Being a director starts with fighting domestic violence

Chapter 224 Flowers bloomed this year

"First of all, I would like to thank the judges! Like Li Shu, I also started learning opera at a young age, and I have never studied acting systematically.

I am very surprised and grateful to be able to stand here and receive this award, especially for such a good work as "General Mulan".

I would like to thank Director Gao You for giving me another chance, and Li Shu and Li Ping for being my good partners. Thank you!" Tong Li bowed slightly to express his gratitude.

There was applause from the audience.

Last year, new director Gao You won the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards for her role in "The Factory Pianist".

This year, Gao You, who has already gained international fame, not only won the Best Actress Award at the Saralin Awards for her role in "Cold Dew".

She also won the Simona Grand Jury Award for "Mulan".

Now "Mulan General" has won the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards at the Golden Gourd Awards, as well as the Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction awards, and its popularity is high.

I guess I’ll win another award later.

This fierce momentum of winning awards has made many filmmakers envious.

If some people still thought that Gao You was just lucky last year, this year, all that is left is sighs and admiration.

Moreover, their box office is very impressive, with both good reputation and box office success.

During that period, domestic films fell further behind, both in terms of technology and ideas.

Over the past decade or so, the older generation of filmmakers has been working hard to catch up and has achieved some results.

But we were always far behind, no matter how hard we tried, we could never catch up.

Now, with young filmmakers like Gao You, people can see more hope.

Many people have also heard that Gao You is not only good at winning awards and having good box office results, but is also very good at making money. He has also sponsored many short films by his senior sisters and classmates, and invested in the filming of TV series.

Such a vision and courage, such a new director, really makes people admire him more.

Then came the Best Screenplay Award.

The award presenter on the stage was a well-known producer in the industry, and he read out Mo Huan's name.

There was an expected joy that fell from the sky and landed on Mo Huan's head.

She has been writing mostly TV dramas before.

This was her first time to be nominated for the Golden Gourd Screenwriter Award, and she was delighted to win the award.

Like Gao You, she came from a poor and backward place. When she was 20 years old, she seized the opportunity of the resumption of the college entrance examination and went to study in Beijing.

He saved up living expenses and tuition by going to school and writing articles. After graduating from college, he was assigned to a newspaper and became a reporter.

Later, I had the opportunity to write scripts for TV series and became a screenwriter.

Now that he has won the prestigious Best Screenplay Award for "General Mulan", Mo Huan looks back on his experiences over the past decade with deep emotion.

"Thank you judges, thank you Jin Hulu for your encouragement. Thank you Director Gao You for asking me to write the script for 'General Mulan', which allowed me to stand here." Mo Huan's speech was not long, but many of his thoughts were expressed without words.

After the Best Screenplay award was presented, the Best Director award came next.

The competition this time is actually quite fierce.

Last year's "Factory Pianist" was a huge hit at the box office, bringing some vitality back to the mainland film market.

Many studios have produced a number of films that were released this year.

For example, "Elegy" directed by Li Guowei, "One Shot to Stop the War" by Wang Chong, "Blind Cow" by director Hu Guang who is good at comedy films, and the historical film "Chasing Eagles".

Two of these films, "Elegy" and "Blind Cow", both found Gao You's company to do the publicity and promotion, and they performed very well at the box office.

Li Guowei's "Elegy" is a biographical film that tells the story of the poet Chen Ru.

Although the film is more literary, Li Guowei insisted on finding Gao You to help with promotion and the effect is indeed good.

Although the box office was only over 8 million, as an art film, it not only recovered its investment but also made a small profit. Li Guowei was already very satisfied.

It turned out that she was right to insist on finding Gao You to do the publicity and promotion!

By finding the right partners and letting others handle the other things she is not good at, she can concentrate on making films. With the box office revenue assured, she will have the funds to make the next film, thus entering a virtuous circle.

These films were also nominated for the Golden Gourd Award for Best Film and Best Director.

The award presenter this time is old acquaintance Director Wang Lan.

Wang Lan couldn't help but smile when she saw the name on the card.

"All the nominees are my old friends. I will be happy for whoever wins. However, today, let's give our applause to our director Li Guowei. The winner is Li Guowei's 'Elegy'!" Wang Lan smiled and applauded.

Li Guowei sat in the audience, feeling excited and somewhat incredulous.

"Congratulations, Director Li!" Ke Ying, the lead actress of "Elegy" who was sitting next to him, congratulated Li Guowei.

"Thank you!" Li Guowei and Ke Ying hugged each other.

After Ke Ying presented the award to Zhao Qing last year, she received an invitation from Li Guowei backstage to act in "Elegy". This time she was also nominated for Best Actress. Although she did not win the award, she was very happy that the director won the award.

"Thank you, judges, and thank you, Golden Gourd. The flowers finally bloomed this year." Director Li Guowei said after receiving the trophy from Wang Lan.

Many of the guests sitting in the audience had also attended the event last year. They still remembered Li Guowei's self-deprecating remark and laughed out loud.

Director Li got what he wanted this year!

The final grand prize, Best Film, was presented by veteran filmmaker Li Shuang.

She is over eighty years old, but still in good health, and her white hair makes her look even more elegant.

She opened the winning card and without any pretense, she directly read out the winner's name.

"Congratulations to 'Mulan' for winning the Best Picture," she said and applauded.

There was warm applause from the audience, congratulating Gao You.

Although Gao You is still a new director, everyone is impressed by "General Mulan".

The quality of these films this year is very high, but "Mulan" is the best among them both from an artistic and commercial perspective.

In particular, "General Mulan" has a huge influence in regions and countries such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, and is about to be released in Europe and the United States.

There are not many mainland films that can have such influence nowadays.

The Golden Gourd Award, which has always been particular about seniority, gave the award to "Mulan General" this year, which can be regarded as a signal.

The mainland film industry needs fresh blood and films like "General Mulan" that can go global.

"Congratulations, Director Gao!" Tong Li and Yu Lishu happily hugged Gao You and congratulated her.

Zhou Can and Qi Fengshou also smiled and were happy for Gao You and applauded her.

Gao You brought them to the stage and received the highest award of the Golden Gourd from Teacher Li Shuang.

"Work hard, we need fresh blood like you." Li Shuang patted Gao You's shoulder to express encouragement.

"Thank you, teacher." Gao You said respectfully.

"Thank you judges, thank you Jin Hulu. I also got my flowers today." Gao You's words successfully made the people in the audience smile.

Director Li Guowei's words last year and this year were turned into a self-deprecating drama by these two people.

“I have come here today, and everything has gone smoothly along the way, thanks to everyone’s trust and support in me, especially the leaders and teachers of Beijing Film Studio and Qingdao Film Studio, who helped me, allowing me to concentrate on the filming without any worries.

So I will return the favor and set up a Women Filmmakers Fund and a Young Filmmakers Growth Fund to support some filmmakers in need every year to help them complete short films or movies. All interested filmmakers are welcome to come to me. " Gao You finally said what she has been preparing for this period of time.

I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you all about it.