807 academic seminar
Like the Sundance Film Festival, the awards ceremony at the Berlin Film Festival focuses on the ceremony rather than the ceremony. There are no humorous jokes, no song and dance performances, just the awarding of awards according to the process, and the focus always falls on the artistic creators. On the body, I hope that the media and audiences can pay more attention to the art itself, and then promote the development of film art..
At the Berlin Film Festival, the main awards are the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear.
The Golden Bear Award is the highest award and is awarded to five different departments including feature films, documentaries, scientific and educational films, art films, and short films. Among them, the Golden Bear Award in the general sense of major media refers specifically to the feature film department. This is also the annual film festival. The top priority, together with the Palme d'Or in Cannes and the Golden Lion in Venice, is known as the Grand Slam of European films..
As of 2012, only two directors in history have won the Grand Slam, the highest award, namely Italy's Michelangelo-Antonioni and the United States' Robert Altman.）.
The Silver Bear Award is divided into two parts. One part is for the second place in the feature film in the competition unit, which is the Jury Prize. The final trophy is a Silver Bear; the other part is the highest individual award, awarded to the director and actor respectively. Actors, actresses, screenwriters, music, photography, art, etc..
Also as of 2012, there have been a total of four Grand Slam winners of individual awards at the three major European film festivals in history, director Paul Thomas Anderson, actors Jake Lemmon and Sean Penn, Actress Juliette-Binoche）.
In addition, the Berlin Film Festival has officially established departments with different themes, such as the Teddy Bear Award and the Crystal Bear Award. The former is dedicated to honoring works with gay themes, while the latter is focused on works with youth themes, with the intention of encouraging filmmakers to continue their creative work. pay more attention to these groups.
The Golden Bear Award is undoubtedly the award that every work strives for. It is also the most important recognition of a work, equivalent to the Oscar for Best Picture. However, the competition for the Golden Bear Award this year seems to be somewhat inadequate..
In recent years, the overall momentum of the Berlin Film Festival has not improved much. It has been struggling to survive in the cracks. Not only the list of entries in the competition units has been dim, but the overall quality and reputation of the participating art works have also slowly declined. The average level of the Golden Bear Award is really unsatisfactory.
The last time the artistry of the Golden Bear Award was universally recognized by the world was in 2003. At that time, "In This World", "25 Hours", "Every Hour", "Goodbye Lenin", "Adapted Screenplay", " Many works such as "Death Psalms" and "Twilight Seibei" have been highly recognized. Each work has the possibility of winning, and has since been recognized in Europe and even the world..
That year, the biggest favorite to win the award, "Every Hour" eventually lost to "In This World", which caused a lot of exclamations, but the latter also received a lot of praise in Europe..
But the good times are hard to recreate.
This year, the German film "Barbara" received the highest score in the program, but its artistic value and ideological depth were not further recognized by the media. In addition, "Battlefield", "Children of the Mountain", "Grace" ", "Royal Style/History", "Goodbye, My Queen", "Just the Wind" and "Caesar Must Die" and other works, the ratings in the field reviews are almost the same, and the media feedback does not have many surprises, and the overall lack of a highlight.
It is precisely because of this that "Transcendence" has become the darling of the media and the audience. Not only because of the attention effect brought by Renly, but also because of Tony Kaye's crazy and bold, experimental pseudo-documentary shooting method, Triggering people's extreme emotional reactions, just like the collision of spears and shields, the sparks are all brilliant and colorful..
Since there is no popular work that is popular, it is better to choose a work that arouses curiosity..
Although the program score is not high, thanks to the media attention and the enthusiasm of the audience, when people discuss the Golden Bear Award, "detachment" has more or less become one of the reference standards. After all, at the Berlin Film Festival Above, every work, every actor, and every director in the competition unit is eligible to compete for the corresponding awards. There is no nomination list..
If nothing else, tonight’s awards should be one of these works, including the Golden Bear Award.
Popular? There is no absolute popularity, and there is no absolute unpopularity either..
In previous years, media reporters would always focus on the works with the highest ratings in the journal..
Because among the three major European film festivals, having the highest program score is more like a curse. The highest award is always missed, and the jury always chooses other works; this has also caused serious dissatisfaction with the jury among journalists and film critics. , after the list of winners was released, major media outlets criticized and criticized them one after another. This scene happens every year..
But this year is an exception. Although "Barbara" has the highest score selected by the media, film critics, reporters, and audiences are far from being enthusiastic about this work. It seems that other works are not popular. , that’s not too strange.
calm, calm, quiet.
This seems to be the best footnote of the 62nd Berlin Film Festival. Except for the unexpected frenzy caused by "Transcendence", there are no accidents, no surprises, and no excitement. The similar atmosphere naturally extends to the movie the last day of festival.
The award ceremony was carried out smoothly and calmly. It was more like a seminar than a feast. It lacked an entertainment atmosphere, but was always filled with an atmosphere of academic research. Serious and solemn, serious and boring, it was indeed Berlin, as cold and unique as ever.
The first climax of the whole ceremony came when Meryl Streep took the stage..
Although this veteran actor who has been in the film industry for more than 30 years still lacks a Best Actress trophy at the Venice Film Festival and has not been able to achieve a Grand Slam in her honor book, she enjoys high respect around the world. and love, her dedication to classic masterpieces one after another continues to prove her talent, hard work and dedication.
During this year's North American awards season, Meryl won an Oscar nomination for a record seventeenth time with "The Iron Lady" and became a strong candidate for the Best Actress competition..
People even nicknamed her a "cancer", which was not a malicious ridicule, but a friendly ridicule: it seems that every year, as long as Meryl appears in a film, it will not be wrong to check her on the Oscar nomination list. choice, which also makes it difficult for rising stars to get ahead..
Although the academy's public relations during the awards season are in full swing, Meryl still took time out of her busy schedule to come to Berlin in person to receive the first Lifetime Achievement Award of her career..
When Meryl took the stage, the entire audience stood up and applauded with the warmest, loudest and most exciting applause, expressing their inner respect and admiration; in response, Meryl also made a joke of her own, "Well , I hope this is not a sign that retirement time has arrived.”
The whole audience laughed.
After the first climax, the atmosphere at the scene returned to a peaceful and peaceful state again, just like an electrocardiogram.
The difference is that the electrocardiogram is always a straight line with no waves, as if the instrument is not connected; when Meryl came on stage, the instrument was finally connected successfully, so the straight line of the electrocardiogram began to have peaks and valleys, fluctuating violently up and down. Then, after the acceptance speech, the instrument disconnected again.
Is this a good thing? Maybe not, the hustle and bustle of Cannes, Venice and Toronto is always enviable; is that a bad thing? Maybe not. Berlin has always maintained its own characteristics and style. Everything is about movies and everything is about movies. After the lack of entertainment effects, all attention is focused on the awards..
This may be the original intention of the main committee.
The answers to important awards from various departments began to be announced one after another. The members of the jury were responsible for serving as award presenters, and one after another took to the stage to announce the award winners..
The Best Screenplay Award was awarded to "Royal Style/Flow/History"”.
The director is the Danish Nicolai Axel who originally wrote the original "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" script. This time he is also responsible for writing the script himself, and invited Mads Mikkelsen and Elle Starring Sia Vikander, it was well received at this year's Berlin Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay Award. It was unexpected, but it is reasonable..
The Best Director Award was awarded to Christian Petzold for "Barbara".
This director, who is fifty years old this year, was once highly expected to lead German cinema out of the darkness; as time goes by, he has contributed works worthy of recognition such as "Ghost", "Jela", and "Jerichau". But it has never been able to go further.
This year's "Barbara" was once again eye-catching and received the highest score from the show; however, after winning the Best Director Award, it basically declared that this work had no chance of winning the Golden Bear. After all, "Barbara" "La" is not "a separation"”.
The curse of having the highest ratings in the program is still valid at the three major European film festivals.
The Jury Prize was unexpectedly won by the Hungarian film "Just the Wind".
This work from Eastern Europe did not have outstanding reviews in the screenings, but the local German media liked it very much. The director Benedek Filigoff is also a young director with a small reputation in Europe. He has been in the industry for ten years and has dedicated himself to It has won masterpieces such as "The Palace", "Galaxy Image", and "The Forest". A small number of viewers, including Renly, even believed that this work could win the Golden Bear Award..
In the end, successfully winning the Jury Prize is an affirmation, but from another perspective, it is also a regret - this is the Silver Bear Award, not the Golden Bear Award..
Next up is the Silver Bear for Best Actor and the Silver Bear for Best Actress..
At last year's Berlin Film Festival, there was a shocking upset. Best Actor and Best Actress were both awarded to the same work, and they were not awarded to one actor, but to a group.：
“The four actors and two actresses of "A Farewell" are not just as simple as double yolks, but affirm all the performances of the entire cast team. In Cannes? This situation is somewhat rare, but it is not unexpected; but It was Berlin that really frightened everyone, including the German media themselves.
What's more, "A Farewell" ended up winning the Golden Bear Award.
What will happen to these two awards this year?？
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