Chapter 2300

Best picture nominations for the 87th Academy Awards:

"Budapest Hotel", "Birdman", "boyhood", "Selma parade", "everything theory", "cracker drummer", "American sniper" and "imitation game".

A total of eight works were successfully shortlisted, and all the popular works successfully landed, without falling behind. However, the "American sniper" who had been ignored in the Golden Globe Award had a strong position at the last moment.

On the one hand, it proves that Clint Eastwood is still young and strong, on the other hand, it proves that the rise of American conservatives is irresistible - of course, the movie can be regarded as a $300 million box office, and it has replaced "Star Trek" as the most commercial work in this year's award season. Bradley Cooper, producer and star, seems to be creating his own Hollywood golden age.

But the accident still happened.

"Fox Hunter" and "Saint Vincent" both fell behind and broke a pair of glasses.

If the latter is too light and lacks impact after all, the former has won numerous praises throughout the award season. It can be said that the former has made great progress all the way, but has been blocked from the best picture nomination at the last moment. This can be called an earthquake level accident. The whole industry is full of questions, and a "what's the matter" emerges, But no one knows the answer - obviously the support rate is just a bubble.

Maybe the hacking is the best explanation.

"Fox Hunter" missed the best picture nomination, which directly proves that the wind direction of the Golden Globe Award is only "wind direction" after all, unable to accurately grasp the pulse of the college judges - in the huge number of 6000 college judges, all the speculation and estimation is only a probability after all.

In addition, the short list of "theory of everything" is not a big surprise. Although this work has also won a nomination seat in the Golden Globe Award, the media comprehensive evaluation of 72 points proves that it is not an excellent work, and more praise comes from performance. Compared with the media comprehensive evaluation of 81 points of "Fox Hunter", the overall quality has a significant gap, One in and one out of the two exactly proves the weight of the college's public relations.

That's Harvey Weinstein's method.

In any case, the most popular works have won the nomination steadily. "Budapest Hotel" and "Youth" are in the first group for the time being, while "Birdman" and "pop drummer" are in the second group. The two popular works of "Selma parade" and "imitation game" show a downward trend, which are similar to "American sniper" and "American sniper" The theory of all things occupies the third group.

The division of the overall pattern of nature is not empty talk, the nomination list of the best director is the most direct proof.

Richard linclyt in his youth, Wes Anderson in Budapest Hotel, Alessandro Gonzalez inarito in Birdman, Damien chazere in cracker drummer and Bennett Miller in fox hunter are the five directors who have successfully entered the final list.

stick out a mile!

Richard linclyt and Wes Anderson are still the leaders of the award season; Alessandro Gonzalez inalitu shows the ability of directing position with superb skills and excellent control, which is a bit similar to the situation of Alfonso Caron last year. Although the overall momentum of "Birdman" has not surpassed that of competitors, the nomination of director is stable and there is little suspense.

The above-mentioned three directors have not failed in the nomination list so far in the award season. They have joined hands to form the first group, and have also been shortlisted in the Oscar nomination list; But there are many variables in the other two seats. About eight directors are competing for two seats.

The other two seats belong to David finch of "lost lover" and AVA Dewey of "Selma March".

British Academy Awards, the remaining two seats belong to "burst drummer" Damien chazere and "everything theory" James Marsh (James Marsh).

American directors union award, "imitation game" of Morten tedum and "American sniper" of Clint Eastwood are smoothly among the last five.

from the first small beginnings one can see how things will develop.

The nominating seats of the above three major award ceremonies are all different. They belong to six different directors respectively. None of them can win the nomination safely. The similar situation can be seen in other award ceremonies and awards of the association, which continues the scuffle of the director department.

Just like the battle for the best actor, the competition for the best director also presents an all-round scuffle in which a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend.

In previous years, the nominations and final winners of the American Directors Guild Awards could be the best guide for the Academy Awards, but this year they are not.

Damien chazere, the "pop drummer", has risen from the chaos. With sharp editing and smooth scheduling, he has won numerous judges' votes. At the age of 28, he won his first Oscar nomination in his career; Bennett Miller, the fox hunter, was a surprise. After missing the British Academy Awards and the American directors' Union awards in a row, Bennett Miller became a black horse in the top five of the Oscars.

Even the Golden Globes have not been able to predict Bennett Miller's upper position, which proves once again that the Academy's public relations in the award season is full of countless possibilities.

David Finch, AVA Dewey, Morten tedum, Clint Eastwood, Mike Lee and Paul Thomas Anderson all fell. The most regrettable thing is David Finch, and the most unexpected thing is Morten tedum, a good hand of "imitation game". I don't know how Weinstein film industry fell to such a stage, The most controversial issue is AVA Dewey. The Selma parade has won numerous praises, but it still failed to make the female director a finalist. The weak situation of the female director is still a stubborn disease.

From the final nomination list of the best director, we can feel the smoke of this year's award season. The strong shortlist of "pop drummer" and "Fox Hunter" undoubtedly ignited the topic.

Because of this, "Fox Hunter" is absent from the best picture nomination, which has caused a lot of controversy. Even the best director has gone against the nomination, but was abandoned by the best picture, which is really puzzling; With two important nominations, the "pop drummer" regained its momentum and once again joined hands with "Birdman" to fight for the best picture, which added many variables to the public relations of the college in the second stage.

And both of them are from Sony classics.

In fact, a similar pattern has extended to the script Department - which can still be seen as the epitome of the next development trend of the best picture battle.

Best original screenplay, "Birdman", "Budapest Hotel", "Night Walker", "Fox Hunter" and "Youth".

In addition to "Night Walker", the other four works all have strong competitiveness, not to mention the three most popular works of best picture. The absence of "Fox Hunter" in the best picture nomination is even more puzzling.

The best adapted screenplay is "pop drummer", "imitation game", "theory of everything", "American sniper" and "sex is evil".

"Sex is evil" is the only work that has not been shortlisted for the best picture nomination. It is more a tribute to Paul Thomas Anderson's proficiency in screenplay. This talented director should have been a popular candidate for the best director, but the whole award season has not been able to really push his voice up; As for the other four works, they are all seed players of this year's award season, so there is no need to say more.

It should be noted that among the eight best picture nominated works, only "Selma parade" has no nominated script. In addition, AVA Dewey has lost the director nomination, which directly proves that the "Selma parade" in the first stage is not an unexpected cold spot. As a distributor, Paramount Pictures has once again destroyed a good hand.

On the whole, the competition for original scripts is more fierce, and the "pop drummer" should also be the original script - this is the script created by Damien chazere himself. But in order to find investment, he made a short film at the beginning, and then the long film was developed and perfected on the basis of the short film, which also made the final product recognized by the college as "adapted script", otherwise, The fight in the original script department is even more fierce.

Another important award nomination can be used as an indicator, that is the best editing award.

In this award, which is known as "little best picture", we can also see the overall trend of the judges' voting. The "Youth" and "Budapest Hotel" have no suspense to be nominated, while the remaining three seats are nominated by "pop drummer" and "American sniper" and "imitation game".

First of all, "imitation game" has excluded "Fox Hunter" from the shortlist. The balance of the two works, one shortlisted editor and one shortlisted director, can also be seen as the similar attributes of biographical films are consuming each other's winning hopes.

Secondly, "Birdman" broke out a small surprise and lost the nomination - the film took a fake shot to shoot the whole film, which is really not competitive in the editing department, but whether it may have an impact on the competition for the best film is unknown.

Thirdly, the "pop drummer" is the most popular in the editing department, which has become an important factor to reverse the best picture competition.

To sum up, the overall pattern of the first stage of the battle for best picture has been initially drawn: "Youth" and "Budapest Hotel" are leading the way, followed by "Birdman" and "pop drummer", and then entering the second stage. Let's see Fox Searchlight and Sony classic join hands to suppress IFC film, an independent film company.

Of course, another direct evidence of the overall pattern of the first phase of the awards season is the number of nominations.

Oscars include a large number of nominations for technology awards. In terms of the number of nominations, the "Youth" will not be able to seize the advantage, which is directly reflected in the final number of nominations.

In the end, "Budapest Hotel" and "Birdman" both led the list with nine nominations, followed by "pop drummer" and "imitation game" with seven nominations, followed by "Youth" and "American sniper" with six nominations.