Chapter 252

When the Golden Horse Awards ceremony just started, Chen Nuo felt it was quite boring.

He really didn't know what the Golden Horse Awards Executive Committee was thinking; the combination of Carol Cheng and Blackie Chen wasn't as good as Kevin Tsai and Patty Hou, whom he saw last time. At least when they came out riding horses, it could be considered quite innovative and eye-catching.

These two, however, were truly awkward.

However, as the awards began to be presented, when Rodrigo Prieto, this Mexican gay guy, took the first award of the night for *The Message*, Best Cinematography,

and thanked his mom and dad, brother and sister, and the great Nuo Chen in stumbling English on stage together with another Colombian cinematographer,

this awards ceremony suddenly became interesting in Chen Nuo's eyes.

Next, Ning Hao went on stage and took home Best Adapted Screenplay, which could be considered snatched from the hands of *Assembly*.

But immediately, their Best Art Direction was snatched away by a Taiwanese film, *Parking*.

At this moment, Chen Nuo's heart was already filled with a desire to win.

Afterwards, Janice Man didn't win Best New Performer, losing to Jiang Shengming of *Hopscotch*. He felt a bit uncomfortable inside.

Janice Man sat a bit far from Chen Nuo; he specifically leaned over to look, and although Janice Man was smiling, it was clear that she must be extremely disappointed inside.

However, to be fair, from the perspective of an ex-boyfriend, Chen Nuo was also very sad.

But from the perspective of an actor...

Regardless, he would have to comfort her well afterwards.

Afterwards, they didn't win Best Editing or Best Sound Effects, and Chen Nuo was even more annoyed.

Then it came to the Best Supporting Actor award he had won before.

This time, *The Message* had two people nominated, which could be said to have a very high probability of winning.

Chen Nuo was also waiting with full anticipation.

This time he wasn't disappointed.

More judges were moved by the tragic execution ground scene performed by Huang Bo in *The Message* than by the sissy Qingyi character performed by Duan Yihong.

The 45th Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor was thus won by Chen Nuo's senior from the Beijing Film Academy, Huang Bo.

When Huang Bo gave his acceptance speech, although he was still pretending to be humorous, everyone could hear that he was clearly extremely excited.

After all, having only debuted for a little over 2 years, and this being only the second movie he had acted in, he had already won the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor award; for an actor like him with a slightly unsightly appearance, this was undoubtedly a huge encouragement.

Afterwards, Best Makeup & Costume Design was also taken by *The Message*.

The acceptance speech given by Pu Ruomu on stage made the sound of thanking Chen Nuo ring out on the Golden Horse stage for the fourth time tonight.

It seems that the on-site cameraman who had been staying by his side all night and kept filming his face was not going to leave for the whole night.

Chen Nuo, who was in a very good mood now, wanted to say a few words to Fan Fan Binbing, but he had to be wary of how the audience would react when it was shown on the big screen later, so he simply kept quiet and kept a straight face.

Chen Nuo felt that this feeling of watching his own people win awards was no less than winning one himself. At least when he won Best Supporting Actor here last time, he really wasn't that happy.

It wasn't as pleasant as seeing Huang Bo being incoherent on stage.

The female celebrity named Karena Lam sitting next to Chen Nuo went up halfway to present the Best Documentary award.

She and that guy named Fan Zhiwei told cold jokes for eight minutes together, almost boring Chen Nuo to death.

After coming down, Chen Nuo saw her looking like she was about to cry, clearly knowing she had messed up, so he couldn't help but feel a bit of compassion and said again, "It's okay."

Well, it would have been better if he hadn't said anything; now the other party's eyes were truly red.

Making Chen Nuo not dare to act rashly again.

When *The Warlords* took the first award of the night, Best Visual Effects, Chen Nuo couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Before taking his seat, when he took the initiative to go over and greet Director Peter Chan, Peter Chan was joking that if Li Lianjie didn't win Best Actor tonight, they might end up with nothing. At the time, Chen Nuo was still comforting the other party.

As it was about to come true, Chen Nuo wasn't sure if his own *The Message* had snatched the fruits of Director Chan's labor, so he had been feeling a bit sweaty.

He had always remembered that if it weren't for Director Chan's generous 400,000, how could his and Qi Yuntian's studio have been opened so easily.

Speaking of which, the directors he should thank the most are Zhang Yimou, and the second is Peter Chan!

Now, regardless of whether Li Lianjie, who didn't attend, could win Best Actor, or whether Peter Chan's Best Director would go to someone else, at least Director Chan's face was saved today.

At least it was better than Huayi's *Assembly*.

Previously, when Chen Nuo saw Zhang Hanyu of *Assembly* competing for Best Supporting Actor and ultimately losing to his own Huang Bo, and that the male lead Tong Dawei wasn't even nominated, he really laughed out loud in his stomach.

Until now, Huayi still had nothing.

Director Feng Xiaogang on the big screen couldn't even be bothered to pretend anymore; his face was dark. Even when he went on stage to present an award, he half-jokingly said that the Golden Horse Awards didn't really welcome him.

After watching other people's jokes, next, Chen Nuo began to hope that their *The Message* wouldn't become a joke in others' eyes.

From this moment on, the heavy-hitting awards of the night began to be revealed one by one.

First was the Best Actress award that Fan Fan Binbing and Liu Yifei were competing for.

The people competing for this award with these two today, in Chen Nuo's view, weren't actually strong. Mo Xiaoqi for *Half Life Fate*, Karena Lam for *Claustrophobia*.

Has anyone heard of or seen these two movies?

At least Chen Nuo really hadn't.

Therefore, when the award presenters, Peter Chan and Sandra Ng, began to introduce the candidates one by one, he couldn't help but lean over and say to Fan Fan Binbing, "Relax, I think it's definitely you."

Fan Fan Binbing was really nervous, just showing a forced smile, and said in an inaudible voice: "If it's true, are you afraid I'll kiss you?"

Seeing that the other party was still in the mood to joke, Chen Nuo also relaxed a lot and whispered: "Don't kiss on the lips."

Fan Fan Binbing smiled: "Emma Stone can do it, why can't I?"

Chen Nuo laughed instantly.

Coincidentally, at this moment, the big screen happened to give Fan Fan Binbing a shot.

In an instant, Chen Nuo turning his head to look at Fan Fan Binbing's smiling appearance was caught red-handed by thousands of audience members in the venue and tens of millions of viewers in front of their TV sets.

What Chen Nuo didn't know was that at this moment in the control room backstage at the Golden Horse Awards, all the staff collectively cheered.

The 50-something-year-old head director looked up and laughed: "Don't leave after today ends, I'm treating everyone to a late-night snack!"

Immediately, the cheering grew several decibels louder.

"All night! Finally, finally caught him!"

The excitement of the Golden Horse Awards directing team wasn't without reason. Because throughout the entire red carpet segment, *The Message*'s appearance was already in the second half.

Logically speaking, at this time, viewers looking for novelty would have already turned off their TVs or changed channels.

But this year, those ten short minutes of *The Message*'s appearance had already created the highest ratings for the Golden Horse Awards red carpet segment since Taiwan began tracking viewership.

The peak of the highest ratings was when Chen Nuo appeared alone in the shot, with no expression on his face, strolling alone on the red carpet.

Sometimes, a woman not wearing clothes is wearing the best-looking clothes.

Sometimes, a man having no expression is also the best expression.

At this moment, the Taiwanese fans behind him who were screaming crazily, waving *Joker*, *The Message*, or *Twilight* posters,

called out the two characters "Nuo Nuo" so much that they almost lost their Taiwanese accent, and were as close as family with their mainland compatriots.

You can't blame them, because tonight,

Chen Zhanan, who had been insisting on working out for several months, wearing a crisp black suit and a bow tie, and after Michelle's excellent work,

was indeed in the best state he had been in for an awards ceremony in recent years.

At least five times more handsome than the Cannes red carpet after he gained weight,

three times more handsome than the 43rd Golden Horse red carpet when he had just finished filming *The Joker* in America and the hair on his head was almost shaved off,

and about 1.5 times more handsome than the 80th Oscar red carpet when he had just started working out.

In the Golden Horse Awards live stream room set up for the first time in Taiwan, the text scrolling in the chat box flew by like a waterfall.

Several languages were mixed together, and it was impossible to see what was actually being said.

At first glance, one would only see many exclamation marks.

"Handsome!!!"

"Grass!!!" (Japanese)

"!!!" (Korean)

Perhaps it was also the mindset of holding onto the fact that Chen Nuo would come to Taiwan to attend the Golden Horse Awards next time, and not knowing when that would be.

From this moment on, the on-site director, who was stunned by the ratings, gave the on-site cameraman a death order: keep filming him for me. From the beginning of the awards ceremony to the end, don't stop at all.

And also told the technical staff, whenever they could cut to him, cut him into the big screen for me.

Ultimately, when entering the second half of the awards ceremony, when Best Actress began to be presented,

throughout the entire ceremony, the number of times Chen Nuo appeared on the big screen was already the most of the night.

Although every time it could cause a small rise in ratings, the fly in the ointment was that they hadn't captured a single expression other than a polite smile.

Until now.

When Chen Nuo started whispering to Fan Fan Binbing, it was actually already seen on the small screen in the monitoring room.

But when introducing the Best Actress candidates from other movies, it was impossible to have Chen Nuo and Fan Fan Binbing appear on the big screen, right?

The head director was truly spinning in circles, fearing that when it was Fan Fan Binbing's turn to be introduced, the two would stop chatting.

Finally, almost the very next instant after Sandra Ng finished introducing Karena Lam, the figure on the big screen immediately switched to Fan Fan Binbing, not even waiting for Peter Chan to start his introduction speech,

so it was neither too early nor too late, just right to catch Chen Nuo's heartfelt smile.

Michelle's makeup skills were truly no joke, and the live audience at the Golden Horse Awards was truly supportive enough,

when Chen Nuo's smiling face appeared on the big screen, it actually caused a small stir in the venue.

Even the pride of Taiwan, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, who also came to the venue today and appeared on the big screen smiling I don't know how many times, never had anyone applaud because of it like this time.

Peter Chan happened to look back and see this scene on the big screen, and laughed: "Nuo Zai, stop laughing, if you keep laughing, the Best Actress will be you."

Well, at this moment, the entire Golden Horse Awards ceremony venue truly burst into laughter.

And Chen Nuo couldn't help but laugh again, looking a bit shy and bashful.

Next, under Sandra Ng's witty humor, it finally reached the award presentation segment.

Peter Chan opened the envelope, took a look, and then read: "The winner of the 45th Golden Horse Award for Best Actress is, Chen Nuo... 's neighbor, Fan Fan Binbing."

No one would be fooled, although this impromptu joke was indeed very interesting.

But when Chen Nuo was called out, Fan Fan Binbing had already covered her mouth, and the on-site camera also captured this moment.

At the same time, the expressions of the other three candidates also appeared on the big screen together.

It could be said that the other two were happy in an acting-pro way, only Liu Yifei was genuinely happy.

She was originally sitting next to Gao Qunshu, two seats away from Fan Fan Binbing,

when "Fan Fan Binbing" was read out, this girl immediately jumped up happily, walked two steps to Fan Fan Binbing's side, and hugged Fan Fan Binbing, who was also standing up and full of excitement, for several seconds.

What the two women were saying, Chen Nuo, who was on the side, didn't hear; he was applauding while smiling.

To be honest, he was quite excited inside.

It could even be said that there was a sense of accomplishment.

Because for *The Message* crew, Chen Nuo could completely say a sentence that wasn't too excessive, which was that it was all built by his own hands.

Among them, including setting Fan Fan Binbing as the heroine, to replace Li Bingbing, who performed excellently in the previous life.

Whether Li Bingbing won an award or not, Chen Nuo didn't quite remember; perhaps she did, perhaps she didn't.

But Chen Nuo dared to guarantee that Fan Fan Binbing acted better than Li in this life. Otherwise, no matter how much face he had, the Hundred Flowers Awards couldn't have risked the huge controversy and given her another Hundred Flowers Award just 4 years later.

After doing this, apart from some silly bloggers on blogs saying some sour words, no company or artist came out to say there was a dark curtain.

Coupled with winning the Golden Horse Best Actress at this moment, Fan Fan Binbing completely didn't need to go film *Lost in Beijing* to prove anything.

After Fan Fan Binbing and Liu Yifei finished hugging, she didn't follow what was said before and imitate Emma Stone to give him a kiss.

The two just hugged shallowly, even the kind of friend-like hug that separates at a touch.

However... in that 0.01 seconds when their eyes met, everything they said to each other was already vividly engraved in each other's minds.

"Thank you, I love you."

"You're welcome. I love you too."

Of course, the love here was Fan Fan Binbing's expression under excitement, and it might also just be Chen Nuo's misreading of something in her eyes, and the love conveyed in Chen Nuo's eyes was just a polite and courteous response.

But regardless, the excited tears in Fan Fan Binbing's eyes were absolutely true.

When she dragged her white long dress, walked onto the podium, took the Golden Horse Best Actress trophy from Sandra Ng's hands, stood in front of the microphone and lowered her head to cry for almost three seconds, she finally said the first sentence to the microphone with a tear-stained face.

She choked up and said: "Chen Nuo, thank you."

(End of chapter)