1813 tense moment
The first to appear is the Best Director Award！
Among the final four major awards, the one with the least suspense is the Best Director Award..
“Alfonso Cuarón of "Gravity", Steve McQueen of "12 Years a Slave", David O. Russell of "American Hustle", David O. Russell of "Nebraska" Alexander Payne, Martin Scorsese in "The Wolf of Wall Street".
Among the five nominees, Alfonso Cuaron created a perfect movie-watching experience through his powerful control and use of images, sounds and space in "Gravity", showing his outstanding performance in the director's position. With his unparalleled talent and talent, throughout the awards season, he can be said to be unparalleled and unrivaled..
Regardless of the winner of the Best Picture, the top favorite for Best Director is Alfonso Cuaron. People can criticize the weak script and the lack of details, but they cannot criticize the view created by Alfonso through his own lens. film effect, which once again proves that movies are still products of theaters！
The main reason why "Gravity" has a unique advantage in the technical department that even "Captain Phillips" cannot match is that Alfonso's scheduling and combination of various technical aspects of the film's production have given full play to his The potential and charm of filmmaking technology is astonishing.
For Alfonso Cuaron, a "tech geek", "Gravity" fully demonstrated his understanding of the director's position. None of the other four directors were able to create more magical films on the technical or content level. Works, purely in terms of "director", Alfonso is undoubtedly the number one candidate for best director.
From the Golden Globe Awards to the British Academy Awards to the Directors Guild of America Awards, Alfonso swept all the way and led all the way. He showed a strong posture as the number one favorite throughout the awards season, and the Best Director Award was almost never left out by others..
What's more, looking at the overall trend of tonight's Oscars, "Gravity" swept the technical awards, and all the momentum for the Best Director Award is further rushing towards this commercial masterpiece. The only suspense may be "12 Years a Slave" ".
"12 Years a Slave", which relied on the "race card" to continuously seize the advantage in the second stage, is fully capable of pushing Steve McQueen to the best director - the man who has won "Hunger" and " "Shame" is a British director who has made a name for himself in the independent film industry. His strength and reputation have been absolutely recognized. His low-key and pragmatic personality has also won him a lot of favor in Hollywood. With the continuous operation of the academy's public relations, he has been in the sprint stage. Although the chance of overtaking Alfonso, who opened the situation with absolute strength, is low, it is not impossible..
Having just won the Best Adapted Screenplay award, "12 Years a Slave" wants to further squeeze the advantage of "Gravity" in the battle for best picture, so it must go all out for every subsequent award. In other words, they need to have confidence and expectations in each award department, and then sprint for the ultimate award..
So, does absolute strength win? Or will the college’s public relations win? In this game of Oscars, who can predict it?？
Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier appeared together as award guests——
1964In 2016, Sidney Poitier successfully won the Oscar for Best Actor with his outstanding performance in "Lilies of the Field" and became the first black actor in history to ascend to the best actor throne, making history; now 2014 is also the 50th anniversary of Sidney Poitier making history. This is definitely a special year worth remembering..
The Academy specially invited Sidney Poitier as the award guest, and Angelina Jolie is also the winner of this year's Oscar Humanitarian Award. This move also shows that it attaches great importance to the Best Director Award..
Sidney Poitier, who is eighty-seven years old this year, appeared on the stage with the support of Angelina. His spirit is still strong, but his steps are extremely slow. You can clearly see the traces of time. All the guests stood up and gave the actor a thunderous applause.
Unintentionally, the suspense dragged on for a long time——
Because Sidney was eighty-seven years old, he moved very slowly. He slowly opened the envelope and slowly pulled out the card. The whole action took at least five seconds. In the close-up of the camera, , just like five centuries ago, the smiles of the five nominees began to freeze slightly..
Especially Steve McQueen. It's not that his mentality has changed, but the close-up of the camera lens amplifies all emotions to the extreme, and the sense of anticipation and tension begins to grow exponentially.——
“After "12 Years a Slave" experienced the depression of the whole audience, can it be the beginning of an explosion with the Best Adapted Screenplay Award? If so, then he will win his first Oscar statuette! Just in his mind Just imagine, the blood started to boil, and then Sidney unintentionally lengthened the reveal process, and he became more and more nervous, and his facial muscles were slightly distorted..
On the contrary, Alfonso Cuaron was more calm - but only relatively speaking. His mentality was originally very relaxed, but after such procrastination, his relaxed mood gradually became tense, and he began to feel restless inexplicably. , he adjusted his sitting posture without even noticing it..
After finally pulling out the envelope, Sidney couldn't see the writing clearly due to his presbyopia. He held the card and looked left and right, as if he was looking for the best angle..
Not to mention the nominees, even the other guests are beginning to feel anxious and nervous. The feeling of heat is slowly rising, the air is almost condensing, and the tension is rising little by little, making people breathless. Angry. But unfortunately, all the guests could not rush Sidney - because after everyone reaches the age of eighty-seven, they will face the same problem. This is not Sidney's original intention..
The suspense stretched out bit by bit like this, and it dragged on for too long - there were no gags to lighten the atmosphere, so the tension reached its peak and then started to slide down again, like a spring..
Angelina had been waiting patiently. After observing Sidney carefully, she also realized that Sidney might need the help of reading glasses to see the handwriting, and they had forgotten to prepare it in advance, so , she said politely, "Is this up to me?？”
Sidney nodded immediately, "Okay.！”
Angelina took the card, lowered her head to read it, and then said the answer loudly, "Alfonso Cuarón, 'Gravity'"’.”
no suspense！
Alfonso Cuaron made a strong comeback to the Oscars, winning tonight's eighth statuette for the cast of "Gravity" and his first ever. He will compete with "Gravity" The buzz for Best Picture reaches a whole new level——
“If you want to challenge "Gravity" in "12 Years a Slave", you must win the Best Actor Award, otherwise... it will be difficult to reach the sky. Things are gradually starting to get exciting.！
Alfonso still showed a slightly surprised expression, and then his smile bloomed. He did not hide his happiness and showed his happiness and joy wantonly. Then he hugged his wife enthusiastically and was cheered by all the guests. Surrounded by applause and applause, he stepped onto the stage.
After taking the stage, Alfonso seemed a little embarrassed and expressed his gratitude in non-standard English. He thanked the academy, the crew, and his family, and then showed a little humor, "Fortunately, we won this A trophy, otherwise it would be hard work. So many staff have spent so much time following me. For them, in addition to contributing wisdom, the color of their hair has also changed..”
Looking at Alfonso's gray hair, the audience laughed..
“I need to specially thank Renly Hall, you are gravity." During the applause of the audience, Alfonso looked at Renly in the first row, and the camera was also focused on Renly..
“You are the core and passion of the entire movie. Thank you for your trust. When I went to London's West End to find you, you were willing to slow down and listen to my plan, and boldly and riskily participated in this journey. , this is undoubtedly the most important turning point for the entire crew. Your performance makes everything possible, otherwise it would be just empty shelves. It was you who made me realize what a good actor can change.”
Renly did not answer, but smiled and applauded Alfonso. Any excellent work is the result of the coordination and cooperation of all links. Alfonso's talent is the well-deserved primary contributor to "Gravity".
“I still remember that on the first day you joined the crew, you stayed in the equipment for several hours for the role, and in the end you almost fainted due to dehydration. This professionalism..." Alfonso said emotionally... He said, slightly choked with sobs, seeming to recall the many difficulties and hardships during the filming, as well as the wholehearted dedication of the actors. His excitement also infected the audience, and the applause rang out again, paying tribute to Renly.！
“You have won the respect of everyone on the set! Alfonso said sincerely, "At the same time, I also need to thank Rooney Mara, thank you for your dedication and investment. Even though it is not a heavy role, you still devote yourself to it without reservation. I can have you." It's an honor for the entire crew.”
Then, there was a list of producers from Warner Bros. After thanking them all one by one, Alfonso officially ended his acceptance speech..
Immediately afterwards, Allen appeared on the stage again and said with a smile, "We did it! We finished it! Now it's finally over. Thank you for letting me be your host. I hope you are as happy as I am.".”
Wait, what?？
The guests at the scene were already confused: Is this the end? What's going on?？
Ellen looked back at the side stage, "What? No? Isn't this the end? Oh, there are still awards that have not been awarded? Then, let's see you after the commercial." She also emphasized in the direction of Renly, "Yes, ad.”
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