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Chapter 976 Double Yolk Eggs and the Disappointing Jury
The jury's comments on the film continued on the big screen. Zhou Xia just recovered from the shock when he heard a lot of boos from the audience.

Just now, the best actress was Double Yolk, which was won by Nicole Kidman and that French actress. The media and audience booed it, but not so loudly.

He didn't pay much attention, but the booing was clearly much louder this time.

The reason for this is very simple. As the most promising film in Cannes this year, "The Price of Love", it only won the best director, which means that it has no chance of winning the highest Palme d'Or.

The media judges and audience in the audience were naturally dissatisfied and scoffed at the jury's unprofessional decision.

Speaking of the Cannes Film Festival, it has been held for 68 times so far, but the "double yolk eggs" has never stopped.

Generally, the film festival jury award is a high-yielding place for "double yolk eggs".

Sometimes for balance, multiple films have won the award at the same time.

For example, in 1989, Bertrand Brier's "Too Beautiful" and the famous Italian director Giuseppe Donatore's "Cinema Paradise", the following year Idessa Udregu's "Law" and Oguri Kohei "The Sting of Death".

In addition, Lao Mouzi's "To Live" and Nikita Mikhalkov's "Poisonous Sun" also won the award at the same time.

That's not counting, even the highest Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival has had a double yolk egg several times.

In the 1993th Cannes Film Festival held in 46, "Farewell My Concubine" directed by Chinese director Chen Kaige and the Australian film "The Piano Lesson" directed by New Zealand director Jane Campion won the Palme d'Or, the highest award of the film festival. ".

This is the first time the Cannes Film Festival has voted unanimously to award the Gold Award to two films at the same time.

In the 59th edition, because the Chinese director Wang Jiawei served as the chairman of the jury, it seems that the tradition of multiple awards has also been brought to the past.

Since the actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival are not divided into roles and protagonists, the number of award-winning actor and actress reached 11 that year!
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's "Return" helped six actresses in the film win the best actress award, while the best actor was shared by five actors in Algeria's "Day of Glory" !

Therefore, it is inappropriate to say that only Nicole won the best actress award and Jennifer did not win the award before. It is still a double yolk egg, and the other is a French actress, which naturally aroused booing from many media.

At the moment, the most popular film in this year's film festival, "The Price of Love", which was created by Zhou Xia, two Oscar queens and master Roger, with a score of 3.8 in the show magazine, only won the best director award, so let The media and audience were very dissatisfied.

If before Nicole won the best actress award, Zhou Xia's chance of winning the highest Palme d'Or for this movie was only 20%, and now that Zhou Xia won the best director award, it means that the chance of winning the highest palme d'or may be zero.

There are only two awards left, and there are three films that have not yet won awards: "Son of Saul", "The Wandering Pandey", and "The Assassin".

Isn't the result clear?There must be an award for double yolk eggs!
The audience booed louder, and these were the reasons for their dissatisfaction.

The host on the stage saw that the booing was still growing, and was a little panicked. Before the evaluation of the film and the director on the big screen was over, he announced loudly that he would invite Zhou Xia to come on stage.

Zhou Xia also knew in his heart that if the film that won the highest Palme d'Or in the future had a double-yolk egg, the boos would probably be louder.

But this is also a foreign film festival, and sometimes the judges of the jury come out to take the blame.

Nine members of the jury will provide professional advice, but official staff will still add some requirements.

Even if an American and world-class director like the Coen Brothers is invited to serve as the chairman, of course they still have to give face to the authorities.

Zhou Xia was disappointed with the jury and the judges, but also helpless. After embracing Nicole, Jennifer, and Roger next to her, she hurried up to the podium.

"Congratulations, Zhou." Ethan Coen looked a little embarrassed, and handed the trophy with crystal golden palm leaf and the rolled certificate to Zhou Xia.

"thanks, thanks."

Zhou Xia took the trophy and certificate and hugged the other party. Looking back, he saw nearly a thousand people in the audience. Seeing that the booing was gone, they all applauded enthusiastically for him, and his mood became a little excited again.

This award really exceeded his expectations.

Originally, before the start of the film festival, he thought that [-] to [-]% of the highest Palme d'Or would be won because of many favorable aspects. ,
But after Nicole won the best actress just now, he knew that it was basically impossible, and the chances of other awards in the future would be even smaller.

After being disappointed, he won the Best Director Award unexpectedly. This jury is really elusive.

Zhou Xia raised the trophy in his hand and looked at it, bowed like the audience to thank him, then stared at the trophy, thinking about the words of thanks.

This Palme d'Or trophy is very beautiful, not the usual cup shape.

It is a rectangular crystal slightly larger than the palm of your hand. A golden palm leaf is inlaid in the crystal like a star. The whole is like an amber fossil, very bright and beautiful.

"Thank you, the chairman of the jury, the Coen Brothers, the other seven judges, and the media judges.

This is my first time in Cannes. This city is so beautiful. To receive such a high honor in this paradise-like place is the greatest affirmation for me and a new beginning of my director career.

I hope that I will shoot more and better films in the future, come to Cannes again, share them with everyone, and enjoy the happiness that films bring us.

Finally, I would like to thank my two leading actresses, Nicole and Jennifer, both of whom are the best actresses in the world. Without their contributions, our movie would not exist.

At the same time, I would also like to thank the photographer Roger, his work has given me great help, making it so easy and complete for me to direct my first English film, thank you for the soundtrack, producer..., thank you for my company, and finally special thanks My family, for their unselfish support, gave me time to work, thank you. "

Zhou Xia didn't use any flashy words, mainly to thank all those who helped him.

When thanking at the end, he glanced at Yufei who was present, and then looked at the camera. The meaning was very simple, that is, he was thanking Yaya, Xiaohu, Yufei and others.

Especially when Xiaohu and Yaya were pregnant, he was still busy with work, and they didn't say anything.

After thanking, Zhou Xia slowly walked off the podium amidst warm applause from the audience.

When he walked past the crew of "Assassin Nie Yinniang", he couldn't help but nodded apologetically to the director Hou Xiaoxian.

The award was supposed to be his.

Director Hou, Shu Qi, Zhang Zhen and the others were all taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile.

Seeing the expressions of these people, Zhou Xia thought of something, and quickly walked over.

He apologized because he won the best director, but Hou Xiaoxian didn't understand what he meant, so his behavior naturally seemed a little weird.

At the awards ceremony for the closing ceremony of the film festival, several film crews present were notified that they would win awards, but they didn't know what awards they would win.

From this point of view, of course, the later the award is announced, the greater the possibility of winning the highest Palme d'Or.

Now there are only the Jury Prize and the highest Palme d'Or.

Then "Assassin Nie Yinniang" is obviously one of the awards, but it should be something to be happy about.

(End of this chapter)