1678 Triwizard Tournament
After the official announcement of the nomination list for the 86th Academy Awards, the ups and downs in various individual award categories triggered countless discussions. Among them, Renly Hall's nomination for the Best Actor for four consecutive years is undoubtedly the focus of the spotlight, which also means that This year’s awards ceremony is bound to be full of suspense again.
If we look at the entire list of winners by work, the fierce competition becomes more clear..
"Gravity," "American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave", which have been in the first group throughout the awards season, are still the most popular, winning 11, 10, and 9 nominations respectively, leading the Oscar nominations list.
The biggest surprise is the counterattack of "Gravity". Since its debut at the Venice Film Festival, this work has received countless praises and became the biggest hit during the awards season. However, due to Warner Bros.'s promotional strategy, Mistake, entering the awards season, the momentum has never been able to seize the advantage. Instead, it has been surpassed by "American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave" successively, and the overall momentum has always been in a position of struggling to catch up..
until now.
Entering the second stage of the awards season, "Gravity"'s advantages in the technical department have been carried forward, and it has shaken off two competitors without many technical features, "12 Years a Slave" and "American Hustle", and became the nominee The leader of the stage has initially shown the style of the top seed, indicating that there will be more variables in the next college public relations situation..
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Art guide.
Being far ahead at the technical level, "Gravity" had almost no competitors throughout this year's awards season. This gave them an advantage in the Oscar nomination stage, easily completing the overtake of their competitors and reaching the top spot in one fell swoop. The height of "Lord of the Rings 3" or "Avatar".
“"Gravity" is the fifth film in history to receive nominations in all seven technical categories. The previous four are "Titanic" in 1997, "The Waters" in 2002, and "Hugo" in 2011. and 2012’s “Life of Pi””.
However, the fatal shortcoming of "Gravity" is undoubtedly very obvious: the absence of the script department.
The commercial original script does not have much structure or content worthy of commendation. Even the lines and characters are a bit rough. The whole movie relies entirely on the lens and performance. This is definitely a movie suitable for experiencing the visual and emotional effects in the cinema. It’s a visually stunning work, but the content of the script is still relatively thin. All those reflective cores are completed through the composition of the picture..
This also reminds people of "Avatar". Initially, "Avatar" also stood out in the technical department, but the lack of performance and script departments became shortcomings that cannot be ignored. In the end, the film lost to The "Hurt Locker" is simpler and tougher at the technical level and is leading in connotation and thinking.”.
Does this...could it also foreshadow the future of "Gravity" at the awards ceremony?？
By the way, this year’s nomination list in the script department is also quite interesting..
Original screenplay, "Blue Jasmine", "Dallas Buyers Club", "Her", "Nebraska", "American Hustle". In addition to Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine", others All four films are nominated for Best Picture.
Adapted screenplays, "12 Years a Slave", "Philomena", "The Wolf of Wall Street", "The Ballad of Drunken Country", "Before Midnight". In addition to "Before Midnight", the other four All works were nominated for Best Picture.
In other words, among the ten candidates for Best Picture, only "Gravity" and "Captain Phillips" lost nominations in the screenplay department. Does this mean that the competition in the screenplay department will be particularly fierce? The facts are slightly different. In the list of nominees for the Writers Guild of America Awards, it is a different story..
In the original screenplay department, four of the five nominations remain the same. The only difference is that "Gravity" replaced "Dallas Buyers Club" - although the script of "Gravity" is not the most outstanding. part, but the Writers Guild of America boldly and proactively affirmed it, while "Dallas Buyers Club", which had struggled slightly throughout the awards season, was miserably ignored..
In the adapted script department, only "Before Midnight" remains the same, and the other four seats belong to "August: Osage County", "Lone Survivor", "Captain Phillips", and "Behind the Candelabra" , the final winner was "Captain Phillips", and when it came to the Oscar, all four seats were directly overturned. This is absolutely a rare scene in history..
From the Screenwriters Guild of America Award nomination to the Oscar nomination, the ten seats have undergone earth-shaking changes, which also makes the second stage of the Academy's public relations full of many variables. "Intense" is not the most appropriate adjective, but the suspense is certain..
In terms of treatment in the script department, from the Writers Guild of America Award to the Oscar nomination slot, "Gravity" and "The Balladeer" have just swapped positions. Therefore, the Oscar prospects of "Gravity" have also been cast a layer of doubt. shadow.
But...eleven nominations don't lie. "Gravity" is the absolute leader in the Oscar nomination list, and it has truly ushered in the moment of accumulation..
Following "Gravity" is "American Hustle". This comedy-style work with serious themes continues David O. Russell's consistent style in the eyes of academics and once again received numerous praises; the biggest The surprise is nothing less than the acting department. "American Hustle" successfully won nominations in the four major acting departments, successfully replicating "The TV Show", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Red Flames", "Spiritual Desire" The feat of works such as "Spring Night" - this is the fifteenth work in history to achieve such a glorious feat..
It is worth mentioning that this is the second consecutive year that David O. Russell has won such honors. Last year's "Silver Linings Playbook" and this year's "American Hustle" both won Best Picture and Best Director. , Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay nominations in seven major categories.
Everyone is marveling at Renly's repeated miracles. In fact, David O. Russell is the real Oscar darling..
This year too.
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, and Best Art Direction, a total of ten With three nominations, "Gravity" has become the most powerful contender for this year's Oscar awards..
Moreover, David O. Russell is best at light comedies. Oscars don’t like comedy works, just look at Charlie Chaplin and Jim Carrey, but now David has been light comedies for two consecutive years. Comedy becomes an Oscar winner, a favor that far outweighs Renly's unique perks.
Obviously, the chances of this year's "American Hustle" are even more fierce than last year's "Silver Linings Playbook", and no one can easily underestimate this work.
Then came "12 Years a Slave". This black film's upward momentum during the awards season can be said to be unstoppable. Even though it was slightly inferior at the Oscar nomination stage, it still firmly stayed in the first tier with nine nominations. inside.
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction, a total of nine nominations.
If you look carefully, you can find that the difference between "12 Years a Slave" and "American Hustle" is only one of Best Actress. This also means that the two works will start a head-on confrontation in nine departments, and it will be fierce. It can be said that the bayonet sees red; and the technical department's "gravity" is expected to reap the benefits..
“"Gravity", "12 Years a Slave", and "American Hustle" are all very close in overall momentum. Among the major awards, only the screenplay department is out of place, and all three works were nominated for Best Film Editing at the same time. No wonder the major news media consider this year to be the "Triwizard Battle"”.
Known as the "Little Best Movie" for the Best Film Editing Award, among the five nomination seats, in addition to the top three, the other two seats belong to "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Captain Phillips" respectively. The number of nominations for these two works also ushered in a bumper harvest, with both receiving six nominations, closely behind the top three works..
The other nomination winners are the remaining two best director nominees "Nebraska" and "The Wolf of Wall Street", which received five nominations and four nominations respectively, all of which were from major awards, which also preserves their chances of competing for best picture..
“"The Ballad of Drunkenness" also received six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound Effects and Best Original Song..
Among them, the song "The-Death-Of-Queen-Jane" was jointly created by Renly and the Coen brothers, and successfully won the nomination for best original song. This is also Renly's career For the first time in his career, he was nominated for an Oscar for a music-related award. As expected, Renly will perform this track on the night of the awards ceremony..
With six nominations, this is slightly lower than people’s expectations for “Drunken Country Ballad” and only slightly higher than “Nebraska”. However, the importance of the award is far behind, which is inevitably disappointing; but this is For the taste of the academy, being able to win five nominations in the end is already a big surprise. I can’t ask for more..
In addition, "Her" also received five nominations, which is quite similar to the overall situation of "Philomena"; "Philomena" received four nominations. The Weinstein Films has been in a slump during this year's awards season. ; and "Blue Jasmine" received two nominations, but it is two blockbuster projects for Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay. This is also Woody Allen's 16th Best Original Screenplay nomination, creating a Oscar history.
Of course, Meryl Streep received her 18th Oscar acting nomination for "August: Osage County", far ahead of Jack Nicholson and Katharine Hepburn's 12th. Keep refreshing your own records, this is also a sight to behold.
This is the overall pattern of this year’s Oscars. The second phase of the Academy’s public relations is about to begin..
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