Chapter 721 Film Festival
The Golden Flower Film Festival and the Golden Ying Film Festival are the two paramount events in the entertainment industry, also known for offering the trophies with the highest prestige.
Therefore, those who can secure the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at both festivals are called "Double Winners of Best Actor and Best Actress."
To receive the Best Actor and Actress awards at both festivals simultaneously is extremely difficult; to this day, there have only been four Double Winner Best Actresses and five Double Winner Best Actors.
The selection process is openly fair and just, with strict requirements in place, making it impossible to manipulate the outcome.
The only time a mistake occurred was three years ago when Xia Weibao won the Best Actress of the Golden Flower Award.
It was a disaster when, after the fact, a certain director drunkenly exposed that Xia Weibao had bribed him.
Xia Weibao was blacklisted in the entertainment industry, and that judge was also permanently banned.
The scrutinizing process down the line, involving everyone regardless of whether they were aware or not, spared no one from punishment by the film festival administrators, reminiscent in its extent of the ancient practice of "guilt by association"!
Therefore, after that incident, the auditing process for the two major film festivals was optimized once more, leaving absolutely no room for manipulation!
Everyone was anxious, but they could only resign themselves to fate.
Five days later, the list of nominees for the Golden Ying Film Festival was released.
"Despair" was nominated for Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Screenplay.
As for other categories like Best Stunts, Best Special Effects, and the like, a film with as realistic a theme as "Despair" naturally didn’t qualify.
It could be said that the film "Despair" relied entirely on the acting skills of its cast.
Meanwhile, "Republic of China Graceful Hero" received nominations for Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Leading Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Stunts.
Both films received five nominations each, tying for the most nominated movies at this festival!
The outcome was somewhat unexpected yet also made sense.
The surprise came from the fact that promotional films were banned from hyping up their content, yet now they were generating a lot of buzz.
Even though they hadn’t done much promotion or intentionally hyped the film, the process of rehabilitation had already been more forceful than any promotion.
However, the Education Bureau seemed to turn a blind eye, probably because Lu Hualiang had given those people a word of warning.
No matter how you looked at it, being nominated was a good thing.
"This time ’Despair’ has been nominated for five awards, with Li Feifei and Qi Ming nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively. Their performances in ’Despair’ were very good, and they should have no problem winning the awards," said Xia Shi, analyzing the chances of winning this time.
Cough cough, speaking of which, it’s quite embarrassing. Hongtu, this little broken-down company, aside from Xia Weibao having been a Best Actress, the rest were all practically nobodies...
Before Xia Weibao made her comeback, there wasn’t a single person who could hold the stage, and Li Feifei, Qi Ming, and He Dongdong could only occasionally snag minor roles, already the biggest names in Hongtu...
No wonder the company was on the brink of collapse.
After "Allure" became a hit, it brought a wave of recognition to Hongtu’s artists; Li Feifei, Qi Ming, and He Dongdong had all risen to the second-tier status. If they could now secure the Best Supporting Actress and Actor awards, then breaking into the first-tier shouldn’t be far off.
As for Xia Weibao, Xia Shi looked toward Xu Jiayang, "Director Xu, how likely do you think it is for Baby to win the Best Leading Actress?"
Xu Jiayang pondered for a while, "Hard to say. Among the five nominated actresses, the biggest competition is between Baby and Chen Naizhi. Coincidentally, both are winners of the Best Actress of the Golden Flower Award, and this time both are vying for the Golden Ying Award-winning Actress.
In terms of acting, Baby is certainly a notch above, but when it comes to the subject matter..."