When Joel Cohen announced that the drama department of the Audience Award belonged to "Glory America", even Ethan, who was standing next to Joel, cast a regretful look in the direction where Lance was, but Lance stood up with a smile and sincerely gave Harvey Baker and Paul Giama his applause.

Before the award ceremony, people's attention was mainly focused on several works such as "City of God", "Whale Knight", "Shiro America", "Station of the Heart", "Thirteenth Age", etc. They are all considered popular choices to win the award tonight. Objectively speaking, the most promising thing for "City of God" is the audience award, which not only represents the hot pursuit of the audience in the past few days, but also the affirmation of Lance on the stage of Sundance.

With the announcement of the award, "Spirit Station" won the screenwriter's award, and "Whale Knight" dominated the world unit of the audience award. In this way, the two most powerful competitors of "City of God" have gained something, which has made the possibility of "City of God" winning the drama audience award soar.

But the result was still lost to the highly praised "Guang Yao America".

Lance's heart slowly fell down, and the light and flickering disappointment was like a deflated ball, flattening down bit by bit. The feeling of hanging in the air was not uncomfortable, but it seemed to be blocking the chest in one breath, unable to press down or vomit.

Lance will not hypocritically say that he is not disappointed, nor will he say that he doesn't care. Although "City of God" has successfully found a distribution company, even if he does not win an award, he doesn't need to worry about distribution issues; however, being able to win something at the Sundance Film Festival is very important for Lance.

Not only because one award can win more attention for the movie and add more chips to box office success; but also because this is Lance's debut, this is the first time he has truly stood behind the camera and evolved his script into a movie after two lives. He needs such affirmation.

Lance had a warm smile on his face, slammed his hands to applaud "Guang America", which covered up his emotions well, and let out a gentle breath to calm down his tense emotions. However, the pace of the film festival awards ceremony was very fast, with awards one after another, with almost no breathing time. Before Lance could calm down his emotions, the final grand prize was about tonight.

The most important jury award at the Sundance Film Festival every year is presented by Robert Redford. The documentary department that was first announced belongs to "Catch the Fredman Family". The audience stood up and applauded. Although "My Flesh" was highly praised, before tonight's award ceremony, "Catch the Fredman Family" was the biggest hit to win the award. This work, which was unanimously praised by audiences and film critics, won the jury award of the documentary department without any suspense.

Following closely behind is the jury award from the drama department.

The biggest hit before the award ceremony was undoubtedly "Guang Yao America". This work not only led the overall score of the official magazine, but also remained high in the audience's discussion. Tonight, "Guang Yao America" ​​defeated a number of popular works and won the audience awards of the drama film department, which is the best proof.

At this moment, all the audiences held their breath, and maybe they were about to witness the birth of history: for the first time since the establishment of the Sundance Film Festival, a work has been able to win both the audience award and the jury award.

Robert watched Andrew Jarecki, the director of "Catching the Fredmans", walk off the stage, then walked to the microphone again, chuckled, raised his right hand and waved the envelope in his hand, "Well, this moment has finally come, and the last award tonight will be revealed. After this award is awarded, the 19th Sundance Film Festival is about to come to an end."

Robert's slightly regretful joke made the scene chuckle, "As I said just now, Sundance is very lively this year, and we once again appreciate the style of countless excellent filmmakers. This is the luck of the audience and our honor. Yesterday morning, a reporter from the New York Times mentioned that what was the most impressive work I was. This question really made me embarrassed. I thought about it for a long time, but I still couldn't make a decision. 'Catch the Fredman' is one of my favorites, and I always wandered between the four works, including it. So, I told the reporter that, fortunately, I was not one of the judges who needed to make a decision."

The so-called jury award is a prize chosen by the collective vote of six judges, and the judges are replaced every year. In this regard, the selection mechanism of Sundance and the three major European film festivals is the same.

A chuckle sounded again at the scene. Robert paused and waved the envelope in his hand again, "Now, I will enjoy my privileges and take the lead in taking a look at this touching answer." Then he did it and lowered his head to open the envelope and saw the answer inside, "Oh... it turned out to be this one." Robert did not arouse the audience's appetite like the award ceremony. He raised his head and showed a big smile. "First of all, I must declare that this award-winning work is something I personally like very much. It is my honor to have it this year in Sundance."

Robert's brief but sincere words made everyone at the scene hold their breath. Even though Robert did not deliberately create suspense, the suspense rose uncontrollably.

Lance thought his tension had calmed down, but his heart suddenly tightened, and the restlessness and anxiety that was so tense that it almost made people breathless. "At the 19th Sundance Film Festival, the winner of the jury award was," Robert's voice made Lance's muscles completely stiff, and the waiting time was even more painful than the moment of failure, "'City of God'."

Huh... The answer was finally revealed. Lance felt that all the muscles in his body relaxed.

But then, "papapapapapapapa", applause immediately burst out. Joel Cohen stood up first, slapped his hands hard, and sincerely congratulated Lance, followed by Ethan Cohen, Paul Giamatti, Harvey Baker, then Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein... Everyone stood up one after another and applauded collectively. The sea, which was calm a second ago, was in an instant, and the magnitude seven-magnitude earthquake occurred. The entire sea was thunderous and turbulent, and everyone stood up one after another, and the blackness made people feel a ridiculous illusion of the end of the world.

The winner is "City of God".

This thought illuminated Lance's entire mind like lightning, and in an instant the whole world became brighter. Lance couldn't help but clenched his hands into fists. The muscles that had just relaxed became tense in an instant. Various emotions such as excitement, excitement, happiness, happiness, vibration, tremor, etc. drown him like a tsunami, and all the thoughts in his brain were stirred into a ball. Even if he tried his best to control it, his body began to tremble because his fists were too tight.

Percy and Hayden, who were sitting next to him, both raised their fists high, jumped on the chair and cheered excitedly. Alexander, Leonardo and other children responded half a beat slower, and then realized that their work had won the award. They looked at the people standing and applauding around them in a daze, and then stood up one after another, jumped up in response to the rhythm and jumped on the enthusiastic samba, which instantly turned the scene into a sea of ​​joy.

Lance stood up, trying to suppress the storm in his heart, and then took steps towards the stage, step by step.

It was only about fifteen steps away from the stage, but it was so far away for Lance, as if he had walked from Li Jin's world into Lancelot's world, and then from the previous life to this life. The road was really too far away. Countless times he raised his head but couldn't see the sunshine above his head. Countless times he looked at the surging crowd around him, but he was confused. He had wanted to give up countless times, but... he persisted, and at the end of the long journey, he finally walked onto the stage and then took the trophy from Robert.

Robert gave Lance a big hug and whispered in his ear, "Congratulations! Thank you for me after I go back." This sentence made Lance laugh happily.

Lance looked down at the trophy in his hand. A transparent diamond square trophy looked plain, as if it was a trophy awarded in a high school speech contest. But the weight of the trophy in his heart was so heavy that he couldn't even breathe smoothly.

Looking up, Reims looked at the children celebrating under the stage, waved and said in Portuguese, "What are you waiting for? Come and have a party together." After receiving the approval, the children rushed up. Percy and Hayden also trotted onto the stage, each of whom was filled with incredible joy and brightness, illuminating the entire stage.

Lance looked back at the people behind him. The smile on the corners of his mouth was like flowers blooming in the morning, stained with cold dewdrops, reflecting the warm sunshine, as if awakening the whole world. "Thank you, Robert, thank you Sundance, thank the audience for their love for the "City of God." Lance's hot brain slowly cooled down, trying to clarify his thoughts and say his award, but this was obviously not an easy task. "The process of shooting this movie is so magical, but it is also so bad. I swear I don't want to go through the whole process again."

Everyone at the scene was amused by Lance's words. Even though Lance was trying to control his emotions, his slightly trembling fingertips still revealed the surge in his heart. "But I must admit that I am very glad that I walked that distance myself; luckily, I have the company of these friends. So, if you do it again..." Lance suddenly paused, let out a long breath, and smiled, "Oh, by the way, I don't need to do it again."

Everyone at the scene burst into laughter, and Paul, who was standing under the stage, whistled directly and took the lead in cheering.

"Finally, thank you to those who helped during the filming of this movie, thank you everyone!" Lance raised the trophy in his hand and said loudly, "Sundance, I've been here!"
Chapter completed!