The nominations for the 4th New Era Film Festival were announced, Wang Baoqiang, Huang Bo, Hu Ge, Dapeng, Yang Haoyu competed for the best actor
On December 10, the list of nominees for the Golden Flower Award of the 4th New Era International Film Festival of SAIC Volkswagen Voran Night was announced in Macau. "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer", "In the Octagonal Cage", "Wandering Earth 2", "Manjianghong" and "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" were nominated for Best Film. Wang Baoqiang, Huang Bo, Dapeng, Hu Ge and Yang Haoyu competed for Best Actor. Hui Yinghong, Haiqing, Tong Liya, Yan Ni and Aliya were shortlisted for Best Actress.
Dapeng ("Warm"), Gao Qunshu ("The Tip of the Knife"), Wu Weilun ("The Poisonous Tongue Lawyer"), Han Yan ("I Love You!") and Deng Chao and Yu Baimei ("Chinese Ping Pong: The Jedi Strike Back") were nominated for best director. Other awards also went to their respective awards. On December 20, the Golden Flower Awards ceremony will be held grandly at the Wynn Palace in Macau.
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The Golden Mayflower Awards of this New Era International Film Festival are selected for domestic films screened in four places on both sides of the Taiwan Strait from September 1, 2022 to December 1, 2023, including a small number of domestic online films that have premiered on mainstream domestic video websites. In the past year or so, outstanding domestic films have been emerging, and 68 films have been shortlisted for nomination.
After careful selection by the jury, four films including "In the Octagonal Cage", "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer", "Warm" and "Vanishing Her" each received 5 nominations, leading the nomination list by a small margin. Five films including "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" "I Love You!" "Desperate", "Changsha Nightlife" and "Full River Red" each received 4 nominations. Films such as "Solid as a Rock" "So Many Years" and "The Eighth Suspect" each received 3 nominations, and several films such as "Fengshen First" and "Wandering Earth 2" received 1 to 2 nominations.
It can be seen that the films that have won multiple nominations for this year’s Golden Flower Awards are close in strength, and no one has an absolute lead. The competition for various awards, especially the best film, is particularly intense.
Among the five films nominated for Best Picture, "The Venomous Tongue Lawyer" makes people feel the charm of the script and lines, and the powerful appeal of the actors’ performances. The film won the box office championship of Hong Kong’s century-old film history Chinese film with a good reputation; "In the Octagonal Cage" is the return of Wang Baoqiang’s director who sharpened a sword for six years. Based on real events, it tells the story of children in Sichuan mountainous areas changing their destiny through fighting, focusing on disadvantaged groups, which is of great practical significance; "Wandering Earth 2" maintains the high level of the first film and represents the highest level of Chinese science fiction films; "Full River Red" reverses many times in a narrow space, which can be called the ultimate suspense narrative, and the ending can also bring emotional sublimation, which is touching; "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" is an absurd and humorous small and medium-cost earthy sci-fi film, which brings surprises to people.
Wang Baoqiang, Huang Bo and others competed for the best actor, Hui Yinghong Haiqing and others after chasing the movie
In the best actor competition, the five actors nominated Wang Baoqiang, Huang Bo, Dapeng, Hu Ge and Yang Haoyu are all superb acting stars. Wang Baoqiang played Xiang Tenghui, the owner of the battlefield, in "Octagonal Cage", in order to change the fate of children in the mountains to form a fighting club, which he well interpreted the kindness and persistence of this role; Huang Bo played Ding Lei, a street dance coach, in "Enthusiasm", portraying the role vividly and vividly, and also played his dancing expertise in the film; Dapeng played Chen Xinwen, the alleged offender on the run in "The Eighth Suspect", which is very different from his previous screen image, and his performance has won wide praise from the industry and the audience; Yang Haoyu’s Tang Zhijun in "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" is equally wonderful, and has previously been shortlisted for this year’s Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor; Hu Ge’s performance in "It’s Worth It" is also impressive, and the success of the idol Pi transforms into a powerful actor. It is not surprising that any of the above five male actors will eventually win the prize.
The five actresses nominated for Best Actress at this year’s Golden Flower Awards are also excellent. Hui Yinghong in "I Love You!" Li Huiru, a lonely and widowed woman who collects waste, has a love affair with the old man played by Ni Dahong. She portrays the subtle psychological and facial changes of the character vividly; Haiqing plays Zhang Guimei in "I Am a Mountain", whose appearance and even walking posture resemble the prototype character, showing the professionalism of an actor; Tong Liya plays the wife who suffered from her husband’s domestic violence in "I Passed the Storm", which well explains the helplessness and despair of the character; Yan Ni plays a middle-aged massage girl Jin Ximei in "The Final Truth", showing the strong role-building ability of an excellent actor; Alia also has a good performance in "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department".
This year’s New Era Film Festival Golden Yanghua Awards also feature Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Most Breakthrough Actor, Most Breakthrough Actress, Most Potential Actor, Most Potential Actress, Best Comedian and many other actor categories, covering three generations of actors, old, middle-aged and young. The old actors are not old, the middle-aged actors are perfect, and the young actors are formidable. Together, they have made their own contributions to the prosperity and development of Chinese films and deserve more honors.
The competition for best director and screenplay is intense, and it is difficult to predict who will win
In a movie, the actors in front of the stage are important, but the directors and screenwriters behind the scenes are the soul of the whole movie. In recent years, excellent directors and screenwriters have been emerging in the Chinese film industry, so the competition for the best director and best screenplay of this Golden Mayflower Award is very fierce.
Among the five directors nominated for Best Director, Wu Weilun is a screenwriter. "The Venomous Tongue Lawyer" is the first film he directed. Through this film, he has shown strong directing ability and narrative ability, and is expected to become the future mainstay of the Hong Kong film industry. Han Yan in "I Love You!" As always, it shows his superb ability to shape characters and express emotions. As a young director, it is commendable to have such a stable directing standard. Although the box office of Deng Chao and Yu Baimei ("China Ping Pong’s Jedi Counterattack") is not good, it shows high artistic quality and is the best work of the two in recent years. Director Gao Qunshu’s "Tip of the Knife" has both the great drama tension and audio-visual impact of spy films in stories, characters and images, and the director’s distinct personal style and expression of beliefs, destiny, human nature and feelings for family and country. It is another masterpiece after "The Wind"; Dapeng’s "Warm" story is very burning and touching, and the street dance scenes are wonderful, showing his increasingly mature directing style.
The screenplay is the foundation of a drama. Among the screenwriters nominated for this year’s Golden Mayflower Awards, Chen Yu and Zhang Yimou ("Manjianhong") have collaborated many times in recent years to produce excellent works. They are veritable gold screenwriters and best partners. This time, it is reasonable to be nominated. The screenwriters of "Going All Out" and "Vanishing Her" have been able to set off a movie-watching boom this summer, and the screenwriters of the two films’ bid for the Olympic Games, Zhang Yifan, Xu Luoyang, Chen Sicheng and Gu Shuyi have played a great role. The excellent level of drama presented to the audience by the screenwriters of "Changan Thirty Thousand Miles" and "Enthusiasm" is also one of the key factors for the success of these two films.
The above-mentioned filmmakers who have been nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay are currently the best in the Chinese film industry. They all demonstrate excellent director or screenwriting skills, making it difficult to give up. It is difficult to predict who will win the prize in the end.
The Golden Mayflower Award of the New Era International Film Festival was established in 2019. It is a film selection event held in Macau, China to promote the "Chinese Dream". It is jointly initiated and hosted by a number of mainstream media in Hong Kong and Macau, with strategic support from the China Entertainment Industry Research Institute, China Film Academy, and China Urban Research Institute.
The first New Era International Film Festival was launched in Macao in January 2019, selecting the top ten films, top ten directors, top ten actors, top ten actresses and top ten screenwriters in the 40 years of reform and opening up, and making a significant impact at home and abroad; the second New Era International Film Festival was held in Macao in October 2020, selecting the top ten film directors, top ten film screenwriters, top ten film actors, top ten film actresses and other awards since the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China; the third New Era International Film Festival was held in Macao in January 2022, publicly recognizing "100 film workers with outstanding contributions" and "100 high-quality films in 100 years". Xia Yan, Tian Han, Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, Xie Jin, Yu Lan, Qin Yi, Tian Hua, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Niu Ben, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Li Xuejian, Chen Daoming, Jiang Wen, Gong Li, Ge You, Jet Li, Wu Jing, Zhang Hanyu, Hui Yinghong, Zhang Ziyi and other old, middle and young filmmakers have all won the Golden Yanghua Award.
On the evening of December 20, the 4th New Era International Film Festival Golden Flower Awards will be held at the Wynn Palace in Macau. Who will win the awards? The mystery will be revealed at that time, let’s wait and see.