He had thought about it many times and hoped for it many times, but when he was actually crowned the Best Actor, the joy and excitement in his heart seemed to stretch his whole body.

I want to explode with joy!

When he finally stood on the stage, looking at the blond and blue-eyed foreigners sitting in the audience, he couldn't help but feel a strong feeling in his heart when he thought that this best actor was won in such a film festival dominated by European and American countries.

Deep pride.

After he delivered his acceptance speech in a mixture of English and Cantonese, the audience once again burst into warm applause.

"The Truman Show" has set off a wave of craze in Cannes since its premiere. In addition to the quality of the film itself, Xu Guanwen's performance as "The Truman" has also received a lot of praise, bringing him huge reputation.

.

The film festival is different from ordinary film awards. Being shortlisted for the main competition unit itself means that the film has the possibility to win any award.

In other words, Xu Guanwen's honor as the Best Actor was only obtained after a fierce battle with more than 20 colleagues.

Among them are Robert De Niro, Erland Josephson, Gérard Depardieu and other movie star-level figures, who are full of gold. The heartfelt applause of the guests present is the greatest recognition of Xu Guanwen's acting skills.

After Xu Guanwen returned to his seat, everyone around him congratulated him again.

Although after winning the best actor award, the probability of winning another major award has obviously become much lower, but at least I have won a significant award, which can be regarded as a kind of peace of mind.

The awards ceremony continued, and the Best Screenplay Award was awarded next.

After Xu Guanwen sat down, with excitement still on his face, he said to Lin Chaoyang: "There is actually the best screenwriter this year, Chaoyang, you have a chance!"

There are only four awards for crew members at the Cannes Film Festival: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.

The first three will be awarded every session, but the latter is not.

At film festivals in previous years, there were often vacancies in awards, and it was common to award them every other year. The Best Screenplay Award at the Shaner Film Festival was last awarded in 1984.

Lin Chaoyang did not show any nervousness or Zhizhi mood because of Xu Guanwen's words. At this time, he was thinking about the award of the award, and whispered a few words to Xu Guanwen and Zou Wenhuai from time to time.

There are still Palme d'Or, Grand Jury Prize, Jury Prize, Best Director Award and Best Screenplay Award yet to be awarded.

Based on Ann Hui's performance, he will definitely not be able to compete with Martin Scorsese of "After Hours" and Roland Joffe of "On Fire" for the Best Director Award.

And if "The Truman Show" can win the Palme d'Or, according to the film festival's tradition of grading pork based on its urine properties, Hsu Kuan-wen's best actor probably won't be able to win it.

After excluding these two awards, "The Truman Show" is now most likely to win one or two of the three awards: the Grand Jury Prize, the Jury Prize and the Best Screenplay Award.

Listening to his analysis, Zou Wenhuai nodded frequently, agreeing with this judgment in his heart.

‘When Michael won the Best Actor, I knew there might be no hope for the Palme d’Or——··——·

As Zou Wenhuai said with some regret, "Chaoyang" suddenly sounded in the Lumiere Cinema.

Lin", Boss Zou didn't even bother to say anything and stood up all of a sudden.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Palme d’Or or not, as long as they can win awards, the more awards they win, the better. Every award they win now is a huge improvement for Hong Kong Film.

"Chaoyang, congratulations!"

"Congratulations!"

The crew members stood up and hugged Lin Chaoyang to congratulate him, and the applause in the theater rang out again.

At the same time, many filmmakers also stood up to express their congratulations, and the live footage of French TV 4 also cut to Lin Chaoyang.

It is true that "The Truman Show" is a big hit at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but most senior filmmakers understand that the film's strength lies in the screenwriter's unconstrained imagination.

It gives the film excellent imagination and extraordinary artistry, and while telling a good story, it also achieves a strong social critical significance.

This can be said to be the ultimate goal pursued by most art film directors and screenwriters.

Therefore, Lin Chaoyang's award made these filmmakers so excited.

Lin Chaoyang went on stage to receive the award, and after a routine thank you, he left the stage. Xu Guanwen ridiculed: "Your acceptance speech was too perfunctory."

"I'm not being perfunctory, I'm leaving enough time for the subsequent winners," Lin Chaoyang joked.

When it was the turn of the Best Director Award to be announced, it went to Martin Scorsese of "After Hours" as expected. Xu Anhua looked disappointed. After being a director for many years, the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival was the biggest she had ever been nominated for.

received the award, but it was a pity that I just missed it.

"It doesn't matter, there are still three prizes to come." Lin Chaoyang comforted her.

There are three awards: the Palme d'Or, the Grand Prix of the Jury and the Jury Prize. To make a simple analogy, they are the first, second and third prizes.

The Jury Prize was awarded to "Saint Therese", leaving only two awards.

The atmosphere in the Lumière Cinema has reached an extreme level. There are 22 films shortlisted for the film festival, and most of them did not win awards tonight. Everyone is paying attention to the award presenters on the stage.

The judges who awarded the jury award were judges Charles Aznifer and Sonia Braga. The two came to the stage to communicate in French. Just like the previous awards, no one understood them well and no one cared.

What everyone is concerned about is the ownership of the award.

"The winner of the Jury Prize is - "The Truman Show"!"

As soon as Sonia Braga finished speaking, several people from the "Truman Show" crew stood up, excited.

Although they missed the highest award, the Palme d'Or, it is still the second largest award after the Palme d'Or, not to mention that they had already won the Best Screenplay and Best Actor awards before.

One movie, three awards!

Even compared with the Palme d'Or, this achievement is not inferior in any way.

You must know that in the history of the Shiner Film Festival, it is rare to award multiple awards to a film. These three awards are undoubtedly the jury's high recognition of "The Truman Show."

Xu Anhua went on stage to receive the award as a director and was extremely emotional.

"Thank you Chaoyang for writing such a wonderful script, thank you Michael for giving us his best performance ever in this movie, and thank you to our investor Mr. Zou Wenhuai-··

This award is the pride of all Hong Kong filmmakers and belongs to all Chinese-speaking filmmakers—

The final Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival was awarded to Roland Joffe's "In War". At this point, the 39th Cannes Film Festival has officially come to an end.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for the crew of "The Truman Show".

Not only is it the joy of winning the award, but there are also many media interviews to deal with. Zou Wenhuai is also busy making phone calls and meeting with film producers from various countries.

It’s a bit of a pity not to win the Palme d’Or, but with three awards including the Jury Prize, Best Screenplay Award, and Best Actor Award, “The Truman Show” is still the biggest winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Selling before the closing ceremony was risky, but he was right!

This time, "The Truman Show" will bring huge rewards to Jiahe.

The day after the closing ceremony, Chung Chu Hong and Maggie Cheung left Cannes. They were just vases at this film festival.

But it's been on the red carpet and featured in major media, and it's worth the price of admission.

Xu Anhua and Xu Guanwen still have to accept several interviews with European and American media, and plan to return to Hong Kong tomorrow.

Zou Wenhuai and Cai Lam are busy with copyright transactions.

And Lin Chaoyang was already on a plane flying to Paris.

"The Truman Show" won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival. In just a few days, the film will surely become famous in France and Europe.

After watching the live broadcast on French TV 4 last night, Clement Meteille from Gallimard Publishing House couldn't wait to call Lin Chaoyang.

Every year at the turn of spring and summer when flowers bloom, Gallimard Publishing House holds an annual reception in the large garden on the Left Bank of Paris. Clermont Meteye extended an invitation to Lin Chaoyang in the name of signing a publishing contract.

Lin Chaoyang was not interested in the reception, signing the contract was his main purpose.

The contract given to him by Gallimard Publishing House is no more generous than that of Grasse Publishing House. It adopts a stepped royalty rate. The royalty rate is 10% for novels sold below 3,000 copies, 12% for novels sold from 3,000 to 6,000 copies, and 12% for novels sold above 6,000 copies.

15%.

What Lin Chaoyang really likes about Gallimard Publishing House is their influence and promotion ability in the European literary world.

This publishing house, founded in the early 20th century, has been focusing on publishing literary works for many years, and has collaborated with writers such as Malraux, Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, and Sarraute.

In addition to these famous writers in France, they also introduced many foreign writers to France, such as Spanish writer Garcia Lorca, American writer Fitzgerald, Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki, etc.

During World War II, the "Seven Stars Library" series of books they published won even greater prestige for themselves, bringing the publishing house's reputation in the French and European literary circles to its peak.

After the 1950s, Gallimard expanded rapidly and gradually developed itself into one of the largest publishing houses in France through mergers and acquisitions.

It never hurts to find a strong partner.

After a short stay in Paris for a day, Lin Chaoyang flew back to Hong Kong.

As soon as he landed, he was surprised to find that he was blocked by reporters.

"Lin Sheng! Lin Sheng! "The Truman Show" won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Is there anything you want to share with the Hong Kong audience?"

‘Lin Sheng, you won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival this time. It is said that the boss of a film company has already offered you a sky-high script fee of HK$500,000. Are you interested?”

"Lin Sheng——"

A group of reporters blocked Lin Chaoyang at the entrance of the passage. The flashes of their cameras kept flashing and they asked questions all over the place. The scene was chaotic.

Lin Chaoyang didn't have time to answer these reporters' questions. He just wanted to know now, how did these reporters know about his flight?

Listening to Lin Chaoyang's questions, these reporters looked proud.

"We have been guarding the airport these days. Cai Lan landed yesterday and told us that you would be back today and tomorrow."

Lin Chaoyang secretly cursed his friend, then discussed with these reporters to give up the position at the entrance of the passage, found a place and briefly accepted an interview before he was able to escape.

He took a taxi from the airport to go home. When he got in the car, the driver saw his face through the rearview mirror.
To be continued...