Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

The winner of the previous Academy Award for Best Actress was Ye Tong from "The Love Is Wrong in Seven Days".

Her first movie was "Youth on Fire" released in 1982. The male protagonist of this movie was Leslie Cheung.

What’s interesting is that the producers of the drama “Youth on Fire” are Liu Zhenwei and Yu Yungang.

The former has made many classic movies, such as "Westward Journey", "The Gambler", etc., and even played the role of Patriarch Bodhi in "Westward Journey".

Yu Yunchang is a well-known director of horror films in Hong Kong movies. He has made horror films such as "Mountain Dog", "The Bad List", "The Cat", and "The Ghost Hospital".

Unfortunately, horror films can only be regarded as niche films in Hong Kong. Yu Yungang, who could not make any money in the film market, quit the film industry and switched to the financial investment industry.

At this time, the actors who were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Actress in the audience all had very nervous expressions on their faces.

Because the four of them are nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the first time, they all have different views on this award.

As the intensive drumbeats sounded, the hearts of the audience at the scene and in front of the TV slowly rose to their throats.

"The actor who won the Best Actress at the 2nd Academy Awards is..."Legend of Sword and Fairy" Chen Yulian..."

After Lin Qingxia read out the result loudly in front of everyone, the audience immediately burst into warm applause.

When the camera turned to Chen Yulian, she still had a dumbfounded expression.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for "Legend of Sword and Fairy". Chen Yulian never expected such a result.

"Alian, congratulations."

Leslie Cheung found that Chen Yulian was still there motionless, so he gently patted her on the shoulder.

After being photographed by Leslie Cheung, Chen Yulian suddenly woke up.

"Did I win a prize?"

Chen Yulian looked a little unsure. She looked at Leslie Cheung and asked with confusion.

After she saw the other party smiling and nodding, Chen Yulian could be sure that she had really won the award.

In fact, when the news came out that Chen Yulian was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Chen Yulian was very happy at first.

But then everyone she met told her that the judges of the Academy Awards pay more attention to literary and drama films. This can be seen from the fact that literary and artistic films swept the Academy Awards last year.

And "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is a completely commercial movie, which is obviously not on the same level as the tastes of the Academy Awards judges.

So everyone advised Chen Yulian not to have too high expectations and just go through the motions.

If she had not heard these words at that time, Chen Yulian might still have some hope, but after hearing such words too many times, she herself felt that the possibility of winning the Academy Award was almost zero.

But when the results came out, Chen Yulian was completely confused.

In the end, she didn't even know how she took over the Academy Award trophy from Brigitte Lin.

"Thank you to the judges of the Academy Awards, thank you to Director Hu Jinquan, thank you to Mr. Lin, and especially thank you to the audience who liked the movie "Legend of Sword and Fairy". I am really happy to receive this award."

Like Li Saifeng, Chen Yulian did not prepare winning lines because she never thought she would win the award in the first place.

On the stage, Chen Yulian was delivering her acceptance speech, and some filmmakers in the audience had already started talking.

In particular, the guys at Baocheng Cinemas felt that this year's Academy Awards had been completely controlled by Lin Daoqiu.

"Legend of Sword and Fairy" is undoubtedly the biggest winner. The trend of the Academy Awards is no longer biased towards literary and drama films, but almost towards commercial films.

"They say they want to lead Hong Kong films to the world. How can the Academy Awards be fair and just?"

"Keep your voice down. If Mr. Lin hears it, you won't even have a chance to be shortlisted next year."

"That's not true. After all, Mr. Lin still needs others to support him, and it doesn't cost money anyway."

Shi Tian and the guys were having a good time chatting, but unfortunately they couldn't change the situation no matter what they said.

"Mr. Pan should not have agreed to participate in the Academy Awards in the first place. Otherwise, the influence of the Academy Awards would not increase day by day. Anyway, I will definitely not come next year."

Speaking of this, Shi Tian felt very angry. He had even made up his mind that he would never attend any Academy Awards next year.

There are many people who have the same idea as him, but they all keep it in their hearts and dare not say it out.

Shi Tian's complaints did not interrupt the process of the Academy Awards. After the Best Actress was awarded, the next award was the Best Actor.

"The actors nominated for Best Actor are..."

Zheng Shaoqiu in "The New Swordsman of Shushan", Leslie Cheung in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", Zhong Zhentao in "The Seven Days of Love", Tony Leung Ka Fai in "Behind the Curtain", and Wang Zhengfang in "Half Man".

"Guess what the chances are for Leslie Cheung to win the Best Actor."

Shi Tian feels that this Best Actor award should be awarded to Leslie Cheung.

However, Tsui Hark has different opinions on this.

"Probably not. I think Zhong Zhentao and Wang Zhengfang have a pretty good chance."

Although he said so, Tsui Hark was not completely sure that Lin Daoqiu would not interfere inside.

But doing this is too obvious. Unless Lin Daoqiu doesn't care about the outside world at all, then of course there is no problem in doing so.

"I think the award to "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is well-deserved. Tonight is a good harvest night for "Legend of Sword and Fairy"."

The special effects of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" are indeed impressive, but the connotation of this drama is extremely superficial. It focuses more on the love between men and women, and there is nothing deeper.

If the Academy Awards really awards the Best Actor to Leslie Cheung, then I am afraid that this Academy Awards will definitely be questioned by the public.

"The actor who won the Best Actor at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards is..."

At this time, the five shortlisted male celebrities in the audience all looked calm.

Although Leslie Cheung vaguely felt that he had hope, he, like Chen Yulian, had been advised not to have too much hope before.

As for Tony Leung Ka-fai, this was his first time playing a leading role. He originally followed Li Hanxiang to the mainland to work as an assistant director, but out of nowhere he played Xianfeng and became the leading actor.

To say that this experience was too special for Tony Leung, as for Best Actor, he never thought about it from beginning to end. After all, his last nomination was for Best Newcomer.

If he couldn't even win the Best Newcomer, how could he possibly win the Best Actor?

"Leung Ka-fai in "Behind the Curtain"..."

When Lin Zixiang read out the list of winners, everyone around him was completely shocked.

"Jiahui, congratulations on winning the award."

Li Hanxiang never expected that Tony Leung Ka Fai would actually win the award.

"I? I won an award?"

Liang Jiahui looked at Li Hanxiang with a blank look on his face. He couldn't figure out why he had won the award? This was not a dream.