Chapter 705 The Best Actress and the Final Grand Prize!
2006 3 Month 3 Day.
The 57th Berlin International Film Festival, the final day of the awards ceremony.
Chen Yu received a text message from Yang Lu early in the morning.
Mainly, "Invisible Mission" is setting new records in the country every day.
" million!"
"If nothing unexpected happens tomorrow, we can break 9 million!"
During these two weekends, the daily box office reached over 3000 million, but next week, the box office may fluctuate around million per day.
But in the end, reaching 10 billion will not be a problem.
In other words, there is no need to buy box office tickets yourself and you can still reach 10 billion!
Chen Yu immediately felt relieved and accepted the makeup artist's styling. In addition to attending the award ceremony in the evening, Chen Yu also had to attend an event, so he had to go there early in the morning.
After a busy morning and afternoon, the much-anticipated red carpet ceremony of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival Awards Ceremony began.
Although there were not as many stars walking the red carpet as at the opening ceremony, they were all quite big names.
Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro...these are the main creators of "The Golden Circle" which was shortlisted for this year's main competition unit.
They should have received some award, so they stayed.
"Tuya's Marriage" is worthy of being the Golden Bear in its previous life. Wang Quanan walked down the red carpet with the leading actress Yu Nan in high spirits.
The main creators of "The Others", "Beaufort"... groups of shortlisted films entered there one by one.
Chen Yu and Liu Yifei were the final performers, Li Yang stood in the front, and the three of them saluted the cheering audience.
Finally, the 40-minute closing ceremony red carpet ceremony ended.
Chen Yu and the other two finally sat in the award ceremony hall. It was in this place four years ago that Chen Yu won his first Best Actor trophy in his life.
“I hope this good luck can be passed on to you!”
Chen Yu put his hands firmly on Liu Yifei's. Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at him in annoyance: "You said you wouldn't let me expect it, but you brought it up again?"
"Haha, that's because I have expectations of you!"
"I can mention it, but you are not allowed to think about it!"
Liu Yifei: "..."
The friendship is over and the relationship is severed.
The two people were chatting to each other, and the award ceremony of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival officially kicked off.
The first awards to be presented are those outside of the main competition.
Although the Berlin Film Festival was very famous in the past few years, the Internet was not popular. However, with the rise of the Internet economy, the commercialization of the Berlin Film Festival has become increasingly high, so the number of awards has increased with each holding.
In addition to the main competition, the Teddy Award, Crystal Bear Award, Short Film Unit, etc. were also presented at this awards ceremony.
The so-called Teddy is actually an award for homosexuality and bisexuality.
And Crystal Bears is a children's film.
No wonder Chen Yu saw so many gays and children sitting there. It suddenly dawned on him.
Berlin is also at the forefront of the times. It is said that in 1987, it established a special LGBT gay film award; Venice and Cannes also set up the same awards, called the Queer Palm Award and the Queer Lion Award.
It has a bit of the meaning of imitating others ugly.
"Okay, time for the main competition!"
After listening for almost an hour in a drowsy state, Chen Yu was really about to fall asleep.
Liu Yifei hurriedly pushed him awake.
Chen Yu immediately sat up straight and pulled at his dress.
The chairman of the main competition came on stage with six judges and introduced them one by one. Among them, two yellow-skinned women were particularly eye-catching.
Ning Ying, Shi Nansheng!
I had contact with Chen Yu a few days ago, and both of them should be inclined to vote in favor of Chinese films.
So this time, two Chinese films will have the last laugh.
Apple lost the award.
"First, we'll be giving out a few newcomer awards!"
Best Film Debut Award.
"Hot Little Dancer"!
An American film.
The best new director and actor awards are unfortunately basically aimed at newcomers, and Liu Yifei is not included in this category.
After these awards were presented, the grand prizes of this year's Berlin finally began to be announced one by one.
Outstanding artistic contribution.
Of course, Zhang Yimou got the consolation prize.
This time, it was won by "The Stingray".
Chen Yu could hear Li Yang beside him secretly exhaling. To be honest, for the directors who stayed to compete for the award, this was the one they least wanted to win among so many awards. The value of the award was really low.
There's no way to sell it at a higher price, winning an award is just the icing on the cake.
So after winning this award, it means that other people will be able to win subsequent awards, while the main creators of "The Spy" who brought more than a dozen leading actors to the award ceremony basically have no chance of winning the final few major awards.
It’s quite sad to say, the cast of this "Spy" is really strong.
Angelina Jolie, Keir Dullea, Matt Damon... thirteen Hollywood A-list or super A-list stars.
But he only won an Outstanding Artistic Contribution award, which was already a special favor from the organizer.
It received the same treatment as Zhang Yimou's "Hero".
Zhang Yimou was of course full of confidence and brought so many main creators to participate, but he didn't expect to fail in the end.
Now, The Sting is merely replicating its own abstraction.
"Julie just left!"
Liu Yifei was talking there. She was a little sad after the award was announced.
"Of course she did. She thought she could win the Best Actress award, but now she has basically no hope!"
In history, no film that has won the Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award has ever won other awards, so this is why this award is called a consolation.
A well-known factor.
Then next is a music award.
The Silver Bear Award for Best Film Music was awarded to an American film - David Mackenzie's "Halem"!
"Okay, the exciting moment has arrived!"
Chen Yu grabbed Liu Yifei's slender hand. Liu Yifei's hand was very hot, but a little damp, probably due to the sweat from excitement.
At this time, on the side of "Tuya's Marriage", Yu Nan also sat up.
She and Liu Yifei are both highly favored to win the award, along with Fan Bingbing and Zhu Li. Now the other two have been passed over, so there are only two left, and the competition is much weaker.
"The person presenting the award is Ning Ying?"
Chen Yu watched Ning Ying walk to the front of the stage, and Liu Yifei's breathing became a little rapid.
The person who presented the award to Chen Yu that year was Gong Li, and now it’s Ning Ying... This makes Liu Yifei and Yu Nan a little more expectant.
"The winner of the Best Actress Award at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival is——"
Ning Ying received the award letter from the jury, took it out and took a look, then said directly: "Nina Hoss, "Yela", congratulations!"
A huge upset.
No one obviously expected this.
Except Chen Yu.
It seems like... I was this actor in my previous life.
Ning Ying had no expression on his face, which meant he must have known the result.
But Liu Yifei and Yu Nan next to them had extremely complicated expressions.
“There shouldn’t be any double yolk eggs anymore!”
Watching Ning Ying put away the letter, Chen Yu shook his head slightly, and Liu Yifei also sighed: "It's okay, come again next time!"
She just didn't believe it!
However, this is the closest Liu Yifei has ever been to winning an award. It is unknown when she will get the next chance, and she will be able to meet such a suitable role. You know, the movie "Blind Mountain" was created entirely for Liu Yifei to win an award.
There is no such thing as a male lead here, it's basically Liu Yifei's performance alone.
So it’s a pity that I didn’t win the award.
The same is true for Yu Nan.
As for the actress who won the Best Actress award, Nina Hoss, Chen Yu seemed to understand something as he watched her standing on the stage and giving her excited acceptance speech in her native German.
“Local actors!”
"It's not unfair to lose!"
This is the advantage of being local. Nina Hoss is a fairly well-known German actress.
It was not easy to be shortlisted at the Berlin Film Festival, so no matter what, we have to do something about it.
"Ok!"
“If local actors hadn’t participated, there might not have been such a big controversy!”
Liu Yifei, on the other hand, was quite open-minded.
Chen Yu had no choice but to comfort him: "It's okay, there is still a chance!"
“This year’s Better Days will once again make a splash in Venice!”
Compared to "Blind Mountain", Chen Yu feels that the film he directed has a greater chance.
First, Liu Yifei's acting skills have improved greatly compared to "Blind Mountain". Second, he can be said to have helped Liu Yifei to adjust the acting skills scene by scene. In addition, the chairman of the Venice organizer and the chairman of the jury are both old acquaintances of Chen Yu.
There will definitely be gains.
After the Best Actress award was presented, the next award was Best Actor.
Julio Chavez's Other!
Another upset.
This is an Argentinian actor.
"Oh my god, Berlin is really in chaos now!"
It’s really unreliable for women to be judges!
But this has nothing to do with him. He is not competing for the trophy this time anyway, so he doesn't feel anything about it. Others may not feel the same way.
The Best Actor award was announced, and the Best Director award followed closely.
Liu Yifei was in a very good mood just now, but now she has come to her senses and seems a little unhappy.
"There are exactly three films that didn't win any awards?"
"Director Li, then we are one of these three awards?"
Chen Yu said to Li Yang, who was also very nervous and nodded: "Yes, exactly 3!"
The Golden Bear for Best Film, the Silver Bear for the Grand Jury Prize and the Silver Bear for Best Director.
The first award to be given was for Best Director.
Joseph Starr, Beaufort!
Shi Nansheng announced the final result. Li Yang spread his hands. He could barely accept this result.
After all, Joseph Star is a well-known director in Hollywood.
I am convinced of my defeat to him.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards twice, Best Screenplay at Cannes...it's clear that he has the talent.
"There are only two of us left!"
Chen Yu looked at Wang Quanan not far away. He leaned forward and was obviously very nervous.
Li Yang is actually similar to him.
In the end, only two Chinese films remained at the awards ceremony and did not win any awards.
"Blind Mountain" and "Tuya's Marriage".
There are exactly two awards left, but no one knows who will have the last laugh and win the final Golden Lion Award.
But one thing is clear to everyone.
The next Jury Prize is the award second only to the Golden Lion. Whoever wins it will win the other award.
Therefore, once this prize is announced, all the results will no longer be in suspense.
And even if you win the Jury Grand Prix, you may not be happy because the final Golden Lion Award will go to someone else.
It is impossible for a film to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Golden Lion.
"But Huaxia Film has won anyway!"
Chen Yu was just joking there. Although he really hoped that "Blind Mountain" would have the last laugh, if "Tuya's Marriage" won, Chen Yu would also bless it. After all, this movie was really well made.
It deserves a big award.
"A grand prize-winning film that our jury unanimously approved!"
A member of the jury, Palestinian director Hiam Abbas, spoke in rather stiff English.
After saying that, he also looked at the directions of Chen Yu and Wang Quanan, which made both parties confused.
Who is it?
"Blind Mountain, Li Yang!"
Hiam Abbas shouted, and the whole audience burst into warm cheers.
Chen Yu could hear Li Yang sighing slightly, but a hint of excitement appeared on his face, and he stood up and cheered with his arms raised.
Grand Jury Award!
Putting aside the final Golden Lion, the Silver Lion is indeed the highest award.
In fact, before coming here, Li Yang didn't think about taking home a prize, but now that he got it, he is still happy inside; it's just that his opponent won the Golden Bear, which made Li Yang a little uncomfortable.
Fortunately, they are all Chinese movies.
Therefore, there is no suspense about the final Golden Lion for Best Film.
Even though Wang Quan'an was pretending to be calm, he and Yu Nan's expressions could actually no longer be suppressed.
Best Film, Golden Lion Award - "Tuya's Marriage", Wang Quanan.
"yeah!"
Yu Nan stood up and excitedly hugged Wang Quanan who also jumped up.
The two men obviously never expected that their low-budget film would eventually win the Berlin Golden Bear.
"Congratulations, Director Wang!"
Chen Yu stood up and clapped his hands. Many people congratulated them, including Li Yang.
Chinese filmmakers must have this vision.
"Thank you, thank you Brother Yu!"
He hugged Chen Yu, then quickly walked up to the podium with Yu Nan.
"Hey~~~"
Liu Yifei sighed with some regret. Today's award ceremony obviously did not meet her expectations.
She has regrets.
At least Li Yang won the Jury Award, which was a bit of consolation.
However, Li Yang was actually a little unwilling, as he had obviously lost the PK with Wang Quanan.
Of course, for someone who has watched both of Chen Yu’s films, “Blind Mountain” is actually better.
But because Chen Yu is Chinese, he understands the significance of this movie.
Li Yang did not shoot the film for Europeans to see, but to remind a group of female college students to be vigilant in remote mountain villages, and it would be best if it could attract the attention of relevant departments.
This movie is worth it no matter what.
“This is life!”
“Life is full of regrets!”
"Let's go!"
"Next time, try to... make a comeback!"
(End of this chapter)
2006 3 Month 3 Day.
The 57th Berlin International Film Festival, the final day of the awards ceremony.
Chen Yu received a text message from Yang Lu early in the morning.
Mainly, "Invisible Mission" is setting new records in the country every day.
" million!"
"If nothing unexpected happens tomorrow, we can break 9 million!"
During these two weekends, the daily box office reached over 3000 million, but next week, the box office may fluctuate around million per day.
But in the end, reaching 10 billion will not be a problem.
In other words, there is no need to buy box office tickets yourself and you can still reach 10 billion!
Chen Yu immediately felt relieved and accepted the makeup artist's styling. In addition to attending the award ceremony in the evening, Chen Yu also had to attend an event, so he had to go there early in the morning.
After a busy morning and afternoon, the much-anticipated red carpet ceremony of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival Awards Ceremony began.
Although there were not as many stars walking the red carpet as at the opening ceremony, they were all quite big names.
Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro...these are the main creators of "The Golden Circle" which was shortlisted for this year's main competition unit.
They should have received some award, so they stayed.
"Tuya's Marriage" is worthy of being the Golden Bear in its previous life. Wang Quanan walked down the red carpet with the leading actress Yu Nan in high spirits.
The main creators of "The Others", "Beaufort"... groups of shortlisted films entered there one by one.
Chen Yu and Liu Yifei were the final performers, Li Yang stood in the front, and the three of them saluted the cheering audience.
Finally, the 40-minute closing ceremony red carpet ceremony ended.
Chen Yu and the other two finally sat in the award ceremony hall. It was in this place four years ago that Chen Yu won his first Best Actor trophy in his life.
“I hope this good luck can be passed on to you!”
Chen Yu put his hands firmly on Liu Yifei's. Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at him in annoyance: "You said you wouldn't let me expect it, but you brought it up again?"
"Haha, that's because I have expectations of you!"
"I can mention it, but you are not allowed to think about it!"
Liu Yifei: "..."
The friendship is over and the relationship is severed.
The two people were chatting to each other, and the award ceremony of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival officially kicked off.
The first awards to be presented are those outside of the main competition.
Although the Berlin Film Festival was very famous in the past few years, the Internet was not popular. However, with the rise of the Internet economy, the commercialization of the Berlin Film Festival has become increasingly high, so the number of awards has increased with each holding.
In addition to the main competition, the Teddy Award, Crystal Bear Award, Short Film Unit, etc. were also presented at this awards ceremony.
The so-called Teddy is actually an award for homosexuality and bisexuality.
And Crystal Bears is a children's film.
No wonder Chen Yu saw so many gays and children sitting there. It suddenly dawned on him.
Berlin is also at the forefront of the times. It is said that in 1987, it established a special LGBT gay film award; Venice and Cannes also set up the same awards, called the Queer Palm Award and the Queer Lion Award.
It has a bit of the meaning of imitating others ugly.
"Okay, time for the main competition!"
After listening for almost an hour in a drowsy state, Chen Yu was really about to fall asleep.
Liu Yifei hurriedly pushed him awake.
Chen Yu immediately sat up straight and pulled at his dress.
The chairman of the main competition came on stage with six judges and introduced them one by one. Among them, two yellow-skinned women were particularly eye-catching.
Ning Ying, Shi Nansheng!
I had contact with Chen Yu a few days ago, and both of them should be inclined to vote in favor of Chinese films.
So this time, two Chinese films will have the last laugh.
Apple lost the award.
"First, we'll be giving out a few newcomer awards!"
Best Film Debut Award.
"Hot Little Dancer"!
An American film.
The best new director and actor awards are unfortunately basically aimed at newcomers, and Liu Yifei is not included in this category.
After these awards were presented, the grand prizes of this year's Berlin finally began to be announced one by one.
Outstanding artistic contribution.
Of course, Zhang Yimou got the consolation prize.
This time, it was won by "The Stingray".
Chen Yu could hear Li Yang beside him secretly exhaling. To be honest, for the directors who stayed to compete for the award, this was the one they least wanted to win among so many awards. The value of the award was really low.
There's no way to sell it at a higher price, winning an award is just the icing on the cake.
So after winning this award, it means that other people will be able to win subsequent awards, while the main creators of "The Spy" who brought more than a dozen leading actors to the award ceremony basically have no chance of winning the final few major awards.
It’s quite sad to say, the cast of this "Spy" is really strong.
Angelina Jolie, Keir Dullea, Matt Damon... thirteen Hollywood A-list or super A-list stars.
But he only won an Outstanding Artistic Contribution award, which was already a special favor from the organizer.
It received the same treatment as Zhang Yimou's "Hero".
Zhang Yimou was of course full of confidence and brought so many main creators to participate, but he didn't expect to fail in the end.
Now, The Sting is merely replicating its own abstraction.
"Julie just left!"
Liu Yifei was talking there. She was a little sad after the award was announced.
"Of course she did. She thought she could win the Best Actress award, but now she has basically no hope!"
In history, no film that has won the Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award has ever won other awards, so this is why this award is called a consolation.
A well-known factor.
Then next is a music award.
The Silver Bear Award for Best Film Music was awarded to an American film - David Mackenzie's "Halem"!
"Okay, the exciting moment has arrived!"
Chen Yu grabbed Liu Yifei's slender hand. Liu Yifei's hand was very hot, but a little damp, probably due to the sweat from excitement.
At this time, on the side of "Tuya's Marriage", Yu Nan also sat up.
She and Liu Yifei are both highly favored to win the award, along with Fan Bingbing and Zhu Li. Now the other two have been passed over, so there are only two left, and the competition is much weaker.
"The person presenting the award is Ning Ying?"
Chen Yu watched Ning Ying walk to the front of the stage, and Liu Yifei's breathing became a little rapid.
The person who presented the award to Chen Yu that year was Gong Li, and now it’s Ning Ying... This makes Liu Yifei and Yu Nan a little more expectant.
"The winner of the Best Actress Award at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival is——"
Ning Ying received the award letter from the jury, took it out and took a look, then said directly: "Nina Hoss, "Yela", congratulations!"
A huge upset.
No one obviously expected this.
Except Chen Yu.
It seems like... I was this actor in my previous life.
Ning Ying had no expression on his face, which meant he must have known the result.
But Liu Yifei and Yu Nan next to them had extremely complicated expressions.
“There shouldn’t be any double yolk eggs anymore!”
Watching Ning Ying put away the letter, Chen Yu shook his head slightly, and Liu Yifei also sighed: "It's okay, come again next time!"
She just didn't believe it!
However, this is the closest Liu Yifei has ever been to winning an award. It is unknown when she will get the next chance, and she will be able to meet such a suitable role. You know, the movie "Blind Mountain" was created entirely for Liu Yifei to win an award.
There is no such thing as a male lead here, it's basically Liu Yifei's performance alone.
So it’s a pity that I didn’t win the award.
The same is true for Yu Nan.
As for the actress who won the Best Actress award, Nina Hoss, Chen Yu seemed to understand something as he watched her standing on the stage and giving her excited acceptance speech in her native German.
“Local actors!”
"It's not unfair to lose!"
This is the advantage of being local. Nina Hoss is a fairly well-known German actress.
It was not easy to be shortlisted at the Berlin Film Festival, so no matter what, we have to do something about it.
"Ok!"
“If local actors hadn’t participated, there might not have been such a big controversy!”
Liu Yifei, on the other hand, was quite open-minded.
Chen Yu had no choice but to comfort him: "It's okay, there is still a chance!"
“This year’s Better Days will once again make a splash in Venice!”
Compared to "Blind Mountain", Chen Yu feels that the film he directed has a greater chance.
First, Liu Yifei's acting skills have improved greatly compared to "Blind Mountain". Second, he can be said to have helped Liu Yifei to adjust the acting skills scene by scene. In addition, the chairman of the Venice organizer and the chairman of the jury are both old acquaintances of Chen Yu.
There will definitely be gains.
After the Best Actress award was presented, the next award was Best Actor.
Julio Chavez's Other!
Another upset.
This is an Argentinian actor.
"Oh my god, Berlin is really in chaos now!"
It’s really unreliable for women to be judges!
But this has nothing to do with him. He is not competing for the trophy this time anyway, so he doesn't feel anything about it. Others may not feel the same way.
The Best Actor award was announced, and the Best Director award followed closely.
Liu Yifei was in a very good mood just now, but now she has come to her senses and seems a little unhappy.
"There are exactly three films that didn't win any awards?"
"Director Li, then we are one of these three awards?"
Chen Yu said to Li Yang, who was also very nervous and nodded: "Yes, exactly 3!"
The Golden Bear for Best Film, the Silver Bear for the Grand Jury Prize and the Silver Bear for Best Director.
The first award to be given was for Best Director.
Joseph Starr, Beaufort!
Shi Nansheng announced the final result. Li Yang spread his hands. He could barely accept this result.
After all, Joseph Star is a well-known director in Hollywood.
I am convinced of my defeat to him.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards twice, Best Screenplay at Cannes...it's clear that he has the talent.
"There are only two of us left!"
Chen Yu looked at Wang Quanan not far away. He leaned forward and was obviously very nervous.
Li Yang is actually similar to him.
In the end, only two Chinese films remained at the awards ceremony and did not win any awards.
"Blind Mountain" and "Tuya's Marriage".
There are exactly two awards left, but no one knows who will have the last laugh and win the final Golden Lion Award.
But one thing is clear to everyone.
The next Jury Prize is the award second only to the Golden Lion. Whoever wins it will win the other award.
Therefore, once this prize is announced, all the results will no longer be in suspense.
And even if you win the Jury Grand Prix, you may not be happy because the final Golden Lion Award will go to someone else.
It is impossible for a film to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Golden Lion.
"But Huaxia Film has won anyway!"
Chen Yu was just joking there. Although he really hoped that "Blind Mountain" would have the last laugh, if "Tuya's Marriage" won, Chen Yu would also bless it. After all, this movie was really well made.
It deserves a big award.
"A grand prize-winning film that our jury unanimously approved!"
A member of the jury, Palestinian director Hiam Abbas, spoke in rather stiff English.
After saying that, he also looked at the directions of Chen Yu and Wang Quanan, which made both parties confused.
Who is it?
"Blind Mountain, Li Yang!"
Hiam Abbas shouted, and the whole audience burst into warm cheers.
Chen Yu could hear Li Yang sighing slightly, but a hint of excitement appeared on his face, and he stood up and cheered with his arms raised.
Grand Jury Award!
Putting aside the final Golden Lion, the Silver Lion is indeed the highest award.
In fact, before coming here, Li Yang didn't think about taking home a prize, but now that he got it, he is still happy inside; it's just that his opponent won the Golden Bear, which made Li Yang a little uncomfortable.
Fortunately, they are all Chinese movies.
Therefore, there is no suspense about the final Golden Lion for Best Film.
Even though Wang Quan'an was pretending to be calm, he and Yu Nan's expressions could actually no longer be suppressed.
Best Film, Golden Lion Award - "Tuya's Marriage", Wang Quanan.
"yeah!"
Yu Nan stood up and excitedly hugged Wang Quanan who also jumped up.
The two men obviously never expected that their low-budget film would eventually win the Berlin Golden Bear.
"Congratulations, Director Wang!"
Chen Yu stood up and clapped his hands. Many people congratulated them, including Li Yang.
Chinese filmmakers must have this vision.
"Thank you, thank you Brother Yu!"
He hugged Chen Yu, then quickly walked up to the podium with Yu Nan.
"Hey~~~"
Liu Yifei sighed with some regret. Today's award ceremony obviously did not meet her expectations.
She has regrets.
At least Li Yang won the Jury Award, which was a bit of consolation.
However, Li Yang was actually a little unwilling, as he had obviously lost the PK with Wang Quanan.
Of course, for someone who has watched both of Chen Yu’s films, “Blind Mountain” is actually better.
But because Chen Yu is Chinese, he understands the significance of this movie.
Li Yang did not shoot the film for Europeans to see, but to remind a group of female college students to be vigilant in remote mountain villages, and it would be best if it could attract the attention of relevant departments.
This movie is worth it no matter what.
“This is life!”
“Life is full of regrets!”
"Let's go!"
"Next time, try to... make a comeback!"
(End of this chapter)
