Two Thousand Three Hundred Steal the Limelight

The list of Oscar nominations has been officially released, and the number of nominations can give a rough glimpse of the pattern of the second stage of the entire awards season.

"Birdman" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" both lead the list with nine nominations, which overlap in five categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Cinematography , is about to start a head-to-head confrontation; and the remaining four parts are the dislocation of technical awards.

In addition to the above five awards, "Birdman" also received nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Sound Effects and Best Sound Editing. Although it was not nominated for the Best Editing Award, it won a total of three nominations in the performance department, which also kept the overall momentum of "Birdman" at the forefront.

"The Grand Budapest Hotel" was also shortlisted for Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, Best Makeup and Styling, continuing the momentum throughout the awards season. From the perspective of film art, this talent It is the most "watchable" work of this year's awards season.

In addition to them, "Booming Drummer" and "Boyhood" followed with seven and six nominations respectively, and together they constituted the biggest winner of the nomination list. With a high probability, the best films should be these four. Works of war too.

"Boyhood", "The Grand Budapest Hotel", "Birdman", "Boom Drummer", these four works are the only candidates who have been nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (original/adapted). Contestants, if "Birdman" is deducted, can also add nominations for best editing.

It can be seen from all aspects that the overall momentum of these four works easily leads other competitors, both in terms of the quality and quantity of nominations.

In addition to the above four nominations, "Boyhood" also received two important nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Although it lacks competitiveness in the technical department, the weight of the six nominations is not inferior to that of "Budapest". The nine nominations for "Grand Hotel" and "Birdman" are always neck and neck.

The same is true for "Boom Drummer". The three nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Sound Effects are also full of weight. Even in the face of strong competitors, they still have competition that should not be underestimated. Power - Sony Classics is gearing up for a big fight.

So what about the other best picture contenders?

"The Imitation Game" was also nominated for seven nominations, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Editing.

It's still a strong contender if it doesn't lose the best director nomination -- and that's why people confuse Weinstein's PR strategy.

"American Sniper" has six nominations.

Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Editing, Best Sound Effects, and Best Sound Editing.

Although Clint Eastwood was not nominated for the best director, his appeal in the academy is still immortal. In the case of mediocre word of mouth, in the case of completely ignoring the Golden Globe Award, he still counterattacked and reached the Oscar, and He has also gained something in the heavy award department, and his power has not diminished.

Five nominations for "The Theory of Everything", Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score.

Two nominations for "Selma Parade", Best Picture and Best Original Song.

The overall pattern of the first stage of the awards season can be clearly seen from the number of nominations, the nomination department and other details, which is more concise and powerful than any analysis - in the battle for the best picture, on the one hand, "Selma Parade "It has basically been declared out of the game, and "American Sniper" has successfully taken the position; on the other hand, the absentee nomination of "Fox Hunter" is definitely an unsolved case.

"Foxcatcher" has won five nominations, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, with two nominations for Best Supporting Actor, so why not Best Picture? ? In all respects, this work is comparable to "The Imitation Game", "American Sniper", "The Theory of Everything", and it is very competitive from any point of view, and it is really baffling to be left behind in the end.

The only possible explanation is that after the strong impact of the hacking incident, Sony Classics had to make a choice. They chose to give up "Fox Hunter" and specialize in "Boom Drummer". The PR strategy of the academy has quietly changed, just like Weinstein Movies. the same business. But even with this explanation, the first stage of the academy's public relations cannot be fully covered, and it can only be a guess in the unsolved dilemma.

With that said, Weinstein Pictures gave up on "The Imitation Game," while Sony Classics gave up on "Fox Hunter," which has also completely changed the landscape of awards season. The second phase, which was already unpredictable, is now full of more changes. A lot of suspense, a little change may lead to a completely different development.

Of course, the performance of the work itself also affects the actors' gains to a certain extent - in the second stage of the academy's public relations battle, the overall strength of the work must have an auxiliary role in the competition of the acting department. Such an influence can be done now. It is clearly visible in the nominations for the four major awards in the acting department.

The first is the lack of suspense in the supporting roles.

Best Supporting Actress, Patricia Arquette for Boyhood, Emma Stone for Birdman, Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game, Mellie for Black Forest El Streep and Laura Dern of "Into the Wild" rounded out the final five.

The biggest upsets are undoubtedly Laura Dern of "Into the Wild", Jessica Chastain of "The Year of Violence", Imelda-Staunton of "Proud", "Nightcrawler" "Rene-Russo (Rene-Russo), "Saint Vincent"'s Naomi Watts all fell behind, and Laura Dern, who had always been unremarkable in the previous awards season, completed the comeback at the last moment. , has to admire the public relations ability of Fox Searchlight, the distribution company of "Into the Wild".

Best Supporting Actor, JK Simmons for "Boom", Ethan Hawke for "Boyhood", Edward Norton for "Birdman", Steve Carell for "Foxcatcher" and Mark- Ruffalo, won an Oscar nomination.

The only surprise should be Steve Carell, who signed up for the Best Supporting Actor department.

Throughout the awards season, the competition in the Best Supporting Actor department has been relatively stable. There are not too many surprises and no turbulence. This is the case in every aspect. Even the call for winning the award has been concentrated on JK-Simons. This is different from the competition. In stark contrast to the white-hot Best Actor section, Sony Classics made the shocking decision to enroll Steve Carell in the Supporting Actor section.

Steve Carell, who was a comedian, showed his comedy talents with the American drama "The Office", but he was nominated for the Emmy Award for six consecutive years and ran with him for six consecutive years, which can see his predicament; In terms of movies, works such as "Crazy Stupid Love", "Forty-Year-Old Virgin", "Little Sunshine Beauty", "Fake God 2" and other works have achieved good results, but they have never been able to open up the situation for him.

Until the emergence of the work "Fox Hunter".

Carrell, who has never been noticed by people, seems to be enlightened overnight. His acting skills are delicate and layered, and the depth of his eyes is the finishing touch, just like last year's Matthew McConaughey. During the season received a lot of attention. In other years, winning the Best Actor nomination may not seem to be difficult, but this year has encountered a rare "crowding", and Sony Classics has already made a trade-off, which is the current situation. .

Of course, "Fox Hunter" is a group show, and there is no absolute protagonist to support the field. Channing-Tatum's role is also very heavy, but he has not been able to win recognition. Every role can be said to be a protagonist or a supporting role, so Signing up is not too controversial.

Before the Golden Globes, Sony Classics had been signing Steve Carell for Best Supporting Actor, and then they noticed that the voices focused on Steve Carell were growing rapidly, and they tried to push him. Towards the best actor, but as a result, there was a deviation in the progress of the Golden Globe competition, and the whole situation changed again, so Sony Classics weighed again and again, or signed up for the best supporting actor for the Oscar for Carrell.

Sure enough, there was an accident in the competition for the best actor at the Golden Globe Awards, and the competition has become fierce; and now, "Fox Hunter" has successfully snatched two seats in the Best Supporting Actor department, which also makes Sony Classics in the Best Supporting Actor category. Among the competitions, one is the dominant player with three seats. It has to be said that Sony Classic has made a good move.

This is followed by the more competitive protagonist sector.

Best Actress: Julianne Moore in "Still Alice," Felicity Jones in "The Theory of Everything," Reese Witherspoon in "Into the Wild," Rosamund in "Gone Girl" -Pike and Marion Cotillard of "Two Days and One Night" joined forces to become alternates in the battle for the best actress.

There are basically no doubts about the first four seats, but the fifth nomination seat has a shocking upset, Amy Adams of "Big Eyes", Jennifer Aniston of "Cake", and Ai of "Magic Black Forest". Millie Blunt, the three powerful alternates fell off one after another, while Marion Cotillard, who had not made any movement before, quietly completed the counterattack, causing exclamations.

Judging from the nomination list of the Screen Actors Guild of America, Jennifer Aniston completed the counterattack with "cake" and is very, very promising to be nominated for the Oscar competition for the first time in her career.

The actress, who has built her foothold on "Friends", has performed flawlessly in Academy PR during awards season. Her proactive and humorous performance shows what she has been rolling around in Hollywood for many years. She was about to achieve a breakthrough in her career, but in the end it happened so unexpectedly that the entire industry was exclaimed and didn't understand what was going on.

However, this is the voting result of the college judges. Even if the judges themselves don't know what happened, they can't change the result.

A similar situation occurred in the Best Actor section, where the Screen Actors Guild Award nominee, who was left behind, managed to spark a chorus of exclamations.

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