On the evening of April 16, the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards presented awards, Zheng Xiuwen defeated Zhang Aijia, Mao Shunjun and other senior actresses, and won the film queen for the first time with the niche film "Flowing Water and Flowers", and Liu Qingyun won the Academy Award "Best Actor" for the third time with "Detective Wars".
20 years ago, Liu Qingyun and Zheng Xiuwen collaborated on "I See a Ghost in My Left Eye", and this time they won the award together, which is also a fate.
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Coincidentally, the actor and queen of this year's Academy Awards are all married, but the other half of the two did not accompany the battle, and when Zheng Xiuwen thanked him on stage, he did not mention her husband Xu Zhi'an, which reminded the outside world of Xu Zhi'an's cheating incident.
On stage, Cheng thanked his opponents who competed for the award: Zhang Aijia, Mao Shunyun, Su Yuhua and Yuen Lilin.
In the 33 years of entering the industry, Cheng Xiuwen has been nominated for the "Best Actress" of the Academy Awards seven times, but each time she failed, making her lose her confidence.
For this reason, Zheng Xiuwen felt that "Best Actress" has always seemed out of reach, but sometimes she feels that she is one step away from herself.
She did not directly thank her husband Xu Zhi'an on stage, but thanked her family, probably including her husband, and also thanked her father, who died in 2020, and her younger brother, who was more mature than her.
Zheng Xiuwen said excitedly, "I'm really happy, this time I am finally not running silently on the track, I can finally cross the line, I am the one who crossed the line!" Thank you so much! ”
She was even more happy to sing a song on the spot, singing Jacky Cheung's "I Wait Until the Flowers Also Thank You", which won applause from the audience.
Liu Qingyun won the award and thanked his wife and team staff, "They are detectives, working with abilities that ordinary people may not be able to tolerate, and accepting nuclear explosions once a day." If everyone has a dream, as long as you are willing to work hard and live long enough, the dream will come true one day, so strange and a little regretful, but it doesn't matter, how can the world be as good as it should be... I will accept applause and boos, because it is better than silence. ”
The award giver of the actor is Wu Zhenyu, who has been nominated for "Best Actor" many times, but unfortunately lacked luck and failed to reach the last step, he laughed on stage, "People who have passed by this award six times can touch this award." "Make the audience laugh.
In a backstage interview, Liu Qingyun was asked if his wife Guo Aiming congratulated him, he said that he had not had time to look at his mobile phone, and then said with a classic "citizen Mr. Liu" expression: "I don't know, I haven't looked at my phone yet, there should be, won't it be like this (take the actor)?" ”
"To Nineteen-Year-Old Me", which was controversial before the competition and had announced its withdrawal but was not accepted at the Academy Awards conference, became the "best film" of this year, and director Zhang Wanting did not appear to accept the award.
The original intention of the film was to explore the meaning of education by documenting the reconstruction of the Anglo-Chinese Girls' School and the growth experience of students.
However, after the release of the film, one of the female alumni involved in the filming had negative feelings about the privacy exposure and repeatedly asked the university to remove the film, which had a great impact.
Anglo-Chinese Girls' School posted an article on its website thanking the judges for their affirmation, but because the school decided to withdraw from the selection in February, it did not send a representative to attend the award ceremony.
The university sincerely apologizes to the organizers of the Academy Awards and thanks the organizers for their assistance and understanding over the past few months.
The school would like to thank alumni Zhang Wanting and the production team who served as the director of the film for completing the arduous shooting in an environment with very limited resources, and the six young alumni in the film for their participation over the years.
The school reiterated that there was no intention to force or secretly shoot during the filming of the film, and the school also allowed students to withdraw during the filming period.
In addition, a lot of interesting things happened at the award ceremony, when actresses Danni Wang and Liu Junqian presented the "Best Screenplay" to Wei Jiahui, Chen Weibin and Mak Tianshu of "Detective Wars", Wang Danni did not know how to pronounce the word "Shu" and asked Liu Junqian on the spot, and the scene was a little embarrassing.
When Zheng Xiuwen went to the backstage interview after winning the award, her heartbeat was still very fast, and she had not been able to calm her emotions.
The conference was arranged very well, and the person who presented the award to Cheng Xiuwen was Andy Lau, an old partner who has worked with her for many years.
Andy Lau confessed "I love you" to Cheng Xiuwen as soon as he took the stage, but perhaps too nervous, Hua Zi mispronounced the award-winning film and read "Flowing Water and Falling Water" as "Falling Flowers and Flowing Water".
Zheng Xiuwen said with a smile that these little things are not important, "It is very meaningful to win the award from Hua Zi's hands, on the film road I have repeatedly emphasized that Hua Zi helped me take a big step, at the beginning and Hua Zi played a lot of comedy made me in the film, the film industry has a good start, this time from his hand to win the award is so meaningful, I want to thank Hua Zi again." ”
As soon as she took the stage, she hugged Hua Zi and cried into tears, and the scene was touching.
Zheng Xiuwen did not mention Xu Zhi'an on stage, the reporter directly asked her if she wanted to thank her husband, Zheng Xiuwen said bluntly, "I will go home to thank him, I will definitely go home, he watched live TV all night, before I chose clothes, makeup and styling, he was by my side, cheering me on." So instead of being on stage, I went home and thanked him, he should have prepared something I wanted to eat, such as potato chips. ”
In addition to the queen, Zheng Xiuwen also won the "Best Original Film Song" award:
Zheng Xiuwen has a good popularity, she won the film, many friends in the circle were happy for her, and her best friend Gambi (Chen Kaiyun) posted a post on social networks to celebrate.
Gambie left a message: "Finally, finally, worth it!" MI, I am moved by the recognition of the public for your efforts! It's best to do your best... It's so beautiful to cry, don't panic. ”
In fact, many insiders believe that it is time for Zheng Xiuwen to win the award.
Zhang Aijia said in an interview that among the "Best Actress" contenders, she favored Zheng Xiuwen, "She has changed a lot, the whole person is very humble, and her understanding of the role is deep, I think it's time for her, I think she wins the award." ”
Liu Qingyun and Zhang Aijia have the same opinion, they both feel that Zheng Xiuwen has changed a lot over the years and has the ability to try different roles, "She has been seeking breakthroughs in recent years, and I believe that she will get better and better in the future." ”
After the award ceremony, netizens met Zheng Xiuwen, who celebrated the award with fans on the street, and she took a photo with everyone one by one with the award without a frame.
Zheng Xiuwen has developed smoothly in the music industry, but has not been able to win awards for many years in the film industry, she said that she has been waiting for her acting skills to improve, and when everyone is willing to believe that they can, "From a singer to a filming, it is very difficult to wash away the image of the singer, everyone will think that the character has Zheng Xiuwen's shadow when watching movies, and I have to spend a lot of time to convince the outside world that I am not just Zheng Xiuwen." ”
It is reported that in order to support the film "Flowing Water and Falling Flowers", Zheng Xiuwen performed with zero pay this time.
Cheng Xiuwen began to climb the peak of film in 2000, co-producing "Lonely Man and Widow" with Andy Lau, which made her comedy cells discovered, and was nominated for both the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award that year, but lost to Maggie Cheung.
In 2002, Zheng Xiuwen was a big hit after the film, but because of three films at the same time, including "Weight Loss Men and Women", "Cohabiting Honey Friends" and "Zhong Wuyan", the votes were not concentrated enough, and finally lost to Zhang Aijia, who was nominated for "Long Time and Long Time".
In order to pursue a breakthrough, Zheng Xiuwen once took over the literary film "Long Hate Song", she lost weight and gained weight in a short period of time for the role, and she had extremely high requirements for her acting skills, cared about other people's opinions, resulting in emotional collapse, depression outbreaks, and a three-year stoppage to be able to work normally.
In 2013, Zheng Xiu's diploma "High Altitude Love 2" again competed for the Academy Awards, but lost to Yang Qianwei, who was nominated for "Chunjiao and Zhiming".
The most amazing thing is that Yang Qianwei was accused of being a "replica of Zheng Xiuwen" when she debuted, but she did not expect that the former could overtake on a curve and become a movie queen one step earlier.
There are too many failures, Zheng Xiuwen once said helplessly, "I lost so much that I didn't even have the courage to win."
In recent years, Zheng Xiuwen has actively transformed, successively filming films such as "Murder in San Jose" and "The Taste of Peppercorns", and finally won the film queen with "Flowing Water and Flowers" with the theme of foster families.