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Chapter 65 Berlin Best Actor! (Seek to follow up)

Wu Yuan is really popular this time.

Although for a director who works behind the scenes, it is a bit strange to use the word "fire" to describe it.

But when "The Undertaker"'s premiere word-of-mouth and ratings, and "Juno" nominated for Oscars were made public at the same time, at least at this moment, there is no director on this earth who is more in the limelight than Wu Yuan .

There are directors shortlisted for Oscars, and there are also directors shortlisted for Berlin International Film Festival.

But being shortlisted for both awards at the same time, the public opinion explosion effect is not as simple as 1+1=2.

Although the finalists are not from the same movie, how can the masses and netizens care about this?

From mainland China to North America on the other side of the ocean, the headlines of the major entertainment newspapers are all pictures of Wu Yuan on the red carpet of the opening ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival.

In fact, there are five nominees for Best Director Oscar, and Wu Yuan is not even the favorite to win the award.

The major forecast companies in North America do not believe that "Juno" can win the best director, and "A Beautiful Mind" is the real favorite!

As a biographical film, and it is still a big-selling biographical film, "A Beautiful Mind" has almost booked this year's Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director!
But Wu Yuan is so young, and at the same time he is participating in the final selection of the Berlin International Film Festival, he is highly talked about!
A director who was shortlisted for both the Berlin International Film Festival and the Academy Awards at the age of 19 and a half deserves to be reported by any media in any country in the world with a headline!
Even if Wu Yuan ends up with nothing in these two awards, he will not be criticized in any way, but will only be considered as having a bright future!
For other directors at his age, who haven't even made their first work yet, being shortlisted for an international award is already an exaggeration!
And Wu Yuan, who has never had a clear feeling about his fame or popularity, finally felt deeply that he was famous.

As soon as he shows up in Berlin, no matter where he goes, within 5 minutes, film critics or the media will come up to chat and interview him, wanting to take a photo with him or ask for an autograph.

He will go to participate in the Berlin screening of other movies, and he will not be able to take a leisurely walk on the streets of Berlin like a few days ago. He must take a vehicle when he goes out, otherwise he will be stuck in the doorway of the hotel and cannot get out.

In the last few days of the Berlin International Film Festival, Wu Yuan really felt the feelings of the stars.

In this way, we waited until February 2, the day when the closing ceremony was held.

Early in the morning, all the crew of "The Undertaker" and the members of Huaxia's press corps gathered in Wu Yuan's suite on the fifth floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Several other Chinese film crews who came to the screening have already left Berlin one after another, and they have almost sold out the copyrights they should have sold.

Now only "The Undertaker" has not sold the copyright and distribution rights, and everyone in the crew is waiting for a notice, waiting for a notice that will make the film sit on the ground and increase in value.

Director Han was no longer as calm as before, he paced back and forth in the living room with his hands behind his back, and asked Wu Yuan in a few minutes: "How is it, did you call?"

"No, no." Wu Yuan answered with the same struggle every time.

"It's already 9 o'clock, and the call still hasn't come?" Many reporters were already retreating in their hearts. Could it be that "The Undertaker" won't win any prizes in the end?

There is an unspoken rule in the three major European films. If the organizing committee personally calls and invites you to attend the closing ceremony, it means that your film will win an award at the closing ceremony.

If you didn't call you, even if you went to participate, you wouldn't get a prize.

Moreover, this call came only on the morning of the closing ceremony, which was very exciting.

Time ticked by, and everyone in the suite was very nervous, not even daring to take a deep breath.

until
"Ring, ring, ring, ring" the phone rang, and Wu Yuan immediately picked it up.

"Hi, yes, I'm Daniel Wu."

"Okay, okay, thank you!"

After a short chat, Wu Yuan hung up the phone.

All eyes in the room were focused on Wu Yuan's face.

"How is it?" Zhang Guorong asked anxiously.

"Of course," Wu Yuan laughed: "Call the stylist to do makeup! Attend the closing ceremony in the afternoon!"

After a brief silence, the cheers went straight to the roof. The actors of the crew ran around like headless chickens, looking for their own stylists to do makeup, and the Huaxia reporter team immediately took out their mobile phones and made a call to China.
Wu Yuan also embraced Han Dong and Chen Yuan, enjoying this exciting and wonderful moment.

There was nothing much to say about the red carpet of the closing ceremony. Under the leadership of Wu Yuan, Zhang Guorong, who was dressed up to attend, held Chen Hong's arm, and Li Xuejian held Sun Li's arm and boarded the red carpet.

Just like the opening ceremony, Wu Yuan still enjoyed the enthusiastic siege of reporters on site, and his eyes were almost blinded by the flash.

Regarding the questions raised by the reporters, apart from refuting the rumor that "Juno" has no second plan, at least he doesn't plan to write a second one, Wu Yuan just let go of other topics.

Because of his inner urgency to win the award, Wu Yuan walked the red carpet a lot faster this time, and soon led the crew into the movie palace.

In the movie palace, he also met several other powerful opponents.

For example, director Hayao Miyazaki of "Spirited Away", director Paul of "Bloody Sunday", and director Driesen of "Barbecue Spot", these directors and their works are the top scorers in the Berlin show magazine, A strong contender for the Golden Bear.

After briefly chatting with them and congratulating each other on winning the grand prize, Wu Yuan sat back in his seat on the crew of "The Embalmer".

"How are you nervous?" Zhang Guorong asked with a smile on his face.

Compared with Wu Yuan, Zhang Guorong's experience in participating in various award ceremonies must be much richer and more comfortable.

However, Wu Yuan was not nervous. He shook his head: "No, I am excited."

Staring blankly at the empty award platform, Wu Yuan's inner emotions were extremely complicated.

Although he was mentally prepared, he knew that with a good script like "The Undertaker", as long as it didn't fail, he would definitely win the top three in Europe.

But when he actually received the call and walked into the Berlin Film Palace, he still felt that he was so lucky and couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

Time passed very quickly in Wu Yuan's daze.

As I said before, European film festivals are all serious and direct, and the Berlin International Film Festival is the same.

There was no singing and dancing to start the show, the host took the microphone to the stage and said a lot of speeches about looking back to the past and looking forward to the future, and then mentioned the crew and director who came to the scene, and after each praised, the awards ceremony officially began.

Wu Yuan was also mentioned, and was praised very disgustingly.

"Over there is the crew of "The Undertaker". Their director is only 19 and a half years old this year. This is really a crazy thing!"

"Maybe this is a genius director!"

"Our Berlin International Film Festival has always welcomed and honored to have such young young directors participating, and we hope that such outstanding young directors can win awards, after all, young people are the future!"

The camera came to Wu Yuan, and the invited media also pointed their flashes at him, so Wu Yuan had no choice but to stand up, smile, look around and nod his head.

After all the small talk, the award ceremony officially began.

The first to be awarded is the Golden Bear Award for Lifetime Achievement Honor.

This year, the award was awarded with a double-yolk egg, respectively to American director Robert Altman and Italian actor Claudia Cardinale.

Wu Yuan is more familiar with Robert Altman. Although this director's last name is a bit funny, he is a true master director!

The Palme d'Or, the Golden Bear, and the Golden Lion are all in place, and he is a real Grand Slam director!
When people receive this Lifetime Achievement Award, it is for Berlin, not Berlin for him.

Seeing the old man tremblingly walking up to the stage to accept the award, Wu Yuan gave him sincere applause.

After the first prize was handed out, several more trimmed awards were handed out in succession.

The Golden Camera Award, Best Short Film Award, Alfred Ball Silver Bear Award, and Best Film Music Silver Bear Award were awarded one after another.

Every award-winning production team and main creative personnel hugged each other excitedly, cheering, and Wu Yuan also gave applause with a smile.

Very good, the previous awards are relatively small, it's great that I didn't read the name of the crew of "The Undertaker"!

Just now when "The Undertaker" was among the nominations for the Silver Bear Award for Best Film Music, Wu Yuan was so nervous that he was afraid that he would win the consolation prize.

Although the Berlin Film Festival will award two awards to the same shortlisted film, there are only two awards at most, and it is impossible to award three or five awards. The sooner you win the award, the better!
Soon, the first heavyweight main competition unit awards finally began to be awarded.

And it's the best actor award that the crew of "The Undertaker" valued very much!
In the audience, the crews of "The Undertaker" and "Safe Pass" immediately became nervous.

In the Berlin show review, Zhang Guorong and Jacques Gamblin from the "Safe Pass" crew are the strongest contenders for the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor.

Both of them contributed infectious acting skills in the movies they starred in.

"Won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival."

Zhang Guorong, who boasted that he was not nervous, was completely shocked. His hands subconsciously grasped the armrests of the chair tightly, and his lips could not help but tremble.

On the awards stage, the award presenter with a white beard opened the envelope with a smile, and after reading it carefully, he approached the microphone with a smile:
"Congratulations to the crew of "The Embalmer" and congratulations to Leslie Cheung!"

(End of this chapter)