Chapter 357 Golden Horse Best Director!

“Thank you.”

Li Xuejian, wearing a Zhongshan suit, stood on the podium with the Golden Horse trophy in his hands.

His beard was half white and his face was covered with wrinkles.

But at this moment, this old man over 50 years old was one of the most honored people tonight.

“I am honored to receive this award.”

“This award is not just given to me alone. Everyone is excellent. Movies are the crystallization of collective creation. The honor belongs to everyone!”

“It is not me who made Li Wen, but Li Wen who made me.”

“I am very grateful to Director Wu for inviting me to play this role and experience Li Wen’s ordinary but extraordinary life.”

“Although I am over 50 years old, I haven’t walked the road of being an actor enough.”

“As long as I can still act and someone still uses me, I will continue to work hard for movies.”

Li Xuejian couldn’t help but tear up when he was deeply moved.

He really loves the road of acting and has indeed dedicated most of his life to acting, and he has come all the way in the era when being an actor did not have the slightest high pay.

Perhaps, the money he earned from acting in his life is not as much as what young actors earn from filming a movie now.

But his love for this industry is definitely beyond the reach of young actors now.

And in the foreseeable future, there will be fewer and fewer practitioners like Li Xuejian who are sincere about the profession of "actor".

The impetuous atmosphere in the circle is destined to no longer cultivate actors who are willing to immerse themselves in studying acting skills and truly love and are passionate about acting.

Wu Yuan also clapped hard and gave the most sincere applause.

He was really happy for Li Xuejian to win the Best Actor Award.

For the director, such a good actor is also a rare collaboration, and he also hopes that the cooperation between the two can end with such a perfect ending.

Li Xuejian's performance in "Li Wen" deserves a Best Actor trophy.

On the podium, Li Xuejian finally held the trophy high, left a series of snapshots, and then walked off the stage with a brisk pace.

Along the way, another nominated actor, Zhang Hanyu, watched him walk off the stage with envy.

Although after the announcement of the shortlist, the media reporters predicted that Li Xuejian had the highest probability of winning, followed by him, he had been mentally prepared.

But when the award was not won, he was inevitably still empty.

Outside the venue, portal websites such as Penguin, Sohu, and Sina also forwarded the news of Li Xuejian's winning as soon as possible, and attached pictures of the scene.

Li Xuejian won this award, which is the most deserving, and no one has any opinions or doubts.

The mainland Internet is full of congratulations. Although most netizens may not know this actor, it is enough for a mainland actor to win the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor.

In recent years, the mainland propaganda has been vigorously promoting the Golden Horse Award and touting it as one of the highest halls of Chinese-language films.

The main reason is that the two sides of the strait are now in a honeymoon period, and the mainland is vigorously promoting everything about Taiwan. In addition, the Golden Horse is indeed very respectful and has awarded many mainland films in recent years.

This has made the Golden Horse Awards, which was unknown in the mainland five years ago, a household name in the mainland.

It was only after "Lan Yu" in 2001 that the performance of mainland actors in the Golden Horse Awards began to fade.

Now another mainland actor has won the Golden Horse Best Actor Award, and mainland netizens immediately cheered.

Liu Yifei, who was far away in Switzerland, was also very happy to see this news. Although she knew that she should not bring her mobile phone to the scene, she immediately edited a congratulatory message and sent it to Teacher Li Xuejian.

"The Best Actor Award has been won, so how far will the Best Picture and Best Director be?"

"Director Wu will definitely win all three awards this time!"

"Li An's "Lust, Caution" won the Golden Lion Award, and won the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards. Director Wu can do it too!"

"That must be it!"

In major film forums, netizens who are paying attention to this year's Golden Horse Awards are discussing it enthusiastically.

In their view, the Best Actor trophy won by Li Xuejian is not the end, but the beginning of a great victory tonight, and the big one is still to come!

There is no way, who let Li An set a perfect example.

Last year, "Lust, Caution" also participated in the Venice International Film Festival and won the final Golden Lion Award.

And this year, "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" also won the Golden Lion Award. In everyone's simple concept, of course, it is believed that this movie will shine at the Golden Horse Awards.

In this way, under the expectation of mainland netizens, one award after another was quickly awarded. After more than ten awards such as Best Visual Effects, Best Photography, Best Action Design, and Best Actress were awarded.

Soon, only two crucial awards were left for this year's Golden Horse Awards.

The finale of the Best Director and Best Film Awards.

Last year, these two awards were swept by "Lust, Caution".

This year, will these two awards be swept by "Li Wen" as predicted by the media?

Mainland netizens are full of expectations, and the Chinese people in Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas who are watching this year's Golden Horse Awards are also very curious.

After Fan Yichen performed the theme song of Cape No. 7, "No Music, No Work", the judges of this year's Golden Horse Awards, Chen Shengchang and Chen Lerong, walked onto the stage hand in hand.

The two stood on the podium, and Chen Shengchang waved the envelope in his hand.

"Then, without further ado, who will take the Best Director trophy tonight?"

"Let's look at the big screen first."

"The nominees for the Best Director Award at the 45th Golden Horse Awards are --"

"Wei Desheng's Cape No. 7"

"Chen Kexin's The Warlords"

"Zhang Aijia's A Good Father"

"Wu Yuan's A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die"

On the big screen, half of the screen was playing VCRs of the wonderful shots of four movies, and the other half of the screen switched back and forth between the four nominees.

Among them, the most popular ones were Chen Kexin from Hong Kong Island and Wu Yuan from the mainland.

Chen Kexin's look tonight was quite distinctive.

Although he was wearing the same suit, he had long hair draped over his shoulders, and a tuft of hair on his forehead was dyed white, full of bohemian artistic atmosphere.

In comparison, Wu Yuan relied entirely on his appearance.

He also wore a black suit, but he had a neat short haircut, and his three-dimensional and delicate facial features were not inferior to those of the new and old male gods who came to the scene today, such as Wu Zun, Liu Dehua, Zhang Zhen, and Zhang Zhilin.

When Wu Yuan appeared on the screen, even though everyone was already familiar with his face, they couldn't help but sigh that such a handsome face was not an actor, but a director behind the scenes. It was really a pity.

Feng Xiaogang in the audience couldn't help but turn his head and said to Wang Zhonglei sitting next to him: "It's a pity that Director Wu didn't direct and act himself. If I had this face, what kind of director would I be."

Yes, Wang Zhonglei, the boss of Huayi, also came to participate in this year's Golden Horse Awards, and he also went on stage to accept the award for Liu Heng, the screenwriter of "Assembly", who won the Best Adapted Screenplay.

However, he did not interact with Wu Yuan, but deliberately kept a distance.

"Director Wu's face should be the least important advantage of him." Wang Zhonglei shook his head and disagreed with Feng Xiaogang's statement at all.

As a businessman, he doesn't care about appearance. In his opinion, Wu Yuan's talent in the field of directing and business is much more important than that handsome face.

The face will always get old and ugly, but the talent in the brain will not, instead it will make him richer and richer.

The reason why Wang Zhonglei deliberately kept a distance from Wu Yuan and did not talk to Wu Yuan on the spot was because he knew that he could not provide any resources to cooperate with Wu Yuan now.

He also wanted to use Wu Yuan's channels to go overseas, but Huayi could not come up with any chips to exchange with Wu Yuan for overseas channels.

Two Bingbing? There is no shortage of actors in the era of light and shadow.

Money?

Wu Yuan is making a lot of money in Hollywood and is not short of money at all.

Connections?

Whether in China or abroad, Wu Yuan's connections in the circle are deeper than those of the two Wangs of Huayi.

Wang Zhonglei thought about it and couldn't think of any way to cooperate with Wu Yuan and let Wu Yuan take Huayi to Hollywood to play together.

In this case, there is no need for him to show off in front of Wu Yuan. There is no cooperation anyway. He is a well-known boss in the domestic entertainment industry. Why should he stick to Wu Yuan like others to curry favor with him?

Resources cannot be obtained by saying a few nice words. If Huayi has the resources that Wu Yuan needs in the future, cooperation will naturally be achieved.

He crossed his legs and sat leisurely in the guest seat, looking at Wu Yuan's face on the big screen, and said: "Director Wu will be in the limelight tonight."

"If Guangying Times is a listed company, this Golden Horse Award can increase the company's stock price by 20%."

Feng Xiaogang next to him was delighted: "Is the company's listing finalized?"

"Yes." Wang Zhonglei nodded reservedly: "The listing procedure will be launched next year, the first stock of a private film company in the mainland."

Feng Xiaogang also has Huayi shares in his hands, which he got when he signed the company that year, and he still has a lot of shares.

The smile on his face this time was so sincere that when the camera swept over it, I thought Feng Xiaogang was broad-minded. He was happy for the other nominated directors even though he was not nominated for the Best Director.

As we all know, Feng Xiaogang is not a person with this kind of personality. This time he smiled so happily that the director on the scene was stunned, especially his face was frozen for a few seconds.

"It seems that Director Feng recognizes the directors nominated for the Best Director this year."

"It should be because Director Wu, who is also a mainland director, is also nominated."

Many Taiwanese audiences at the scene were discussing it. It seems that the mainland directors are still very united.

"So, the winner of the 45th Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Director is——"

At this time, on the podium, after giving everyone enough time to watch the nominated VCR, the award judge Chen Shengchang opened the envelope in his hand and lifted the card inside with Chen Lerong.

"Wu Yuan, congratulations!"