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Chapter 757 Awards
The awards for the main competition unit were actually very quick. After all, there were only eight awards and there were no performances.

The Best Actor award soon arrived. Phoenix, who was sitting next to Zhang Yang, was inevitably a little nervous when the awards began to be awarded. This was caused by the atmosphere on the scene and no one could avoid it. Unless he's numb!
With a shout out to Sam Mendes: Best Actor winner: Oscar Martinez, "Outstanding Citizen"

Phoenix exhaled, no matter what the outcome was, it was finally over.

Zhang Yang heard the exhalation and turned to comfort him: "Hey, I think there are many best actors waiting for you in the United States."

"Of course, besides today is not over yet, I am still waiting for our movie to achieve great success." Phoenix looked confident.

"I will." Zhang Yang nodded confidently.

Next, after the best actress awards are over. To the Best Director award.

This time, Sam Mendes actually sent a double-yolked egg. As soon as the results came out, after the cameraman finished showing the two award-winning directors, he actually cut the picture to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang smiled when he saw this shot, and he felt numb in his heart, why did he give me the shot when he shot a double yolk egg? Connotation me?

After the Best Director award, it was time for the Jury Award. Zhang Yang raised his eyebrows when he saw the presenters.

There are eight awards in the main competition section of the Venice Film Festival, and in addition to the jury chairman who is the prize draw guest, there are exactly eight members of the jury, and each one of them is responsible for awarding awards.

Until now, the only guest who has not presented the award is Liu Yifei.

There must be something to say here! After all, Zhang Yang was sitting in the audience. Not only Zhang Yang, many people discovered this.

Everyone has a rough guess in mind, but as long as the award is not awarded, everything is unknown.

Soon after the jury awards were awarded, the beautiful host smiled and said: "I would like to invite the best film presenter, Crystal."

After her words fell, the audience applauded as usual. Liu Yifei also slowly stood up, walked to the center of the stage and stood facing the audience, followed by two beauties holding awards.

The beautiful host continued: "I would like to invite Chairman Sam Mendes to announce the Best Picture Award."

Sam Mendes looked at the list with a smile and said slowly: "The winner of the best film at the 73rd Venice Film Festival is: "Joker", Zhang Yang."

After his words fell, there was warm applause and even howls. This time at the Venice Film Festival, the final awards ceremony was so popular,

Zhang Yang won the Golden Lion for the third time and became the first person to win the Venice Film Festival. Moreover, it was his wife who presented the award to her husband. How romantic!
Zhang Yang and Phoenix hugged him. Phoenix smiled at Zhang Yang and said, "Congratulations, director."

"Thank you, this is also due to you." After greeting him, Zhang Yang stood up, buttoned one button of his suit and walked slowly onto the stage.

He came to Sam Mendes first and gave him a hug.

"Director, congratulations to you." Sam Mendes said politely to Zhang Yang.

"Thank you." Zhang Yang thanked him and walked to the center of the stage, where not only honors were waiting for him, but his wife was also waiting for him.

When Liu Yifei saw Zhang Yang in front of her, she said to Zhang Yang in a serious and official manner: "Congratulations."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and took out the golden lion from the award holder behind her and handed it to Zhang Yang.

However, Zhang Yang directly took her hand, then put both hands on Liu Yifei's shoulders, lowered his head and kissed her.

Liu Yifei looked at Zhang Yang's actions and was stunned for a moment without resisting. Otherwise, Zhang Yang would lose face, but she also didn't cater to him. If he catered to her, she would have lost face!
Zhang Yang just touched her lips. He was not crazy enough to kiss her here.

The audience in the audience cheered loudly when they saw this scene.

After the two separated, Liu Yifei gave Zhang Yang an angry look, then turned around and picked up the golden lion and gave it to Zhang Yang.

After Zhang Yang took it, he pretended to say to her: "Thank you!"

He looked at the Golden Lion in his hand. This was the second time he had won the highest award at a foreign film festival after "Parasite". At this moment, he smiled lightly. He raised the trophy in the center of the stage.

Liu Yifei looked at Zhang Yang sweetly and applauded him. The audience in the audience also applauded non-stop. I don’t know who took the lead to stand up first, and then everyone else at the scene seemed to be infected. All the people stood up one after another.

Zhang Yang saw how generous they were and quickly bent down to express his thanks.

The Venice Film Festival does not like to stand up for the winner of the highest award, so they gave Zhang Yang extra courtesy.

After Zhang Yang bent down to thank him, they slowly sat down.

At this time, Zhang Yang stretched out his hand to Liu Yifei beside him, and the two walked hand in hand to the judges' seats. After Liu Yifei let go of Zhang Yang and sat down again at the judges' table, Zhang Yang also shook hands with all the judges one by one. Salute.

Then he stood behind the podium, placed the golden lion on the podium and said loudly: "Thank you to the Venice Film Festival for recognizing me, and thank you to the jury for recognizing my film.
I said that if people still remember the movies I made decades later, it will be because of the actors.

So I would also like to thank Phoenix for his wholehearted performance in this movie. Without him, this movie would not be as brilliant as it is.
I also want to thank Warner Bros. for giving me such an outstanding role as the Joker.
Finally, I would like to thank all the staff of this film, thank you all! "

After Zhang Yang finished speaking, he picked up the golden lion again. At this time, he remembered something again and said into the microphone: "I also want to thank the person who gave me the award."

This time he really finished speaking and walked to the center of the stage again. Zhang Yang took photos of the media with the golden lion and then walked back to his seat.

The 73rd Venice International Film Festival has come to an end.

Zhang Yang became the biggest winner of this film festival.

Zhang Yang, who returned to his seat, couldn't help but exchange pleasantries with the people around him. After a while, Liu Yifei also came to Zhang Yang's side.

Zhang Yang looked at her and said lightly: "Let's go!" Liu Yifei nodded and walked out of the venue arm in arm with Zhang Yang.

The two of them were inevitably surrounded as soon as they left the venue, even with two bodyguards and two assistants blocking them.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Yang smiled and said into a microphone: "Everyone, keep order. I can answer a few of your questions." He had to keep smiling the whole time.

After hearing that Zhang Yang was willing to answer the question, The Hollywood Reporter immediately asked Zhang Yang: "Director Zhang Yang, you have won the Venice Golden Lion Award three times and you have become the first person at the Venice Film Festival. What do you want to say?"

“I hope someone will surpass me in the future, which shows that our film industry is getting better and better.

I can't wait for this day to come. "Zhang Yang gave everyone an unexpected answer, which made everyone take pictures of him again.

At this time, the BBC reporter asked Liu Yifei: Crystal, is there anything interesting about this film review? .

Liu Yifei is a judge of the film festival, and Zhang Yang won the Golden Lion Award. There might be something interesting in it.

Liu Yifei looked calm when facing reporters' questions: You can see from the results that something interesting must have happened.

BBC reporter’s eyes sparkled: Can you elaborate?

Liu Yifei said very honestly: The competition for Best Director this time was extremely fierce. We really couldn’t make a decision, so in the end we had to give out a double-yolked egg. The other awards were not too divisive.

Liu Yifei's answer disappointed everyone. Did they want to hear about the best director? What they wanted to hear was whether there was any disagreement over Best Picture.

A reporter from Corriere della Sera then asked Zhang Yang: Director Zhang Yang, after winning this award, why don’t you read ancient Chinese poetry?
Zhang Yang looked at him inexplicably: Why do I have to read poetry?

A reporter from Corriere della Sera explained: This film festival specially hired more professional translators to deal with the ancient poems you may have spoken.

Zhang Yang really didn't know that there was such a thing. He thought for a while: I didn't know that there was such a thing. If I knew, I would definitely recite one, no, two poems.

The media couldn't help but smile after hearing Zhang Yang's words.

Corriere della Sera continued to ask: Director, what do you think of this film festival? All local Italian films were wiped out.

At the Venice Film Festival, their own country's films were completely wiped out. They must have something in mind.

Zhang Yang did not directly answer this question: I had a lot of things to do this time and came relatively late. I don’t know much about many movies, so I won’t make an evaluation. You should ask Sam.

After answering this question, Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei left.

When he returned to the hotel, Zhang Yang placed the winged golden lion on the bedside table and took a good look at it.

When Liu Yifei changed into her daily clothes and returned to the bedroom, she saw Zhang Yang staring at the golden lion. She asked with a smile: "You already have three seats, haven't you seen enough?"

"Actually, I had the same idea at the beginning, but when I got it, the excitement was no less than the previous two times." Zhang Yang explained to Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei sat down next to Zhang Yang and looked at the golden lion: "People are so strange."

Zhang Yang nodded, turned to look at Liu Yifei, smiled casually and threw her on the bed: "How about we celebrate."

"How do you want to celebrate?" Liu Yifei raised her face and looked at Zhang Yang's face, which was very close at hand.

After she finished speaking, she and Zhang Yang laughed together.

This night was truly:
Thousands of maple leaves cover thousands of branches, and the river bridge covers the late evening sail.

Recalling Jun's heart is like the West River, flowing day and night without rest.

After the noisy night, Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei fell asleep hugging each other. But in China, there was a lot of excitement because of the two of them.

All the domestic media are unified this time, using photos of Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei kissing on stage as their front page headlines. This is all about popularity!

Ordinary people would find this scene so romantic when they see it! The husband won the top award and the wife received the award. It was so dreamy.

People in the industry were speechless watching Zhang Yang win three golden lions, but this time there is a good thing for them.
"Joker" is an out-and-out American movie, and the script is not Zhang Yang's original work, so he can comfort himself.

But because of this, Zhang Yang won the Golden Lion again, and his popularity in the United States took off immediately. The clown is a character that Americans are very familiar with.

Major media in the United States are also reporting on it, and Warner's contribution is indispensable, because this will maximize everyone's expectations for this movie.

All these disturbances did not affect Zhang Yang. On the morning of the 11th, Venice time, he and Liu Yifei set off for Paris.

In the past, I came to see Professor An before the film festival started. This time, because Liu Yifei was a judge, I came to see him after the film festival for the first time.

At this time, they are at the height of their popularity in Europe, so they need to be more low-key.

Although Zhang Yang didn't bring Zhang Hongyi here, it would be okay if he brought a golden lion to show him!
Professor An was indeed a little interested in this golden lion, but only a little. He realized it after looking at it for a while, smiled at Liu Yifei and Zhang Yang and said, "Let's eat first!"

The two nodded. After the three of them had eaten, they chatted for a while and then left. Professor An was also very busy.

By the time they returned home in Beijing, it was already the morning of the 12th. Liu Yifei just tidied up a little before going to see her son. She had not held her precious son in her arms for half a month.

While mother and son were fighting, Zhang Yang put his third Golden Lion in the safe. Looking at these trophies, he felt full of accomplishment.

(End of this chapter)