Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 186: Golden Horse

Li Qiutang has always had a bad luck in winning awards. Apart from the year when he won several genre film awards abroad for Comet, Li Qiutang has rarely won comprehensive film awards.

But he himself doesn't care. He wants the box office and awards, so it's impossible for him to get all the benefits.

But being nominated is a kind of affirmation after all, so Li Qiutang still came to Wandao to support "The Sound of Wind", especially to support the actors who were nominated for the award.

The crew of "The Sound of Wind" has received good nominations and is also a favorite to win the award, and is highly regarded by the media.

It is worth mentioning that of the two beauties in the same drama who were nominated for the Best Actress, Li Bingbing came, while Zhou Xun was absent "due to schedule reasons."

In fact, Li Qiutang personally placed her bet on Li Bingbing for the Best Actress award, thinking that she had a greater chance of winning than Zhou Xun.

"Because Zhou Xun already has one, and it's only been three years, it would be a bit too much to give her another Best Actress award." Li Qiutang said this unpleasant truth privately to Li Bingbing, and she also expressed her understanding.

Putting aside these unconventional tricks, Li Bingbing's performance in "The Whistleblower" is remarkable and she fully deserves the Best Actress trophy.

Li Bingbing arrived in Taiwan a day earlier to attend the cocktail party, while Li Qiutang and Huang Xiaoming only landed on the island on the day of the award ceremony.

Huang Xiaoming didn't want to come at first, as he was very busy with work at the end of the year, but Li Qiutang urged him to come: "You have a great chance of winning the Best Supporting Actor award, and your only competitor is Wang Xueqi."

With just one sentence, he was lured to Wandao.

This year is indeed a weak year for the Golden Horse, which, to put it bluntly, is a good time to steal chickens.

According to the Golden Horse Awards rules, each award has a maximum of five nominees. However, this year, except for Best Feature Film and Best Supporting Actor, the other major awards were not filled, and the Best Animated Feature Film was even absent.

Both leading actresses of "The Whistleblower" were nominated, but she was not even nominated for Best Actress.

This is also an important reason why Yuan Quan flew to Taiwan Island to attend the award ceremony even though she was pregnant. This year is a small year, and her chances of winning the Best Actress award are very high. No one can predict.

Although they were competitors, Li Qiutang and Li Bingbing still went to Yuan Quan's room to visit him.

They chatted for a while before parting.

Li Bingbing said: "They are a perfect match."

Except for Gao Yuanyuan who intervened in the middle, the relationship between Xia Yu and Yuan Quan is generally recognized in the circle.

Li Qiutang said with a smile: "If you win the Best Actress award, you can also date someone, and they will also be a perfect match."

Li Bingbing laughed and said, "I want to talk? Who should I talk to? You?"

"No, that won't work. I don't like people who are older than me." Li Qiutang said with a smile.

The two chatted and laughed and went back to their rooms.

Before the ceremony begins, the crew of "The Sound of Wind" will conduct interviews.

Li Qiutang was chatting with a journalist friend of Xinlang.

"Don't ask who will win the award. Such questions are too offensive." Li Qiutang begged, "I wish everyone in my crew would win the award, but this is obviously impossible."

Not allowed to predict the awards, Xinlang reporter stabbed Li Qiutang directly in the heart: "You were not nominated for Best Director, what do you want to say?" When the Golden Horse Awards announced the shortlist, Li Qiutang was still filming and refused any interviews.

Li Qiutang said: "The original novel of The Sound of Wind is brilliant enough. As long as we shoot it honestly, it won't be bad. This drama is meant for the actors to perform. I don't take credit for it. It doesn't matter if we didn't make the finals."

At the end of the interview, Xinlang reporter mentioned something other than the movie: "Director, do you know Weibo?"

"know."

"Have you activated it?"

"It seems not." Li Qiutang has been very busy recently and he didn't even know that Xinlang had opened a Weibo account.

"You can open one for fun. Many celebrities have opened our Weibo accounts."

"Who's playing now?"

"Yang Mi, Xie Na, Tang Yan, Yao Chen, Liu Shishi and Hu Ge, many people in the circle are using Weibo, it's very popular."

"Oh, okay, I'll go back and take a look."

It’s difficult for the reporters as they have to promote the company on Weibo.

The crew of "The Sound of Wind" was at the front of the red carpet. Li Qiutang brought a group of people to the red carpet, including the leading actress Li Bingbing, supporting actors Huang Xiaoming and Zhang Hanyu, and the shortlisted technical department.

Several people stood in the interview area. The two hosts were quite polite and asked Li Qiutang what she felt when she first came to Wandao. Li Qiutang naturally said that Wandao was fun, the food was delicious, the scenery was beautiful, and it was worthy of the name of the treasure island. At the end, she said: "Actually, I just rubbed the red carpet with several nominated actors of our "The Whispering Wind". I am ashamed."

"You're welcome, Director."

The protagonists of the red carpet are of course Li Bingbing, who was nominated for Best Actress, and Zhang Hanyu (Li Mi's Guess) and Huang Xiaoming, who were nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

These three veterans all said they were here to attend the event and did not mention their ambition to win awards.

After sitting in the venue for about half an hour, the award ceremony began and the host came on stage.

The first award was for Best Art Design, and the award presenters were Li Bingbing and Zhang Jiahui.

It is well known in the circle that Zhang Jiahui's Mandarin is poor, so he tries not to speak.

"Hello everyone, I'm Li Bingbing."

"Hello, everyone." That was it.

Li Qiutang was laughing in the audience and asked, "Why didn't you say the next half sentence?"

But the award presenter must chat a few words on the stage, and Zhang Jiahui's poor Mandarin is very funny.

Li Bingbing must be very tortured: "Our performance is also a mess, come, let's watch the nominated films, please look at the big screen."

The lottery draw was also done by Li Bingbing himself, and Zhang Jiahui said, "I saw it, you come."

"The Sound of Wind" unfortunately failed to win the Best Art Design Award.

The two then presented the Best Supporting Actress award, which was won by Kara Hui.

Li Qiutang went to the restroom during the show, and when he came back, the two guests on the stage were opening the Best Supporting Actor contest. Of the five nominees, only three showed up.

"I think every one of the finalists is very promising. I'll take a look."

"Hey? The Sound of Wind, Huang, Xiao, Ming."

There was warm cheering and applause at the scene.

Huang Xiaoming really didn't expect this. When the camera turned to him, he still looked incredulous.

Li Qiutang pushed him and he stood up. He hugged Li Qiutang first, then Li Bingbing, then Wang Zhonglei, and then shook hands and hugged the friends who came to congratulate him.

"I..." Huang Xiaoming was so excited that he couldn't even speak, "I still can't believe this is for me." Huang Xiaoming's acting skills have always been questioned.

“This is the first film award of this magnitude that I have won.

"Thank you Director Li Qiutang, thank you very much. Thank you to the crew of The Sound of Wind, thank you Bingbing, thank you Golden Horse Organizing Committee, thank you very much."

Huang Xiaoming couldn't think of any other words except thank you. He was so happy and excited that he finally won the Golden Horse Performance Award.

Huang Xiaoming bowed slightly and left the stage. He was really afraid that if he continued speaking he would burst into tears on the stage.

When being interviewed backstage, he kept thanking the crew of "The Sound of Wind" and Li Qiutang, and even ignored the age difference and called Li Qiutang his "noble person on the road to film."

Even though he played villains in both dramas directed by Li Qiutang.

An hour later, Shu Qi and Anthony Wu won the Best Actress award.

"The Sound of Wind, Li Bingbing."

Li Bingbing burst into tears. She really wanted to win the award.

Holding the Golden Horse Award, Li Bingbing burst into tears: "I didn't expect that I would have another chance to come up. I don't know what to say. I'm sorry."

Li Qiutang believed that Li Bingbing's excitement and helplessness on the stage were real, and she was completely at a loss.

She is the oldest among the big stars and needs results the most, whether it is box office or awards.

She thanked Huayi, Li Qiutang, the crew, and her team.

"The director doesn't allow us to drink on the set, but I must toast you tonight." She went down in tears.

At this point, "The Whistleblower" lost all technical awards, but won two heavyweight acting awards for supporting actor and leading actress, which can be said to be a good harvest.

(End of this chapter)