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The theater is temporarily closed for business today due to special reasons, and its interior is undergoing a series of venue decorations, and the relevant personnel are walking out and walking into the bustle.

"Hey, talk about you! It's been so long to make a set, okay? Chen Baisheng, who was directing on the spot, was busy preparing for the award ceremony of the first Academy Awards.

Wiping the sweat on his forehead, Chen Baisheng walked to the most remote position from the stage, and looking at the stage from here, he could still clearly see the situation in front of him.

Chen Baisheng secretly said that it is worthy of being the first theater on Hong Kong Island, and the internal setting can be said to have no dead ends.

Originally, he was not happy that Ye Jingcheng would use the name of sponsorship in exchange for the identity of the chairman of the association, but now it seems that it is not only worth the money, but also with money to do better things.

According to his worst plan, if he couldn't get sponsorship from Ye Jingcheng, he could only choose to cooperate with Radio Television Hong Kong and let the other party have the right to broadcast the live broadcast of the Academy Awards, so as to get 200,000 yuan in sponsorship fees.

But 200,000 can't cover the entire award ceremony, such as venues, decorations, guests, etc.

Just renting the space and setting it up costs eight or nine tenths of the money, or it's a careful budget. The question is that in addition to the venue and decoration, guests always need to be entertained with drinks, right?

If you don't pay to find a few reporters to be gunmen, how can you make a name for yourself at the Academy Awards? If he really chooses to cooperate with Radio Television Hong Kong, the simplicity of the first Academy Awards can be imagined.

And he chose to compromise with Ye Jingcheng, except for the fact that the other party wanted to become the chairman of the association, which was more difficult for him, and he completely cooperated with him in other aspects.

The most prosperous street in Yau Tsim Mong and the No. 1 theater on Hong Kong Island, the daily turnover is hundreds of thousands, and Ye Jingcheng lent it out with a word. In addition to exempting him from huge rental fees, ordinary people do not mean that they can rent if they want to.

In addition to the venue of the award ceremony, Ye Jingcheng also sponsored him an additional 200,000 yuan. This money is definitely enough to set up the venue, as for the guests at the awards ceremony......

Now there is no need for him to invite in person, there are a large number of people who volunteer and strive to participate, the reason is precisely because of the aura of the venue, everyone knows that this theater is under the name of Ye Jingcheng.

Even if Ye Jingcheng has nothing to do with this award ceremony, holding an award ceremony in such a high-end venue is enough to prove how hard the backstage of the Academy Awards is.

There are artists who want to mix up in the film industry, they don't need to really be on the stage of the awards ceremony, as long as they can show their faces on the scene and are satisfied, they can at least get a chance to appear.

Even some reporters from large media knew that the award ceremony was so loud, and before Chen Baisheng invited them one by one, they had already come one by one.

Therefore, Chen Baisheng was originally going to use it to invite people to spend money, but now he has saved it, and he has also received a lot of red envelopes. It was quietly stuffed to him by some people who didn't have enough status, but wanted to attend the award ceremony.

The manpower at the venue does not need to be arranged by Chen Baisheng, all of them are theater staff, and he only needs to be responsible for driving others. The award ceremony venue in front of him was even more impressive than he imagined.

As for the awards, I didn't promise Ye Jingcheng before. Chen Baisheng thought that if he really couldn't do it, he would set up the most basic five awards, including: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor and Actress.

As for the other awards, we can only wait for the Academy Awards team to get through the most difficult difficulties before making plans.

And there is no primary or pre-selection, and the final results are directly announced. But if you do that, it's easy to get criticized. Because you haven't even made the review information public, how can you say that you are fair and impartial?

Now with Ye Jingcheng's sponsorship, he can completely let go of his hands and feet, and add four awards to the foundation, including: Best Newcomer Award, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Action Direction.

If it weren't for the fact that he was in a hurry, he had enough time to count and collect information, and he would have thought about making up at least twelve awards.

However, in order to start the reputation of the Academy Awards faster, by the way, I will rub the popularity of the summer vacation file. He brought the Academy Awards ceremony, which was originally planned to be held two months later, to today, tomorrow, and three days after the event.

Seeing that the venue was almost decorated, Chen Baisheng handed over the work to his subordinates, and he prepared to go to the hall to greet the guests.

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The next three days.

On the evening of the first day, the Academy Awards held a welcome and shortlisted reception, and basically everyone who was qualified to participate in the reception did not give up this opportunity to expand their contacts.

At least seven or eight hundred guests came to the scene, and most of them gathered in one banquet hall, so you can imagine how lively the scene was.

Fortunately, the capacity of the Yau Ma Tei Cinema is large enough, and if it is a slightly smaller venue, it will definitely be crowded to the point that there are only people left, and even people have to borrow it for passing.

On the afternoon of the second day, the Academy Awards held a carpet reception again, and the guests invited this time were only relevant people who passed the results of the preliminary round, as well as reporters or editors from more than a dozen various media.

Rao is like this, there are three or four hundred guests at the scene. Compared with the shortlisted reception on the first day, those who were lucky enough to pass the preliminary round took the initiative to talk to others.

Maybe among them, there will soon be a leap in the next week, or even Ye Jingcheng second. If you make friends with each other in advance, you can always have a care in the future, right?

On the night of the third day, the Academy Awards finally ushered in the main event.

There were many big names who didn't appear in the previous two days, and they came to the award ceremony one after another. Such as: Xu Guanjie, Xu Guanwen, Zhou Yanfa, Chenglong, Hong Jinbao and so on.

Even the heads of the five major film companies will send a heavyweight to witness if they can't come by themselves.

Shaw Brothers Pictures sent Fang Yihua, Shao Yifu's pillow person, He Guanchang, who is one of the major shareholders of Golden Harvest, Jiang Zhiwen, who inherited his father's business, and Yuan Yangan, the main helmsman of Yindu Pictures.

As an important person and award presenter tonight, Ye Jingcheng also came to the venue to attend the ceremony ten minutes before the award ceremony began.

"It's Ye Sheng!"

"Where! Where? ”

"Ye Sheng, is he here too!?"

Ye Jingcheng accompanied the appearance of Li Zhi and ushered in the eyes of many people. Including several 'important people' sitting in the front row, they were all stolen by Ye Jingcheng at this time.

Seeing this scene, the invitees of several other major companies had strange and delicious looks on their faces. When they came to the venue, there were indeed quite a few people who wanted to approach them. But compared with Ye Jingcheng......

At most, there were more than a dozen people around them just now, but almost all of Ye Jingcheng surrounded them, and the people behind them even crowded forward, hoping to squeeze in from them, just to be able to say hello to Ye Jingcheng at close range.

Unlike them, a cold treatment just now made most people take the initiative to give way. In the face of Ye Jingcheng, these people are like moths to the fire.

"Alright, all the guests present, please return to your places, the award ceremony is about to begin." Zeng Zhiwei, who was still the master of ceremonies tonight, helped to persuade these people to return to their seats.

Ye Jingcheng sat down in the middle of the first row, nodded slightly to the heads of the other film companies on both sides in greeting, and then focused his attention on the stage.

Except for Fang Yihua's face was not very good, the others, whether out of sincerity or coping, were all smiling Ye Jingcheng returned the salute.

When everyone is in place, the spotlight shines on a man and a woman on the stage, namely Zeng Zhiwei and Xiao Fangfang, and the entire ceremony of tonight's award ceremony will be presided over by the two.

Zeng Zhiwei took a step forward first, but for some unknown reason, he almost 'fell' at this kick.

At this time, Xiao Fangfang hurriedly came up to help, and said in a somewhat blaming tone: "Wei Zai, what are you doing?" Is it the wrong fork or are you planning to salute me? ”

"Sister Fangfang, it is necessary to make a big gift, otherwise I will be dizzy." Zeng Zhiwei pursed his bitter gourd eyebrows and said pitifully.

"How can you get dizzy for no reason?" Xiao Fangfang glanced ahead and asked.

She knew that Zeng Zhiwei didn't really fall, but wanted to create an atmosphere in the venue, so that it would be convenient for them to host next.

"Don't you see so many big people sitting in the front row? Their words can make us live or die. Zeng Zhiwei joked.

"I believe it. But it's not us, it's just you. Xiao Fangfang first corrected, and then buried Zeng Zhiwei and said: "Little girl, I look so beautiful like a flower, I believe that I will not be like a beast like you, others will feel unpleasant when they see it." ”

The two of them discussed it early in the morning, and you and I said a word, attracting the attention of the guests to the stage.

"Alright, that's the joke." At the right time, Zeng Zhiwei's original laughter ended, and he changed to a serious appearance.

"Tonight's awards ceremony is important, why?" Zeng Zhiwei said to himself: "Because of the appearance of this award ceremony, it can be said to be a historical moment in the development of films in the Hong Kong Island area. ”

"That's right, a lot of people who work in film know it. In the distance, there is an Oscar in the United States, Cannes International in France, Berlin International in Germany, Venice International in Italy, and so on......"

"More recently, in the entire Asian region, there is an Asia-Pacific Film Festival in the island country, and there is also a Golden Horse Award in Duwan Bay. Only on our Hong Kong Island, there is not even an institution that can score, recognize, and notarize movies. ”

"So tonight, all of you will join us to witness the birth ceremony of our Hong Kong Island Academy Awards." Zeng Zhiwei stretched out his hand and said, "First of all, I would like to introduce our important guests who are here tonight. ”

"It can be said that they have led the development of Hong Kong Island films, and it is also under their leadership that Hong Kong Island films have today's brilliant achievements. They are......"

Ye Sheng is sitting in the middle position, I believe there should be no one who doesn't know him, Ye Sheng has only been in the film industry for more than three years, but it is because of him that Hong Kong Island films can rewrite milestones again and again.

From the first work with a box office of 10 million, to the later 20 million, 2,500 and even 30 million, these are all honors that belong to him. He used his actions to prove to us that all this is not a miracle, but an opportunity for our Hong Kong Island films. ”

"He has guided us on the right track for Hong Kong Island cinema, and he has brought status and momentum to Hong Kong Island cinema. In case of losing him, this loss does not belong to an individual, but to our entire Hong Kong Island film circle, and this person is our Mr. Yip King Shing!! ”

Zeng Zhiwei said it extremely sensationally, and people who didn't know thought he was trying to curry favor with Ye Jingcheng. But no one at the scene would think so, because Zeng Zhiwei was telling the truth.

Before Ye Jingcheng joined the film industry, it was already a very rare achievement for the film to achieve a box office of more than one million.

Since Ye Jingcheng appeared, he has shown that there is no upper limit to what it means. Every movie produced by him, from 5 million at the beginning to 30 million now, the box office has always been higher and higher, and it will not go down a slope and slide.

The appearance of Ye Jingcheng has undoubtedly brought prosperity to the film industry on Hong Kong Island, and also brought identity and status to the workers in it.

Take screenwriters as an example, in the past, a script was at best a few hundred to a few thousand yuan, and due to life and other relationships, they didn't sell it.

And now, as long as the quality of the script is not too bad, it is basically tens of thousands of prices. Today's screenwriters can not only support themselves, but also get the respect that they once didn't get.

So after Zeng Zhiwei said this, the audience immediately burst into warm applause, which is the glory of Ye Jingcheng alone.

Ye Jingcheng stood up and pressed his hand, after the applause stopped. He took the microphone handed over by Zeng Zhiwei from the side, and encouraged him in the form of encouragement: "Hong Kong Island movies are not about the glory that belongs to anyone, it belongs to everyone, belongs to every staff member in the industry, without everyone's joint efforts, I believe that I alone would not be able to have today's prosperity..."

Just as Ye Jingcheng was speaking, Fang Yihua on the side glanced at him secretly, who wouldn't say something nice? In other words, she can be said to be ten or a hundred times more sensational.

The question is, does she have the qualifications? Even in the eyes of the heads of other major film companies, she is a figure who can't be on the stage at all.

During the time she was at the helm of Shaw Brothers, what movies were produced? It's nothing more than following the old path of the Shaw Brothers - erotic movies.

Every film is a way to captivate the audience through erotic scenes, and there's a lot to do with it. She is almost called the 'mother of erotic movies' now, and the most important thing is that this woman can't look down on others, just ask how such a person can get on the stage.

When Ye Jingcheng finished speaking, the microphone returned to Zeng Zhiwei's hand. The two emcees successively introduced He Guanchang, Fang Yihua and others, but there was no sensationalism like introducing Ye Jingcheng, Fang Yihua didn't even have a chance to speak, Zeng Zhiwei's microphone turned to He Guanchang.

Here, except for Ye Jingcheng. Only He Guanchang, who witnessed the birth of the Shaw Brothers and then set up his own Golden Harvest portal, had enough weight to make encouraging speeches to the lower-level actors and staff as a superior.

Latecomers like Fang Yihua and Jiang Zhiwen can't achieve such achievements as Ye Jingcheng, so no matter how much they say, it's useless.