Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 285 I would also like to thank...

The crew of "Transcendence" met the crew of "The Night with the Spring Breeze" at the Film Palace. The two crews sat far apart and could only say hello to each other before the award ceremony officially started.

As one of the highest palaces of world cinema, the awards ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival is actually not serious at all, and certainly not as lively as the Oscars.

The host at Cannes also told jokes at the beginning and joked about some popular movies.

However, Zhang Yuanjun's French level is limited and he could not understand the host Edvard Beyer's jokes.

After telling the joke, Edvard Beyer began the formal awarding process.

The main competition unit comes last, and the short film and debut film awards come first.

First, the Palme d'Or for the best short film was presented by John Berman and Kerry Washington, chairpersons of the Short Film Unit.

Then the host invited Isabelle Adjani to come on stage to present the Golden Camera (Best Debut Film) Award.

After Adjani spoke on the stage about the difficulties of filming her debut film, the host invited Roshdi Zem, chairman of the Golden Camera jury, to announce the winner together with Adjani.

After these two awards are awarded, the main competition unit will be entered.

The main competition awards awards. The method in Cannes is that the award presenter opens the ceremony and the chairman of the jury announces the winner.

After entering this part, the main competition unit jury will all come on stage.

The chairman of the jury, Isabelle Huppert, opened the line first and introduced the judges.

Needless to say, Shu Qi looked pretty good tonight.

The first award awarded was the Special Jury Award. When the presenter, Italian actress Laura Moret, came on stage, the sharp-eyed audience noticed that she had two certificates of commendation in her hand.

Double yolk eggs!
Sure enough, after Laura Moret read the award speech, Huppert announced that the winners of the Special Jury Prize were Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" and Park Chan-wook's "Bat".

It's boring. The jury headed by Huppert awarded a double-yolked egg for the first prize, which sent a signal that there were serious differences within the jury.

Cannes has always been very strict about double-yolked eggs, especially after Wang Jiawei awarded 11 best actor and best actress in one year, making Cannes a joke in the international film industry.

After the Special Jury Prize comes the Best Director Award.

The crew of "Detachment" is looking forward to it seriously. Li Yang is the favorite for the best director. "Detachment" was rated as the "surprise" of this film festival by the European media before the awards ceremony. Li Yang has won praise from many film critics.

Another big favorite for Best Director is "The Prophet" by French local director Jacques Audiard - the highest score in the screening is 3.4.

However, the Best Director was finally awarded to the Philippine film "Kinaari", which was the film with the lowest score of 1.2 in the screening.

The film was unanimously rated as a "bad film" by the media and audiences during its screening at the film festival.

As soon as Huppert announced that "Genari" had won the award, there was a small but clearly audible boo.

Li Yang's waist suddenly collapsed as soon as he straightened up. He was of course dissatisfied with losing to such a film.

Only wry smile.

Zhang Yuanjun patted Li Yang's arm.

Domestically, those paying attention to the film festival awards ceremony were disappointed.

"Detachment" was a strong contender for Best Director, but it missed out on this award. In the end, "Detachment" won at most a consolation jury award.

No one thought "Transcendence" could win the Palme d'Or. The only Palme d'Or trophy in the Chinese film industry was won 16 years ago.

No one thought that "Transcendence" would win the best actor. What was the 24-year-old Cannes best actor thinking?

It is impossible to win the Best Actress Award. Although Huang Lu is the heroine, her role is not enough to win the Best Actress Award.

The next one is the Best Actress Award, won by Charlotte Gainsbourg, the heroine of "Antichrist".

Next is the Best Actor Award, and the presenting guest is Zhang Ziyi.I don't know if it was an illusion or something, but Zhang Yuanjun was in the audience and felt that Zhang Ziyi glanced at him when he came up from the backstage.

After Zhang Ziyi read her opening remarks, the host signaled Huppert to announce the winner: "Chairman, among these actors, which one won the best actor this year?"

Huppert stood up and announced: "The best actor is Zhang YuanJun in "Detachment"."

Zhang Yuanjun didn't realize it was him at the first time, and he didn't even understand when Huppert said his name.

He really never thought he could win the award.

He also clapped along stupidly, thinking that someone else had won the award.

It was Huang Lu who pushed him hard: "You won the award, Best Actor!"

Zhang Yuanjun was very funny in front of the camera. At first, he was grinning and applauding "for others". Later, Huang Lu pushed him and told him that he was the best actor. Zhang Yuanjun's face suddenly changed. He was shocked, incredulous, and then... A silly smile on his face.

"Ah!!" Liu Yifei, who was watching TV at home, jumped up on the sofa, "The best actor! The best actor in Cannes!"

Zhang Yuanjun slowly walked towards the main stage.

The domestic media who watched the live broadcast did not expect that 24-year-old Zhang Yuanjun could actually win the Best Actor Award. All the press releases prepared for the Best Actor Award were invalidated and rewritten.

Rong Xinda was dumbfounded.

Tang Ren was also dumbfounded.

The "quasi-actor" who had been in the market for more than a month and two months thought that he would definitely jump into the trap, but he didn't expect that all these things made him a wedding dress!
He really won the Best Actor at Cannes!
Before Zhang Yuanjun came on stage over there, the front page headline of Xinlang Entertainment Channel had already come out.

"After 9 years, a Chinese-speaking actor won the Best Actor Award at Cannes again."

"Congratulations to Zhang Yuanjun for winning the Best Actor Award at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival."

"Congratulations to Zhang Yuanjun for winning Best Actor at Cannes, third in Chinese and second in Mainland China."

02 The penguins in the watch are going crazy!
"The third child won the Best Actor Award!"

"real or fake!"

"Really! The 24-year-old Cannes Best Actor! I'm watching the live broadcast."

"The third brother is awesome!"

"What do you call me Third Brother? I call you Third Brother!"

Liu Yifei pretended to be calm and deliberately kept silent in the group.

Zhang Yuanjun didn't know how he came to power.

He stood in front of Zhang Ziyi, who was also very excited and whispered in Chinese: "Do you know how excited I was when I saw your name backstage?"

Zhang Yuanjun said: "I have no preparation. I don't even know what to say in my acceptance speech."

"No need to prepare, just thank the crew and family." Zhang Ziyi taught him.

Zhang Yuanjun hugged Zhang Ziyi, took the certificate of commendation from her hand, walked slowly to the judging table, hugged Chairman Huppert face to face as a sign of respect, and nodded to the other judges.

Zhang Yuanjun stood still and accepted the cheers and cheers from the audience. After the audience became quiet for a while, he said in English: "I really didn't expect to win the award. The shortlisted actors are all very good actors and have some acting time." Even older than me.

"Thank you to all the judges on the jury, director Li Yang from the crew of "Transcendence", my junior sister Huang Lu, my classmate Wang Jia, Hui Yinghong and Ye Tong, and the 78 crew members for their hard work Colleagues at work. Thanks to Mr. Song Dai from Yindu Agency, Chairman Han Sanping from China Film Group, and Natana Kamiz from MK2.

"I would like to thank my alma mater, the Film School, for giving me a film education, my theater, the People's Art Theater, for its training and tolerance, and my family for supporting my film career.

"I would also like to thank..." Zhang Yuanjun wanted to announce something big.

(End of this chapter)