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Chapter 977 The award ceremony ends, and the controversy expands

Among the three most favored films at the Cannes Film Festival this year, Zhou Xia's "The Price of Love" was the most popular.

The score of 3.8 in the show book also surpassed the other two favored movies, Hungary's "Son of Saul" with a score of 2.8 and "Assassin Nie Yinniang" with a score of 3.5 in China.

Now that there is no "The Price of Love" competition, "Assassin Nie Yinniang" has the highest score, so the chances of winning the highest award will be greatly increased.

The director Hou Xiaoxian and the entire crew were naturally in a good mood, but Zhou Xia smiled and nodded to everyone, of course they didn't know what he meant.

I thought they were all Chinese-speaking filmmakers from both sides of the strait, so he nodded in greeting, so he nodded in return.

Zhou Xia didn't say anything more, and quickly returned to his seat.

Jennifer next to him has recovered from the disappointment just now: "Zhou, congratulations, let me take a look at your trophy."

She said with a low smile, and reached for the trophy.

"Okay, are you okay?" Zhou Xia handed her the trophy and asked with a smile.

"I'm fine, there will be opportunities in the future." Jennifer smiled confidently.

Nicole on the side heard it and nodded with a smile: "Yes, there will be a chance in the future."

After all, the Cannes Film Festival is owned by the French, and they mainly want to see North American awards for an American film.

At this time, the official chairman of Cannes had already come to the stage to announce the winner of the grand prize of the jury, Zhou Xia and the three quickly listened carefully.

"The films that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 68th Cannes Film Festival are "Son of Saul" and "The Assassin Nie Yinniang"."

Hearing this, the three of them smiled and looked at each other, and it turned out that the jury had won the grand prize with double yolks.

The three of Zhou Xia were amused, but they still applauded politely.

But the boos from the audience rang out again, and the applause was not as enthusiastic as when Zhou Xia was awarded the award before.

The three most promising films were all awarded before the highest Palme d'Or was announced, which disappointed the media and audience present.

Zhou Xia raised his eyes to look at Hou Xiaoxian, who was full of confidence just now, and saw the other party's expression was a little disappointed and helpless, but when he saw him looking over, he smiled helplessly, and understood the other party's meaning.

After all, this is an award from France, and the ownership of the award is now clear. Only "The Wandering Pandey" did not win, and the highest Palme d'Or award is naturally this French film.

In Director Hou's eyes, even if he understands the situation, he is still extremely disappointed with the jury's decision.

If other well-received films won awards, it would be well-deserved, but it would seem a bit petty to support one's own family.

Such a gangster immigration movie won an award because it is related to politics and the current European immigration wave, which is naturally unsatisfactory.

Of course, this movie is indeed more in line with the preferences of the Coen Brothers, which is probably why they fully support it.

After director Hou Hsiao-hsien took the stage to thank him, there was no suspense. The older brother of the Coen brothers, Joel Cohen, came on stage and presented the highest Palme d'Or to "The Wandering Paine".

The director of this film is the famous French director Jacques Odi.

Although it has not won any international awards before, it has won many awards in France, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and it can be regarded as a Cannes relationship.

When Jacques Audie and a group of creators came to the stage to give a speech of thanks, the media audience in the audience did not give this compatriot face at all. The boos kept ringing, and there were very few people applauding. Only one third of them, most of them Just out of courtesy.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Xia felt much more at ease.

Winning an award is sometimes a matter of luck.

During this trip to Cannes, he thought he was so lucky. For a lesbian-themed film, there were four female judges on the judging panel, as well as one of his acquaintances, and a few he had met, and the film was well received. , the chance of winning the prize is very high, but now I didn't expect it to be this result...

Just like not winning the director award at the Golden Horse Film Festival the year before last, it made him feel unsatisfactory.

With the announcement of the highest award, the film awards ceremony ended. Finally, under the official organization, several award-winning films and related main creators took a group photo, and then participated in the official press conference.

So far, the 12-day Cannes International Film Festival has finally come to an end.

However, the double-yolk eggs of the two awards, as well as the ownership of the highest Palme d'Or, continue to cause controversy.

When double yolk eggs appeared at the previous awards ceremony, there were massive boos in the infield.

The booing started when the best actress appeared with double yolk eggs, but it was not the two actresses who gave god-level performances in "The Price of Love". Winning the best director, the boos in the venue greatly expanded, and the follow-up "Son of Saul" and "The Assassin Nie Yinniang" won the jury award, and the French film "The Wandering Pandey" won the highest award, and the boos finally reached vertex.

According to the show catalog and most of the media's predictions, the films with the highest ratings and the best word-of-mouth did not win the highest award, which is obviously related to the unique hobbies of the Coen Brothers.

Therefore, in news interviews, the media pointed their finger at the two jury chairmen, the Coen brothers and the seven judges.

Most of the judges are actors or directors, they know the rules very well, and they didn't give any explanation for the selection process.

But one of the two singers, the Canadian judge, told the truth euphemistically, saying that "The Price of Love" won the Palme d'Or in the previous votes, but I don't know why it couldn't pass, and finally voted four times The ticket has the current result.

The meaning of this statement is obvious.

It wasn't that the jury was pressured, and the chairman of the jury forced the judges to continue voting, or that the chairman of the jury was dissatisfied with the award results and asked the judges to change their votes four times in a row.

As for the reason, only the official, the two jury chairmen and the seven judges know best.

The Coen Brothers, who had been questioned by the media because of the controversy surrounding the award, became the target of siege again.

On the contrary, there are fewer interviews with the main creators of several other award-winning films.

The press conference quickly came to an ambiguous explanation from the Coen Brothers and the officials, saying that they chose to re-vote because of the same votes for several other films after several votes.

The media are dissatisfied with such a statement, and there is nothing they can do about it.

Unless the judges reveal the specific details, there will never be the truth.

Although the awards are not satisfactory, it is worthwhile to win two awards after all.

Zhou Xia celebrated with Nicole, Jennifer, Roger and others under Peter's arrangement.

Unlike Jennifer's disappointment, Nicole is in a very good mood.

She has already won the Golden Globe Award, the Oscar Award, and the Best Actress of the Berlin Film Festival before, and now she has won the Best Actress of the Cannes Film Festival, leaving only the Best Actress of the Venice Film Festival. One step away.

"Director, thank you for giving me this role, and congratulations, I hope our movie will get more recognition."

As soon as the celebration dinner started, Nicole happily raised her glass to thank Zhou Xia.

"Hehe, thank you too, thank you and Jennifer for your wonderful performance, I hope that as everyone wishes, our movie will get more recognition."

Zhou Xia looked at Jennifer at the side, then looked at several other people toasting and said.

(End of this chapter)