Superstar

Can anyone predict this year's best film? no. Can anyone predict this year's best director? no. Can anyone predict this year's best actor? no.

Can anyone predict this year's best actress? The same is not true.

A month ago, it was generally believed that Charlize Theron would be a strong aspirational queen for the Oscars with her wonderful performance in "The Devil"-even if she just won the Best Supporting Actress at last year's Oscar. , The Screen Actors Guild of America thinks so, but the Golden Globes don’t think so. The drama and musical comedy queens were awarded to Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow, which made everyone Can't figure it out.

In this hot list of Oscar nominations, the two Golden Globe actresses are nominated successfully, and will have the most powerful impact on the throne of the actresses, the "priceless family" Meryl Streep, " Ferranda Montenegro of Central Station was also no doubt shortlisted, and the last seat belongs without suspense to the latest chapter of Charlize Lingnon's Biography of "The Devil".

In addition to Kate and Gwyneth, "Central Station" won the Golden Bear Award and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the just-concluded Berlin Film Festival. Above the Oscar, it was only shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film. And the two departments of Best Actress-the foreign language film department has a new force of "Beautiful Life", which is very impressive. This will inevitably cause the votes to be concentrated on Ferranda; plus Meryl, who has become a legend step by step , Any one of these four competitors should not be underestimated.

Charlize has become the biggest hit among the queens in the entire awards season by virtue of the performance recorded in the annals of "Girl. The Devil", but no one should forget that she is only 23 years old this year, and she is too young; No one should forget that she won a little golden figure last year. Is it too dense to win consecutive prizes this year; and no one should forget that the overall quality of "Female. Devil" is mediocre, just shortlisted for the best female The protagonist's competition for this award has completely wiped out other departments. This is really no advantage compared to the devastation of "Shakespeare's Love History", the historical background of "Elizabeth", and the reputation of "Central Station".

This is the core issue of the award ceremony: strength is not the only measure of winning, because this is not mathematics.

Therefore, Kate, Gwyneth, Charlize, Meryl, Ferranda, the competition between these five actors may be slightly inferior to the battle for the actor, but the level of suspense has not diminished in any way. .

The same pattern also appeared in the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress departments.

James Cobain (james.) of "Suffering", Robert Duval of "Forbidden Truth", Ed Harris of "Trumen's World", Jeffrey Rush of "Shakespeare in Love", Billy Bob Thornton, who was "stunned by the windfall", was shortlisted for the supporting actor competition.

Lynn Redgrave in "Gods and Beasts", Rachel Griffith in "She is Lonely Than Fireworks" (.), Casey Bates in "Raising Clouds", "Trumen's World" Nicole Kidman of Shakespeare and Judy Dench of Shakespeare in Love will compete against the supporting actress.

In these two departments, at least three candidates have the ability to win prizes. Robert, Ed and Jeffrey in the supporting actor department are almost close combat duels; Judy, Lynn and Lynn in the supporting actress department Casey is also bound to have a hard fight. This makes every award full of suspense.

Coupled with the best original screenplay department where "Trumen's World", "Saving Private Ryan", "Shakespeare in Love", "Beautiful Life" and "Bag Customers" gathered together, it can be said that they are on the Oscar nomination list. After that, countless people were full of expectations for the award ceremony, because it was bound to be an unpredictable night.

In fact, looking at the awards season that has just passed, the various awards ceremonies have made different choices in the three-month period.

The American Production Association chose "Shakespeare Love History", the American Directors Guild chose "Save Private Ryan", the American Screenwriters Guild chose "Trumen's World", and the American Screen Actors Guild chose "Beautiful Life" and " Female. Devil", the United States Recording Union chose the "thin red line."

In addition, the North American Broadcasting Film Critics Association Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association selected "Shakespeare Love History", the National Critics Association Award and the Golden Globe Award selected "Saving Private Ryan", the National Film Critics Association Award and the New York Film Critics Association I chose "Trumen's World", the Boston Film Critics Association Award and the San Francisco Film Critics Association Award chose the "fine red line", and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award, the Southeast Film Critics Association Award, and the San Diego Film Critics Association Award all selected " beautiful life".

As expected, the pattern of "Saving Private Ryan" or "Trumen's World" sweeping the army did not appear. On the contrary, the five works are evenly matched, and the overall momentum is completely equal, making people completely unable to grasp the overall situation of this awards season. Context.

On the one hand, because this is the first year of the awards season, everyone did not work on the same frequency or toward the same goal as the "Oscar", and their different judgment standards led to completely different results; on the one hand, it was Because the PR war initially showed its power, the two absolutely leading works were both released during the summer vacation. It is too "long" before December. In the absence of sufficient PR strategy cooperation, it is not enough to be at a disadvantage. Read the full text of Curious Doomsday Fanatics.

From the list of winners of the Golden Globes to the list of nominees for Oscars, people in the circle linked "Oscars" to "awarding season" for the first time. They really realized the meaning of the awards season, centered on Oscars, and there were three real ones before and after. Within the time frame of the month, all award ceremonies can be linked together, and work hand in hand to push the event of the film industry to a climax. This is a win-win strategy, no one will refuse!

At this moment, people really noticed the Weinstein brothers. For the first time, the two producers walked from behind the scenes to the front half of the scene. The prestige of the work accumulates bit by bit, and finally achieved a great victory in the Oscar nomination stage.

This is a victory for public relations, not a victory for strength.

It's not that "Shakespeare in Love" is a bad work. On the contrary, this work is actually quite comprehensive. Even if it is nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, it will not cause too much controversy. This is also the public relations of the Weinstein brothers. Expose the fundamental reason why it can work—professionals are not fools, they also have their own aesthetic standards. But the "trick" is precisely hidden in this vague boundary.

"Shakespeare in Love" is a masterpiece, but can it be compared with "Trumen's World" and "Saving Private Ryan"? Obviously this is not the case, let alone transcending these two classics. But under the propaganda of the Weinstein brothers, people's ideas have been shaken: Is this really the case?

Some negative rumors began to spread in the circle, such as "Saving Private Ryan" maliciously squeezed extra actors during filming, and long-term hard filming caused many people to be hospitalized; for example, the theme of "Trumen's World" was too thin, and the overall quality was not good. It is not as thick as expected; for example, "Saving Private Ryan" has too sensational description of the human nature of the war, but lacks reflection on the war; for example, "Trumen's World" caused water pollution on the set during the filming. The local area caused great troubles; for example, the rumor that "Saving Private Ryan" did not respect World War II veterans; for example, the rumor that the crew of "Trumen's World" discriminated against black actors...

Most of these rumors have not been confirmed, but only spread in small areas. This makes the crews of "Saving Private Ryan" and "Trumen's World" annoying, because if they solemnly explain, they will If things get worse, something will happen if there is nothing to do; but if they let it go, then they can’t contain these rumors; if they explain one by one, they seem to pay too much attention to it, but it seems like they want to cover up... This is really a dilemma.

If the negative news like "Schindler's List" hit the Oscars at the time, after it was completely upset, in fact, you don't have to worry too much, because the real can't be fake, and the fake can't be real. It's just that these small rumors that can't be explained formally make it impossible to start.

It's like rumors among classmates that a certain person's feet are smelly. It's not a major issue, and no one will deliberately ask for proof. The person concerned can only deny it when he hears it, but there is no way to solemnly clarify the matter. Over time, this rumor became true, leaving people completely helpless.

Hidden behind these messy rumors ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is the rising momentum of "Shakespeare Love History", which resulted in the victory of the 13 Oscar nominations, and even the formation of the death group. , Let people have witnessed "Shakespeare in Love" overtaking other works without knowing what happened, and become the current leading seed player.

This phenomenon is really intriguing.

Although "Saving Private Ryan" and "Trumen's World" also launched related public relations activities in January, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures are obviously too unfamiliar with this. They have been accustomed to the king's way, and suddenly their swords are slanted. On the contrary, there is no rhythm, so the results are still limited at present. It's just that I don't know what will happen in the next period of time, and what will happen to the battle.

But what is certain is that the concept of awards season has gradually formed, and the example of college public relations has emerged, and the market is full of expectations. In this lively trend, February was passed vigorously, and the 41st Grammy, which lacked glory to the death, was also lackluster. Following last year's Lean-Lime, R&B rookie female singer Lao Lun Hill (lauryn.) turned out to win five awards, but failed to create more topics.

In the past half of March, Hugo quietly returned to Los Angeles without disturbing anyone.