Chapter 808

Like the Sundance Film Festival, the award ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival focuses on the ceremony, not the ceremony. There are no humorous jokes, no song and dance performances, just awards according to the process. The focus is always on the art creators. I hope the media and the audience can pay more attention to the art itself, and then promote the development of film art.

Above the Berlin Film Festival, the main awards are the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear.

The Golden Bear award is the highest award, which is awarded to five different departments, namely, feature film, documentary film, science and education film, art film and short film. The Golden Bear Award in the general sense of the major media, especially the feature film department, is also the top priority of the annual film Festival. Together with the Golden Palm Award in Cannes and the Golden Lion Award in Venice, it is known as the Grand Slam of European films.

By 2012, only two directors in history had won the highest Grand Slam, Michelangelo Antonioni of Italy and Robert Altman of the United States.

The Silver Bear award is divided into two parts. One part is the second prize of the competition unit feature film, which is the grand prize of the jury. The final trophy is a silver bear; The other part is the highest individual awards, which are awarded to directors, actors, actresses, screenwriters, music, photography, art and so on.

By 2012, there were four winners of individual awards in the three major European film festivals: director Paul Thomas Anderson, actor Jake Lemmon and Sean pan, and actress Juliette Binoche.

In addition, the Berlin Film Festival also officially set up departments with different themes, such as Teddy Bear Award and Crystal Bear award. The former specially awards homosexual theme works, while the latter focuses on youth theme works, with the intention of encouraging filmmakers to pay more attention to these groups in their creation.

The Golden Bear award, which is undoubtedly the award that every work strives for, is also the most important affirmation of a work, equivalent to the best picture of the Oscar. However, this year's Golden Bear award competition strength actually appears to be somewhat inadequate.

In recent years, the overall momentum of the Berlin Film Festival has not improved much, and it has been struggling to survive. Not only is the list of entries in the competition units dim, but also the overall quality and reputation of the participating art works are slowly declining. The average level of the Golden Bear awards is really unsatisfactory.

The last time the artistry of the Golden Bear award was universally recognized in the world was in 2003. At that time, many works, such as "between the world", "25 hours", "all the time", "goodbye Lenin", "adapted script", "Poems of death" and "the guard of the Qing army at dusk", were highly praised, and each work had the possibility of winning, which was also affirmed in Europe and even the world.

In that year, the most popular winner "every moment" was finally lost to "between the worlds", which caused a lot of exclamations, but the latter also gained a lot of praise in Europe.

But good times are hard to come back.

This year, Barbara, the German film with the highest score, failed to be further affirmed by the media for its artistic value and ideological depth; Besides, "wizard in the field", "children on the mountain", "grace", "history of Royal Romance", "goodbye, my queen", "just wind" and "Caesar must die" and other works, the scores of the magazines are almost the same, and there are not many surprises in the media's feedback word-of-mouth, and the overall lack of a bright spot.

Because of this, "detached" has become the favorite of the media and the audience. Not only because of the attention effect brought by Langley, but also because of Tony kayer's crazy and bold, experimental pseudo documentary shooting way, triggered people's extreme emotional reaction, just like the collision of spear and shield, the spark is brilliant.

Since there is no focus work with high reputation, it is better to choose a work that makes people curious.

Although the score of the magazine is not high, thanks to the attention of the media and the upsurge of the audience, when people discuss the Golden Bear award, "detachment" has become one of the reference standards more or less. After all, on top of the Berlin Film Festival, every work, every actor and every director in the competition unit are eligible to compete for the corresponding awards, and there is no nomination list.

Not surprisingly, tonight's awards should be one of these works, including the Golden Bear.

Hot? There is no absolute hot or cold.

In the past years, media reporters always focus on the works with the highest score.

Because in the three major European film festivals, the highest score of the magazine is more like a curse, the highest award is always out of the way, and the jury always chooses other works; This also caused reporters and film critics to be seriously dissatisfied with the jury. After the award list was published, the major media launched a crusade and criticism one after another. Such scenes are staged every year.

But this year is an exception. Although "Barbara" is the highest score of the magazine selected by the media, the film critics, journalists and audiences are far from enthusiastic about this work. It seems that if other works are cold, it's not too strange.

Calm, calm, calm.

This seems to be the best footnote of the 62nd Berlin Film Festival. Except for the unexpected frenzy caused by "detachment", there is no accident, surprise or excitement. Similar atmosphere, naturally continued to the last day of the festival.

The awarding ceremony was smooth and smooth. It was not so much a feast as a seminar. It lacked the atmosphere of entertainment, but always filled with the atmosphere of academic discussion. Serious and solemn, serious and dreary, it is indeed Berlin, as always high cold and unique.

The first climax of the ceremony came from Meryl Streep.

The veteran actor, who has been in the film world for more than 30 years, has not been able to achieve a grand slam even though he still lacks a film queen trophy of Venice Film Festival in his honor book; But she enjoys high respect and love all over the world. The dedication of one classic after another proves her talent, hard work and dedication.

In this year's award season in North America, Meryl won the Oscar nomination for the 17th time by virtue of her "Iron Lady" and became a strong candidate for the post movie competition.

People even jokingly call her "cancer", not malicious ridicule, but kind ridicule: it seems that every year, as long as Meryl plays in her works, then checking her on the Oscar nomination list is the right choice, which also makes it difficult for the rising stars to get ahead.

Although the Academy's public relations in the award season is in full swing, Meryl still takes time out of her busy schedule to come to Berlin in person to receive her first lifelong achievement award in her career.

When Meryl appeared on the stage, the whole audience stood up and applauded. With the warmest, loudest and most excited applause, they presented their inner respect and admiration; In response, Meryl joked, "well, I hope it's not a sign of retirement."

There was a lot of laughter.

After the first climax, the atmosphere of the scene returned to a peaceful state again, which was like an electrocardiogram.

The difference is that the ECG is always a straight line, no waves, just like the instrument is not connected to the general; When Meryl stepped on the stage, the instrument was finally connected successfully, so the straight line of ECG began to appear peak value and valley value, and fluctuated violently up and down. Then, the award speech ended, and the instrument was disconnected again.

Is that a good thing? Maybe not, Cannes, Venice and Toronto are always enviable; Is that a bad thing? Maybe not. Berlin has always maintained its own characteristics and style. Everything is about movies and everything is only about movies. After the lack of entertainment, all the attention is focused on the awards.

This may be the original intention of the chairman.

The answers to the important awards of various departments began to be revealed one after another. The members of the jury were responsible for acting as the awarding guests, one after another stepping onto the stage to announce the winners of the awards.

The best screenplay award was awarded to "Royal Romance".

The director is Nicole axel, a Dane who wrote the original script of "the girl with Dragon Tattoo". This time, the script is also written by himself, and he invited Max Michelson and Alicia vicander to star in it. At this year's Berlin Film Festival, he won the best screenplay award, which is unexpected but reasonable.

The best director award went to Christian pethord of Barbara.

The director, who is 50 years old this year, was once expected to lead German films out of the dark; As time goes by, he has contributed some works worthy of recognition, such as "ghost", "Yela" and "yelishaw", but he has never been able to go any further.

This year's "Barbara" is once again a flash in front of people's eyes, gaining the highest score of the magazine; However, after winning the best director award, it also basically declared that this work was out of the Golden Bear award. After all, "Barbara" is not "a farewell.".

The curse with the highest score is still valid in the three major European film festivals.

The jury award was won by the Hungarian film "just the wind".

The score of this work from Eastern Europe is not outstanding, but the local media in Germany like it very much. The director, Benedict philipf, is also a young director who enjoys a small reputation in Europe. He has worked in Europe for ten years, and has contributed such masterpieces as "womb", "Galaxy image", "forest". A small number of viewers, including lanli, are even optimistic that this work will win the Golden Bear award.

In the end, the successful inclusion of the Grand Prix of the jury is an affirmation, but in other words, it is also a pity - this is the Silver Bear award, not the gold Bear award.

Next came the Silver Bear for best actor and the Silver Bear for best actress.

Last year's Berlin Film Festival was a surprise. Both the best actor and best actress were awarded to the same work, and they were not one actor, but a group award

The four actors and two actresses of "one parting" are not only as simple as double yolks, but also affirm all the performances of the whole cast. In Cannes? This is rare, but not unexpected; But this is Berlin, and it really scares everyone, including the German media itself.

What's more, "a farewell" finally won the Golden Bear award.

What will happen to these two awards this year?