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"Death Gold"
【The mystery of the Hong Kong Film Awards: "Deadly Gold" met "Sister Peach" lost, what if it was "Informant"? 】
The literary and artistic drama film "Sister Peach", released on March 8, 2012, is a breakthrough in Andy Lau's acting skills and a peak moment in honor. With this film, Andy Lau won the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards for the first time, two Best Actor Awards, and also won the Academy Awards Best Picture Award as an investor.
After that time, Andy Lau won the Best Actor Award at the 3th Golden Film Awards and the Best Actor Award at the 2nd Golden Horse Awards.
Liu Qingyun won the first Golden Horse Award for Best Actor at the first Golden Horse Awards for his crime drama film "Deaththrough Gold", released on February 3, 2012; unfortunately, at the Hong Kong Film Awards in the same year, he lost to Andy Lau of "Sister Peach".
"Deadly Gold" is a jianghu film that uses a metaphorical story full of black humor to reveal the mysterious fates of various characters in the background of reality. On Douban 7.3 points, Du Qifeng won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director, and Lu Haipeng and Su Xingxuan won the Best Supporting Actor Award.
It can be said that "Deadly Gold" is a good quality film of Du Qifeng's galaxy image, but it still has to lose when it encounters "Sister Peach" with a Douban score of 8.3 points, which may be the mystery of the Hong Kong Film Awards.
In addition to the Us Academy Awards, the most international status and influence are the three major international film festivals in Europe, namely the Venice International Film Festival, the Cannes International Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival.
In addition to influence and professionalism, the three major International Film Festivals in Europe are also extremely inclusive, accepting films from all over the world to participate in the election, and Chinese films have also achieved excellent results in the three major European films, thus becoming famous in the world, such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and so on.
Many literary and artistic films are especially popular with these international film festivals, so many Chinese films will choose to participate in the three major international film festivals in Europe first, and after obtaining the corresponding international honors, they will return to their hometown and be released in China.
Such an operation will not only help the growth of the film's box office, but also affect its participation in other Chinese film awards in the future.
The Berlin International Film Festival is now held every year in February, the Cannes International Film Festival is held in mid-May every year, and the Venice International Film Festival is held around September every year.
Although "Sister Peach" was released in March 2012, it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2011 and won five awards, including Best Actress, and in November 2011, it also participated in the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, winning three awards for Best Actor and Actress and Best Director.
Therefore, after its release on March 8, 2012, at the Hong Kong Film Awards in April, "Sister Peach" was definitely the number one hit.
In the end, "Sister Peach" received a total of 8 nominations, including best actor and actress, best screenwriter, best director and best picture, a total of 5 awards, becoming the biggest winner.
At the 68th Venice Film Festival, "Deadly Gold" also participated in the main competition unit, but unfortunately none of them won.
At the Hong Kong Academy Awards again, I met "Sister Peach" 'Deadly Gold', got 8 nominations, and finally lost the best picture, best director and other awards, and won two awards for best supporting actor and actress, which is already a blessing in misfortune.
More fortunately, "Deadly Gold" did not participate in the 48th Golden Horse Awards in 2011, but participated in the 49th Golden Horse Awards in 2012, and finally won three awards: Best Actor, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
At all film festival awards ceremonies, literary and artistic feature films full of humanistic colors are generally more popular with the judges; and those commercial films that target the box office market will not have excessive ambitions for various film festival awards.
Therefore, in terms of themes, "Deadly Gold", which is full of jianghu flavor, and "Sister Peach", which is pure literature and art, have almost no chance of winning.
The director of "Sister Tao", Xu Anhua, has won the Hong Kong Academy Awards for Best Director 4 times for Best Picture, and the director of "Deadly Gold", Du Qifeng, has won 3 times best director and 2 best films, which is the gap. It is not that Du Qifeng's level is not as good as Xu Anhua, but on the stage of various film festivals and Academy Awards, Xu Anhua, who still focuses on making literary and artistic films with humanistic themes, is almost invincible.
Therefore, at the same film awards, Andy Lau of "Sister Peach" won the film emperor, and Liu Qingyun of "Deadly Gold" lost.
If "Death Gold" participated in the Hong Kong Academy Awards a year earlier and faced the biggest opponent became Nicholas Tse of "Informant", then Liu Qingyun's chances of winning would be great.
Similarly, if Liang Chaowei, who won the cannes International Film Festival with "Fancy Years", ran for the Hong Kong Academy Awards a year earlier, Andy Lau of "Dark War" that year was also very dangerous; but if he encountered "Sister Peach", everything is difficult to say.
So, the Academy Awards are unfair because it's not the best actors who win the awards; the Academy Awards are also fair, and the actors who won the awards are at least the best in that year.