Singer Lao Lang attended
the "2007 Internet Awards" on January 17, 2008.
2007 has been another exciting year here in China. A fair amount
of events from grand festivals to hot online topics are still
living vividly in our memories.
A gala celebration was hosted on Thursday night by China's
leading web portal sina.com. The 2007 Internet Awards Gala looks
back at society's most talked about events from the previous
year.
The star studded presentation even included stars from outside
of show business. Over one hundred influential figures including
fairy tale writer Zheng Yuanjie and Yang Wenjun the president of
the Mongolia Mengniu Dairy Group were also invited to grace the red
carpet.
Over 40 award categories were announced: the most popular
writers, bloggers, podcasts, and artists from 2007's entertainment
circles were all unveiled; just about completely covering the most
interesting topics, people and news events in the nation.
Chinese veteran director Feng Xiaogang picked up the award for
"Director of the Year" for his epic war film "The Assembly" or "Ji
Jie Hao." Hong Kong director Peter Chan's new martial arts epic
"The Warlords" or "Tou Ming Zhuang" won the "Film of the Year"
honors. Both have effortlessly entered into the 200 million yuan
ranks at the box office.
As Post-80's Literature is now making new waves in the Chinese
literary arena, the "New Prominent Writer of the Year" honors went
to 25-year-old Guo Jingming. After the gala, he introduced his
upcoming work to the media.
"My latest novel "Tiny Times" has just been serialized and it
will be published at the end of this year. This novel is quite
different from my last work "The River of Sorrow" in 2007. It is
the first time for me to write about my college life. I hope it can
instill unique feelings in my readers."
The "TV Drama Actor of the Year" award went to Wang Baoqiang,
for his portrayal of Xu Sanduo, a devoted soldier in "Soldier
Sorties" or "Shi Bing Tu Ji." Wang also took on the role of a
warrior in Feng Xiaogang 's "The Assembly."
Wang Baoqiang is proud of the series as well as the movie.
"Soldier Sorties recounts the experience of a naive and awkward
village boy who later became a veteran after many hardships. But
he'd never been through a battle. This drama laid a good foundation
for me. In "The Assembly," I played a sniper and able fighter. So
the two parts are connected. I' m very honored to play these
differing roles of soldiers. I 'm so glad that audiences like these
roles."
Chinese mainland actress Li Bingbing scooped up the
"Breakthrough Artist of the Year" award. Last August, she won the
Best Actress honors for her starring role in "The Knot" or "Yun
Shui Yao" at the 12th Huabiao Film Awards. These awards are
regarded as the top prize in China's Film industry.
In the newly released movie "Flying Butterfly," or "Hu Die Fei,"
she played a strong-willed character in the film, who had a fierce
fight with her beloved.
"I'm very grateful to Sina.com for honoring me with this
precisely defined prize. I think I made some breakthroughs in my
performances during the past year, for example in "Flying
Butterfly." In the past ten years, I'd never played such a
difficult and challenging role, it was full of struggle. At
present, I'm satisfied with the audience's response to the movie. I
believe audiences can see a more mature Li Bingbing in this
movie."
All the awards were selected through the online voting of
millions of sina netizens combined with a final appraisal of
experts.
The polling started in November last year. Sina.com initiated an
eight-week online video chat program to coincide with the voting
that featured a particular theme each week, ranging from the
showbiz industry to urban planning to the capital market. Dozens of
entertainment stars, scholars, and giants of industry as well as
ordinary people were invited to the chat room to look back on the
hot events and achievements from the past few years and look
forward to the new developments for 2008.
Taiwan singer Elva Hsiao
attended the "2007 Internet Awards" on January 17, 2008.
Actress Zhang Li attended
the "2007 Internet Awards" on January 17, 2008.
Hong Kong director
Peter?Chan attended the "2007 Internet Awards" on January 17,
2008.
Veteran director Feng
Xiaogang attended the "2007 Internet Awards" on January 17,
2008.
(CRI January 18, 2008)
