Actor: My Entertainment Era

Zhang Yuanjun has won many awards. He has good luck in winning awards. At the age of 27, he won all three major Chinese film awards.

But it doesn't mean he can win the Best Actor award just by being nominated. There is no such actor in the world.

However, "Redemption" was nominated for five major awards at this year's Golden Rooster Awards: Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor (Dong Zijian), and Best Photography.

Zhang Yuanjun's performance in "Redemption" has received wide international acclaim and won him the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award; "Redemption" has also been highly praised in the international film scene in the past two years, and Gu Changwei has made a very beautiful comeback in the world film scene with this film.

Now the question is, you are nominated for Best Actor together with Zhang Yuanjun, and for Best Director together with Gu Changwei, what are your chances of winning?

Of course, the selection criteria for each award are different. It doesn’t mean that just because Zhang Yuanjun won the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award, he must be awarded the Golden Rooster Best Actor Award.

But international honors are also a very important reference standard. As long as the judges are not blind, everyone will admit that Zhang Yuanjun's performance in "Redemption" is top-notch.

As soon as the Golden Rooster nominations were announced, they received rare praise from the outside world.

In particular, the competition for Best Actor is hailed as the most prestigious and fiercest competition for Best Actor in the Chinese film industry in the past decade.

The nominees are: Deng Chao's "The Burning Sun", Zhang Yuanjun's "Redemption", Feng Xiaogang's "Old Cannon", Tu Men's "Farewell", and Liao Fan's "Master".

The performances of the five in their respective films are all top-notch, and whoever receives the Golden Rooster Award is well-deserved.

So the question is still the same. You and Zhang Yuanjun are both nominated for Best Actor for a film that won the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award. How confident are you that you can beat him?
Among the five nominees, who is under the most pressure?
The answer is Deng Chao.

Deng Chao has had both traffic and works in the past two years, and is a rare actor who can walk on two legs.

But his luck in winning prizes is really bad.

Everyone knows that he has good acting skills, but he just can't win any awards.

Of course, fans can say that they don’t care about awards, and Deng Chao is a good actor even without any awards.

That’s certainly true, but wouldn’t it be better to have a prize?

Deng Chao has not yet reached the point of ignoring or even despising the award. He wants to win the award.

He was confident that his performance in "The Sun Also Rises" was as good as anyone else's, even if he was facing Zhang Yuanjun's "Redemption", as well as Feng Xiaogang, Tu Men and Liao Fan.

Everything depends on how the judges evaluate. If he is given the award, he will feel at ease with it. If he is not given the award, and loses to the other four, he will also be convinced.

There has been a lot of discussion outside about who will be the Best Actor this year, and the Golden Rooster Awards committee is happy to see this. The Golden Rooster Awards are criticized so much every time, and it has been many years since it has received such a positive response from the audience and the media.

Someone who knows about this thinks that it is almost impossible for Zhang Yuanjun to win the Best Actor award again:

"We are very particular about seniority. In 09, Zhang Yuanjun won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor at the age of 24, setting a new record for the youngest age for the award. At the age of 27, he won all three awards. The former record may be broken in the future, but the latter record is unlikely to be broken. Zhang Yuanjun is already an exception among exceptions. In the history of the Golden Rooster Awards, no actor has ever won the Best Actor award twice, and the Golden Rooster Committee probably won't make an exception for Zhang Yuanjun this year."

This analysis makes a lot of sense. To put it bluntly, Zhang Yuanjun's current status no longer needs the Golden Rooster Award to prove his status. In this case, it is better to give the award to someone who needs it.

I believe Zhang Yuanjun won’t mind either.

But many people don’t think so:

"Since it is an award, let the work speak for itself. Whoever performs well will win the award. If it is based on seniority, then whoever is older will win the award."

"It's not that Zhang Yuanjun has to win the award. The competition for Best Actor this year is very fierce, and anyone can win it. But this kind of practice of judging by seniority and following rules is really unacceptable. The Golden Rooster Awards have been criticized every year."

"It's as if the Golden Rooster Awards cares about these criticisms."

The public is mostly discussing who will win the Best Actor award, but few people noticed that Liu Yifei's "Wang Xiaofang, Born 82" did not receive any nominations this year. Someone has previously analyzed Liu Yifei, saying that she does not seem to be liked by domestic judges. Even though she won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival, domestic judges still do not like her.

Since Liu Yifei started her film career, she has only been nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for her role in the film "Her", and that was as a mascot.

Liu Yifei doesn't really have much obsession with awards, and she doesn't have any thoughts about being rejected for nomination again.

Fans were also very angry that Liu Yifei didn't even get a nomination, but no matter how angry they were, it was useless to curse her because the Golden Rooster Awards didn't care.

On the contrary, Zhang Yuanjun felt that since "The Invisible Guest" was a great success at the box office and well-received last year, it was a bit unfair to Xin Yukun's efforts not to have it nominated this year.

"At least give Gong Li a nomination for Best Actress." It's not difficult to give a nomination.

"Hey! Your wife is the most unlucky one! She hasn't been nominated for several films with good reputations!" Liu Yifei said dissatisfiedly, while her son was held in her arms and sat in front of her, "Bad dad."

The little guy was still giggling.

My daughter was leaning sideways while sucking on her pacifier, and when it fell she knew to pick it up.

Zhang Yuanjun picked up her daughter's pacifier and gave it to her: "Put it in your mouth yourself."

"You don't have a good luck winning awards in China. You know that, but you insist on competing for this."

"Hold on for two years. When your qualifications are improved, you will get what you deserve. In other words, Zhang Manyu doesn't have a Golden Rooster Award. She wasn't even nominated, but you still have one."

This is almost inhumane.

This made Liu Yifei laugh: "What kind of logic is that? Zhang Manyu doesn't have it, and neither does Natalie Portman."

"Yes." Zhang Yuanjun followed her, "Eric Huppert doesn't have that either. We are better than them in this respect."

Liu Yifei laughed so hard that she used her son as a cover, and pointed at Zhang Yuanjun with her son's little arm: "Dad always talks nonsense."

"Yeah, yeah." The son responded to her.

After holding him for a while, the son wanted to play by himself. He twisted in Liu Yifei's arms, trying to get out of his mother's arms.

Liu Yifei put her son back down next to her daughter.

"You are too timid." Zhang Yuanjun taught his son, "Your sister bites you every day until your face is covered with saliva, and you still want to play with her."

Liu Yifei stood up and went to get some water: "He also bit his sister. When they hugged each other, I didn't know if they were kissing or biting each other."

As he spoke, Zhang Yuyi turned over and pressed on his sister, holding her head and the two of them bit each other again, making a lot of noises.

Seeing that the two little guys were playing quietly, Zhang Yuanjun didn't care much about them. He put some toys closer and walked away.

Liu Yifei's scenes in "The Witch" have been completed in China. Lu Yang will shoot other people's scenes for two more days before leading the crew to Thailand.

"It's so hot in Thailand in summer, do I have to take it with me?" Liu Xiaoli thought about this.

"What can I do if I don't bring her? She's still breastfeeding." Liu Yifei said, "It's okay. We've rented a house in a resort with green trees and cool weather. The security is also very good."

"Did you bring your baby's ID card and passport?"

"I've brought them. We'll go to Thailand when you give the order." Zhang Yuanjun pointed to the drawer in front of him, indicating that everything should be put inside. (End of this chapter)