Millennium director

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 knew them or not, shouted congratulations, 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 presenting guest, Wu Yuan bowed to everyone in the audience, and then spoke eloquently: "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 films."

"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 I love the charming film industry even more!"

"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, Wu Yuan, the famous Chinese director, 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 leather 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 Letter of Contribution" have a Golden Lion Award?"

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

"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 the Sina 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 from a 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 "Cape Band", the original band from "Cape No. 7", regrouped for the first time to perform the interludes in the film live. Light sticks were also distributed at the scene for everyone to wave to the rhythm of "No music, no music" to help the atmosphere. It's so high that it can't be done.

Even the two small-scale Taiwanese literary films "Parking" and "The Girl Who Ate Flowers" were able to win the two head-to-head film technology awards of "Best Art Design" and "Best Style Design". It won the award over "The Legend" and "Red Cliff", two mainland and Hong Kong-Island co-productions that cost hundreds of millions.

This makes people have to take another look at the performance of Taiwanese films this year.

The organizing committee even set aside a special music show period for "Cape No. 7", and host Chen Jianzhou also filmed a 12-minute long funny short film "Taiwanese's Movie Dream".

This short film is based on the film "Seahorse No. 45" that young people are following the trend of filming. It satirizes the various awkward filming ecology of the Taiwanese film industry and pokes fun at what every Taiwanese filmmaker is thinking: "Why?" "Cape No. 7" is okay?" "Why not me?"

The host also shouted the slogan "Let us use Taiwanese films to counterattack the whole world" at the scene.

When Li Yu awarded Wei Desheng the "Outstanding Filmmaker of the Year," he also said: "This year's films 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 they just happened to explode this year."

Director Zhu Yanping, the award guest, also said when he took the stage: "The Golden Horse Awards have been under pressure to shut down, because the awards in previous years have been taken away by Hong Kong films and mainland films. I believe they will change their minds after tonight."

This intention of "using the Golden Horse Awards to market the recovering Taiwanese films" is well-intentioned, and they are very confident that "Cape No. 7" will win the best picture.

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

However, in the second half of the awards night, when the major awards were announced one after another, Taiwanese films' leading advantage could no longer be maintained.

Starting from Best Actor, "Cape 7" began to fail.

Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director were won by films from Mainland China and Hong Kong Island.

After all, local films are just a small competition, and the Golden Horse Awards will ultimately award the biggest prize to "Greater Chinese" films.

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

It is different from the expectations of mainland movie fans, who believe that "Li Wen" will win the best director and best picture like "Lust, Caution".

After all, Taiwanese local movie fans are more supportive of local movies.

Even though they also recognized Wu Yuan, his status as a great Hollywood director, and the gold content of the Golden Lion Award for "Li Wen", they still stubbornly believed that Wu Yuan would only take away the best director and best picture. one.

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

They also hope that "Cape 7" can win the best picture.

Because Taiwan’s local films have not been able to win the Golden Horse Award for Best Picture for six years.

What is this concept?

Equivalent to the Mainland’s Golden Rooster Awards, the Best Feature Film Award has been awarded to films from Taiwan or Hong Kong for six consecutive years!

What the hell is this? !

Now, local film fans in Taiwan are eager for a Taiwanese film to regain the Golden Horse Best Picture Award.

Especially this year is the year of comprehensive counterattack for Taiwanese films, and it is also the most promising year!

Now that the Best Director has been awarded to Wu Yuan, countless Taiwanese local movie fans are nervously looking forward to the award of the Best Film.

With the common expectations of movie fans from Taiwan, Taiwan and Taiwan, the two award presenters stepped onto the awards podium and began to present the Best Picture Award.

The wonderful scenes of the five shortlisted films: "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die", "Report of Nomination", "Assembly Number", "Cape No. 7" and "Half Seawater, Half Fire" were edited into VCR scrolling.

The crews of the five movies became the focus of the audience at this moment, and everyone nervously watched the actions of the two award-presenting guests on the stage.

The lucky Taiwanese audience 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 heat up.

The golden horse shines and the wind blows.

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

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

With slightly trembling hands, an elderly award-giving guest carefully opened the envelope and took out a piece of cardboard.

He was originally smiling, but after seeing the writing 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 could clearly see this change in facial expressions.

Many local Taiwanese filmmakers and movie fans felt their hearts skip a beat.

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

""A man named Li Wen decided to die"!"

"Congratulations!"

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

For a moment, the entire Zhongshan Hall was silent.

The audience who were still screaming "Cape No. 7" seemed to have been strangled by the neck suddenly, and they could not make any sound.

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

Wu Yuan squinted his eyes and smiled. He stood up with Li Xuejian, Song Dandan, Fan Wei and others, straightened his back, and walked onto the podium with his head held high like a victorious general!