1815 The ultimate upset
Is there any suspense about the best picture?？
After regretfully losing the Best Director and Best Actor in a row, "12 Years a Slave" has also officially announced the launch of the competition for the Best Picture. Like "American Hustle", the strong momentum in the second stage of the awards season is only The flowers bloomed but did not bear fruit, and the thunder was loud but the raindrops were small, but compared to "American Hustle" being left empty-handed, they at least won a Best Adapted Screenplay Award, which is not too embarrassing. This is the best consolation..
Among the troika, "American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave" have fallen behind successively, but "Gravity", which won eight statuettes tonight, stands out, sweeping all the way from the technical department to the best supporting actress was unexpectedly popular, and also won the Best Film Editing award without hesitation. Can anyone stop it from reaching the top spot now?？
No！
When "Avatar" lost to "The Hurt Locker", clues had already been revealed in the technical department. Among the seven production and technical departments, "Avatar" only won the best photography and best visual effects, while "The Hurt Locker" won It won the best sound effects, best sound effects editing and best film editing. The overall development trend can be seen early..
And "Titanic" has already swept the army in the technical department..
This also means that "Gravity" will become another commercial masterpiece after "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". This is undoubtedly a night worth remembering at the Oscars..
Under the spotlight, Will Smith takes the stage.
Will Smith？
It's Will Smith！
Over the past thirty years, countless black actors have emerged in Hollywood, but only three of them, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington and Will Smith, can truly be called top stars. Regardless of their status in the industry, Whether it is market appeal, they are all incomparable and supreme beings..
Many profound meanings can be understood from the Academy's arrangement of Will Smith as the guest of honor for the Best Picture Award. This is not a casual arrangement, but it is also not an arrangement where the results of the award are known in advance. There is nothing fishy about it..
First of all, the Academy has no way of knowing the winning results in advance. Only the accounting firm responsible for tallying the voting results knows. Even in the accounting firm, only the two staff members responsible for escorting the winning list know, ensuring that the suspense can be maintained until the end. Only a moment can create the biggest surprise.
Secondly, the academy’s process for arranging award guests is very cumbersome and complicated and must be started early. Taking into account the list of nominated guests and guests, and the status of the award guests, etc., all this is done before the statistics of the award results are completed. Arrangements are in order.
Therefore, the Academy has its own knowledge when arranging award guests. The only exception is the acting department. All four awards retain the tradition, and the winners of the previous award will announce the results cross-but occasionally the previous award may appear. If the winner is unable to attend the award ceremony, the Academy will also need to arrange temporary arrangements for guests..
Overall, the Academy makes arrangements based on the momentum of the entire awards season. To a certain extent, this reflects their prediction of the outcome of the awards - this is a summary of public relations and trends from within the Academy..
For example, in 2007, when Martin Scorsese, who was leading the Academy's public relations in the second phase, was expected to realize his Oscar dream with "The Departed", the Academy arranged for Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis -Ford Coppola, the three celebrities who are known as the "Four Great Directors of the 1980s" alongside Martin, came to witness Martin's coronation ceremony.
This is undoubtedly the best tribute！
But before the list of winners is announced, the Academy cannot be sure that Martin will really win the award. This is just a prediction. But for media reporters, this is also the most authoritative prediction. They are always accustomed to starting from the awards. guest list to predict the eventual outcome of certain major awards, especially Best Director and Best Picture.
Tonight, the Academy invites Will Smith to serve as the award guest, and the reason couldn’t be simpler.：
Judging from the public relations momentum of the academy in the second stage, it is a high probability that "12 Years a Slave" will reach the top, so the academy invited the top and most recognizable black actors to appear on stage, showing their appreciation for "12 Years a Slave" The importance and respect of the topic of "race/ethnicity" - that's why Allen made those jokes in the opening remarks.
But the actual progress of the awards ceremony was completely unexpected. The sweeping momentum of "Gravity" was almost unstoppable. Now there is almost no suspense about the winner of the best picture. All the guests are ready to witness "Gravity". The coronation ceremony of "Gravity"! They can even imagine that after the award ceremony, the academy judges will encounter such turbulent, boiling, and sharp criticism for not choosing "12 Years a Slave".
As Allen said at the beginning, you are all racial/racial/discriminatory elements.
Seeing Will Smith on stage at this time, the expressions of the guests became interesting, and even Will himself felt a little uncomfortable.
“New York Times reporter Bradley Adams was watching the live broadcast of the awards ceremony at the official media center, but at the same time, his hands were tapping quickly on the keyboard..
He knew what kind of craze was going to happen after tonight, because other reporters in the media center were already eager to get started - they were currently typing out press releases, and the contents all had the same theme: strongly condemning the college. The judges ignored the excellence of "12 Years a Slave", is the academy too "white"?？
What can be confirmed is that the "Los Angeles Times", "Variety", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Entertainment Weekly", "Empire" and other media will report on this topic. In fact, the "New York Times" will do the same topic, the editor called and asked Bradley to write this article, but Bradley refused, and finally the editor gave the article to another senior reporter to write; as for Bradley himself……
He wanted to write the manuscript on his own terms: a shout-out to "Gravity"！
Although Bradley knew that the New York Times might not adopt this article, he still wanted to finish it. Even if it was published on his personal blog, it didn't matter. After all, he still wanted his voice to be heard. He is still willing to applaud "Gravity" for winning after all.
He firmly believes that "Gravity" is a work more worthy of recognition than "12 Years a Slave" - not because "12 Years a Slave" is not good enough, but because of what "Gravity" created The theater viewing experience is more important, which is of great importance to the future development of the film industry.！
All the thoughts in my mind are like springs, flowing rapidly along my fingertips, and are transformed into words on the screen through the keyboard..
Then, Bradley's hands paused, and the sound of typing on the keyboard in the entire media center collectively paused - because Will Smith was about to reveal the answer..
“The winner of the 86th Academy Award for Best Picture is..." Opening the envelope and pulling out the card, Will didn't wait any longer and scanned the card directly. There was a subtle pause on his expression, but he didn't wait for the audience. As they savored what this little pause meant, Will's smile rose, a little weird and a little wonderful, "'12 Years a Slave', Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen , Dede-Gardner）……”
What？
etc.！
who？
The entire Dolby Theater and the entire media center were solemn and quiet, just for a second, but the pause and silence of this second felt like a century. The shock and astonishment rippled deep in everyone's eyes. Come on, the first reaction in my mind is the same: Did I hear it wrong?？
"Gravity" swept eight statuettes tonight. "Gravity" won the three major trophies of Best Film Editing, Best Supporting Actress and Best Director tonight. The momentum of winning tonight is unstoppable. "Gravity", "Gravity", which is about to write a new history tonight... actually lost the best picture like this？
In a daze, time seemed to go back, and it went back to the Oscars two years ago - "The Artist", which only won the best original score and best costume design, defeated "Hugo" and topped the throne of best picture. It triggered a cry of exclamation, which is still vivid in my mind. Now history is repeating itself.！
During the entire awards ceremony, "12 Years a Slave" only received one Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, but it actually beat "Gravity" to claim the Oscar.！
Everything seems to be going according to the trend of the college's public relations in the second phase, everything seems to fit with Allen's language in the opening phase, everything seems to be the standard ending that everyone expected... But why does it feel a little wrong now?？
Relying only on the powerful advantage of the "race card", it successfully reversed the "Gravity" that received praise from all departments. The Best Picture statuette for "12 Years a Slave" can really be called a "Best"? Although it only won one award for Best Adapted Screenplay, "12 Years a Slave" failed to win the favor of the Academy judges in other projects, but it still topped the list of Best Picture. So what is the meaning of "Best Picture"? How should we explain it?？
Wait. Wait.！
The impact was so powerful that everyone was momentarily stunned. One second, even just one second, created an unparalleled tsunami..
All the reporters in the media center were stunned. After a second, they looked down at the manuscript on their computer screen, and curse words began to burst out continuously. They collectively opened a new document to become even crazier and more With an urgent gesture, I started writing the manuscript..
It's messed up, everything is messed up.
Bradley was stunned for about three seconds. The deep loss made it impossible for him to come back to his senses. He took a deep breath and looked at his computer screen again. After thinking for a moment, he was still in the original state. Based on the original manuscript, he continued to write, but he still insisted on his own idea: "Gravity" is more worthy of awards than "12 Years a Slave".
As for "12 Years a Slave", if you win, you still win. At least for them, this is good news..
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