Movie Master - Chapter 1019

The seventy-ninth Oscar nomination list is hotly released. Five works, “The Departed”, “Babel”, “Fury Road”, “The Queen” and “Little Miss Sunshine” were successfully nominated for best picture, all of which are familiar However, in the long awards season, it has experienced ups and downs and a magnificent journey. Some people have fallen behind, some have been in critical danger, and some have been bumping all the time. The competitive landscape is changing and unpredictable.

Among them, “The Departed” has always been the most stable. Many people believe that Martin Scorsese will use this work to fulfill his long-cherished Oscar wish, and as time goes on, the voice is getting louder and louder. . After the list of winners of the Golden Globe Awards was released, it caused a lot of consternation, and the Oscar prospect of “The Departed” was cast a shadow. Occupy a place among the strong. However, the whole situation has changed dramatically. “Infernal Walker” is no longer the number one seed, not even the second seed. The world seems to have changed in the blink of an eye.

Instead, it was “Road of Fury”!

As the box office champion of the new North American film history, “Fury Road” is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of 2006. This work broke almost all inertia/concepts, from script to actors, from lens to special effects, from story to connotation, and from image style From photography to composition, it shows the extreme extreme of cult movies in an all-round way, challenging every limit of mainstream aesthetics, but such a work is like a combination of “Star Wars” and “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Sweeping across North America, and even the world.

It’s a pity that after entering the awards season, this work that has changed the industry model and the course of history has stumbled and stumbled all the way, which reminds people of what happened to “Citizen Kane”. This pattern continued until the day before, and was finally completely shattered with the announcement of the Oscar nomination list, clearly showing the true views and opinions of the 6,000 judges of the academy on this work, and reshuffled the cards with an absolutely strong attitude , completely disrupted the pattern of the awards season, announcing the arrival of the king!

“Fury Road” swept away with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Makeup, Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects, a total of 14 nominations!

In the history of the Oscars, the record for the most nominations is jointly held by “Titanic” and “The Beauty of the Comet”. Both works received 14 nominations! Now, “Fury Road” has tied this record and tied for the first place in film history together!

Such an outstanding performance has finally justified the name of “Fury Road”. The absolute advantage of the technical department is the expected result. This work has brought a revolutionary/revolutionary subversion to the on-site special effects. The use of lenses and picture composition also continued Lance’s consistent excellent performance; the real surprise came from The affirmation of the core department, although there is no nomination for the best original screenplay, the four nominations of the acting department have made everyone’s eyes shine. The four works are “Loyal Soul in Troubled Times”, “A Streetcar Named Desire”, “The Storm of TV Station” and “Glorious Return”. This is more than enough to make up for the regret of being absent from the competition in the script department.

But what is even more commendable is that “Fury Road” is an out-and-out commercial film, but now it has been fully affirmed in the weakest performance link, and it has received such an honor, which really makes people feel its strength—this result It is also consistent with the nominations of the Screen Actors Guild Awards. It can be seen that the performances of the leading actors, including the models, have been recognized, and Lance’s training skills in acting have been witnessed once again! Among them, Lance’s nomination is even more commendable.

This is the third consecutive year that Lance has won an acting nomination. He has copied the trajectory of Johnny Depp’s Oscar nomination for “Pirates of the Caribbean” three years ago. The aura supports the whole movie and is highly praised.

More importantly, Lance won another Best Director nomination – four times in a row. Just for the Oscars, Lance has also been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for four consecutive years. There is no doubt about the professional and authoritative recognition. Such a feat has triggered a chain reaction throughout North America.

For reference, Alfred Hitchcock is nominated five times for Best Director, Stanley Kubrick has three and Steven Spielberg has six so far. It can be seen that Lance has been nominated for four times, and he has been nominated for four consecutive years, which seems to have surpassed Clint Eastwood, and he can be called the most outstanding director since the 21st century.

But this is not the case. Clint has been nominated twice in the past six years, and he has won his second statuette. If Lance wants to catch up with Clint, nomination alone is not enough. This year, Lance will have his fourth chance. William Wheeler’s Oscar journey was quite bumpy until his fifth and fourth consecutive Best Director nomination in 1943. With the “House of Loyalty and Bravery”, a long-cherished wish is fulfilled. So what about Lance?

Returning to “Fury Road”, this work that has criss-crossed the entire awards season but suffered from controversy has finally cleared the clouds and mist to see the bright moon, with 14 nominations again crowning it the title of “Top Seed”, Strong lead in the nomination stage.

Although it is only nominations so far, the significance of the fourteen nominations is far more than that. As an R-rated movie, as a cult movie, as a movie that challenges the power of conservatives in the academy, as a movie that impacts mainstream thinking, as a movie that stands at the crossroads of social ideological innovation, as a movie This is a movie that condenses the changes of the times… Every cell in “Fury Road” is incompatible with the academy. This kind of entanglement and contradictions, chaos and subversion are concentrated on the situation of the entire awards season.

But now, the 6,000 judges of the academy have expressed their support and affirmation for “Fury Road” with the transcripts of 14 nominations. Showed sharpness once.

It was 1969, and the entire American society was undergoing earth-shaking changes. The doubts and confusion about the Vietnam War, the promotion and spread of sex/freedom, and the proliferation of hippies and delinquent teenagers led to social disorder and the number of crimes soared. . In such a turbulent era, a large number of film works with different styles were born. Starting with “The Male and Female Thief” in 1967, Hollywood officially entered a new film era.

Back then, “Male and Female Thieves” caused an uproar, but unfortunately the academy did not have the courage to award this work. Only two years later, “Midnight Cow/Lang” came out again. This work symbolizes the disillusionment of the traditional American spirit represented by the cowboy pair, and it is a metaphor for modern times. Urban tragedy and disaster. When “Midnight Cow/Lang” was released that year, because it involved too many homosexual and sexual scenes, it was classified as “X-rated”-that is, it is not allowed to watch under the age of 17, which is equivalent to the current “NC-17 grade”, which is higher than ” “Rated R” is even more stringent.

Although the core idea of ​​the film is not homosexuality, which is fundamentally different from “Brokeback Mountain”, it is undeniable that the theme, thought, content, and form of the film are completely deviant, and it is such a film that challenges everyone’s bottom line. The X-rated movie, but it swept thousands of troops at the Oscars that year, defeating the two classic masterpieces of “Tiger and Leopard” and “Hello, Dolly”-it is worth mentioning that “Tiger and Leopard” is also the same as “Male and Female”. The anti-heroism masterpiece like “The Thief” won the three statuettes of Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

This is the only limited/restricted/rated film in Oscar history to win Best Picture.

Now, does “Fury Road” have any hope of being another “Midnight Cow/Lang”? Back then, the judges of the academy finally found their courage in “Midnight Cow/Lang” after missing the regret and regret of “The Male and Female Thieves”; Lu” to prove themselves again, but the question is, are they willing to show this sharpness again?

It is worth mentioning that “Midnight Cow/Lang” also encountered disregard at the Golden Globe Awards that year, and the grain was not received.

Whether “Fury Road” will become the second “Midnight Cow/Lang ~www.mtlnovel.com~ or become another “Citizen Kane” will be revealed in a month. But it is undeniable that the nomination stage Not only did it become the biggest surprise in the chaos of this year’s awards season, but it also won the support and affirmation of all media, film critics, and the public, truly interpreting the meaning of the term “all expectations”.

For the first time, The New Yorker wrote a column titled “Academy Shows Unconventional Courage and Courage, Keeping Up with the Times”, analyzing and commenting on the effects of the Oscar nomination list. This is really rare for “New Yorkers”, even their beloved Woody Allen has not been able to get such treatment, not to mention that this year there is another beloved New Yorker Martin Scorsese. However, the “New Yorker” wrote a special feature for “Fury Road”, which shows their great love for Lance.

The birth of “Fury Road” ended the chaos of the awards season during the Warring States Period, with 14 nominations occupying an absolute advantage and far ahead; “Dream Girl”, which ranked second in terms of number of nominations, only received eight nominations. No ability to form a confrontation – but the real surprise is that “Babel” ranked third in the number of nominations, harvesting seven nominations, which seems to have deviated from the results of the five major unions, especially the American producers The labor union’s nomination list; and “The Departed”, which has spanned the entire awards season, unexpectedly fell behind in the Oscars. After receiving five nominations, it was not to mention confronted with “Fury Road”, and even lost to “Queen”.

The strong lead of “Fury Road” can be regarded as a moderate unpopularity, while the chaotic pattern of other works shows an earth-shaking scene, which can be called another unpopularity. The seventy-ninth Oscar has officially entered the shuffling stage.