The Feitian Awards, held every two years, is the highest award in the domestic television drama field.

Unlike the increasingly commercialized Golden Eagle and Magnolia Awards, the Feitian Awards have always adhered to the principle of government selection, emphasizing the ideological and artistic qualities of TV dramas as well as their attention to and reflection of social reality, and are more inclined towards realistic themes, main-theme dramas, costume dramas, spy war dramas and other genres.

This also leads to the fact that each Feitian Award is not as popular and receives less attention than the other two major awards.

Young people’s favorite idol dramas will not be nominated, and top stars who are sought after by fans are rarely invited. Without the topic they bring, the popularity of the awards will naturally be less.

However, this does not affect the status of the Feitian Award in the industry.

Although the three major awards are the top honors in the field of domestic television dramas, overall, the "Flying Apsaras Award", which is hosted by the State Administration of Radio and Television and represents the highest official recognition, is more valuable than the Golden Eagle and Magnolia Awards.

This year happens to be the year when the 33rd China TV Drama Feitian Awards is held.

On October 27, after the official announcement of the shortlist, online discussions about this year's Feitian Awards became increasingly heated.

The competition for this year's Feitian Awards was fierce, with Douban's "Mountains and Seas," "Awakening Age," and "Meritorious Service" all scoring over 9 points, as well as the critically acclaimed "Setting Up the Stage" and "The Rebel."

Some media outlets say this year's Feitian Awards have the highest reputation in history!"

On the private plane from Hainan to Beijing, Tian Xiwei sighed while browsing her phone.

Gu Wei, who was sitting opposite, looked at the script in his hand and replied casually:

"There have been many high-quality dramas aired in the past two years, with mainstream dramas accounting for a large portion. Competition for this year's Feitian Awards is naturally fierce."

[The Wind Chaser] was shortlisted for this year's Feitian Awards, and Gu Wei was nominated for the Outstanding Actor Award. He took a few days off to attend the award ceremony.

Tian Xiwei had just finished filming her role on the set, and her new drama "Daily Life of a Lady" was about to be broadcast online, so she took a ride with Gu Wei to go back and participate in the platform's promotional activities.

“Although the opponent is very strong, I think our [Wind Chaser] is no worse than any other team.

Brother Wei, you acted so well, you will definitely win the Best Actor Award at this year's Feitian Awards!"

Oda put down his phone and looked at his boss opposite him. A sweet smile appeared on his cute face, and his big watery eyes were full of trust and admiration.

Gu Wei put down the script in his hand and looked up with a smile: "If only it were as easy as I told you.

This year's Best Actor nominees include Ding Yongdai from "Crossing the Yalu River", Huang Xuan from "Mountains and Seas", Wang Lei from "The Meritorious", Yu Hewei from "Awakening Age" and Zhang Jiayi from "The Stage".

They are all talented actors and the competition is quite fierce.

The media's description of this "the most prestigious Feitian Award in history" is not an exaggeration.

"But I think 'Wei Ruolai' is the best, and the broadcast results and popularity of these dramas are far less than our 'The Wind Chaser'!"

“Haha, this is indeed an advantage!”

In fact, Gu Wei also attaches great importance to this year's Feitian Awards. The last time he was nominated was 6 years ago, when he was nominated for Best Actor for "Nirvana in Fire". Unfortunately, he lost to Mr. Chen Baoguo for "All Quiet in Peking" and "Children of the Great River".

He has won the three major awards in the domestic TV drama field, the Golden Eagle Award and the Magnolia Award, and he only needs the Feitian Award to achieve the Grand Slam.

"It's a pity that the Feitian Awards only have four individual awards: Outstanding Director, Outstanding Screenwriter, Outstanding Actor, and Outstanding Actress. There are no awards for Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress. Otherwise, Xiaotian, your "Niu Chunmiao" could definitely be nominated, and even win Best Supporting Actress!"

Xiaotian was a little embarrassed: "I'm still far from it, how can I be that good?

I will be very satisfied if [Daily Life of a Lady] can achieve good results after it is broadcast in a few days."

Gu Wei laughed and said, “I think this drama will be a hit!

I’ll post on Weibo to help you promote it before the show starts! "

Xiaotian smiled and nodded: "Brother Wei, if you win the Feitian Award for Best Actor this year, will you be the youngest winner of the Feitian Award?"

Gu Wei thought for a moment and shook his head: "I remember that the youngest winner of the Feitian Award was Mr. Chen Jianfei.

That year, he was only 27 years old when he won the Best Actor Award at the 5th Feitian Awards for his two works, "Harbin Under the Night" and "Going Far Away."

On November 1, the 33rd Feitian Awards ceremony was held as scheduled at the Shougang Park in Beijing.

The award ceremony was live broadcast by Youku.

At 6 pm, the red carpet portion of the ceremony officially began. Many celebrities in the industry took to the red carpet stage one after another, and netizens and fans also watched the celebrities' stunning appearances online.

"There are so many celebrities at the Feitian Awards this year, and they're all familiar faces!"

"It's held every two years. There have been many excellent TV series in the past two years, so the stars who have been nominated for awards will naturally come!"

"The crew of [Awakening Age] is here, and Mr. Yu Hewei's acting is really good!"

"I feel like Yu Hewei wasn't very famous when he was young, but he became very popular when he got older~"

"Haha, he has a lot of classic expressions, like smoking, spitting, and playing music and dancing. They're all hilarious!"

"Teacher Yu has a good chance of winning the Flying Apsaras Award for Best Actor this year. 'Awakening Age' was a critical and commercial success, and he's a great actor!"

"I think Wang Lei has a good chance of winning the award. His performance in [Li Yannian, a Man of Both Literature and Martial Arts] is amazing!"

"Wang Lei is good, but [Li Yannian, a man of both literary and martial arts] is just a unit drama in [Meritorious Service], he is one of the main characters."

"I think Gu Wei has a very high chance of winning an award. This year's 'The Wind Chaser' was so popular, it's definitely the drama king of 2022. No other TV series can compare to that.

And his performance in it is also very outstanding, no worse than Yu Hewei, Wang Lei and others!"

"I hope Gu Wei can win an award. He's already won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor and the Magnolia Award for Best Actor. If he wins the Feitian Award for Best Actor this year, he'll have achieved a grand slam in domestic TV drama awards!"

"The cast of [The Rebel] walked the red carpet. This drama is quite good, but Zhu Yilong and Tong Yao don't seem to be a good match.

Tong Yao’s acting seems a bit pretentious, and her performance in the drama is obviously not as good as last year’s "Nothing But Thirty". I don’t know why she was nominated for Outstanding Actress?

I feel like Zhu Yilong acted better than her, but he wasn't nominated for Best Actor."

"It's obvious that the competition for Best Actor at this Feitian Awards is more intense than Best Actress.

"The Rebel" is similar to "The Wind Chaser" in subject matter, both of which belong to the spy war genre. Zhu Yilong's performance is far inferior to Gu Wei, so it is normal that he was not nominated.

Relatively speaking, although Tong Yao's performance was average, she was still better than the newcomer Wang Churan, whose acting skills were more immature, so she was nominated.

But she probably has little hope of winning the award."

"This year's Best Actress winner, Reyiza from [Mountains and Seas], has great hopes. She performed really well in the film!"

"Look! Gu Wei appears!

I didn’t expect him to be the finale on the Feitian Awards red carpet!

With the live broadcast of the Feitian Awards red carpet, various discussions also appeared on the Internet. The moment Gu Wei stepped onto the red carpet, the number of barrages in Youku's related live broadcast increased rapidly.

As Gu Wei, dressed in a Louis Vuitton haute couture suit, stepped onto the red carpet, cheers and screams erupted from the audience. (End of this chapter)