Wang Danrong and Zhu Yanfeng
Award-Winning Filmmaker
Best Sound
Sound, The Wandering Earth II
Jury Citation
The sound of The Wandering Earth II is complex in structure, vast in scale and richly layered in its sense of space. The sound design is meticulous, giving careful treatment to the many characters and the complex visual-effects scenes, and builds a distinctive sound system for the science-fiction world of The Wandering Earth. The film is the first to use artificial intelligence to assist sound creation, an important step in technical innovation.
The Wandering Earth II: Synopsis
In the not-too-distant future, the sun is rapidly ageing and expanding, and within a few hundred years it will swallow and destroy the entire solar system. To meet this unprecedented crisis, the nations of Earth set aside their differences and form a united government to find a way for humanity to survive. After much exploration and deliberation, the "Moving Mountain Project", which will push Earth out of the solar system, wins overwhelmingly. People begin building more than ten thousand giant planetary engines to carry Earth on its long journey. The devoted Liu Peiqiang (Wu Jing) and Han Duoduo (Wang Zhi) pass test after test to join the astronaut corps, and in the process come to know and love each other. But ahead on the long road, a mysterious force seems to keep sabotaging humanity's plan to save itself. The seemingly small Liu Peiqiang, quantum scientist Tu Hengyu (Andy Lau), the united government's Chinese representative Zhou Zhezhi (Li Xuejian), and countless ordinary people of Earth all form a vital part of this great plan...