Can "Flowers" become the biggest winner at the Shanghai TV Festival? , Hu Ge and Tang Yan were nominated for the Magnolia Award for Best Actor and Actor
The 29th Shanghai TV Festival will be held in Shanghai from June 24th to 28th. On the evening of May 30, the shortlist for the much-anticipated Magnolia Award was officially released.
Ding Yongdai, Fan Wei, Hu Ge, Wang Renjun, and Wang Yang will compete for "Best Actor"; Ren Suxi, Tang Yan, Yan Ni, Yang Zi, and Zhou Xun will compete for "Best Actress". The winning works in the "Best Chinese TV Series" category will be from "The Imperfect Victim", "The River Cantabile", "Flowers", "Glory of the Fathers", "Welcome to Maile Village", "The Long Season" and "Come South" Produced in 10 works: "Go North", "Ask the Vast", "Ask the Heart" and "The Wind Chaser".
Among them, the hit drama "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-Wai was shortlisted for 9 awards: Best TV Series, Best Director, Best Actor and Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Art. In the end, it won several awards. An award worth looking forward to.
The announcement of the Magnolia Award shortlist is reminiscent of the "blooming phenomenon" at the beginning of the new year. "Flowers" will be available on CCTV 8, CCTV 1, and Tencent Video on December 27, 2023, and will be broadcast on Dragon TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV from January 2, 2024. According to China Audiovisual Big Data, the average ratings of the show exceeded 1.785 %, the popularity on the Tencent Video site is as high as 31129, and it has entered the Tencent Video Hottest Club. The Douban score has also climbed all the way to 8.7, which can be said to be a double harvest of word-of-mouth popularity.
This TV series has an excellent literary background. It is adapted from the novel of the same name by Shanghai writer Jin Yucheng, who won the "Five One Project" Award and the Mao Dun Literary Award. It focuses on the early 1990s and tells the story of the little people represented by A Bao under the tide of the times. Seize opportunities, display your talents, and rewrite your destiny and self-growth story with the courage to face difficulties and down-to-earth determination. In addition to its outstanding ratings, "Flowers" has also become a hotly discussed social and cultural phenomenon in the city, showing a linkage effect between culture, business and tourism. "Flowers" Afternoon Tea, "Zhizhen Blossom Banquet" and other "Flowers" "same styles" have flooded social media. Shanghai landmarks such as the Peace Hotel and Huanghe Road have become popular check-in points for Shanghai and foreign audiences.
Hu Ge, who was nominated for the "Best Actor" for his role as "Mr. Bao", explained the role this way: "The character of Mr. Bao has the complexity and tearing of the times. No matter how successful Mr. Bao is in his career, he There will always be a Bao in my heart." Tang Yan, who was nominated for "Best Actress", has completely immersed herself in the role of "Ms. Wang" in the past few years. "In the past few years, I thought that I was Miss Wang, completely. Immerse yourself. She is the first-generation white-collar worker in Shanghai. You can see her wearing a business suit, carrying a small leather bag, and having big waves. She is a very fashionable woman with a straightforward personality. She is in the play. There is a clear line of growth, and my career brain is not inferior to anyone’s.”
Dong Yong was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Fan Xinhua, the director of the Huxi Knitting Factory in "Flowers" who is flexible and flexible, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. During the filming, he specially designed the accent of "Mr. Fan", which is neither Mandarin nor pure Hangzhou dialect or "Hangpu". Fan Tiantian, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lu Meilin, said: "Meilin is actually a very complex character. This drama shows the group portraits of Shanghai women very well, including gentle and lovely, charming and lively. There are also aggressive ones.”
It is not difficult to find that among the shortlists for the Magnolia Award at this year's TV Festival, they are still known for their realistic themes. Whether it is "The Song of Time", "The Long Season" or "South to North" or "Glory of the Fathers", they all have their own highlights in the style presentation and story narration of realistic themes. Regarding the selection of the Magnolia Award at this year's Shanghai TV Festival, Yan Jiangang, chairman of the Magnolia Award Jury, said: "This year's selection is a difficult selection process. There are many good dramas such as "Flowers" and "South and North". Although from Absolute Looking at the production volume, the number of TV series has decreased compared with previous years, but high-quality dramas and hit dramas are almost one after another, whether they are dramas broadcast on online platforms or TV stations, or short videos and short dramas. The distinguishing feature is that the proportion of attention to reality is large and the production is more sophisticated. ”
It is reported that the submission of films for the 29th Shanghai TV Festival started at the end of last year and ended on March 31. The Magnolia Award selection call for this year's TV Festival received nearly a thousand entries from 57 countries and regions on five continents around the world. In the TV series category, about 190 Chinese dramas were registered, and overseas dramas increased from nearly 110 in the previous year to nearly 170, achieving an increase of 53.7%; the number of registered works in the documentary and cartoon categories also increased significantly, and in this In the two sections where Chinese and foreign works compete together, the proportion of overseas works is increasing year by year. In the documentary category, foreign works accounted for 60% of the entries this year. Well-known overseas TV organizations such as BBC, Sony, HBO Warner, Discovery Channel, Disney National Geographic, etc. all selected high-quality programs to participate in the selection.
