are stronger than Jin".
walked on stage and took the trophy from Huang Qiusen, Liang Chaowei's performance was really not close to his usual calm performance in life, and his voice was trembling a little when he delivered his acceptance speech.
"I'm so thoughtful, I'm so ...... I really want to...... I...... I...... I remember losing the first time I was nominated for Best Actor, and this is the second time I have been nominated for Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and I am really happy to win the award. β
Lin Youlun, who was sitting in the audience, saw this situation, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional, probably no one thought that Liang Chaowei, who stammered when he gave an acceptance speech on stage, would win the award in the future, and his performance on stage to accept the award became more and more calm.
Everything has a first time, and it is not surprising that Liang Chaowei has such a performance.
According to the previous order of awards, it should be the turn of the best director and best film after the award of the actor and actress, but this year's Academy Awards have made some adjustments, and the best screenwriter has also been placed in the finale.
seems to be a simple order adjustment, but in fact, the Academy Awards attach great importance to improving the status of screenwriters in the circle, of course, some people speculate that the arrangement of the Academy Awards Organizing Committee is actually from Lin Youlun's instructions.
In any case, this year's Best Screenplay Award is indeed very important, which can be seen from Lin Youlun himself as the guest of honor, and the final winner is also a bit surprising.
Wang Jiawei, who was shortlisted for the two works of "East Evil and West Poison" and "Chongqing Forest", was a big hit, but Du Guowei, who successfully adapted the classic stage play "I Have a Date with Spring", won the award as a dark horse.
At this moment, many people couldn't help but worry about Wang Jiawei, because before the awards ceremony, many people regarded the Best Screenplay Award as the vane of Best Director and Best Picture.
As the chairman of the Academy Awards, Lin Youlun has always given the outside world the impression that he rarely interferes with the results of the awards, and even ignores the feeling of ignoring them, but everyone does not ignore the influence of Lin Youlun's attitude on the evaluation of the Academy Awards.
As we all know, Lin Youlun is personally more inclined to the development of commercial films, and Hong Kong's films that have achieved great commercial success at home and abroad in recent years are all from Lin Youlun.
In contrast, Lin Youlun does not have much interest in literary films, although Jiayi Cinema Line has several special theaters for the release of literary films, but in the eyes of those who care, this kind of measure is just to decorate the faΓ§ade, and in essence, it does not contribute too much to the income of Jiayi Cinema Line, and even has to invest money in it every year to maintain it.
The Academy Awards have always been heavy on literary films, and even Lin Youlun can't change this, otherwise he would not have set up the Golden Dragon Award at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in addition to the Academy Awards.
Thanks to the concept of taking commercial films as the initiative, the Hong Kong International Film Festival has become more and more popular in the past two years, and the weight of the Golden Dragon Award in everyone's eyes has gradually begun to catch up with the Academy Awards.
On the premise of sticking to the original position, the judges of the Academy Awards will definitely lean slightly towards the direction of commercial films, and this is not good news for Wang Jiawei.
Wang Jiawei himself was also worried about this problem, and then he lost his mind, and when others pushed him, he suddenly found that everyone around him was looking at him.
"Congratulations to Director Wang, you are the second person to win Best Director twice at the Academy Awards!" On stage, Er Dongsheng, the winner of the Best Director at the last Academy Awards, said in a slightly envious tone.
Wang Jiawei reacted this time, and during the time he was stunned, the results of the best director awards had been announced.
Although he was slightly annoyed that he shouldn't be distracted at such a critical moment, Wang Jiawei quickly adjusted his mood and got up and walked to the front desk.
"It should be a very exciting and honorable thing for all Hong Kong filmmakers to stand here and accept the award, and of course I am no exception. When I won the award for the first time, I thought when I would be able to stand on this stage, but I really didn't expect that my wish would come true so soon. β
Because it was the second time he won the award, Wang Jiawei behaved calmly, and after delivering a brief acceptance speech, he took the trophy and stepped down from the stage, but after less than five minutes, he was invited again because "Chongqing Forest" won the best picture.
Wang Jiawei unsurprisingly became the biggest winner of this year's Academy Awards, although many people thought of this result, but when it really happened, it still surprised everyone, especially what happened at this award ceremony, which is destined to become a hot topic in Hong Kong media for a long time to come. (To be continued......)