Chapter 333: Winning the Award Again

Chapter 333: Winning the Award Again

Chapter 333: Winning the Award Again
In fact, as early as two months ago, "Wolf Warrior" had already achieved some success at this year's 14th Huabiao Awards.

It's just that as for the Huabiao Awards, everyone who knows about it will understand that because of the subdivision of the awards and the large number of double-yolk awards, almost everyone who attended the Huabiao Awards went home with an award, and there were no surprises at all in the award ceremony.

Even Wang Hao, who did not attend due to other matters, still won a prize.

So in comparison, the Golden Rooster Award is more important.

At least as this was the first film festival that Wang Hao was nominated for, he was present in person at the Golden Rooster Awards.

The 28th China Film Golden Rooster Awards was held at the Binhu Convention and Exhibition Center in Hefei, Anhui. Wang Hao and others walked the red carpet and entered the venue. People he met along the way took the initiative to greet him. People like Jiang Yiyan, Qin Hailu, Li Chen, Wang Qianyuan, and Nicholas Tse even came up to him with smiles.

Wang Hao did not act like a big director and responded politely one by one.

"Ah, hello!"

"Hello!"

The crew of "Wolf Warrior" came to their seats in such a star-studded atmosphere. After exchanging greetings with some people in the surrounding seats, the film festival finally began.

The host of this film festival is Wu Gang, the future Secretary Dakang.

He looks a lot younger now and is full of energy. He opened the show on stage by performing a medley recitation of many movie names.

After Wu Gang finished his recitation, there were several more programs before the award ceremony officially began.

The first award presented is the Directorial Debut Award.

Most of those nominated for this award are young new directors, such as Deng Ke (Autumn of Bad Boys), Gao Feng (Eternal Sheep), Lu Yang (Blind Cinema), Du Bo, Guo Zhirong (Blue School), and Jiang Wenli (See You in Heaven).

Well, there is also a non-professional person among us.

However, the final winner was Lu Yang's "Blind Cinema". Wang Hao paid extra attention to this director and was planning to contact him after the film festival.

After all, there are not many good young directors, and those who can prove themselves in the future are even rarer.

For example, Lu Yang, who is only a few years older than Wang Hao, is also a student of Beijing Film Academy and is expected to be extremely successful in the future.

He not only directed "Knife of the Assassin 1" and "Knife of the Assassin 2", but also directed "Assassination of Novelist" and "Wind from Longxi". If it weren't for Wang Hao's previous success, he might have been considered a leader among young directors in the future.

The key is that he is young and has a better ability to accept new things than those old directors. For example, in "Assassination of Novelist", his use of special effects is also quite remarkable, which makes him very suitable for recruitment.

After all, he is now considered a big shot in the entertainment industry. In addition to the employees and subordinates of his own company, he has to gather a circle around him.

Moreover, it is not enough for Galaxy Group to promote the film industrialization system on its own. It must also promote this system to the entire entertainment industry to change the dire situation of the Chinese entertainment industry in the future.

This requires more like-minded young new generation directors to work together.

After the Director's Debut Award, several veteran artists who had received the Lifetime Achievement Award came on stage, and then the Special Filmmaker Award was presented. The winner was Mr. Zhu Xu, a well-known actor in "See You in Heaven".

You may not be familiar with this person's name, but if you mention the role of Puyi in "The Last Emperor", most people will say "Oh".

So he deserves this award. However, due to health reasons, Mr. Zhu Xu was unable to come to receive the award, so the director of the movie "See You in Heaven" Jiang Wenli accepted the award on his behalf.

After the Special Jury Award for Film Actor, the Special Jury Award for Film was presented to "The Piano in a Factory", starring Wang Qianyuan and Qin Hailu.

This art film directed by Zhang Meng has a very touching story and his directing skills are also excellent. It is well-deserved to win this award.

It's just that Wang Hao didn't think as highly of him as he did of Lu Yang. Zhang Meng could be described as a pure art film director, and most of the films he shot focused on small characters and the countryside, which was not suitable for the style of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe].

After giving out two grand jury awards, most of the subsequent awards had nothing to do with "Wolf Warrior".

For example, the Best Screenplay Award was given to "Every Year of Qingming Festival", the Best Supporting Actor Award was given to Xu Caigen from "Reunion", and the Best Supporting Actress Award was given to Guo Ge from "Reunion".

These three awards, and even the Best Actor and Best Actress awards that will follow, are definitely unrelated to "Wolf Warrior". After all, it is an ensemble drama and a science fiction war film, and the actors don't have much room to perform.

However, after three consecutive awards, there are finally a few awards related to the "Wolf Warrior" crew.

The nominees for the Best Cinematography Award include "Aftershock", "White Hua in Autumn", "Love in Taoranting", "Eji", "Urban Fairy Tale", "Sand Shock" and "Wolf Warrior".

In the end, it was the stunning shuttle shot in "Wolf Warrior" that won the Best Photography Award at the Golden Rooster Awards.

Wang Hao was a little surprised by this result. He thought his best chance was to win the Best Art Award.

After all, it is a science fiction movie, so its biggest chance of winning an award still depends on the special effects.

However, the Golden Rooster Awards really can’t keep up with the times. The era of movie special effects and industrialization is almost here, but the Golden Rooster Awards still clings to its original awards.

The Best Original Score and Best Original Music awards were just combined into one Best Music award, and the Best Screenplay award has not yet been broken down into Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay.

Not to mention that the Best Animation is still the Best Art Film. In addition, outdated awards such as Best Science and Education Film and Best Children's Film are still retained, and I don't know what their meaning is.

Of course, if he only looked at the surface, Wang Hao could actually guess the general reason.

Not to mention the director, photographers also have the opportunity to be promoted to directors, many screenwriters are well-known cultural figures, and many soundtracks are also linked to singers.

The people corresponding to these awards often have a certain status, so they can also be considered in film awards.

However, awards such as Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Art Direction are all aimed at those who work behind the scenes.

These people and positions are rarely taken seriously in the Chinese mainland's film system.

Not to mention the visual effects, there are very few movies in China that have special effects, and most of the special effects personnel are programmers sitting in front of computers, and they have no roots in the major associations of the film and television industry.

As for makeup, costumes, art design, and set design, these are all technical jobs to the jury composed of actors and directors. What do they have to do with film art?

There is also editing, which goes without saying. The editing rights of domestic films are mostly in the hands of the director. Editor? They are just following orders.

Therefore, the development of the film industry is not just about the development of grassroots production technology and management methods that Wang Hao and Galaxy Group are promoting, but also requires enhancing the awareness of the entire industry and increasing respect for those equally important behind-the-scenes workers.

As Wang Hao was thinking this in his mind, awards such as Best Music, Best Documentary, Best Recording, and Best Art were presented one after another on the stage.

According to past practice, the four ultimate awards should be the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Feature Film. However, this year was different. After the two young guests came on stage, they first asked each other if they had seen special effects blockbusters, and then introduced the special effects blockbusters in China in recent years that are not inferior to others. Finally, they introduced an additional award newly added to this year's Golden Rooster Awards, the Best Visual Effects Award.

The only three films nominated for this award this year are "Flying", "Wolf Warrior" and "Aftershock".

The final winner of this award was naturally Wang Hao's "Wolf Warrior".

Wang Hao was also very surprised by this abruptly added award. He had just been complaining that the Golden Rooster Awards organizing committee was too out of date and did not know how to keep up with the times, but now they have come up with a new award.

After thinking about it, he realized that this must be the influence of his so-called key cultural project.

At the same time, this is also the result of his insistence on developing the film industrialization and shooting a large number of science fiction films over the past five or six years.

After all, with the increase in domestic science fiction films, the related influence is also increasing, which naturally leads to the organizers of the Golden Rooster Awards having to pay attention to it.

But this is not enough!
When Wang Hao went on stage to accept the Best Visual Effects Award on behalf of Zhang Yang who was not there, he was secretly thinking about it in his heart.

In later generations, people like Jackie Chan and many Internet media will be able to organize their own awards. Given Galaxy Group's current industry status and the nearly 10,000 behind-the-scenes workers signed by Star Culture, it may also be possible to organize a film award to guide the future development direction of the industry.

Of course, this was just an idea that suddenly popped up in Wang Hao's mind. If he really wanted to hold such an award, he would have to wait until Xinghe Film City was completely stable before holding it there.

After receiving the Best Visual Effects Award, Wolf Warrior naturally had no chance of winning Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, or Best Feature Film.

After all, it is rare for a film to win multiple awards at the Golden Rooster Awards. It is very rare for "Wolf Warrior" to win two awards this time.

At least after the award ceremony, the crew members of "Wolf Warrior" were still very happy.

Even Wu Jing, who did not win the Best Actor award, was all smiles and was happy for the honor won by the entire team.

"It's fine for me. Anyway, I'll always have opportunities in the future if I follow Director Wang. This is a good start."

With Wu Jing saying this, it was even less likely that others would have any objections.

The news of Wang Hao and "Wolf Warrior" winning the awards had already caused quite a stir on the Internet on the evening of the awards ceremony. In particular, the suddenly added Best Visual Effects Award was the first time in the many years since the Golden Rooster Awards were established. Almost anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was specially set up for "Wolf Warrior".

This has also made more people aware of the influence of Galaxy Group and Wang Hao in the industry.

After this Golden Rooster Awards, obviously more crews and production companies have come to Galaxy Group for cooperation.

It was under this situation of Galaxy Group's growing momentum that the third official trailer of "Inception" was finally released on major Internet media around the world on November 2011, 11.

Not only domestic audiences, but also foreign audiences have seen this trailer. Its playback volume once ranked among the top on major platforms, and most viewers gave interested comments.

In this version of the trailer, at the beginning, Leonardo's voice is used to introduce the identity of the protagonist he plays through narration.

"There's something you have to understand."

“I am an expert in a particular area of ​​security.”

“Subconscious safety.”

"Are you talking about a dream?" the young man asked.

Leonardo did not answer.

However, the subtitles of [Director of "Wushuang", "Source Code", "Taken", and "Wolf Warriors"] and [Classic work of Wang Hao] were typed out.

Then Shi Qiang stood beside Leonardo and said to the young policewoman played by Shu Chang:
"There is a very important mission that requires you and Mr. Cobb to complete it together."

Shu Chang asked with some doubt: "Is this task difficult?"

The next second, they were chased by cars, shot, and hit by a train on the streets of New York.

"Maybe," Leo's Cobb put his hands in his pockets and said nonchalantly, "We create a dream world."

As these words were spoken, the most classic scene of the city flipping and folding in "Inception" appeared in front of all the audience, causing all the fans sitting in front of the computers to exclaim.

It is a modern wonder created by computer special effects, a bizarre picture unique to dreams.

"We'll give that dream a name."

"They fill their dreams with secrets."

"And you broke in and stole it?" Shu Chang questioned Leonardo while standing on the street in Magic City.

"Strictly speaking, it doesn't matter whether it is legal or not, because the current laws do not yet involve dreams."

In Leonardo's words, more strange scenes unique to dreams appear in the trailer.

“This is Inception.”

Leonardo said solemnly: "I'm ready."

Avalanches, rappelling, spinning tops, lovers, explosions, shootings...

Various images flashed alternately.

"I think I have found a way to go home, and this last action is the key to whether I can go home!"

Leonardo Dicaprio

“In a dream, everything feels very real, and only after waking up do we realize something is wrong.”

Finally, the picture froze on Leonardo's face.

"Come on, let's get started!"

(End of this chapter)