Jimu News Chief Reporter Rong Yu The 37th Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Films came to an end on the evening of August 4, and the winner of the new Hundred Flowers Award attracted the attention of the entire network. Since the Hundred Flowers Award is determined by live voting

Jimu News Chief Reporter Rong Yu

The 37th Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Films came to an end on the evening of August 4, and the winner of the new Hundred Flowers Award attracted the attention of the entire network. Since the Hundred Flowers Award is determined by live voting, the final number of votes received by each nominee is directly displayed on the big screen on the stage. Sharp-eyed netizens discovered that when selecting the Best Actor award that night, 36 of the 101 public judges chose not to vote.

The judges did not expect to "abandon" 36 votes

As the two oldest and most well-known film awards in China, the Golden Rooster Award is known as the "Expert Award" because of its authority and professionalism, while the Hundred Flowers Award is known as the "Expert Award" because of its focus. The appreciation taste of the general audience is defined as the "Audience Award". Therefore, the judges of this Hundred Flowers Award are not scholars or experts in the film industry, but 101 grassroots audiences who truly love movies and actively support Chinese movies. Ms. Yu won the first prize in the provincial film review competition, successfully passed the online interview of the organizing committee, and finally joined the jury of this year's Hundred Flowers Awards.

According to Ms. Yu, she arrived in Chengdu on July 25, and the next day she and 100 other judges began intensive viewing of films: “No matter whether you have seen these films before, the organizing committee requires us to submit all nominations. Watch the film again collectively to ensure that when voting on the evening of August 4, each judge is very familiar with the nominees and nominated works for each award. "

In Ms. Yu's impression, the average age of the judges of this year's Hundred Flowers Awards is 35. Around the age of 90, mainly those born in the 1990s, the judges as a whole are relatively young. Ms. Yu emphasized to the Jimu News reporter that from the time she arrived in Chengdu to the end of the award ceremony, no one came to "greet" or "give hints" to the judges. "Each of our judges just said what they liked, which movie they liked, Whichever character you like, you just follow your heart. Everyone usually expresses their opinions during discussions, but they don't affect each other."

talked about the issue that netizens are most concerned about - why 36 of the 101 judges are in the Best Actor category. Opting out of voting for awards? Ms. Yu said that before the award ceremony began, all the judges’ mobile phones were collected. She only saw the voting numbers for this award online after the event. “There are indeed cases of (giving up voting), but Awards are inherently subjective, and each judge has their own criteria for judging. Everyone should look at this matter with a correct perspective and mentality."

Ms. Yu knows that the Best Actor category of this Hundred Flowers Award is of great concern. The vote has always been very high, but she and other fellow judges did not expect the final distribution of votes. "The judges did not discuss this matter too much after the event, and they did not ask each other, 'Would you like this award? Have you voted?"

Li Xuejian is the first choice of most judges

Regarding the complete list of winners of this Hundred Flowers Award, Ms. Yu said that it is not much different from her own "answer". "The judges will also have some exchanges and discussions afterwards. Award results. Of course, this result is definitely personal and subjective, and there is no guarantee that every judge’s opinion will be adopted, but after all, these 101 judges were selected after passing many tests. Those who love Chinese movies, I believe everyone is very fair.”

Ms. Yu, who was a film festival judge for the first time, made no secret of the pressure: “Because we 101 judges cannot take into account the opinions of every movie audience. I know that there will definitely be some different voices after the award results come out, so there will definitely be pressure, but we still have to put the responsibility of the judges first."

Ms. Yu also understands the "entanglement" of netizens on the number of votes, especially. However, there are many actors with high "traffic" among the nominees for multiple awards. "But when we make selections, we will never take the 'traffic' factor into consideration. We will face it with a fair and just attitude." Each actor will be judged based on their performance in their respective nominated works."

In the selection of this year's Hundred Flowers Awards, the older generation performing artist Li Xuejian won the Best Supporting Actor Award with 76 votes. He was also the nominee with the highest number of votes that night. Ms. Yu also told Jimu News reporter that in In several discussions and sharings before the award ceremony, most of the judges spoke highly of Li Xuejian's performance in " Conferred Gods Part 1: Chaoge Fengyun " and believed that this artist with both virtue and art is worthy of this award. The best performer among the nominees, so she was not surprised at all when she saw Li Xuejian winning with high votes.

Ms. Yu also mentioned that Zhao Liying and Gao Ye were also on the judges' list. Two actors who have been highly discussed before, "The female images in the movie " Article 20 " are very brilliant, whether it is these two supporting actresses or Ma Li who finally won the Best Actress Award , all performed brilliantly in character creation. "In the end, Zhao Liying narrowly defeated her "little friend" Gao Ye with an advantage of 2 votes.

After the nomination list of this year's Hundred Flowers Awards was released on July 2, she won the Best Director and Best Director at the same time for " Hot and Spicy " Jia Ling, who was nominated for the best actress, became the focus of public attention. Many viewers expected her to "laugh among the flowers" with this directorial work that exhausted her efforts, but unfortunately, Jia Ling failed to stand in the end. On the podium.

According to Ms. Yu, Jia Ling's name was mentioned many times in several discussions with the judges: "If the subject of "Hot and Spicy" was changed to another director, it might not be good. Yes, we have all seen Jia Ling’s performance in this movie. Her personal brilliance is indeed dazzling, but the competition for the two awards of Best Director and Best Actress this year is really fierce, so the final result may be It would be a pity for Teacher Jia Ling.”

(Picture source: public information from the film company)

(Source: Jimu News)