Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Li Li
At 17:48 local time on September 26, the winners of the 31st Huading Awards Global Film Satisfaction Survey were released at the headquarters of the Huading Awards in Los Angeles: "Creed" won the "Best Picture", Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the "Best Director" with "The Spy's Wife", Italian actor Elio Germano won the "Best Actor", American actor Francis McDoman won the "Best Actress", Chinese actor Fan Wei won the "Best Supporting Actor" with "One Second", and American actor Amanda Seyfried won the "Best Actor" with "One Second". Mank won "Best Supporting Actress".
"Creed" won the "World Best Picture"
This year's Huading Awards Global Film Satisfaction Survey, which selects outstanding films released worldwide from January 1 to December 31, 2020. On September 16, after the announcement of the nomination list of this year's Huading Award, the organizing committee launched a public satisfaction survey on the nomination list around the world, and the jury finally selected the awards on this basis and combined with the opinions of expert judges.
Two awards were announced when the nominations were last announced because they did not require nominations: the Chinese film "Eight Hundred" won the first place in the global film satisfaction survey, and the 84-year-old British national treasure actor Anthony Hopkins won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Among the 10 awards selected this time, Nolan's "Creed" won the "World Best Picture", Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the "Best Director" for "The Spy's Wife", and Indian screenwriter and director Chaitania Tamhani won the "Best Screenplay" for "Believer".
"Creed" is an imaginative science fiction film, despite the brain-burning plot and complex narrative, it still won the love of many audiences around the world, with a global box office of 353.5 million US dollars, ranking fourth in the global film box office list in 2020. Its artistic quality and visual effects have also been recognized by the industry, and it has been nominated for "Best Art Direction" and "Best Visual Effects" at this year's Academy Awards, and has also been nominated and won the Visual Effects Award of several film awards.
Previously, Nolan's "Inception" and "Dunkirk" had been nominated for the Oscars, Golden Globes and the British Academy Film Awards for "Best Picture", but they were not able to win the most. "Creed" won the Huading Award for "Best Picture" in the world, which is the first time that a film directed by Nolan has won the Non-Science Fiction International Film Award.
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa won best director for "The Spy's Wife." This is the second time he has won the Silver Lion Award for "Best Director" at the 77th Venice Film Festival last year for the film. As a Japanese director, Kiyoshi Kurosawa reflected on Japan's invasion of China in "The Spy's Wife" and exposed the fact that the Japanese 731 unit was experimenting in China.
Looking at the list of winners of the 12 awards of this year's Huading Awards, a total of films and filmmakers from six countries, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan and India, have won awards. Among them, Chinese films and filmmakers have won two major awards, which means that China is moving towards a film power.
"Post-80s" Italian actor won the award
In the competition for the "Best Actor" in the world at this year's Huading Awards, the famous Italian actor Elio Germano defeated Strong opponents such as Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Andy Lau and Lee Bingxian with his wonderful performance in "I Want to Hide".
Born on September 25, 1980 in Rome, Italy, Elio Germano is only 41 years old, the youngest of the five actors nominated for "Best Actor" at this year's Huading Awards. But his years from the film are not short, and his acting strength is also very strong. He entered the film industry as early as 1999 and has won the "Best Actor" award for the Italian film David three times in his 22-year film career. In May 2010, at the age of 30, Elio Germano won the "Best Actor" at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival for "Our Lives" directed by Daniel Luquetti.
In January 2020, Elio Germano won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the 70th Berlin Film Festival for "I Want to Hide". In the film, the fragility, madness, innocence and shyness of the Italian painter Antonio Ligapol are all brilliantly interpreted by Elio Germano. This time to win the Huading Award for "Best Actor" in the world with this role again, in fact, it is not an upset, but a strength.
In the competition for "Best Actress", the 64-year-old American actor Francis McDoman, a three-time Oscar winner for "Best Actress", laughed to the end. McDoughman won "Best Actress" at the 69th Academy Awards as early as 1996 for "Ice Storm". In 2018, she won the award again for the film "Three Billboards".
Fan Wei won the "Best Supporting Actor"
The competition for "Best Supporting Actor" at this year's Huading Awards is equally fierce. In the end, Chinese actor Fan Wei won this heavy award by playing the role of "Fan Film" in Zhang Yimou's film "One Second", defeating powerful competitors such as Daniel Kalua, Sasha Byron Cohen, and Kim Carey.
Fan Wei, 59, is a well-known power star in China, and is familiar to audiences for playing comedic roles. He is also good at interpreting all kinds of small characters, and has won many film awards at home and abroad. In "One Second", he plays the "Fan Film" with a bit of comedy, and the process of leading the farm audience to wash the film film is impressive. He portrays the character's vanity, cowardice, focus and kindness, making the character one of the most brilliant characters in the whole film. Director Zhang Yimou's popularity among film audiences around the world has also increased Fan Wei's popularity in this year's Huading Awards public satisfaction survey.
The 36-year-old American actress Amanda Seyfried won this year's Huading Award for Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in "Mank", proving that in addition to sexiness and beauty, she also has superb acting skills.
19-year-old American actress Talia Ryder won the "Best New Actor" for "Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always", and although Chinese actress Liu Haocun regrettably failed, she had previously won the "Best New Actor" in the 30th Huading Awards Chinese Film Satisfaction Survey.
In addition, "Journey of the Mind" won "Best Animated Film" and "Chicago's Trial of the Seven Gentlemen" episode "Hear My Voice" won "Best Movie Song".
Insist on doing the "Global Audience Word of Mouth Award"
The Huading Awards is the "Global Audience Word of Mouth Award" and enjoys a global reputation, with its Current China Operation Headquarters in Macau, China, the Asian Operation Headquarters in Hong Kong, and the Global Operation Headquarters in Los Angeles. Each year, the Huading Awards China Film and TV Series Satisfaction Survey is released in Macau, China, and the Global Film Satisfaction Survey is released in Los Angeles.
2013 was the beginning of the globalization of the Huading Awards, and the famous Oscar producer Don Michel joined the Huading Awards. Don Michelle is an internationally renowned television program and event live broadcast director and producer who has won numerous Emmy Awards, the 2012 Producers Guild of America Awards, and several National Directors Guild Awards, and has led top events and programs including the Academy Awards Gala, the opening ceremony of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, and the National Football League (Super Bowl) midfield show.
Don Michel said that his joining stemmed from the recognition of the Huading Awards: "Actually, I don't value the Oscars too much, it's just a small part of my work, so I don't want to talk about it too much." The Oscars are an academy award, which is judged by filmmakers to evaluate the quality of these films, and the awards are selected from this. I value the Huading Award more because it is a choice of people's will, and it can better represent the true will of many film fans. ”
In June 2014 and December 2016, the 12th Huading Awards and the 21st Huading Awards Global Film Satisfaction Awards ceremony were held in Los Angeles. Natalie Portman, Hilary Swank, Mel Gibson, Scarlett Johansson, Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Hanks, Sylvester Stallone, Adrian Browdy, Orlando Bloom, Harry Berry, Quentin Tarantino, Nicole Kidman, Chris Hemsworth, Nicolas Cage, Lavigne Lavigne, Jean Jacques Arnold, Naomi Watts, Michael Mann, Michael Bolton, Clint Eastwood and many other Hollywood stars have attended the Walter Awards.
In recent years, the Huading Awards have continued to survey and select the public satisfaction of global films, and release the list of winners in Los Angeles every year. Wang Haige, chairman of the Huading Award, said that the globalization of the Huading Award is firm and will continue to hold a grand offline release ceremony in the future. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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