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Chapter 487 Hehe's Journey to the Golden Image Awards
The addition of "Thieves" and "BJ Meets Seattle" can only be said to add a little luster to this year's already bleak shortlist, but overall, it still cannot reproduce the golden age of Hong Kong Island movies.

When the media got this year's shortlist, they said it was "the tallest among the dwarfs".

But for the best film and best director, the media and netizens almost overwhelmingly voted for "The Thieves":
Data from Weibo Movies shows that before the awards ceremony, a total of more than 20 netizens voted for this year's Golden Image Awards ceremony.

More than 85% of netizens believed that "Thieves" would win the Best Picture and Best Director awards without any suspense.

"The overall quality of the nominated films this year is not good, and the entry of "Alliance of Thieves" is simply a blow to them."

""Chill" is average, the box office and word-of-mouth are not very good, and the 12 nominations are more like the dying struggle of the Hong Kong Film Awards to protect Hong Kong films."

Cheng Yuan entered the venue.

It can be seen that this year's Academy Awards are shabby, the venue is well-arranged, the main stage is not big, and the seats below are compact and cramped.

Cheng Yu'an and the crew of "Alliance of Thieves" sat in the second row directly opposite the main stage.

Cheng Yu'an's mood is very calm, except that he was disappointed because of the golden rooster when he debuted in 03-that time he really thought that his arrival could change something.

After that, he didn't have any expectations for domestic film awards.

In the past ten years, he has successively won two Venices, one Golden Globe, one Oscar and countless trade union awards. He has long since lost his desire for the three gold medals in Chinese.

He came this time, first to sell the face of his Hong Kong partners - Yinhuang, Anle, Hua Ge, etc., and second, he hoped that his arrival could win one or two awards for the actors.

They need awards to make their way.

Cheng Yu'an just sat down and chatted with Brother Hua next to him. Brother Hua talked about the still filming of "Terror Live" and bluntly said that the pressure was huge:

"I have never acted in such a situational scene. I used to have a male and female partner to act with me, but in "Terror Live", I have to perform almost all the scenes alone. It is very difficult."

Cheng Yu'an smiled and said, "Brother Hua, you have acted in plays for decades, and I am embarrassed to invite you if it is not a difficult play."

Brother Hua ate this flattery and laughed: "This play is very enjoyable to act in. If you have such a good script in the future, you will find me again."

"This kind of drama where the protagonist acts from beginning to end is too much a test of the screenwriter's skills. When our entire scriptwriting studio was writing this drama, we scolded the boss of our literature department for being inhuman."

Brother Hua laughed when he heard this, and Cheng Yu'an went on to say, "If this trick is not good, I will get you another best actor trophy."

"Then I will borrow your good words." Brother Hua's acting skills have been questioned since his debut. Although he has won three Golden Image Awards and two Golden Horse Awards, many audiences still say that his acting is too serious. Yes - I will deliberately find a camera to make myself look handsome.

So Hua Ge is still very fancy about the award.

The two exchanged a few words, the lights dimmed, and the awards ceremony officially began.

The opening act was a novelty, a staging of the six best-picture nominees this year.

Especially in the first show, Qian Jiale performed "Rider", got out of the car and said to the audience: "Such a narrow bend can be turned, Hong Kong movies must have a way out! As long as we keep our heads running at 8000 rpm, we will surely Row!"

The traffic police came up and said that he had parked illegally and wanted to tow him away. Qian Jiale chased the traffic police and said, "We are making a movie and we applied for it. Sir, please support Hong Kong Island movies."

The two stepped down.

Cheng Yuan frowned as he watched from the audience, and Liu Dehua obviously sensed his emotions, and explained with a wry smile: "It can't be helped, many people in Hong Kong Island movies can't afford it."

After the six films were finished, the announcers invited the hosts of tonight's conference: Zeng Zhiwei, Zheng Zhongji, Lin Jiadong, and Lin Xiaofeng.

First up are the Best New Actor and Best New Director.

"Thieves" was not nominated for either award, but Xue Xiaolu of "BJ Meets Seattle" was nominated for best new director.

Let’s open new actors first, and award it to Xu Jiajie in "Cold War". This big brother is 66!
Breaking the age record for the best new actor.

It is worth mentioning that he played the role of a high-level ICAC in "Chill", and he himself was the deputy director of the ICAC before!

what is this?
Acting in true colors?Play yourself?

Didn't play like this.

After that came the best new director. Perhaps to silence the audience, Du Wenze introduced the selection rules for the best new director on stage: co-directors are not included in the selection.

Otherwise, "Chill" might even have won the best new director.

Then, another award presenter, Peng Haoxiang, joked about Cheng Yu'an: "Fortunately, the 31-year-old director Cheng Yu'an made his debut early, otherwise he would be nominated for the best new director, and everyone would have nothing to do. Where is Director Cheng?"

Cheng Yu'an smiled and shook his hand in the audience.

"This is the first time for Director Cheng to attend a film award after the Oscars. Welcome to the Academy Awards. It is the pride of the Chinese to win the Oscar for Best Director at the age of 30." He said and took the lead in applauding.

There was warm applause at the scene.

The two people on the stage gagged and talked about the role of the new director, and then the prize was drawn.

"The winner of the best new director is Zhou Xianyang, "The Manhunt". Congratulations."

The next best screenwriter, "The Thief" regrettably failed, and the trophy went to "Chill".

As soon as the award came out, there were a lot of doubts on the Internet. "Thieves" almost provided a perfect template for an action movie. The jokes, bursts and turning points firmly pinched the audience's emotions. Such a story actually lost to " Chill.

"Do the judges of the Golden Statue Awards have basic aesthetics? Even if the story of "Cold War" is not considered excellent in Hong Kong films, it is even worse than "Thieves", so it can still win the award." ?”

A guest reviewer of the film on Weibo had no choice but to say: "The story of "The Thief" may be too seamless, and it didn't surprise the judges."

The subsequent costume design and art design have nothing to do with the two remote films. Wang Sunglasses presented the professionalism award on stage. This year's Golden Statue Award pays tribute to the film, and the professionalism award was awarded to two film processing workers.

There is nothing to say, there is no director who does not like film.

When it came to Best Supporting Actor, Brother Hu sat up straight.

He has already won the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor for "The Thieves", and if he can win the Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Award, it will be the icing on the cake.

But unfortunately, the supporting actor was taken away by the hugely controversial "Pulp Comedy".

So far, "Pulp Comedy" has won two awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress.

This film caused great controversy on both sides of the strait at the time. The film tells the story of a Hong Kong film producer defrauding a mainland boss to invest in the production of a salty film.

In the film, the director wantonly smears the mainland, even complacently saying that Hong Kong-style vulgarity and foul language are beautified as "local culture".

From the beginning to the end, it revealed Hong Kong Island's sense of superiority to the mainland.

"It is an extremely narrow method of spiritual victory to stigmatize the image of mainlanders in a very humiliating way."

"He (the director) is very clear that belittling mainlanders in Hong Kong Island has the effect of political correctness and can make Hong Kong people feel good about themselves, but it also shows the most narrow, speculative and hypocritical side of Hong Kong society invisibly. "Pulp "Comedy" is vulgar and vulgar. The current local creators and audiences in Hong Kong Island have long taken vulgarity for granted, and even beautified it as a local characteristic. People feel sad."

Cheng Yu'an was disgusted by the two awards for the supporting actor and actress.

The best editing award later was unsurprisingly given to "Thief":
"The award for Best Editing is, Zhou Ying, "The Thieves"."

Zhou Ying is the chief editor of China Film Group. Cheng Yu'an has worked with her for many years, and this award is also her first major award.

"Thank you, thank you for the affirmation from the judges of the Academy Awards. I have worked with Yu'an for many years, and I thank Director Cheng for affirming my editing skills." Zhou Ying was very excited and didn't know what to say, "Thank you, everyone, thank you."

After speaking, he stepped down.

Brother Jackie Chan came to the stage to present the best cross-strait film. Jackie Chan very wittily used bilingual broadcasts, one in Mandarin and one in Cantonese. The award went to "[-]".

Lead by Wang Zhonglei, Zhang Guoli and Xu Fan.

Then the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented, no doubt, to Wu Siyuan, the godfather of Hong Kong Island movies.

The following action design was given to "Zodiac".

After presenting the award, Cheng Yu'an left his seat and went backstage to prepare. He was going to present the next Best Actress.

But there is still a Best Director Award ahead, presented by Aaron Kwok.

"The best director of the 32nd Hong Kong Island Film Awards is "Cold War", Leung Yueming and Lu Jianqing."

The introduction of this award has caused more controversy than the best screenwriter.

Before the lottery, no one doubted that "Thieves" would win the best director.

"This..." The commentators in the live broadcast room were all speechless, "Hehe."

The simultaneous Cantonese translation of 1905 Film Network paused for a long time, and they did not expect that "Alliance of Thieves" would lose to "Cold War".

Liang Yueming and Lu Jianqing are newcomers!

"Chill" is their first film, the best director Oscar lost to two newcomers!
The expressions of the actors in "Alliance of Thieves" and "BJ Meets Seattle" changed slightly, especially Liu Yifei.

The director of the Golden Statue Award also gave Liu Yifei a close-up. Although Liu Yifei forced a smile, everyone could see the coldness in her eyes and the perfunctory applause.

Cheng Yu'an, who was in the background, heard the broadcast at the front desk, smiled wryly and didn't know what to say.

Instead, the Hong Kong Island staff in the background cheered.

After Liang and Lu delivered their acceptance speeches, the stage was handed over to the hosts Zheng Zhongji and Lin Xiaofeng:
"Next we're going to award Best Actress."

"Then who is our award presenter?"

"This guest is amazing, he is the pride of our Chinese filmmakers."

"Oh?"

"He is the youngest Oscar director, welcome to Cheng Yu'an."

Cheng Yu'an took the winner's envelope and walked up to the stage while stepping on the live music.

"Hi everyone, I'm Cheng Yu'an."

There was warm applause at the scene.

Cheng Yu'an looked at Liang and Lu in the audience with deep meaning and said, "Congratulations, you two won the Academy Award for your first movie. I'm not as lucky as you guys. I won the best film only after filming the fourth movie." The best director was sent to me by a foreigner."

Liu Dehua, Jiang Zhiqiang and others who had been friends with Cheng Yu'an in the audience laughed one after another. Anyone who understands knows that he is teasing the two of them. Cheng Yu'an's fourth film won the best director in Venice.

The Hong Kong film tycoons present here have nothing to say. When it comes to awards, no one present is Cheng Yu'an's opponent.

Cheng Yu'an went on to say: "I have also participated in many film festivals, but the Academy Awards really don't come often. Mr. Chen Jiashang (the chairman of the film festival) asked me to present the awards. I asked what awards to present, and he said that I should present the Best Actress. I said that I am not very familiar with the current actresses in Hong Kong Island, and I can’t recognize them all. He said it’s okay, you just come. I got the nomination list and looked at it. Fortunately, I know them all. They are all old faces. Ten years ago They are still them now."

The yin and yang are strange, and Hong Kong Island actors are not available.

Most of the online and live audiences got the joke.

"Cheng Yu'an's broken mouth is too bad."

"Okay, let's take a look at the shortlist."

Zhou Gongzi has two nominations for Best Actress for his two films "The Wind Listener" and "The Great Magician"; Yang Qianhua's "Chunjiao and Zhiming"; Zheng Xiuwen's "Love at High Altitude"; Liu Yifei's "BJ Meets Seattle"; Yang Mi's "The Thieves".

Mr. Zhou didn't come because the schedule couldn't be coordinated.

Cheng Yu'an held the trophy in his hand: "Let's see who wins the prize."

Opening the envelope: "Sure enough." Cheng Yu'an snorted, "Yang Qianhua, "Chunjiao and Zhiming"."

Yang Qianhua stood up excitedly, and her husband Ding Zigao kissed her hard.

Yang Qianhua came to the stage to take the trophy from Cheng Yu'an, and hugged Cheng Yu'an.

This is the first time she has won an Academy Award for Best Actress.

"It's terrible, I'm so scared." Yang Qianhua stood on the stage and couldn't help herself for a long time, and it took a long time before she began to give her acceptance speech.

Cheng Yuan sat back under the stage, thinking to himself: "I'm so stupid."

No wonder Chen Jiashang asked himself to present the best actress.

Now he has enough reason to suspect that Chen Jiashang is using himself and Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei was also nominated for Best Actress, and before the awards, there was a lot of hype in the media.

Liu Yifei was shortlisted and Cheng Yu'an presented the award. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Golden Statue Award was stirring up their relationship.

If the actress really gave it to Liu Yifei, then Cheng Yuan's presentation of the award to Liu Yifei would definitely hit the charts. Cheng Yuan didn't mind the hype of the Golden Statue Awards, but he still paid by mistake.

Academy Award, huh.

There are still two awards left, the best actor went to Liang Jiahui, and the best picture went to "Chill".

"Thieves" all lost the other six awards except for the best editing.

"BJ Meets Seattle" is even more fruitless.

Liu Yifei left the filming of "Interstellar" and rushed back, only to be teased by others.

The two of them flew back to the capital without even attending the celebration dinner after the awards ceremony.

That night, #金属奖# was listed as a trending topic on Weibo.

Netizens complained about "Alliance of Thieves".

"I'm afraid the Golden Statue Awards will lose face. You can judge the level of "Chill" and "Thieves" as long as you go to the cinema. It is blatantly partial and narrow!"

After the awards ceremony, Zhong Lifang, CEO of Long-distance Media, posted two words on Weibo: "Hehe."

Chen Zhixi even posted: "The opening speech was nice, the awards were fair and just, but in the end it was undeniably petty. Except for the best editing, all the awards were awarded to local films. This is the so-called fairness. I shouldn't have criticized The Hong Kong Film Awards has unrealistic illusions, because its full name is 'Hong Kong Island Film Awards', and of course it will only serve Hong Kong Island films.

"The once highest award for Chinese-language films has now been held as a regional commendation conference. There is no room for anyone. They will only hide themselves in their own small circle. Even a film like "Pulp Comedy" that clearly smears mainland compatriots can be grandiose. Stepping onto the stage, I really saw the 'fairness and justice' of the Academy Awards."

Jiang Xuerou, the chief producer of Remote Media, has a bigger temper, directly piercing the mask of the Academy Awards:
"Before the award, the jury asked me to persuade Yu'an to participate, implying that the best female lead will be awarded to Yi Fei, and I persuaded Yu'an to award the best female lead, which will lead to a good story in the film industry. Thinking of the friendship between the compatriots on both sides of the strait, I tried my best to persuade Yu'an and Yifei to participate in the award ceremony, but I did not expect such a result.

"He is the pride of our Chinese-language films. He doesn't need the certification of the Academy Awards, but that doesn't mean you can humiliate him like this."

For Jiang Xuerou's words, put the Golden Statue Award on the stove and roast it.

Chen Jiashang came out urgently the next day and declared: "The judging and voting for the Academy Awards is strictly checked and audited, and there is no secret operation."

Regarding the public voting details proposed by netizens, Chen Jiashang rejected it on the grounds that it "does not meet the regulations of the conference".

Li Yabo, the production director of Yinhuang, called Chen Zhixi that night, saying that Yinhuang had no knowledge of the judging process for the Academy Awards, and hoped that the results of the Academy Awards would not affect the cooperation between the two.

"Are you unhappy?" Liu Yifei asked.

"No." Cheng Yu'an smiled.

He really doesn't think the Academy Awards are so great, but it's a pity that he didn't win more awards for the two crews: "I don't need the Academy Awards."

Liu Yifei also knew that Cheng Yu'an would go to the Academy Awards this year because he really wanted to present herself with the best actress trophy.

"We won't go in the future."

"This may be the closest you have ever been to the actress, don't you feel sorry for it?"

"It's a pity. But it's up to God, there's nothing to say about not getting the award. Okay, let's go to sleep." He said and lay down holding Cheng Yu'an's arm.

　A big chapter is finished.I wanted to give an award at first, but I don’t even have confidence in the Academy Awards. This award has long since died, so I just write it down and forget it.Not today, good night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)