The annual event of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, the Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony, will be held at the Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Center on the evening of the 14th. However, under the aura of all the attention, it suddenly broke out with a serious problem - a shortage of seats on site.
It is reported that the Cultural Centre Hall in Tsim Sha Tsui originally had 789 seats, and the Organizing Committee of the Academy Awards decided to make full use of resources to make full use of the resources and distribute the remaining tickets to 122 finalists and 36 award presenters and performers on the premise of maintaining the number of awards for their own use and invitations, so that they can bring their families to attend and present a grand scene as much as possible.
But what is surprising is that when the organizing committee did all this, it found that its own arrangements did not take into account the problems of experts and TV and online live broadcasts, and in order to make enough space for these people and equipment, the lobby needed to remove 126 seats.
In short, there were only 663 people seated at the scene, and 126 people had no seats to sit.
For this reason, Er Dongsheng, chairman of the organizing committee of the Academy Awards, can only take measures to remedy. He first transferred all the members of the organizing committee team and other people who did not need to appear on the camera to the hall building, and then personally called to persuade the guests and finalists not to bring their families to participate or promised to go upstairs to take a seat, and successfully "saved" more than 40 seats. As for the remaining 80 or so, the organizing committee tried its best to solve it.
"I still have a gap of more than 80 sheets at this point. I just want to use the data to tell you that this problem has always existed, and we really can't solve it. This time, I was partly on the phone myself. Er Dongsheng complained to reporters at the event today (12th).
So, since there are too few seats in the cultural center, why don't the Academy Awards be held in a larger venue? Er Dongsheng explained that the organizing committee has seriously considered this issue, but found that each place has its shortcomings and advantages, and the comprehensive conditions of the art center are better.
"We have proposed to hold it in the Red Pavilion, and we have done it several times in our impression, but everyone will have opinions in each place, the cost of the Red Pavilion is still too high, and from the current point of view, the art center is still the most suitable place. Everyone saw the red carpet last year! There is such a beautiful scenery here as Victoria Harbour, and there is no place to replace it for the time being, so we will continue to choose this place to hold it. He said.
In addition, the Shaw Brothers-in-law, a great director who has been in the industry for nearly 50 years, also revealed that considering the fire protection problem, the flow of people will be limited in the red carpet show of the Academy Awards, and only about 200 people can enter the red carpet.
With all due respect, the Academy Awards made a low-level mistake this time, and it is really undeserving that decades of experience in holding it have been like this. Is this an accidental mistake, or is it a problem that has accumulated over a long period of time and is gradually emerging? What are the negligences and loopholes in the operational mechanism and decision-making process behind it? The organizing committee should do a good job of reflection, seriously review, and take resolute and effective measures to solve it.