Chapter 2154: 2154 No. 1 Seed
The single box office box office was US$130,000, the weekend box office was US$1.43 million, and the North American weekend box office ranking ranked tenth in the third week of December... This is the result of the first week of screenings of "A Beautiful Mind" It is unimaginable that this is the achievement of a work that was screened in only eleven theaters, even surpassing those that were screened in more than a thousand theaters.
From media reviews to theater ratings to single-house box office, "A Beautiful Mind" has exploded. It has become the most popular topic in the award season after only one week of its release. Almost everyone is discussing the prospects of this work during the awards season. , the unanimous opinion that this work is fully capable of becoming "Forrest Gump" in 1999.
Although the prospect of "A Beautiful Mind" winning the award at the awards ceremony still depends on luck, whether it will become "Forrest Gump" or "Purple" will only be known at the awards ceremony; however, the first to announce the nomination list The Golden Globes, however, proved the current mainstream view.
After last year's first year of awards season ushered in a big explosion, this year is generally considered to be a small year for awards, with a lot of powerful works, but those who can really reach the heights of "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Truman Show" But there is not a single work, even "A Beautiful Mind", the height of the overall theme and social influence are one size smaller than last year's few works.
Before the strong rise of "A Beautiful Mind", the most watched works of the awards season were undoubtedly "Life of a Puppet" and "Hurricane". The former is an independent film, and the latter is a biographical film. Recognized, and the overall lineup has its own advantages and disadvantages, without distinction.
However, the structure of these two works is too small. From investment to theme, from script to core, they have not been able to show the strength of dominating the country. Except for the original script of "Puppet Life", the two works and Last year's top five best picture contestants are relatively inferior in any aspect.
This made the entire awards season look a bit lacklustre and unmotivated, not to mention the audience, even many professional insiders lacked interest. Most professionals are looking forward to the Christmas release of "The Talented Ripley" - a work that is generally optimistic that it has the ability to complete the domination of this year's awards season, repeating the glory of "The English Patient" three years ago.
However, before the release of "The Genius Prairie", the neglected "A Beautiful Mind" landed first, and showed the level of a big hit with a devastating attitude. Although "The Talented Prairie" had its grand premiere in advance on December 12th, making it eligible to compete for the Golden Globe Award, the overall momentum was far from reaching its peak. As a result, the Golden Globe The list of nominations for the award showed a completely different pattern.
"A Beautiful Mind" won seven nominations above the Golden Globes, leading the nomination stage; "The Talented Prairie" followed with five nominations, showing strong competitiveness.
"A Beautiful Mind" undoubtedly won two heavyweight nominations for Best Picture and Best Director in a Drama Series, three nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. The nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Soundtrack made the movie the biggest hit at this year's Golden Globe Awards.
It can be seen from the nominations that, except for the best actress in a drama category, "A Beautiful Mind" has almost won the nominations for all important awards of the Golden Globe Awards. The overall momentum is completely aimed at the best drama category. People clearly see the affirmation of this work by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
"The Genius Ripley" is also worthy of being a popular name, winning five nominations for Best Picture in a Drama Series, Best Director, Best Actor in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Film Soundtrack. Show weakness. However, it is undoubtedly a huge shortcoming that there is no nomination for the best screenwriter. This also makes people uncertain about the prospects of the film. Maybe the situation will change differently after the film is officially screened.
In addition, "Shocking Insider" also won five nominations, and will launch competitions for the best film in the drama category, the best director, the best actor in the drama category, the best screenwriter, and the best film soundtrack. It can be seen that although "The Insider" has the same number of nominations as "The Talented Ripley", the quality of the nominations is not inferior, and even won a place in the extremely competitive screenwriting department, which also makes "The Talented Ripley" The prospect of "shocking the inside story" suddenly climbed steadily.
Although "A Beautiful Mind", "The Talented Ripley", and "The Insider" have set off a frenzy of discussion, the overall situation is far from comparable to last year. And, aside from those two works, the other nominations at the Golden Globes lacked the power to make a further impact.
"A Beautiful Mind," "Until It Ended," "The Hurricane," "The Inside Story," and "The Talented Ripley" rounded out the top five contenders for best picture in a drama category; The five seats in the film are divided among "Toy Story 2", "Analyze. This", "Puppet Life", "The Man on the Moon" and "Notting Hill".
Judging from the ten shortlisted works of the best film, whether it is investment scale, box office performance, word-of-mouth from film critics, popularity feedback, or ideological core and social influence, they have all fallen behind compared with the previous year. Of course, "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Talented Ripley" have not yet been fully released, and the development curve after that is still unpredictable, but the few works that have performed best so far have not been satisfactory.
"The Inside Story" is currently the best performer and is considered to be this year's "LA Confidential"; "Notting Hill" is considered to be this year's "Shakespeare in Love" and "The Man on the Moon" is this year's "Truman". Just from the side of this review, it can be seen that several works this year have failed to meet expectations, and can only be regarded as the second of a certain work, with a whole smaller quality and word of mouth, and even greater influence. are incomparable.
Now all hopes are pinned on "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Talented Ripley" after their full release.
The most surprising thing is that "The Sixth Sense" was not able to be shortlisted for the best picture competition amidst the applause, which also triggered a wide range of heated discussions-so much so that the same high-profile did not win the nomination The "Cider House Law" is a bit lonely, and everyone is arguing whether this work is eligible for nomination. There are both supporters and opponents. At this time, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is limited as a horror movie Sex is reflected, which is bound to become the focus of disputes.
At least judging from the selection of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, they don't think this work is eligible for nomination.
The same result also appeared in the best director award. The directors of the five drama nominees were shortlisted, Ron Howard for "A Beautiful Mind", Norman Jewison for "Hurricane", " Neil Jordan of Love to the End, Michael Mann of "The Insider", and Anthony Minghella of "The Talented Ripley" successfully entered the final battle.
It can also be seen from this that these five works are the most outstanding works at this stage, making the nominations for the best picture in the drama category and the nominations for the best director completely overlap. The position of the nominated works is a bit embarrassing.
But looking at the five seats for the best screenwriter, the overall pattern becomes more and more ambiguous.
Hugo Lancaster of "A Beautiful Mind", Charlie Kaufman of "Life as a Puppet", Michael Mann of "The Insider", M-Nate Shyamalan of "The Sixth Sense", " John Irving of The Cider House Rules made it into the final competition.
In this list, Charlie, known as the "ghost genius", will undoubtedly be the most popular with his debut novel, and the two works of "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Insider" are both nominated. popular name. Relatively speaking, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" won a seat, but was completely absent from the competition for the final major awards, which is quite embarrassing.
This also makes it impossible for people to see the overall direction of the Golden Globes.
The same situation also appeared in the competition for other awards. The five nominees for best actor in a drama category are Denzel Washington of "Hurricane", Russell Crowe of "The Insider", and "The Talented Ray". Pulley's Matt Damon, "The. Straight. Story" Richard Farnsworth, "A Beautiful Mind" Hugo Lang caster.
Among them, Denzel, Richard, Hugo, and Matt are not nominated for the first time, but the overall influence of both Richard and Matt is slightly inferior. The former actor has attracted much attention, and Russell's strong rise will bring more uncertainties. On the whole, this year's top five contestants can be regarded as a melee, but Hugo, who is thriving, has received too much recognition in a short period of time, which in turn affected the trend of this year's awards.
The competition for the best actor in a musical comedy category gathered heavyweights such as Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro, Hugh Grant, and Sean Penn. Competitiveness cannot be improved to a higher level, and it has not been able to trigger more discussions.
This is especially true for the nominees for Best Actress in a Drama Series and Best Actress in a Musical Comedy. The work won double nominations for Best Actress in two departments and became the biggest highlight.
On the whole, after the Golden Globe nomination list was released, "A Beautiful Mind" became the biggest hit of the awards season in one fell swoop. Leading this year's awards season. With the affirmation of the Golden Globe nominations, the pace of release of "A Beautiful Mind" has also begun to accelerate, and the box office performance and word-of-mouth trends have become the focus of attention.