At the 46th Cannes Film Festival in 1993, Zhang Guorong was nominated for the Best Actor Award, but unfortunately lost to the British actor David Huelis, who played the tramp Johnny in Mike Lee's "Naked". Although David is also a veritable acting school, many people do not buy it and are upset for Zhang Guorong, including gary Oldman, a member of the jury at the time and later an acting superstar.
Zhang Guorong in "Farewell to the Overlord"
David Hurris in Naked
Later master performer Gary Oldman
At that time, after Gary Oldman saw Zhang Guorong, he took the initiative to shake hands and praised Zhang Guorong's performance as too wonderful. He said: "You didn't lose, everyone affirmed your performance, but the conference also advised the judges not to give all the awards to the same film." Exactly ten years later, Zhang Guorong committed suicide, and Gary Oldman conquered the global audience with his superb acting skills.
Zhang Guorong and Gary Oldman at the Cannes Film Festival
Coincidentally, at the 47th Cannes International Film Festival the following year, Ge You won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in "Alive" directed by Zhang Yimou. And he and Zhang Guorong also cooperated in "Farewell to the Overlord". I think that The fourth master Yuan played by Ge You in "Farewell to the Overlord" has really entered the realm.
"Alive"
In "Alive", Ge You played Fugui
Ge You and Gong Li in "Alive"
Zhang Guorong and Ge You in "Farewell to the Overlord"
As the world's highest artistic film event, the Cannes Film Festival won the Best Actor Award is the biggest affirmation of the actor, in 1994, when the gods fought, such an excellent film as "Alive" lost to such a pioneering and great work as "Pulp Fiction", which also highlighted the gold content of Ge You's award to a certain extent.
Stills from "Alive"
Pulp Fiction
Fate has never been fair, sometimes it will be tricky, Zhang Guorong in the case of Zun Long asked too high, got the role of Cheng Dieyi, completed the transformation from entertainment star to artist, this is a very extreme opportunity and a great leap, but it lost to David Huris, who did not have obvious advantages, but also because "Overlord Farewell" won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or and other off-site factors, regrettably rubbed shoulders with the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, from the artistic level, this is undoubtedly Chinese mainland entry, The closest to the award.
"Farewell to the Overlord"
As for Zun Long, although he also starred in David Cronenberg's "Butterfly King" and wanted to make his female makeup look amazing to the world, there is no doubt that "Butterfly King" and "Overlord Farewell" are not on the same scale, and he missed the best role in his life.
The Dragon in Butterfly King
The costume of the dragon in "Butterfly King"