Chapter 1948: 1948 Breathing Room
Among the winners of the fifty-fifth Golden Globe Awards, "Titanic" won four awards, leading the way; "LA Confidential" won three heavyweight trophies, followed closely by Rain Guo finally won the best actor in a drama category, but the biggest surprise came from Charlize Theron's best supporting actress award.
Following her fame in "Before Sunrise", Charlize's wonderful performance in "LA Confidential" once again won a lot of applause, and she won the Golden Globe Award without any suspense on the night. Among Charlize's four competitors, Joan. Cusack of "The Groom Takes a Wrong Turn" and Sigourney. Weaver of "Ice. Storm" In fact, Gloria Stuart (Gloria. Stuart) in "Titanic" does not have strong competitiveness. The real strongest opponent is Julianne Moore, who was nominated for acting for the first time by relying on "Boogie Nights".
"Boogie Nights" can be said to be the best work in independent films this year, making director Paul Thomas Anderson famous in one fell swoop, and Julian also starred in "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", which can be said to be gaining momentum.
But in the end, Charlize relied on her outstanding performance and rapid upward momentum to successfully win the first important award ceremony trophy in her life. At this time, Charlize was only twenty-two years old.
When receiving the award that night, although Charlize was quite excited, she did not lose her composure, with a bright smile on her face. She specially thanked Hugo, Kevin, Russell and other co-stars for their great cooperation during the filming, especially Yu It helped her a lot.
In addition, Kevin Spacey also won the award again after the previous year's "The Usual Suspects", this time he defeated the extremely strong competitors, Robin Williams of "Good Will Hunting", "As Good as It Gets" Greg Kinnear, Anthony Hopkins, Boogie Nights, Burt Reynolds and The Rainmaker wat.
Indeed, due to the fierce competition in the Best Supporting Actor category, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave out six nominations for the first time, which has also become a ridiculous decision. But no one can deny the fierce competition. In the end, Kevin succeeded in winning by virtue of the fierce spark of the rivalry with Hugo!
"LA Confidential" unexpectedly won in the three acting categories of leading actor, supporting actor, and supporting actress, but regrettably missed the screenwriting award, which became the biggest surprise of the night.
"LA Confidential" won three trophies, but so did "As Good as It Gets," the critically acclaimed second Hugo screenwriting effort, which took Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category In addition, there are Best Actor in Musical Comedy and Best Actress in Musical Comedy, which can be said to be the biggest winners in Musical Comedy, even showing a strong momentum not inferior to "Titanic". .
"As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential" swept thousands of troops in the acting department. The two works have become the most typical representatives of the dazzling sparks of the strong cast in 1997. People can't help but think of the previous year's "Death Row Walk" and "The Seven Deadly Sins".
But to everyone's surprise, Hugo failed to win the Best Screenplay Award for the first time by relying on "As Good as It Gets", and "LA Confidential" also missed the award.
In the competition for the best screenwriter of this year's Golden Globe Awards, "Good Will Hunting", "As Good as It Gets", "L.A. Confidential", "Titanic" and "Big Hero" have launched fierce competitions. One of the most competitive awards, even surpassing the best film award in the drama category of "Titanic" and "LA Confidential".
At the recently concluded Writers Guild of America, "As Good as It Gets" took home the best original screenplay award, while "LA Confidential" took home the best adapted screenplay award. It can be said that the solid and outstanding scripts of these two works have been absolutely outstanding in the past year. They have truly shown people the way of writing typical plot scripts again, and made people deeply feel the importance of scripts. With the arrival of the blockbuster era led by computer special effects, "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential" once again re-emphasized the unshakable importance of traditional movies.
When it comes to the Golden Globe Awards, almost everyone thinks that this is the competition between "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential", not only because it is the choice of the Screenwriters Guild of America, but also because these are the two most watched important scripts in the past year . Most media believe that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is bound to choose Hugo - Lancaster, because this is not only a correct choice, but also a wise choice, or a suitable choice.
But the result made everyone gasp, it wasn't "As Good as It Gets", and it wasn't "LA Confidential", nor was it "Titanic", but "Good Will Hunting"!
"Good Will Hunting" can be said to be in the limelight at the end of the year just past, even surpassing the previous year's "Twelve Monkeys", which was written by two unknown newcomers, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. However, his work won a lot of applause, not only won a box office of 138 million US dollars, but also won unanimous applause from the film critics, and won four important nominations at the Golden Globe Awards. Best Picture, Best Actor in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay.
In fact, on top of the previous American Screenwriters Guild Awards, "Good Will Hunting" has already received many praises and affirmations. Many Film Critics Associations have awarded the best original screenplay to this work-and this is just Matt. He Ben's first screenwriting work, the two young talents are only 27 and 25 years old respectively, and their future is limitless. "Good Will Hunting" seems to have become a dark horse at the end of the year, and the names "Matt Damon" and "Ben Affleck" have also become the brightest new stars.
However, the Writers Guild of America did not award the two young people in the end, but gave the praise to "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential". There was no controversy about the award, as the two scripts were truly outstanding and fully deserved.
However, when it came to the Golden Globe Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association went beyond everyone's expectations and chose "Good Will Hunting" for the first time, and gave up "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential" which were brilliant at the Writers Guild of America. , this is not only a dark horse, but also reminds people of the grievances between the Golden Globes and Hugo - to be honest, Hugo's "perfect" this time is indeed eligible for the award, but The Golden Globe Award gave Hugo the trophy for Best Actor in a Drama Series, so this result cannot be said to be absolutely unacceptable, but it is still shocking.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, two young people relying on this "Good Will Hunting" quickly rose to the top, and became representatives of young Hollywood talents in one fell swoop, plus George Clooney, who failed to rise in the past year , the soaring Leonardo DiCaprio, it can be said that the competition for actors in Hollywood is completely open now, not to mention that there is no Brad Pitt who can go further, even the current momentum Leading Hugo, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks also deeply felt the threat.
In any case, the Golden Globe's choice of Best Writer for "Good Will Hunting" over "As Good as It Gets" or "LA Confidential" or "Titanic" was the biggest upset of the night.
Still, among the major awards, "Titanic," "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential" completed their sweepstakes of the major awards, the only two slipping through, one being Best Screenplay The other is the Best Actress Award in a Drama Series-this award was finally won by Judi Dench (Judi. Dench) relying on the outstanding performance of "Mrs. Brown".
This is undoubtedly the Golden Globe Awards with the most concentrated award list. Among the 13 awards in the film department, "Titanic" won four awards, "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential" won three trophies each , "Good Will Hunting" and "Mrs. Brown" won the first prize, and the Belgian film "Ma. Vie. En. Rose" successfully won the best foreign language film, which constituted the fifty-fifth session List of Golden Globes winners.
The Best Screenplay Award for "Good Will Hunting" can be said to be a tiger's mouth, which has become the biggest upset of the entire awards ceremony; and Hugo has become the biggest winner as the producer of "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential" , the momentum even surpassed the biggest winner "Titanic", the only flaw is that Hugo failed to make a breakthrough in the screenwriting department.
Although the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has sought a perfect balance-rewarding Hugo with the best actor in the drama category, replacing it with the fall of the screenwriting department; "LA Confidential" has three pillars... But even if people know that this is Michael's intention, they can't help admiring that the skill of dividing the cake is really brilliant!
It's hard to criticize the list of winners—even the best screenplay upset, so the HFPA got valuable breathing room after the ceremony, and this time the media didn't take the blame again. Aiming at the Golden Globe Awards, it enthusiastically launched the prospect of Oscars.
Since the Oscar screenwriting department is divided into original and adapted parts, "As Good as It Gets" and "Good Will Hunting" will compete fiercely in the best original screenplay department. Who will have the last laugh? What will be the result of the head-to-head confrontation between Hugo, the best actor in a drama category, and Jack Nicholson, the best actor in a musical comedy category? Where are the Best Picture contenders for "Titanic," "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential" headed?
This time the Oscars are bound to be very lively.
Michael finally let out a long breath, fighting a bloody path in the scuffle, which consumed almost all his energy, but he also knew that this was just a short break, and the future of the Golden Globe Awards was still full of challenges. up the thorns.