The 37th Golden Rooster Awards has come to an end. There is no doubt that it was a controversial one. "Shady", "outrageous", Lin Baoyi's pity, Zhao Liying's companionship, etc. These terms have all become hot searches. Wang Xiao and Liu Dan won the Best Supporting Actor

html The 337th Golden Rooster Awards has come to an end. There is no doubt that it was the most controversial one.

"shady", "outrageous", Lin Baoyi's pity, Zhao Liying's companionship, etc. These terms have all become hot searches.

Wang Xiao and Liu Dan won the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, and were recognized by everyone. Both of them are powerful actors.

The controversy mainly comes from Li Gengxi, Lei Jiayin, and the selection mechanism of the Golden Rooster Award.

As early as the nomination stage, some people pointed out that Huang Bo in " Crossing the Angry Sea " and Zhu Yilong in " The Mistake on the River " were not nominated.

Putting aside the controversy for the moment, let’s first review this Golden Rooster Award.

1. Best children's film: " Rooftop Football "

The author admits that if it were not for "Zhu Tong Lost His Super Powers in the Third Grade" on this track, I would not pay attention to this award at all.

The other three films are really unpopular. Take the award-winning "Rooftop Football" as an example, the box office was only 1.03 million.

Professional judges do not take box office as a reference, allowing good movies that have been ignored by the market to be recognized and shine through awards. This is worthy of respect.

However, the film received a failing score of 5.9 on Douban, while "Zhu Tong" had a score of 7.7.

The author tried to understand why "Rooftop Football" won the award, and came to a rough conclusion after reading the synopsis and trailer.

That’s the fact that realistic themes are a plus. The movie tells the story of a group of left-behind girls in rural areas who want to be seen.

On the other hand, "Zhu Tong" is too literary and too "sentimental". What is the meaning of a day for a third grader in primary school?

is not only fun for children, but also makes adults miss their childhood.

The fact that "Rooftop Football" won the award may give a glimpse of the judges' award criteria, which is that works that focus on realistic themes and positive energy are more likely to win awards.

In the same way, among the best small and medium-cost feature films, " Away by Boat " lost to " Another Day Full of Hope ", probably because the former was not positive enough.

2, Best feature film: " Article 20"

"Article 20" received a box office of 2.454 billion during the Spring Festival, which means that 52.9 million people bought tickets to watch it.

This movie uses a humorous life flow narrative technique to tell a serious story on the subject of legal education. The more successful

is in business, the more realistic it will be in realizing the practical significance of entertaining and educating.

This film is of immeasurable value in protecting vulnerable groups and popularizing legitimate defense. It can even influence court decisions and change the fate of some people.

This film deservedly won the Best Feature Film award.

Zhang Yimou won the Golden Rooster Award for the 11th time with this film, including 6 times for Best Feature Film and 5 times for Best Director.

However, there is one thing worth thinking about.

The definition of the best feature film should be to honor the collective and the behind-the-scenes heroes of the film industry, that is, the producers and producers of the film.

but cannot be simply and rudely attributed to the director alone. This seems to be disrespectful to the industrialization of the film.

What do you think?

3, Best Screenplay: Han Yan, Li Fu " Let's Shake the Sun Together " (Adapted)

As the director and screenwriter of "Snow Leopard", Wanma Caidan died unexpectedly in 2023, which is sad.

What’s even more surprising is that his original script has to compete with the adapted script.

"Let's Shake the Sun Together" is adapted from documentary literature and many real stories of terminally ill patients.

Director and screenwriter Han Yan has always paid attention to the bottom class and disadvantaged groups. Such creative concepts are scarce and worthy of respect nowadays.

For such a professional awards ceremony, if they all knew how to write "adapted" in parentheses after the script.

Why do you still make such a low-level mistake and let these two types of creators squeeze into the same award?

4, Best Supporting Actress: Liu Dan's "Leaving on a Boat"

This may be the most difficult award to judge at this year's Golden Rooster Awards. The performances of Yue Hong, Xu Fan, Zhao Liying and Guo Keyu are all impeccable.

No matter who wins the award, it is expected by everyone, and their works are very important.

Letting Liu Dan win the award for his role as Su Nian Zhen in "Leaving on a Boat" seemed more like the judges were looking for compensation for the film.

is, after all, the only opportunity for this outstanding niche literary film to shine in this year's Golden Rooster. By commending the actors, I can also encourage the film itself.

The film reflects the alienation between the hometown towns and cities through mothers and daughters.

When facing death and hometown, people gradually discover the truth of life. Su Nianzhen represents us who have lost the connection with our hometown.

5, Best Supporting Actor: Wang Xiao "三级"

Wang Chuanjun's performance in "Desperate" was wonderful enough. The pyramid scheme leader he played vividly showed the dark and ugly side of human nature.

However, it is a bit harsh to let the "bad guy" win the main theme acting award.

"The Three Brigades" is a group drama, and everyone in it is an actor. Zhang Yi, Wei Chen, Zhang Zixian, Yang Xinming, etc. are all good.

Ma Zhenkun, played by Wang Xiao, is more like representing this group of people, representing ordinary but extraordinary, and representing the "three teams" who have refused to accept their fate for more than ten years to receive the award.

6. Best Actress: Li Gengxi "Let's Shake the Sun Together"

Li Gengxi is the first post-00s to win the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. She is too young, only 24 years old this year.

This is the biggest controversial point of this year's Golden Rooster Awards. It beats veteran drama star Ge Zhaomei, middle-aged actor Ma Li and Zhang Zifeng of the same age. It can only be said that the judges of the Golden Rooster Awards are very courageous.

Does Li Gengxi have any acting skills?

She has proven herself through her silence in "The Long Season", but because of the unspoken rule that villains cannot win important awards, she has not been recognized by mainstream awards.

Her performance in the award-winning film cannot be said to be perfect, but at least it is remarkable. She has indeed created a character that people can relate to and empathize with.

Whether she is better than the other 5 people can only be judged by the beholder.

If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight.

Li Gengxi has now been submerged in public opinion, and the only thing she can do is to continue to release good works.

Doubts still exist, which only shows that she is still far away from a real movie queen.

7, Best Actor: Lei Jiayin "Article 20"

Compared with Li Gengxi who attracted all the firepower, Lei Jiayin won relatively smoothly. After all, this year belongs to him.

He has already gone crazy in the field of TV series, and he has continued his good momentum by winning awards in movies.

Just like Sandra Ng, the guest who opened the lottery for Lei Jiayin, joked, "Not bad, not bad."

I personally think that Lei Jiayin is not the best version of himself in this movie, or even the best character in the movie.

Lei Jiayin’s character attributes in the movie are cowardly and non-aggressive, in other words, he is popular.

His role is to set off the brilliance of the roles played by the two women, Ma Li and Gao Ye. His winning the award is a bit like "winning by lying down".

Shen Teng couldn’t win the award entirely because comedy movies held him back.

However, I still feel sorry for Lin Baoyi in " under the day ". His role as Zhang Jianhua is a milestone in his personal performance.

has the kind of amazing performance that can truly create a flesh-and-blood character, and it is unforgettable.

8, Best Director Award: Chen Kaige " Volunteer Army: Heroes Attack "

main theme, large-scale production and volunteer army theme, layer upon layer of buffs.

It would be strange for Chen Kaige not to win the award, which would even make people question whether the Golden Rooster Award is even the Golden Rooster Award.

Just as Director Chen Kaige said at the end in his acceptance speech, "All honors belong to the volunteers" , and I deeply believe that is so.

Would it be more reasonable for Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige to exchange the awards?

If it weren’t for Zhang Yimou’s directorial ability to control the overall situation, it would be difficult to imagine that another person from the Mainland could have filmed "Article 20". After all, there is a lot of improvisation and free play in it.

Postscript

Overall, this Golden Rooster Award was mediocre and the awarding process was boring.

What deserves praise are Andy Lau and Sandra Ng. The former shows his status in the world, he is in the middle, Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou sit on both sides.

The latter’s awarding brought a touch of laughter to everyone and added a bit of uniqueness to this “serious” ceremony.

I originally thought that the horse was sick, and the influence of the Academy Awards would be reduced, while the Golden Rooster Awards could go upstream.

Unexpectedly, in the past few years, it has continued to decline. If it wants to become a true benchmark award for Chinese-language films, there is still a long way to go in the future.

The first thing we need to do is to be open and transparent, tell everyone why we chose this film, and accept everyone’s supervision.

Then be truly fair and just. Don’t award awards for the sake of balance, but from a professional review perspective.

Finally, I hope that we will no longer prepare formal award speeches for award presenters. Let them express themselves freely and be spontaneous. This is the best way to meet filmmakers.

is furious. I also hope that Golden Rooster will get better and better, and hope that there will be changes in the future.(Written by Mu Weizhou)