2095 Chapter 2095

The biggest pre-Oscar favorites in the Best Supporting Actress category were Lynn Redgrave of "Gods and Beasts," which won a Golden Globe and Kathy Bates of "Rising Storm," which won Screen Actors Guild of America Awards. Both actors were born in the 1940s, have been in Hollywood for more than 30 years, and have won several Oscar nominations.

Among the five candidates, Rachel Griffith of "She's Lonely Than Fireworks" is only 30 years old, similar to the age of Nicole Kidman of "The Truman Show" - she is three years old this year. Eleven years old. However, Rachel's voice is obviously weak. She didn't even get nominated for the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, while Nicole received all the nominations throughout the awards season, but always accompanied her.

Although it is said that the best supporting actress in previous years always likes to reward new actresses, but this year's situation is different. Not only Lynn and Casey are over fifty years old, but there is also a candidate Judi Dench who is 63 years old. Therefore, it is generally believed that the award will be produced among the three veterans.

Judy's legend is beyond doubt. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1970, and was named a Dame of the British Empire in 1988-the reason is naturally because of her great contributions to stage plays and the film industry. So people always affectionately call her "Sir Dench".

Judy only played eight minutes in "Shakespeare in Love", but she was really good. However, at the beginning of the awards season, almost no one thought that Judy should be awarded the best supporting actress-not that she did not perform well, but that Lynn and Kathy's performances were not inferior, and they were more commendable. Compared with "Shakespeare in Love", it is almost the same. So, Lynn wins the Golden Globes, and Casey wins the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Almost everyone believes that the Oscar statuette will be produced between Lynne and Casey.

But Robin Williams announced another answer, "Judi Dench, 'Shakespeare in Love.'"

In an instant, everyone was stunned, but only for a while, and the first applause appeared-no one noticed that it was Harvey Weinstein who stood up first, and then everyone in the audience applauded. Everyone stood up and applauded, expressing their respect and admiration for Sir Dench with practical actions!

Is Judy not worthy of this statuette? No, obviously not, the scale of the collective standing of all the audience proved that she was definitely not a dark horse, and this was what she deserved. However, such a result is still a huge surprise. It is really unbelievable that Judy has achieved a counterattack when almost everyone is optimistic about Lynn or Casey.

Hugo stood up, and Tom Cruise also stood up. Nicole tried her best to maintain an elegant and decent smile on her face. After all, she hadn't received anything during the entire awards season—the nominations had proved her strength, but she still couldn't win the award. It was really frustrating. With a touch of loss.

Tom and Hugo exchanged a glance, and then Hugo turned his head and saw a similar look in Steven's eyes. Their eyes all had the same meaning: "Shakespeare in Love".

Compared with the fact that Judy won the award, the behind-the-scenes success of "Shakespeare in Love" is the most eye-catching. No wonder the Weinstein Brothers felt that they had the chance to win. They almost overthrew Lynn and Casey, two old actors, in the most unlikely project, and let Judy succeed. This makes the future of the award ceremony full of countless suspense.

If the Best Supporting Actress category was just an "accident", and Judy's outstanding strength made her final victory convincing enough, then the next Best Supporting Actor category broke out a shocking upset, indicating that Tonight will definitely not be peaceful.

The five actors nominated for Best Supporting Actor are James Cobain in "Misery," Robert Duvall in "The Forbidden Truth," Ed Harris in "The Truman Show," and Shakespeare in Love. Geoffrey Rush, Billy Bob Thornton.

Among the five candidates, the three actors, Robert, Ed and Jeffrey, have outstanding strengths, the quality of their works is solid, and the overall lineup stands out.

Relatively speaking, Billy is also an accompanying character throughout the awards season. He has received a lot of nominations, but has never won an award; while James Cobain's nomination is considered a big surprise, because the work "Misery" The most outstanding actor here is Nick Nolte. James was not nominated in the Golden Globe Awards, the Screen Actors Guild and other major towns. When his name appeared on the nomination list, everyone was in an uproar—at the same time It is also the first acting nomination in James' forty-year career.

Therefore, almost everyone focused their attention on Robert, Ed and Jeffrey.

Objectively speaking, Jeffrey's performance in "Shakespeare in Love" is quite satisfactory, there are not many bright spots, more relying on the strong momentum of the whole movie to be shortlisted, not to mention that he just won the Oscar just two years ago Best actor, it's far from the time for him to win awards again. Therefore, the competition is mainly between Robert and Ed.

Robert is the choice of the Screen Actors Guild Award, while Ed is the winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Both of them can be regarded as actors who have received rave reviews in the industry. Robert is the best actor winner of the fifty-sixth Oscar, but fifteen years have passed, so choosing between Ed and Robert is still a difficult choice.

However, when Charlize Theron opened the envelope as an award presenter, she couldn't hide her pause when she saw the answer. Although the expression didn't change much, Hugo could feel that this was not the result of imagination. Sure enough, Charlize announced the eventual winner, "James Cobain, 'Misery.'"

It is no exaggeration to say that the audience was in an uproar. Even though everyone knew that being shortlisted meant the possibility of winning an award, it was still difficult to control the inner turmoil when they heard the result.

Cranes and clams compete, and the fisherman benefits. This is the only thought in everyone's heart. Who would have expected that the thin-ice duel between Ed and Robert would finally become James—the first nomination and the first award. An Oscar statuette has unexpectedly become the most important coordinate in James' 40-year journey as an actor, and what is ridiculous is that the movie "Misery" has been silent throughout the awards season, and has been lukewarmly received by countless People ignore.

Although Hugo knew it was wrong to think this way, he still couldn't help thinking: Did the Weinstein brothers push it behind the scenes? Now that Jeffrey has no hope of winning the award, did they push James up when people were hesitant and unable to make a choice?

Hugo knew that such an idea was absurd and nonsense, but there was such a saying in the later awards season: among the five candidates, if the gap between the first and second place leaders is too small, the battle between the dragons and the tigers In addition, it often makes the judges unable to make a decision when voting, so they simply choose the third place. Therefore, it often happens that the top seed and the second favorite both lose, and the third candidate wins.

Therefore, Hugo has no way to control himself from having such speculations, even if he knows that he judges the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, even if he knows that it is his honor for James, who is 70 years old this year, to win this award... …

Regardless of whether Hugo's idea is correct or not, it is undeniable that "The Truman Show" missed the opening ceremony tonight and missed the first award. "Shakespeare in Love" and "Misery" each won a statuette, kicking off the grand prelude of the 71st Oscars.

However, the trend of the award ceremony is sounding the alarm. Every detail indicates that the confidence of the Weinstein brothers is definitely not groundless, and the trajectory of history seems to be moving in the direction Hugo is familiar with. There is simply no way to contain it.

In the competition for the Best Art Direction Award, strong opponents such as "Elizabeth" and "Saving Private Ryan" failed to prevent "Shakespeare in Love" from winning the second statuette tonight.

Although in the competition for the Best Makeup Award, "Elizabeth" defeated "Shakespeare in Love" and "Saving Private Ryan" by relying on the depth and splendor of history, and won the Golden Man; The Best Costume Design Award, the previous most popular "Elizabeth" and "Velvet Goldmine (Velvet. Goldmine)" failed to win, but once again witnessed the strength of "Shakespeare in Love" and Sandy - Powell (Sandy. Powell) took the stage to accept the award.

Only a third of the awards ceremony had passed, "Shakespeare in Love" continued its strength in the nomination stage, and won three statuettes out of the five nomination categories in one fell swoop. "Comparable. What's even more frightening is that among these many departments, "Saving Private Ryan" can be said to be losing ground, with almost no power to fight back. Such a situation is probably beyond anyone's expectation, not even the Weinstein brothers themselves imagined that the effect would be so good.

The Oscar judges sitting in the hall of Dorothy Chandler couldn't help asking countless questions: Where did "Saving Private Ryan" go? Where did "The Truman Show" go? Where did "The Thin Red Line" and "Life is Beautiful" go? Why did "Shakespeare in Love" complete the sweep? What exactly is going on? Wait... What did you choose on your voting card?

This kind of vague feeling that seems to have been similar but can't figure it out made many judges have an ominous premonition.

Is tonight's Oscars ceremony really going to see "Shakespeare in Love" ascend to the top, just like last year's "Titanic"? Why when this image appeared in my mind, it was not a sense of proud participation, but an inexplicable guilty conscience, and I didn't even dare to look at the eyes of other colleagues around me. This feeling is not good, really not good.

Looking at the stage, Bob patted the back of Gwyneth's hand lightly, showing a calm smile, and whispered, "Look, I told you so."