Chapter 358 Sweeping the Taiwanese Film Industry, Returning with Honors!

An expected and reasonable result.

Wu Yuan won the Best Director Award at this year's Golden Horse Awards for "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die".

Whether it was Chen Kexin, Wei Desheng or Zhang Sylvia, they all applauded with relief. At least on the surface, they all looked convinced that they had lost.

This is the best film in the Golden Lion.

On the big screen, the shots that were originally divided into four parts by the four shortlisted directors were completely occupied by Wu Yuan's shots.

As soon as the award was announced, he stood up with a smile, hugged Li Xuejian, Song Dandan and others, and then walked to the side passage in high spirits.

Along the way, guests, whether they were familiar or unfamiliar, loudly congratulated each other, and acquaintances such as Liu Dehua and Zhou Xun even gave warm hugs.

A passage that was only twenty or thirty meters short took him almost a minute to complete.

"Thank you, thank you to the Golden Horse Award, and thank you to the jury."

After receiving the prancing Golden Horse trophy from the presenter, Wu Yuan bowed to everyone in the audience, and then spoke: "This year is my eighth year in the industry."

"In 2000, by coincidence, director Wang Xiaoshuai saw me on the streets of Beijing and immediately selected me to star in "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle."

"This is the first movie I've ever seen in my life."

"While filming this movie as an actor, I truly felt the charm of film art and was impressed by director Wang Xiaoshuai's directing skills."

"At that time, I was still a sophomore at Beijing Film Academy, but I already had a strong desire to make movies."

"After filming "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle", I decided to make a directorial work of my own."

"So, I locked myself up at home for a month and wrote the script of "The Night the Comet Came". With the approval and support of my teacher, I received investment from China Film Group and started the preparation and filming of my debut film."

"In the blink of an eye, eight years have passed. From "The Night the Comet Came" to "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die", I have shot ten movies."

"From a young, new director to Wu Yuan, who is still mature today, I have been on this road for eight years."

"Today, I stand here, holding the Golden Horse Best Director trophy. There are many people I want to thank."

"God bless my parents and family, the noble people and friends who supported me along the way, and the outstanding actors I worked with. Each of them is very important to me."

“Without their support and encouragement, and without their wonderful performances, there would be no me.”

"But I also want to thank myself for never wavering in the face of all kinds of temptations and walking through with determination."

"This Best Director trophy is both an inspiration and a wake-up call for me."

"I will not get carried away because of the honor, nor will I be satisfied with it. In the future, I will still take movies seriously with the highest standards."

"I love this world, and even more so the charming film industry!"

"thank you all!"

Wu Yuan did not make any preparations for the award-winning manuscript in advance. He just gave an unscripted speech and said whatever came to his mind.

Although the remarks were similar to what others had said, they were indeed all sincere.

Lifting up the Golden Horse trophy in his hand, Wu Yuan grinned and kissed the horse's raised head vigorously. Countless cameras were fixed on this scene.

"Taiwan Golden Horse Awards news, my country's famous director Wu Yuan won the Best Director Award at the 45th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards!"

"Thank you to me for walking steadfastly along the way - taking a closer look at Director Wu's path as a director."

"Kissing the trophy at the award ceremony, Director Wu Yuan shines at the Golden Horse Awards!"

One after another, the news spread rapidly on the mainland Internet.

The photo of Wu Yuan in a suit and tie kissing the trophy immediately spread across the mainland Internet.

"I knew Director Wu could win this award!"

"Deserved!"

"I thought this award would be given to the "Certificate of Voting"

"Tsk, does "The Proposal" have a Golden Lion Award?"

"With so many awards, why hasn't the movie "Li Wen" been released in the mainland yet?"

"I heard that it was originally scheduled to be released in December, but China Film Group had high hopes for the film and did not want to be sacrificed before the Lunar New Year, so it was rescheduled to be released in February next year."

"And you can also apply for next year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!"

The Internet is buzzing with excitement, and Liu Yifei is also jumping for joy.

"There's another Best Picture!" She kept refreshing Sina's Golden Horse Awards section with bright eyes.

After the Best Director Award is awarded, there is only one most important Best Picture Award left, which is also the biggest award tonight!

Before the awards ceremony, the mainland media generally predicted that "Li Wen" would win the Best Director and Best Picture. Liu Yifei certainly thought so too.

However, for Taiwanese people, this year's Golden Horse Awards can be said to be the night when Taiwanese films return by taking the film by storm.

"Cape No. 7", which created a box office miracle of NT$500 million, greatly boosted the morale of Taiwanese filmmakers.

Before the announcement of the heaviest awards for Best Director and Best Picture, "Cape 7" had already won six awards and was the star of the first half of the awards show.

The original band from Cape No. 7 reunited to perform the interlude in the film live for the first time. They also distributed glow sticks on the spot for everyone to wave to the rhythm of "No Music, No Music", which made the atmosphere extremely high.

Even two small-scale Taiwanese art films, Parking and The Flower Ate That Girl, won the "Best Art Design" and "Best Costume Design" awards, beating the mainland and Hong Kong co-production blockbusters The Warlords and Red Cliff, which were filmed with hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.

This makes people have to look at the performance of Taiwanese films this year in a different light.

Even the organizing committee reserved a music show time for Cape No. 7, and the host Chen Jianzhou also shot a 12-minute comedy short film "The Movie Dream of Taiwanese People".

This short film is based on a movie "Seahorse No. 45" that young people are following the trend to prepare for production. It satirizes the various embarrassing film-making ecosystems in the Taiwanese film industry and teases that every Taiwanese filmmaker is thinking: "Why is "Cape No. 7" okay?" "Why not me?"

The host also shouted the slogan "Let's use Taiwanese films to counterattack the world" on the spot.

When Li An presented Wei Desheng with the "Outstanding Film Worker of the Year", he also said: "This year's movies give us new hope."

He also believes: "This year is a particularly good year for Taiwanese films. Taiwanese films have been brewing and backlogged for too long, and it just happened to explode this year."

The award presenter, Director Chu Yen-ping, also said when he took the stage: "The Golden Horse Awards have been facing pressure to stop, because the awards in previous years were taken away by Hong Kong films and mainland films. I believe that they will change their minds after tonight. ”

This intention of "using the Golden Horse Awards to market Taiwanese films that are showing signs of recovery" is well-intentioned, and the confidence that "Cape No. 7" will win the Best Picture is also very strong.

Among all the 26 individual awards, except for the non-competitive Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Contribution Award, Taiwanese local films have swept 13 awards, and even occupied half of this year's Golden Horse.

However, in the second half of the awards ceremony, when the major awards were announced one after another, the leading advantage of Taiwanese films could not be maintained.

Starting with the Best Actor, "Cape No. 7" began to fail.

The Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director were successively won by mainland and Hong Kong films.

Local films are ultimately small-scale, and the Golden Horse After all, the biggest award will be given to "Greater Chinese" films.

After losing three major awards in a row, local movie fans in Taiwan who watched the Golden Horse Awards live were already worried about "Cape No. 7".

Unlike mainland movie fans who expected that "Li Wen" would win the Best Director and Best Picture awards like "Lust, Caution".

Local movie fans in Taiwan still support local films more.

Even though they also recognized Wu Yuan, his identity as a Hollywood director, and the value of the Golden Lion Award for "Li Wen", they still stubbornly believed that Wu Yuan would only take one of the Best Director and Best Picture awards.

When Wu Yuan won the Best Director Award, they all thought that "Cape No. 7" would win the Best Picture Award.

They were also more I hope that "Cape No. 7" can win the Best Picture Award.

Because Taiwanese local films have not won the Golden Horse Best Picture Award for six years.

What does this mean?

It is equivalent to the Golden Rooster Award in the mainland. For six consecutive years, the Best Feature Film Award has been awarded to Taiwanese or Hong Kong films!

What the hell is this? !

Now, Taiwanese local movie fans are eager for a Taiwanese movie to win the Best Picture Award at the Golden Horse Awards.

Especially this year is the year of the full counterattack of Taiwanese films, and it is the most promising year!

With the Best Director Award already awarded to Wu Yuan, countless Taiwanese local movie fans are nervously looking forward to the awarding of the Best Picture Award.

Under the common expectations of fans from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, the two award presenters The guests walked onto the podium and began presenting the Best Picture Award.

The five nominated films: "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die", "The Warlords", "Assembly", "Cape No. 7", and "Half Sea, Half Flame" were edited into VCRs for rolling playback.

The crews of the five films became the focus of the audience at this moment, and everyone was nervously watching the actions of the two award presenters on the stage.

The lucky audiences from Taiwan who came to the scene screamed, and 80% of them shouted the name of "Cape No. 7" loudly.

Although the lowest temperature in Taichung tonight was only 14 degrees, the temperature in the venue continued to rise.

The Golden Horse Awards shine, and the wind rises and the shadows surge.

"So, which work will win the Best Picture Award tonight? "

The two judges who presented the award were also a little excited. After voting, they actually didn't know who would win the award in the end, and they were also full of nervous anticipation.

With slightly trembling hands, an elderly award presenter carefully opened the envelope and took out a piece of card from it.

He was originally smiling, but after seeing the handwriting on the card, the smile on his face obviously stopped for a moment.

Through the close-up big screen, all the guests and audiences at the scene clearly saw this change in expression.

Many local Taiwanese filmmakers and fans were shocked.

"The winner of the 45th Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Film is——"

"A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die!"

"Congratulations!"

This is a result that is highly anticipated by mainland fans, but heartbreaking for Taiwanese fans.

For a moment, the entire Zhongshan Hall was completely silent.

The audience who were originally screaming "Cape No. 7" seemed to be strangled by the neck and could not make any sound.

Only the guests sitting in the front row reacted immediately and gave warm applause.

Wu Yuan smiled with narrowed eyes, and stood up with Li Xuejian, Song Dandan, Fan Wei and others, straightened their backs, and walked up to the podium with their heads held high like victorious generals!