Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 154 Double-Yolk Movie King

The Huabiao Awards ceremony is far more grand than the Chinese Media Film Awards ceremony.

Putting everything else aside, the number of people attending the awards ceremony alone far exceeded that of the Chinese Film Media Awards. Although there weren't many people from Hong Kong and Taiwan, it was still a star-studded event.

Under the spotlight, a host of celebrities made their appearance, while countless reporters outside frantically took photos.

Click, click, the lights kept flashing.

Many people felt uncomfortable in their eyes from the glare.

However, this situation had absolutely no impact on Li Boda. It was just a matter of the camera flash when taking pictures. Given Li Boda's current condition, he could look up at the sun for two hours at midday without feeling any discomfort.

Li Boda and the Tengu crew entered the venue, sat in the seats arranged by the authorities, and began to wait for the awards ceremony to officially begin.

Li Boda was still full of anticipation at this moment, after all, this was the Huabiao Award!

However, when the awards ceremony officially began, Li Boda was a little confused.

The Huabiao Awards appetizer, the Outstanding Feature Film Award, saw the presenters read out a string of names when the winners were announced: [On the Taihang Mountains], [The Tokyo Trial], [My Long March], [The Ballad of Yunshui], [Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles], [Don't Underestimate Yourself as an Official], [Neighborhood Premier], [Mountain Village Secretary], [Entrusted with Life and Death], [The Messenger of Shambhala].

Li Boda looked at director Qi Jian with a bewildered expression, wanting to ask him what was going on. Was there really so many winners for this award? Or had the guest misread the list and read the list of winners instead of the nominees?

“That’s normal. There are ten winners for this award each year.” Qi Jian noticed Li Boda’s gaze and, after understanding Li Boda’s thoughts, whispered to him.

"Oh." Li Boda suddenly realized, so it was a routine.

However, as the awards continued to be announced, Li Boda was still a little confused.

The Best Director award is a tie, with Yin Li for "The Knot" and Gao Qunshu for "Tokyo Trial".

Then, the Best Screenplay Award was also split between two winners.

When it came to the award that Li Boda was most concerned about, the Best Actor award, it was exactly as Li Boda expected, and there was another tie.

"The winners of Best Actor are: Chen Kun for [The Knot] and Li Boda for [The Dog]!"

Li Boda's feelings were quite complicated.

What should have been a joyous occasion turned into a situation where, because of the double yolks—and consecutive double yolks at that—even Li Boda couldn't help but question the authority of the Huabiao Awards.

Okay, Li Boda shouldn't have had any doubts at all, because the reason he was able to get a Best Actor nomination and even win was not only because of his excellent acting skills, but also because of Jiang Wenli's connections. In other words, Li Boda was the one who got in through connections.

Thinking about it this way, Li Boda felt relieved. There was nothing to be cynical about anymore; after all, if it weren't for him, Chen Kun would have won the Huabiao Award for Best Actor by himself, becoming the only actor to receive the award.

Well, of course, it's also possible that without Li Boda, another actor could appear and share the award with Chen Kun, resulting in another tie.

Li Boda has finally seen through the Huabiao Awards.

Awards and authority don't really matter; he doesn't need to take them that seriously.

That's right. At first, Li Boda just wanted to make an art film to prove his acting skills and prevent the other party from rejecting him if he had a role he liked in the future because they doubted his acting skills and thought he couldn't handle the role.

Now that we have the movie "The Dog" and the award-winning actor's reputation (whether authoritative or not), that's more than enough. Nothing else matters.

After thinking about it this way, Li Boda understood.

So Li Boda walked onto the stage with a calm smile on his face.

After stepping onto the stage, Li Boda smiled warmly at Chen Kun, gave him a gentle hug, and accepted the trophies presented to them by the award presenters.

Chen Kun and Li Boda both delivered their acceptance speeches in seemingly excited tones, expressing how thrilled they were to receive the award, before stepping off the stage.

After stepping off the stage, the rest of the crew looked excitedly at the trophy in Li Boda's hand, but Li Boda didn't care at all and handed the trophy to the others.

Having figured things out, Li Boda no longer cared much about trophies.

The rest of the crew members excitedly touched the trophy, then looked forward to the awards to come.

As expected, the Best Actress award was a tie, but to the disappointment of the Tengu production team, their lead actress, Zhu Yuanyuan, was not the winner.

After all the Huabiao Awards were presented, Li Boda's gaze towards Chen Kun became somewhat strange.

Chen Kun's film "The Knot" received six award nominations, and all six won. Was the film really that good? So good that every nomination guaranteed an award?
Perhaps this is a good movie. Well, Li Boda hasn't seen this movie, so he can't say whether it's good or bad.

But winning all six nominations seems strange. Either the movie is exceptionally good, or there's some behind-the-scenes manipulation involved.

The latter is more likely.

If this film is really that high quality, why not participate in the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes International Film Festival, or the Venice International Film Festival? If they had participated and won awards, those awards would have been far more valuable than domestic awards.

So Li Boda looked at Chen Kun and suddenly realized: 'So you're the one who got in through connections, the one with the bigger backdoor!'

However, when the Huabiao Awards ended and Li Boda heard people discussing the movie "The Knot," he realized that things weren't quite as they seemed.

As for overseas—(the part was deleted twice after being revised, so I won't write it here.)
"Damn, so winning an award at this film festival is all so complicated. Different regions require different genres to win!"

After the Huabiao Awards concluded, major media outlets, and even some news reports, focused on the expressions and gestures.

Even online, there are many discussions and news articles about emoticons.

As one of the Best Actor winners at the Huabiao Awards, Li Boda has become a hot topic.

Then Li Boda received many more invitations to perform at commercial events, and the price went up again.

In addition, there were also invitations to appear in TV series and movies.

Generally speaking, different actors receive different treatment after becoming Best Actor.

If an actor who was previously unknown suddenly becomes a Best Actor, they might find it difficult to get roles.

Because you were unknown before, nobody knew you, nobody knew who you were, and you didn't have much appeal, but now that you've become a movie star, your salary has to go up.

You didn't have much appeal to the audience to begin with, and now that you've become a Best Actor, you have to raise your salary. Who would want to cast you in movies? Right?

Therefore, some people, the more awards they win, the fewer roles they get to play.

Another group includes people like Li Boda, who already had considerable fame and popularity before becoming a film emperor, possessing a certain appeal. Becoming a film emperor was simply icing on the cake; their salaries increased, and they still received numerous invitations to act. Because they were worth the price.

Therefore, Li Boda once again became a highly sought-after figure.

However, most of the companies vying for Li Boda's attention are television dramas. After all, it was in the television drama field that Li Boda proved himself. So even though Li Boda's salary has increased, television drama production teams still want to invite him to act.

The other part consisted of art-house films; they invited Li Boda to make movies.

Because Li Boda won an award for his art film and became a Best Actor, Li Boda has proven his acting skills and that he is very good at acting in art films.

As for Li Boda's high salary—

For art films, pay isn't an issue. In fact, it's practically an industry norm. Actors may earn high salaries for regular filming, but for art films, they have to lower their pay. It's not that they have to lower it, but rather that they have to accept a discount, taking on a role for about 10% of their normal salary.

Because art films are inherently low-budget, with a production cost of only two or three million yuan. You can't expect an actor to demand two or three million yuan in salary; how can you even make a film like that?

Therefore, these art films extended invitations to Li Boda. As long as Li Boda accepted, it meant that he would sign a contract at one-tenth of his own salary or some other price, so there was no need to worry about the salary issue.

As for commercial films—

Well, aside from those commercial films that don't seem very serious, none of the reliable or big-budget commercial films have extended an invitation to Li Boda.

Because Li Boda hasn't proven his box office appeal in commercial films.

Therefore, Li Boda has received numerous invitations from film and television production teams.

However, most of them are TV dramas and art films. The rest are some bad movies with poor production quality, production teams that come to make easy money, or bad movies that are trying to whitewash their image.

For Li Boda, these invitations were of little help, so he didn't take them seriously. After all, he really didn't want to touch any terrible dramas like "Perfect Imperfection".

Even if the other party offered a lot of money, for Li Boda, it was better to directly take on a series of commercial performances than to worry about making a living by making such bad movies.

So if he didn't find anything that particularly suited his taste, he would just toss it aside.

(End of this chapter)