Chapter 477: A Balancing Measure
The winner of last year's best screenplay was Gu Chen, and this year Gu Chen was shortlisted again with "Myth", but unfortunately lost to Nie Hongfeng, Shao Guohua, Chen Jiashang, and Ye Guangjian's "Three-person World", looking at the four people who happily walked onto the stage, Qiu Shuzhen snorted and said: "I have never heard of "Three-person World", the jury definitely does not want to award this award to the same person in a row." ”
Gu Chen chuckled, put his head over, and whispered, "Baby, you speak quietly, even if you have confidence in me, you can't say it here." ”
Qiu Shuzhen then realized that she didn't seem to deliberately control the volume when she spoke just now, so she hurriedly looked around secretly, and was relieved to see that no one was paying attention, and she stuck out her little tongue cutely, and said, "People are excited for a while, but things must be the same as what I said." ”
When Qiu Shuzhen didn't pay attention, her cute expression of sticking out her tongue and her intimate behavior with Gu Chen had already been captured by the live broadcast camera, which suddenly made many male viewers in front of the TV drool, and at the same time, their resentment towards Gu Chen increased again.
After Shao Guohua and Chen Jiashang walked off the stage, Li Xiuxian and Shen Dianxia walked out of the backstage, only to hear Li Xiuxian say: "The award ceremony has now entered the final stage, Feifei, have you calculated which film has won the most awards?" ”
"Does this still need to be calculated, of course it is "Rouge Buckle", which has won four awards so far: Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Film Score and Best Film Song, and only "Tales of the Night" has won the most three awards."
"That's right, Guan Jinpeng's "Rouge Buckle" is indeed very good. The four awards are by far the biggest winners, but it's too early to say who will win and who will lose, and the best director and best picture that will be presented next will be the real climax of the night. ”
"It's worth mentioning that both "Rouge Buckle" and "Tales of the Night" were nominated for these two awards. If "Tales of the Night" can win all these two awards, it will turn defeat into victory and become the biggest winner tonight, Fatty, do you feel quite excited? ”
"I'm quite excited, but I think some people in the audience are more excited than we are, so I don't talk nonsense. Please invite the guest of honor for the Best Director Award, Liu Zhenwei. After speaking, Liu Zhenwei walked out of the backstage, and said hello to Li Xiuxian and Shen Dianxia, who were about to step down.
Stand in front of the microphone. Liu Zhenwei first looked at the empty position on his left, and then said with a smile: "As the saying goes, it is good - men and women are not tired of working together, and the guests of each award in front of me are a man and a woman, but I am the only one who comes to me." Pity me alone. Alas, the organizing committee is really unfair, and if the protest is effective, I really want to make a protest. Kidding aside, well, let's get down to business, now let's take a look at the list of finalists for the Best Director award. ”
The beam of light from the projector shone on the big screen in the center of the stage, and the commentary sounded at the same time: "The best directors shortlisted for the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards are: Wang Jiawei "Mong Kok Carmen", Kwan Jinpeng "Rouge Buckle", Wu Yusen "Legend of the Night", Zhang Yimou "Myth", Lin Lingdong "Resident Evil". ”
He opened the envelope. Pulling out the card from inside, he looked at the name on it. Then he said: "The winner is Guan Jinpeng of "Rouge Buckle". ”
Hearing the award presenter call out his name, Guan Jinpeng clenched his fists and waved it vigorously, and then excitedly hugged the crew next to him one by one, and the people around him got up to congratulate him, after dealing with everyone, he walked quickly to the stage, took the trophy from Liu Zhenwei's hand, and then walked to the microphone: "I'm sorry, I'm really excited now, although I knew that I was shortlisted, but I never thought that the jury would really award this award to me, this is an affirmation of me, thank you, thank you to the Academy Award jury, Thank you to the Film Association, thank you to everyone, I will use this trophy as my motivation to create more excellent films in the future. ”
waved the trophy vigorously again, Guan Jinpeng walked off the stage in warm applause, from hearing the award to now delivering the acceptance speech, the smile on his face has not been broken, for any Hong Kong director, the Academy Award for Best Director is their highest honor.
"It seems that 'Rouge Buckle' is destined to be the biggest winner tonight." The voice sounded, Shen Dianxia walked out, and Li Xiuxian next to him continued: "If I'm not mistaken, Guan Jinpeng directed his first film in 85, and "Rouge Buckle" is his third, it is indeed very rare to win the award for best director so quickly, and I sincerely hope that he can make persistent efforts in the future." ”
"I think young directors in Hong Kong are getting more and more fierce now, last year's Liu Zhenwei, this year's Kwan Jinpeng, "Mong Kok Carmen" seems to be the first film directed by Wong Kar-wai, right? One by one is too violent, Li sir, don't you say? ”
"It's very violent, yes, but Hong Kong movies need such fierce people." Li Xiuxian nodded, and then changed the conversation: "Unconsciously, this year's Academy Awards night has come to an end, and we will wait and see who will win the Best Film Award." ”
"I'm looking forward to it." Shen Dianxia made a fist clenching motion: "Now I invite Mr. Gu Chen and the beautiful Li Jiaxin to present the final Best Film Award." ”
As the voice fell, Gu Chen and Li Jiaxin, who was wearing a white bandeau mopping dress, appeared in the audience's sight holding hands, such a special arrangement was somewhat unexpected by everyone, and after a short period of surprise, the audience burst into warm applause.
Although the audience was surprised, it is normal for Gu Chen to present this last award, you must know that from this session, the organizer of the Hong Kong Film Awards will become the Hong Kong Film Association, "Film Fortnightly", ATV, TVB, Radio Television Hong Kong, "Sing Tao Daily" as the co-organizers, the organizing committee of each session is composed of the organizer and the co-organizer, and the chairman of the organizing committee is the president or vice president of the Film Association.
Since this is the first session, Gu Chen is naturally the chairman of the organizing committee of this session, so it is reasonable for him to award the final award. As for Li Jiaxin, she is known as the most beautiful champion in the history of Hong Kong beauty pageants, and it seems reasonable to be a female award presenter.
However, there are also deliberate factors on the part of the following people, and I am afraid that after this award is awarded, there will be a lot of more news in the newspaper tomorrow. Of course, Gu Chen has no opinion on this, otherwise he wouldn't be standing here, as the saying goes, if there are more lice, it doesn't itch like this.
The handsome men and the beautiful women, Gu Chen and Li Jiaxin are like a pair of golden boys and girls, no one will think that they are not a good match at this moment, the two slowly walked to the microphone in the center of the stage, Gu Chen raised the envelope in his hand, and said with a smile: "This is the last award tonight, I don't think you want to listen to my ramblings, let's take a look at the big screen and see which five films are shortlisted." ”
The projector's beam shines on the large screen in the center of the wall behind it, and the commentary sounds: "The best films shortlisted for the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards are: "Carmen in Mong Kok", "Legend of the Night", "Myth", "Storm and Clouds Dominate the World", "Rouge Buckle""
After Gu Chen opened the envelope, he took out the card inside and glanced at it lightly and handed it to Li Jiaxin, but Li Jiaxin smiled slightly after seeing the words on it, and announced: "The winner of the Best Film Award at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards is "Myth", congratulations." ”
This result made many people secretly say that sure enough, this is the first Academy Awards hosted by the Film Association, and Gu Chen is the chairman of the organizing committee, if this award is awarded by someone else, the winner may be "Rouge Buckle", or "Mong Kok Carmen", now since the award is presented by Gu Chen, the Academy Award jury can only give the award to any of "Legend of the Night", "Myth" and "Storm and Clouds Dominate the World", otherwise wouldn't it be deliberately losing Gu Chen's face? I'm afraid the jury wouldn't do such a stupid thing.
In addition, this should also be a balance between literary films and commercial films, after all, the most important thing for Hong Kong films to develop is commercial films, if the jury suppresses commercial films too much, it will only make the Academy Awards gradually lose credibility and star popularity.
With Zeng Zhiwei taking the stage to accept the award, the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards also came to an end, and there is no doubt that the biggest winner of this year's edition is "Rouge Buckle", which won a total of five awards for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Film Score and Best Film Song, followed by "Legend of the Night" which won three awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Action Direction.
Other films also have their own gains, but "Storm and Storm Dominates the World" was shortlisted for nine awards, but in the end, it ended dismally.
It can really be said that a few families are happy and a few are sad, but the reality is so cruel, and there is a saying that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Being nominated just means you're eligible for the award, and most of the films and actors are falling in this final round of competition.
According to the previous situation, the next guests should disperse separately and reunite next year, but this year is different, the new Academy Awards night celebration party has been added, and this form will also be retained, and a celebration party will be held after each Academy Awards ceremony in the future, so as to set off the atmosphere of the Academy Awards, the purpose is to increase the star's sense of identity and belonging to the Academy Awards.
As the venue in Tsim Sha Tsui has not yet been built, this year's gala was held at The Peninsula Hotel, which has been preparing for several days and refurbishing the hotel's largest ballroom for the gala. (To be continued......)