Chapter 2075

Los Angeles, Venice, Toronto, New York, London. In a short period of half a month, the figure of lanli has been running back and forth over the Atlantic Ocean, and the continuous long-distance flight has officially opened the curtain of 2014 award season. However, it is obvious that for lanli, there are more important things to deal with than the award season.

Just as Langley continued to cross the Atlantic Ocean, Venice and Toronto Film Festivals came to an end one after another, and then the triliuride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival and so on will all make their debut. It's another year, and the awarding season is boiling up. Of course, although the awards are not the most important, they are still worthy of attention, Because these works are likely to become the first wave of seed players in the award season.

The first is the Venice Film Festival.

The Swedish film "cold sparrow" won the Golden Lion Award, while the Indonesian documentary "silent image" won the jury award; At the same time, the latter also became the highest award of the film critic fabissey award, and the prospect of the award season became clear.

However, after the popularity of Venice, "silent image" has not been able to find a distributor, which also makes the work not be able to be shown in North America. Unfortunately, it missed the deadline for the application of the 87th Oscar; Toudou was successfully released in the next year, filed into the 2015 award season lineup, and finally won the best documentary film nomination of the 88th Academy Awards.

The details of "silent image" are later gags, and the profile also proves one thing again: Venice's film selling ability is weak after all, not to mention Cannes. Even compared with Berlin, it is weak, which also means that Venice's situation is even more difficult than imagined.

Looking back to Venice, the best director, best screenwriter and other awards have also found their respective winners, while the most popular Award for the best actor and the best actress is slightly unexpected. The work "hungry heart" produced by Italy and the United States and selected by Italy has won the best actor and best actress trophies.

The famous Italian actress alba rohrwacher has won the film queen trophy of Venice for the third time. The previous two times were both non main competition units, but this is the first time to reach the top in the main competition unit, which is an important breakthrough.

American actor Adam dliver beat popular candidate Jack Gyllenhaal to win the film title. He had previously performed "drunken folk" with Langley, and later became one of the most popular actors in the mainstream for his role as the villain of "Star Wars: the awakening of the force".

This is also regarded as the Venice Film Festival's "once again" support for local films, otherwise, Jack Gyllenhaal's chances of winning should be higher.

The horizon unit, which few people paid attention to, attracted a lot of attention this year because of the existence of lanli, and finally several excellent works emerged——

The two works "God knows" and "Hib", which are also listed in the horizon unit, have both made their way to the top two months later. The former won the final prize and the best director award at the Tokyo Film Festival; The latter entered the award season at the end of the year and finally ranked among the top five nominees for best foreign language film in the 88th Academy Awards, which is almost consistent with the development track of "silent image".

This also shows a problem. For the time being, apart from the award season and the Oscars, Venice can also find excellent works. Cannes can't catch all of them in the vast film soil of the world. As the world's top film festivals, Berlin and Venice still have strong attraction, and excellent works still exist; The question is, how should Venice be positioned? How to choose works in the main competition unit? That's the central focus.

In addition to "God knows" and "hibb", the "pop drummer" is undoubtedly the best and most popular work of horizon unit this year. It finally won the highest award of horizon unit, but it didn't come back empty handed after all.

Then came the Toronto Film Festival.

Among the people's Choice Awards, Weinstein film's biographical film "simulation game" has become the biggest winner, and has topped Toronto among the cheers, becoming the top work of the people's Choice Award, which also adds the most important weight to the film's Oscar journey; At the same time, the actor Benedict Cumberbatch also became the number one seed of the Oscar winner.

The Weinstein brothers once again accurately grasped the lifeline of the award season and won the first battle.

Theodore Melfi, an unnamed independent director, was born as a producer and has been in the industry for more than ten years. His first directing work "Saint Vincent" has won a lot of praise and made his debut in the Toronto Film Festival.

The film gathers a series of famous actors such as Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts. We can see that Theodore has excellent contacts in the industry. Finally, his work won the second place in the Toronto people's Choice Award. It has also become an important seed player in this year's award season, just like the "Juno" and "sunny little beauty" of that year, This kind of light comedy can always find a market, depending on how it works next.

By the way, "Saint Vincent" was produced by Weinstein films and released by itself, while "imitation game" was produced by a small independent film company. Weinstein films purchased the distribution rights in North America, and Weinstein brothers began to purchase heavily before the opening of the award season.

Then, the third place in the people's Choice Award was awarded - or "pop drummer.".

This controversial work is still a successful way out and won the favor of many audiences; At the same time, Langley's performance also received numerous praise again, basically continuing the momentum of the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year, making people more convinced that this film should have a place in the award season.

But there are still uncertainties behind the joy.

"Imitation game" is Oscar's favorite biography of celebrities, while "Saint Vincent" and "Sunshine beauty" are both light comedies that complete self salvation in frustration, seemingly sad but actually convey positive energy, and are also the favorite of award season; But the "pop drummer" is extreme and dark. Besides pursuing the artistic attitude of not being crazy and not surviving, he also criticizes the mainstream lifestyle, which is undoubtedly not the style and type of the college judges.

From Sundance at the beginning of the year, to Venice not long ago, and then to Toronto, where the curtain has just fallen, the "pop drummer" has reaped one crop of praise after another, but the overall momentum has never broken out. The influence of theme and style is always unclear. It is still uncertain whether it can be completely lively in the award season.

Even in Toronto, the "pop drummer" only won the third place in the end - many people in the industry believe that this is the popularity vote of Langley. After all, this is the people's Choice Award, and Langley's influence can not be ignored. If it is not for Langley, then the third place should be the music biography film "love and compassion".

What's more, the wind vane works of the Toronto Film Festival are mainly reflected in the people's Choice Award, only limited to the first place; Although the Film Festival official also listed the second and third place, the influence in the award season is really very small, which further adds uncertainty to the prospect of the "pop drummer" award season.

But anyway, it's certain that the name of "pop drummer" has successfully appeared in the first seed list of 2014 award season, and the next award season will be lively.

It is worth mentioning that "Star Trek", which is still on show, has also been included in the discussion category of the award season, not the best film but the best actor——

Isn't lanli's wonderful performance worth a name?

The Chicago Sun even mentioned earlier that the two scenes of Langley's "Star Trek" are the best of the year. One scene is Cooper's farewell to Murphy and his decision to go on a space mission. Langley's delicate and profound performance left a deep impression; The first scene is the look in the eyes of the end of the whole film, which makes the quality of the film improve a step. It is comparable to the last scene of "crazy love", which is worthy of standing up and clapping.

Not only the Chicago Sun, but also authoritative magazines such as the new Yorker, Hollywood Reporter and Empire have expressed similar views. They also believe that although Star Trek is a commercial film, the performance of Langley is indeed worthy of being included in the top ten of the year.

So, whether "Star Trek" is worthy of the Oscar nomination will not be discussed, but at least it should have a place in the award season.

It's just at the beginning of the award season, and the seeded players have not yet finished their debut. However, the attention "Star Trek" has won has been in the forefront. In addition, the reputation of "pop drummer" has also made many film critics sigh that after the chaos and turbulence of the award season at the beginning of the year, lanli has now fully established itself in the industry, Even further into a higher field——

"Isn't Langley another Meryl Streep?"

Many people in the industry have muttered that it is not Tom Hanks or Marlon Brando, but Meryl Streep.

Because Meryl is one of the few actors who can occupy a place in the award season with the strength of commercial film, and constantly break the record.

Just after the millennium, "the queen in Prada", "Mamma Mia", "love is complex", "big hope hot spring", "magic black forest" and other commercial films have occupied a place in the award season for her, and even entered the Oscar stage, winning the name and writing history.

This ability is one of the few in Hollywood. When Meryl has such a reputation, as long as her acting skills are the guarantee, there will be no mistakes. This is also the reason why she is called "cancer". Now, Langley has such a reputation!