Chapter 217: The First Academy Awards
Established in 1977, Hong Kong Arts Centre is a public organisation dedicated to art exhibitions in Hong Kong and is located at 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai.
The Hong Kong Arts Centre fully reflects the exhibition trends and changes of Hong Kong culture. The multi-faceted facilities of the Art Center make it a hotbed of creativity, allowing artists to freely experiment and innovate in the fields of vision, performance, film, video and media.
Today, the Hong Kong Arts and Culture Centre is also the venue for the first Hong Kong Film Awards.
Founded in 1982, the Academy Awards is organized and presented annually by the Hong Kong Film Awards Association, aiming to encourage the creation and exhibition of outstanding Hong Kong films.
It's almost April, and the first Academy Awards ceremony is being held here as scheduled.
Although it is the Xiangjiang Art and Cultural Center, the name seems to be high-end and high-grade, but in fact, the cultural center that has not been established for a few years is not very prosperous, especially the surrounding area is simple and shabby, and it seems that the grade has been significantly lowered.
Zhao Chen came here this time, and it seemed that he had received an invitation from the Academy Awards, inviting Zhao Chen to participate in this year's Academy Awards.
But in fact, the current Academy Awards have just been organized after all, and there is no fame and influence, presumably those bigwigs and some famous stars will not participate.
The reason why Zhao Chen came here was not because he valued this award very much. He came here mainly for a different purpose.
A Mercedes-Benz sedan stopped smoothly at the gate of the art center, and the driver hurriedly got out of the car and pulled the door. It was Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua who came down.
As soon as he got out of the car, Fang Yihua looked around, and his brows couldn't help frowning.
"Lao Shao, it's really desolate here, why did the Academy Awards choose to be presented here?"
"Shu Qi and Chen Bosen have limited funds, and it is good to be able to start here, but don't look at the current Academy Awards, the potential is very great. After all, it is currently the only film and television award in the local area of Xiangjiang! Maybe there is a possibility of competing with the Golden Horse Award in the future. β
Shao Yifu shook his head lightly, and did not express contempt, although he is old, his vision is still there, the current Xiangjiang film is a prosperous period, and the influence of the Academy Awards will inevitably be driven, and the potential is difficult to say.
"I wonder if the dust boy is here this time?"
"Him. It's hard to say, after all, the Academy Awards have just started, and they don't have any influence and fame, if it were normal, he wouldn't come. But if you come, you will definitely have a purpose! β
Shao Yifu obviously knows Zhao Chen very well. Zhao Chen has a lot of work to do every day, and many trivial things are directly pushed away, such as comic awards, movie awards, music awards, etc., which are not very famous.
"Then let's go in first, I don't know if Zou Wenhuai and Mecca are here?"
"I think they're likely to come, and the "Film Fortnightly" founded by Shu Qi and Chen Bosen is still somewhat influential. But more importantly, they each have a lot of contacts, and I'm afraid they will also give face to participate in this first Academy Awards. β
It didn't take long for Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua to go in. A latest-model BMW car drove up, and it was Zhao Chen who they had discussed before.
"It's really simple enough, but that's fine!"
Zhao Chen muttered to himself and asked the driver to wait here, while he entered the art center in a fairly formal costume.
The current art center equipment is also advanced, and there is even an elevator, and Zhao Chen took the elevator to enter the Shouson Theater.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I stepped out of the elevator, there was a commotion.
"It's Master Zhao Chen!"
"Mr. Zhao Chen is here!"
"Hurry up and interview!" β¦β¦
There are a lot of reporters who came this time, there are twenty or thirty, and many reporters basically came here to save face for Shu Qi and Chen Bosen, but they didn't expect to catch a few big fish one after another, such as Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, Hong Jinbao, Mecca and other film and television tycoons.
Now I see another big fish coming. Immediately hearing the wind, Zhao Chen was surrounded as soon as he appeared.
"I wonder how Mr. Zhao Chen would have thought of coming to the first Academy Awards?"
"Can Mr. Zhao Chen tell sΓΉ a little bit of the inside story?"
"I wonder what award Mr. Zhao Chen thinks he will win this time?" β¦β¦
These reporters were simply disorderly interviews, and they opened their mouths to ask one by one, Zhao Chen only felt that there were countless flies ringing in his ears, but he had to answer patiently, but all he said were some unnutritious words.
Fortunately, Zhou Yan and his Lianmei got out of the elevator at this time, which distracted the attention of reporters, and some reporters even secretly shifted the front, and Zhao Chen could barely break free from the 'enthusiasm' of these reporters!
After Zhao Chen entered the award hall, perhaps because of his status and fame, his position was in the first row, or to the left of Shao Yifu.
"Dustboy, aren't you interested in some small awards, why did you come to the Academy Awards this time!"
"This is different, Xiangjiang is currently prosperous in films, and the Academy Awards are currently the only film awards in Xiangjiang, and the future achievements can be said to be limitless, how can I not come!"
"It's not like you, even if the Academy Awards are limitless in the future, but that's for the future, you don't have to be here! If it is expected to be good, Dusty Boy came to participate in the Academy Awards this time, I am afraid that the picture is not small. β
"Shao Tycoon said with a smile, I'm just here to see if I can win the award!"
In the small talk between Zhao Chen and Shao Yifu, time passed quickly, and soon two hosts teased each other on stage.
Zhao Chen didn't listen to what they said, but when they talked about the history of Xiangjiang films, the phoenix on the podium suddenly dimmed, and the beam of the projector was put into the screen, which was playing the history of Xiangjiang films.
Zhao Chen is not a filmmaker, and naturally he has no interest in the history of Xiangjiang films, and he is completely in and out of his right ear, which is quite boring. It's just that at the end of the play, it was still applauded by the public, and only he knew what he heard.
After the applause, the next step is to present the awards.
What made Zhao Chen laugh and cry was that there was no ceremony at the award ceremony, and there was no nomination, and he didn't know who would win the award at all, so he could only accept the award one by one under the host's reminder, which was quite funny.
Not only that, but there is not even a trophy, only an award certificate from an old man, which is quite embarrassing.
In this way, coupled with the fact that the Academy Awards have no influence, the winners are not very happy, but they still have to pretend to be elated on the surface and express their acceptance speeches.
What made Zhao Chen cry and laugh was that somehow, he also won the award, and won the best screenplay.
In addition to the top ten Chinese films in this year's Academy Awards, there are only five awards such as Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director.
According to history, the next one could not find a sponsor and almost disbanded.
At the end of the awards ceremony, a lot of celebrities and big names didn't look very good, mainly because of the mess of this Academy Awards, these big people and stars who received invitations thought they could win the award, but they didn't expect it to be empty joy at all, plus the holding was so simple, the mood can be imagined.
"Dustboy, I'll go back first, you can do it yourself!"
"Okay, Shao Tycoon, Ms. Fang, let's go!"
Zhao Chen said goodbye to Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua, and waited in the hall for a while, seeing that there were few people in the hall, he went to find the person he was looking for.
Zhao Chen seems to be Shu Qi and Chen Bosen, who created the Academy Awards.
Shu Qi didn't know Zhao Chen's purpose, but due to the obvious difference in status between the two sides, he asked cautiously: "Teacher Zhao Chen, I don't know what you are looking for us?" β
"This matter is related to the Academy Awards, after all, the Academy Awards is currently the only film award in Hong Kong, how can it be so simple, I came to you this time to sponsor this award, I hope the Academy Awards can go as far as possible."
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