The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 941 Accidents one after another
Crazy, crazy, completely crazy.

The press conference room entered midsummer in a second. Not only was it hot and stuffy, but it was also raining heavily. The hustle and bustle turned into roars that continued to hit the eardrums. The whole world was spinning, as if everything was fast-forwarded tenfold, and the vision was completely blurred.

I thought this year's Cannes Film Festival was crazy and exciting enough. The controversy over the "Elephant", "Dogville" and "The Brown Bunny" trilogy lasted for ten days without a break. Who would have thought that the real big move was still to come, and the jury had been accumulating strength, waiting for this moment.

There is no "Dogville" and no "Mystic River". The two biggest, most important and most anticipated works of this year's Cannes are both out!

Things suddenly became unpredictable.

This! It's so exciting!
So, who wins the Palme d'Or?
Carl Leavitt's breath was stuck in his throat: Anyone can take it, just don't let it be the "Cortwright Family", that's all he wanted.

My brain was a mess, overloaded with information, and I didn't know how to react for a moment. Thousands of thoughts were pouring out of my mind, and I couldn't grasp them or figure them out. In the end, I could only grab a life-saving straw, clasp my hands together and pray silently, hoping that this year's Cannes would not be a disaster.

"No, no no no, no no."

There was a mumbling of prayer in his ears. Carl didn't understand what it meant, so he turned around and saw Nicholas Flynn silently performing a ritual.

I didn’t expect that the same thing happened to reporters from the New York Times?

Nicholas sensed the burning gaze and raised his head to meet it.

Karl was stunned. "No 'Cortlett Family'?"

Nicholas nodded silently, "No 'Cortlett Family'."

They exchanged glances and smiled in tacit understanding. Without further communication, they both looked away, focusing their eyes on the TV screen.

There is no live television broadcast of the Cannes Film Festival. The award ceremony is kept simple, purely for awarding awards, and it is all over in 30 minutes, unlike the Oscars which lasts a full four hours.

But in the press conference room, TV screens simultaneously broadcast the situation in the Lumiere Hall, allowing the media to follow the award ceremony in real time.

After a brief opening, without greetings or politeness, the jury chairman Patrice Chéreau announced the start of the closing ceremony and award ceremony.

Award the prizes directly without wasting any time.

The first award is the Jury Award, which is equivalent to the third place.

"Five o'clock in the afternoon."

heh.

It was a bit unexpected that the first award caught everyone off guard, because many people predicted that "Five O'Clock" might win the Best Actress or Best Screenplay, but it turned out to be the third place Jury Award?
Are you serious? The official program booklet gave it a score of 2.5, which doesn't seem like third place at all.

But then again, there have been enough surprises throughout the Cannes Film Festival, and the official program brochure is no longer of reference value. There is no need to make a fuss. Imagine if the "Cortlett Family" was in the Lumiere Hall. The Jury Award of "Five O'Clock" is already worthy of applause.

What's more, five works are competing for seven awards, and at least two works will win two trophies. There is no need to be alarmed at this moment.

Ho, ho ho ho!
Nicholas immediately applauded the crew of "Five O'Clock", and a little later, Carl also applauded.

This is a good thing. A good thing!
however!
This year's Cannes was destined to be unusual. Although everyone was mentally prepared and people were expecting unexpected things, they were still bombarded by bombs one after another, which was much more exciting than a roller coaster.

Best Screenplay, "Savage Invasion."

Best Actress, "Savage Invasion".

Best Actor, "Far Away"

Eh? Huh? What?
Surprises came one after another, so much so that I forgot to exclaim. I didn’t expect that the first work to win two trophies would be “Savage Invasion”! And it wasn’t just one of the top three awards plus a small award, but the Best Screenwriter and Best Actress!

Unexpectedly, the Best Actor award went to two actors, Far Away, who both won, beating not only Mystic River but also Elephant and The Cortrights.

The situation suddenly became complicated.

Originally, people speculated that the Palme d'Or would be "far away", but now that he has won the Best Actor, and a double yolk at that, the possibility of winning the grand prize has suddenly dropped sharply.

Originally, people speculated that "The Elephant" would win the Best Actor and "The Cortrights" would win the Best Screenplay, but now all the speculations have been overturned.

For a long time, the three major European film festivals have had a small jury system, and the awards have been completely determined by the jury's aesthetics and internal fighting ability.

Some judges have excellent debate skills and are unwavering in defending their own aesthetic tastes, so the works they like may win awards.

Some judges are peace-loving, mellow, and do not like conflicts. They often just express their opinions but refuse to argue, and their voices may be buried.

Occasionally, the president of the jury becomes a puppet and has no control over the direction of the awards, such as Isabelle-Adjani; occasionally, the president of the jury is absolutely strong and turns the jury into a one-man show, such as Quentin Tarantino.

Everything is possible, and variables are unpredictable.

Naturally, the difficulty of media prediction of awards also rises sharply; but generally speaking, once the closing ceremony and awards ceremony begins and the crew is called back to confirm, it will be relatively easier to predict the awards. The reason is that -

Acting. Script. Directing.

The recipients of these awards are relatively easy to predict. Based on these four awards and simply ranking the top three, the deviation will usually not be too large.

but!

Like this year, the four awards announced so far have all broken expectations, which can be called a small upset. It is rare to overturn the situation time and time again, and everyone inside and outside the press conference room was stunned.

Now, among the five crews called back tonight, only "Elephant" and "The Cortwright Family" are temporarily without awards; and there are still three awards:
Best Director. Grand Jury Prize. Palme d'Or.

How to distribute the fruits when sitting in a row and eating them?
Considering that "Barbarian Invasion" has already won two awards and "Five in the Afternoon" has won the Jury Award, the best results have already come out.

"The Cortrights" takes Best Director, "Elephant" or "Far" competes for the Grand Jury Prize and the Palme d'Or, or "Elephant" wins the Grand Jury Prize and "The Invasion" wins the Palme d'Or.

This is the only acceptable outcome in this chaotic situation.

If the best director award is not "The Cortletts", it means that "The Cortletts" will either win the Grand Jury Prize or the Palme d'Or.

Is this some Cannes horror story?

If you think about it carefully, Bertrand Brillet has been in the industry for more than 1989 years. The last time he won an award at one of the three major European film festivals was in . He won the Jury Prize in Cannes and this time won another Best Director trophy to commend his contribution to French films. It doesn't seem so difficult to accept that the jury president Patrice Chéreau expressed his respect.

Especially compared to the result of the "Cortlett Family" winning the Palme d'Or.

So, Best Director is the best result, yes, that's it.

The answer is clear after choosing the lesser of two evils. Although things are very, very difficult, they still found a way to rationalize themselves.

In an instant, the entire press conference room was silent, everyone held their breath, and even their hearts stopped beating briefly.

(End of this chapter)