On the evening of October 20, when Trieu Le Dinh became the Best Actress (Queen) of the 32nd Chinese Golden Eagle Drama Awards, the keyword "Duong Mich" also unexpectedly climbed to the Top 2 search trends of the social network Weibo.
Trieu Le Dinh and Duong Mich are both prominent faces of the 85 generation of Chinese beauties. Fans of the two actresses have often compared their achievements.
But the achievements of Duong Mich and Trieu Le Dinh in 2024 are completely opposite.
Zhao Liying has won numerous prestigious awards in both television and film. She won Best Supporting Actress at the 37th Hundred Flowers Film Awards, Best Actress (Queen) at the 34th Fei Tian TV Awards, and Best Actress (Queen) at the 32nd Golden Eagle Awards.
Duong Mich had a year to forget, when her two TV series (Harbin 1944, Fox Spirit: Little Red Lady: Moonlight) and one movie (Nothing a Hot Pot Can't Solve) failed consecutively and were not well received by the public.
However, the underlying reason why Duong Mich was mentioned while Trieu Le Dinh was rising was because of the noise related to the Golden Eagle Best Actress trophy.
Before the 2024 Golden Eagle Awards ceremony took place, Duong Mich's fans argued on social media, with many comments affirming that Duong Mich was the 2012 Golden Eagle Queen.
That year, Duong Mich won the "Most Popular Actress" award (popularity award) with a crystal trophy. Meanwhile, 4 others won gold cups with the "Most Popular Actress" award.
In 2016, Zhao Liying and Tong Liya won the golden cup for "Most Favorite Actress". Liu Tao won the crystal cup for "Most Popular Actress".
Right before the 2024 Golden Eagle Awards, many of Duong Mich's fans still believed that the crystal trophy was the Golden Eagle Best Actress, and denied that Trieu Le Dinh won the Best Actress award for the first time with the gold trophy in 2016.
When Trieu Le Dinh won Best Actress this year, many media channels and newspapers congratulated her on "becoming the Golden Eagle Best Actress for the second time". This means that Duong Mich's trophy in 2012 was not Best Actress.
According to Suho, an official explained, the crystal trophy is actually the trophy for the Golden Eagle Festival, not the Golden Eagle Award.
The crystal trophy was presented by Hunan TV. The gold trophy with the eagle symbol and a national certificate were presented by the China Television Artists Association.
In fact, the crystal cup was eliminated by Kim Ung in 2020.
From 2022, the Golden Eagle will no longer have the Most Favorite Actor/Actress award, but will be divided into the categories of Best Leading and Supporting Actor/Actress, similar to the structure of most major film awards.
This will avoid controversies related to the Golden Eagle Queen/Emperor in the past.
