When Joel Cohen announced that the Audience Awards' Feature Film Division belonged to Shining America, even Ethan, who was standing next to Joel, cast a regretful glance in Lance's direction, but Lance stood up with a smile on his face and genuinely gave his own applause to Harvey Baker and Paul Giamati.

Before the awards ceremony, people's eyes were mainly focused on "City of God", "Whale Rider", "Shining America", "Soul Station", "Fang Ling 13" and several other works, which are all considered popular choices to win awards tonight. Objectively speaking, the most promising thing for "City of God" to win is the audience award, which not only represents the hot pursuit of the audience in the past few days, but also the affirmation of Reims on the stage of Sundance.

With the announcement of the awards, "Soul Station" won the Screenwriter Award, and "Whale Rider" dominated the world unit of the Audience Award. As a result, two of "City of God's" strongest competitors have already gained something, making the likelihood of "City of God" winning the Audience Award for Feature Film skyrocketing.

But the result was still lost to the much-acclaimed "Shining America".

Lance's hanging heart slowly fell, and the fluttering disappointment was like a deflated ball, flattened little by little, the feeling of hanging in the air was not uncomfortable, but it seemed to be blocked in his chest in one breath, unable to be pressed or spit out.

Lance doesn't pretend to say that he's not disappointed, he doesn't say duplicitously that he doesn't care, although the "City of God" has already found a distribution company, and even if it doesn't win an award, it doesn't need to worry about distribution; However, it was important for Reims to be able to win at the Sundance Film Festival.

It's not just because an award can win more attention for a movie and add more chips to box office success; And because this is Lance's debut film, it's the first time in his two lives that he has actually stood behind the camera and turned his script into a film. He needs that affirmation.

With a warm smile on his face, Lance clapped his hands to give a round of applause for "Shining America", well concealed his feelings, and exhaled softly, calming down the tense feelings. However, the pace of the festival ceremony is very fast, the awards are one after the other, there is almost no time to breathe, and before Lance has time to calm down, the final award will be awarded tonight.

Each year, the Sundance Film Festival's most important jury prize is presented by Robert Redford himself, and the first documentary department to be revealed belongs to "Catch the Friedmans," to a standing ovation from the audience. Despite the acclaim for "My Flesh", "Catch the Fredmans" was already the biggest favorite ahead of tonight's ceremony, and the film was unanimously praised by audiences and critics, and it was no surprise that it won the Grand Jury Prize in the documentary category.

This was followed by the Grand Jury Prize in the Feature Film category.

The biggest hit before the awards ceremony was undoubtedly "Shining America", which not only led the overall score of the official house magazine, but also kept the discussion among the audience high. Tonight, "Shining America" won the audience award in the feature film category, which is the best proof of this.

At this moment, all the audience in the audience held their breath, and perhaps they were about to witness the birth of history: for the first time in the history of the Sundance Film Festival, a work could win both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize.

Robert watched Andrew-Jarecki, the director of "Catch the Friedmans," walk off the stage, then walked over to the microphone again, chuckled, raised his right hand and waved the envelope in his hand, "Well, the time has finally come to reveal the last prize of the night." After the award was awarded, the 19th Sundance Film Festival will come to an end. ”

Robert's slightly regretful teasing caused a small chuckle from the audience, "As I said earlier, this year's Sundance was very lively, and we once again experienced the demeanor of countless excellent filmmakers. This is the luck of the audience and our honor. Yesterday morning, a New York Times reporter was chatting with me about what was my most memorable work, and the question really bothered me. I thought about it for a long time, but I still couldn't make a decision, 'Catch the Fredmans' was one of my favorites, and I was always torn between four productions including it. So, I sued the journalist that, fortunately, I wasn't one of the judges who needed to make a decision. ”

The so-called Grand Jury Prize is an award that is voted on by a collective vote of six judges, and the judges change every year. In this regard, Sundance and the three major European film festivals have the same selection mechanism.

There was a chuckle again, and Robert paused, waving the envelope in his hand again, "Now, I'll enjoy my privilege and be the first to see this touching answer." Then he said just do it, lowered his head and opened the envelope directly, and saw the answer inside, "Oh...... It turned out to be this one. Robert didn't whet the audience's appetite like the awards ceremony, and he looked up and showed a big smile, "First of all, I must state that this award-winning work is something I personally love very, very much, and it is my honor to have it at Sundance this year." ”

Robert's short but sincere words made everyone at the scene involuntarily hold their breath. Even though Robert didn't deliberately create suspense, the suspense still rose uncontrollably.

Lance thought that his nervousness had subsided, but at this moment his heart still suddenly tightened, and the restlessness and uneasiness that were tense to the extreme were almost breathless. "At the 19th Sundance Film Festival, the winner of the Grand Jury Prize is," Robert's voice made Lance's muscles completely stiffen, and the waiting time was even more painful than the moment of failure, "'City of God'." ”

Call...... The answer is finally revealed. Lance only felt his muscles relax.

But then, "pop bang", applause immediately erupted, and Joel Cohen was the first to stand up, clapping his hands vigorously and sincerely congratulating Lance, followed by Ethan Cohen, Paul Giamati, Harvey Baker, then Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein...... Everyone stood up one after another, applauding collectively, the sea that was calm a second ago ushered in a seven-magnitude earthquake in an instant, the entire sea surface of the mountains roared with a tsunami, the waves were turbulent, everyone stood up one after another, and the black pressure made people have a ridiculous illusion of the end of the world.

The winner is, "City of God."

This thought lit up Lance's entire mind like lightning, and the whole world brightened up in an instant, Lance's hands couldn't help but clench into fists, and the muscles that had just been relaxed all tensed up in an instant, excitement, excitement, happiness, happiness, vibration, trembling and other emotions drowned him like a tsunami, and all the thoughts in his brain were mixed up, even though he tried his best to control it, his body still began to tremble because his fists were clenched too tightly.

Percy and Hayden, who were sitting next to them, raised their fists in the air, jumped up on the chair at once, and cheered excitedly, Alexander, Leonardo and several other children reacted half a beat slowly, and then realized that their work had won the award, and they all looked at the people around them with standing ovation, and then stood up one after another, and danced the enthusiastic samba in response to the rhythm, which made the scene instantly become a sea of joy.

Lance stood up, trying to suppress the turmoil in his heart, and then took a step towards the stage. One step at a time.

Walking from the stage from the stage, it was about fifteen steps away, but it was so far away for Lance, as if he had walked from Li Jin's world to Lancelot's world, and then from the previous life to this life, this road was really too far away, countless times he raised his head but couldn't see the sun above his head, countless times he looked at the surging crowd around him but was at a loss, countless times he wanted to give up, but ...... He persevered, and at the end of the long journey, he finally made his way to the stage and took the trophy from Robert.

Robert gave Lance a big hug and whispered in his ear, "Congratulations! When I get back, thank you Ian for me. One sentence made Lance laugh heartily.

Lance looked down at the trophy in his hand, a transparent diamond-shaped square trophy, which looked unremarkable, as if it were a trophy awarded in a high school speech contest. But the weight of the trophy on my heart was so heavy that I couldn't breathe smoothly.

Raising his head, Lance looked at the children celebrating under the stage, beckoned, and said in Portuguese, "What are you waiting for, come up and party together." After receiving the approval, the children rushed to the stage, and Percy and Hayden also trotted onto the stage, each with an incredible cheerfulness and brightness on their faces, lighting up the whole stage.

Lance looked back at the people behind him, the smile on his lips was like a flower blooming in the morning, stained with cold dewdrops, reflecting the warm sun, as if waking up the whole world, "Thank you, thank you Robert, thank you Sundance, thank you audience for their love of 'City of God'." Lance's hot brain cooled down as he tried to clear his mind and make an acceptance speech, but it was obviously not an easy task, "The process of making this film was so magical, but it was so bad, I swear I don't want to go through it again." ”

Everyone at the scene was amused by Lance's words, even though Lance was trying to control his feelings, his slightly trembling fingertips still leaked the surging in his heart, "But I must admit that I am very fortunate that I have personally walked that distance; Luckily, I had these friends by my side. So, if you do it all over again......" Lance paused suddenly, let out a long breath, and smiled, "Oh, yes, I don't need to do it all over again." ”

Everyone at the scene immediately burst into laughter, and Paul, who was standing at the bottom of the stage, whistled directly and took the lead in coaxing.

"Finally, thank you to all the people who helped during the filming of this film, thank you!" Lance raised the trophy in his hand and said, "Sundance, I've been here!" ”

The 19th Sundance Film Festival has come to an end, and a director named Lancelot Strello has been born!

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