It is nearly the end of the year, and the late autumn solar term still lingers on Shanghai, with golden touches everywhere. In this harvest season, the Shanghai Film Critics Society Awards (Shanghai Film Critics Awards) ushered in its 30th celebration.
On the afternoon of December 10th, the award ceremony of the "Pujiang Head Cup" Shanghai Film Critics Society Award was successfully held at Chunshen Hall in Shihudang, Songjiang District. This year's awards ceremony uniquely set up a "red carpet on the water." The guests arrived in groups and passed through the covered bridges and waterside pavilions. Riding on the waves of the flowing water, we walked slowly to the venue.
The awards ceremony began with Zhu Feng, president of the Shanghai Film Critics Society and a national first-level director, and He Jinfeng, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Songjiang District Committee of Songjiang District, delivering speeches.
Zhu Feng
He Jinfeng
"Top Ten Chinese Films of the Year"
First of all, it is announced that in alphabetical order, the winning films are——
01
"New Actor of the Year Award"
——Hui Wangjun's "Rattle-Drum-Dong-Dong"
Jin Hui, Hui Wangjun, Yu Zhiqing
Award Speech: He is not acting, he is living. He uses his life accumulation that no actor has to create a natural character, as if he is a character growing out of the soil. The first time he came into contact with the camera, he contributed the most down-to-earth image to Chinese movies. He is Hui Wangjun, who plays the truck driver in "The Rattle".
02
"New Actress of the Year Award"
——Wang Yang's "Sounding Orioles in the Willow Waves"
Shen Yanli, Wang Yang, Li Xia
Award Speech: She has a beautiful face and a dashing heroic demeanor. In the film, she crossed genders on the screen with her free and easy appearance, playing the male role, and contributing a charming female image to Chinese films. Wang Yang's portrayal of Tiao in "The Orioles in the Willows" proves that she is fully qualified to join the ranks of China's outstanding actresses.
03
"New Screenwriter of the Year Award"
——Qiao Sixue's "Umbilical Cord"
Zhang Qi, Qiao Sixue, Qiu Dunfeng
Award Speech: Director Qiao Sixue graduated from the 3IS Film School in Paris, France. Her first film "Umbilical Cord" tells the story of a son and his mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease rediscovering the home where his mother remembers him. The film strategically placed A rope was used to reconnect the "umbilical cord" relationship between mother and child, and the mother and child completed their journey deep into the grassland. With its delicate shots, the film closely links the vast grasslands, music and dance with the emotional trends of the characters. Through colorful scenes, it well balances the topics of life and death, and demonstrates the innovative consciousness and creativity of contemporary young filmmakers. Artistic courage.
04
"New Director of the Year Award"
——Sun Haipeng's "The Young Lion"
Zheng Dasheng, Sun Haipeng, Lu Shangda
Award Speech: Sun Haipeng, the director of "The Young Lion", is the first theatrical animated film to be independently directed. It is also a coordinate on his animation art path. "The Young Lion" not only tells a touching young man's growth story, but also successfully reproduces the human customs of Guangdong. The humanistic orientation of traditional southern lion dance has also been sublimated in the context of contemporary Chinese cities and villages. The film's achievements reflect the outstanding creativity of director Sun Haipeng and his animation team.
05
"Annual Newcomer New Work Award"
——"Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang'an"
Ren Zhonglun, Song Yiyi, He Jinfeng
In the turbulent moments of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the bright clothes and angry horses, the most star-studded and epic time and space in Chinese history has a new expression of Chinese aesthetics. The historical meridian radiated by "Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang'an" is the moment when China's beauty blurted out, and its latitude is enough to open up a new horizon for national animation.
06
"Annual Film Theory Criticism Contribution Award"
——Ding Yaping, Li Yizhong
Chen Xihe, Li Yizhong, Ding Yaping, He Xiaoqing
Award speech to Professor Ding Yaping:
As one of the most active scholars in the Chinese film academic community, he has long been committed to Chinese film education and the academic development of Chinese films. With abundant passion, he has completed 21 academic monographs and more than 300 academic papers, many of which are heavyweights. His works, especially general history monographs such as "Chinese Film History", use their unique humanistic care and thinking to describe the cultural and spiritual history of Chinese films over the past century, leaving a visual narrative and cultural thinking for Chinese film scholarship. Especially in recent years, the overseas release of English translations of these monographs has promoted Chinese film scholarship to the world.
Award speech to Professor Li Yizhong:
You are the author, and the movie "Postal Fate" written by you was once the most popular phenomenal comedy movie in the 1980s;
You are a teacher. As early as the 1980s, you pioneered the creation of film courses in universities, opening up new territories for film and television education in Chinese universities. Many students who were inspired by your films have now become film and television creators. , the backbone of film and television education and film and television research;
You are a scholar, and the multi-volume "Aspects of Early Chinese Film" published this year is unique. Through an ingenious exploration of the external history of film, and a unique structural design, it sorts out the historical context of Chinese film. It is systematic, thick, and emotional. Warmth opens up a new path for in-depth research on Chinese film history.
This year, the Shanghai Film Critics Society Awards have three new awards.
07
"Reality Film of the Year Award"
—Chen Danyan "The Direction of Sava Flow"
Hu Xiaojun, Chen Danyan, Fang Kun
Through delicate and honest cinematic touches, the film uses the vicissitudes of a bookstore on the Balkan Peninsula as an incision to record the loss and suffering of modern civilization. As a foreigner, the creator is not just obsessed with the visual presentation of exotic customs, but Trying to trigger and awaken people's synesthesia about the contemporary destiny of mankind. Although director Chen Danyan is directing a film for the first time, she uses the unique sensitivity and sharpness of a writer to organically integrate the prose narrative of the text and the lyrical expression of the image, which is calm but sharp, sad but full of thought. .
08
"Movie Child Actor of the Year"
——Maya Feng's "Myth of Love"
Qi Heliang, Feng Maya, Li Xiaojun
In the urban comedy movie "Myth of Love", the heroine's daughter does not appear much, but it adds a bit of fun and innocence to the film. The child Maya Feng who plays the role, with her excellent understanding and interpretation, interprets a smart and elf girl who is as big as a kid very realistically. As a young actor from a transnational family, her familiarity with Chinese culture and Shanghai's local scene also adds a contemporary feel and credibility to her role as a metropolitan primary school student.
09
"Film Personality of the Year Award"
——Xi Meijuan "Mom!" 》
Teng Junjie
Award Speech: You are the kind "fake girl" in the movie "Fake Girl", you are the wife in the movie "Jiang Zhuying", you are the mother in the movie "Wang Dao", and you are the mother in the movie "Mom" My daughter, from the first time you won the Best Actress Award at the China Film Golden Rooster Award in 1990 to the second time you won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress in 2022, your name has been an outstanding representative of acting actors for decades. Ms. Xi Meijuan, as The most important film actress in contemporary China, the numerous screen and screen images you have left for the audience have made the art gallery of Chinese films more colorful and dazzling!
Having always cared about Chinese-language films, she still wrote down her hopes for films: "Thank you to the Shanghai Film Critics Society. Films are like a light that allows me to understand and guide me forward."
Movies are like light, and only when there is light can there be movies. Just a few lines of words, but extremely powerful, convey the bond and resonance between countless filmmakers and movies. During the award ceremony, the famous soprano Huang Ying, the famous erhu player Ma Xiaohui, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra's principal cellist Zhao Tian and the child star Maya Feng gave wonderful performances, allowing the audience to relive the film history classics in the melodious melody.
Huang Ying "I Love You, China"
Maya Feng Chinese martial arts
Ma Xiaohui and Chen Tian "Butterfly Lovers"
This year's Shanghai Film Critics Society Awards Ceremony is hosted by the Shanghai Film Critics Society and the Songjiang District People's Government; it is co-organized by the Shihudang Town People's Government and China Railway Second Bureau Group (Shanghai) Construction Co., Ltd.
This year's Shanghai Film Critics Society Awards will be held from July 2021 to 2023 after open voting by nearly 400 members of the society and second-round voting by a jury of 8 experts chaired by film director Teng Junjie. The final selection of all films released in China in August is also the first biennial award due to the epidemic. To demonstrate national self-confidence, the etiquette ladies appeared in dignified Chinese Hanfu. The unique charm of Chinese culture can be vividly demonstrated through the civilization of clothing worn on the body.
More than 100 representatives of award-winning filmmakers, Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Shanghai Film Group, Shanghai Film Association, Shanghai Film Critics Society, Songjiang District guests and representatives from various media attended the celebration to witness the birth of new forces in film.
