Best Photography Award.
Not Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress, but Best Cinematography. Tonight's Oscars kicked off in an unexpected way.
Generally, in order to attract audiences and create suspense, the Oscars are often kicked off with supporting roles. Because the supporting role department has strong competitiveness and is also one of the awards in the core main department, but relatively speaking, the degree of competition and the attention of the audience are slightly less.
As an opening, the supporting roles can often bring surprises at the beginning. Whether it is the supporting actress department that likes to reward newcomers, or the supporting actor department that is keen on career summary, for the audience, one is a fresh face. One is the reappearance of familiar faces, which is good for ratings.
But this year, the first Oscar to award was Best Cinematography. Really intriguing.
Unlike other film awards ceremonies or film festivals, Oscar's award division has formed a system.
The first part is the core major awards, the best film, the best director, the four major actor awards and two screenplay awards; the second part is the technical department, which mainly rewards the behind-the-scenes working team; the third part is the focus is weak but the competition is fierce Additional awards for documentaries, short films, cartoons and foreign language films.
In the technical department, Best Makeup, Best Score, Best Song, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography and Best Editing, One of ten awards constitutes the highest level in the industry in North America.
According to the voting rules of the Oscars, in the nomination stage, only members of the association to which they belong are allowed to vote; in other words, actors can only vote for four awards in the actor department, and screenwriters can only vote for two awards for scripts. However, once the nominations are released, all Academy judges will be able to vote on all awards.
"First Evolution"
It is precisely because of this that people say, "Nominations depend on strength, and awards depend on luck."
In the nomination stage, there are criticisms and tests from peers, and absolute strength is the guarantee for customs clearance. At this stage, the main force of the academy’s public relations should be on publicity, so that more people can know about their works, let more people watch their works, and increase their popularity. .
The award-winning stage is a public relations battle involving personal connections, public relations, publicity, operation, and calculation. Especially the first part of the core awards, the competition is more intense than imagined, and everyone can vote according to their own judgment. However, the second and third parts are exceptions.
The second part is too professional, the third part is too unpopular.
All the judges choose their own best picture, best director, or their favorite performance and script, but those technical awards are confusing. For example, for the best makeup, the five nominated works all look wonderful and professional, and it is really difficult for the screenwriters to choose the best.
Therefore, most of the judges tend to skip the second and third parts to avoid making their choices unprofessional and make jokes instead. Of course, if the judges have their hearts and minds, it would be perfectly reasonable to tick off the second and third parts.
Relatively speaking, the unpopularity of the technology sector is rare. The final winners are still works that have been generally recognized by professionals in the industry.
Among the technical departments, the top votes were for Best Cinematography and Best Editing. These two awards are also the most cinematic and the most imaginative elements, the former showing the film image, while the latter showing the film style. What's more, the best editing has become the "Small Best Film Award", which shows its importance.
Tonight, the first to appear is the Best Photography Award. Among the five nominees, there are four industry winners.
Robert-Ri, "Hugo," seven-time Oscar nominee, two-time winner; Jeff-woeh, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," David Finn Qi's royal photographer, famous for "Fight Club", Oscar nomination for two consecutive years.
Janusz-Kaminski of War Horse, five Oscar nominations, two wins; Emmanuel-Lubezki of The Tree of Life, five Oscar nomination.
The last nominee was Guillaume-S for "The Artist", previously unknown, not even known in the French film industry - however, this does not seem to be unusual, and " Like the director, actor, heroine, and screenwriter of the "artist", all of them have risen to prominence with this work.
Of the five nominees, all but "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" were shortlisted for best picture. Putting the Best Cinematography Award on the first award tonight, it is clear that the competition for the best picture has opened.
From a professional point of view, Emmanuel of "The Tree of Life" completely overwhelmed the other four competitors. Throughout the awards season, the industry's reputation has been leading the way, almost condescending. This Mexican photographer is a genius, with natural light, long The use and combination of lenses, handheld photography and ultra-wide-angle lenses are natural and self-contained, and the praise cannot stop.
But from a PR point of view, Robert and Gilliam stood out with their own work in the awards season, especially Gilliam, who has gone from unknown to well-known, after the promotion of the Weinstein brothers. It seems that it has become a favorite for tonight's award.
So, in the end is professional, or public relations? Moreover, this is an extremely important technical award, but the technical department has been deserted. The test of the college means that it cannot be more obvious. The result of the award, only PricewaterhouseCoopers, which is responsible for ticket statistics, knows that all the guests and TV Like the tens of millions of spectators in front of the plane, they could only wait anxiously and excitedly for the result.
In the chaotic young age, the academy was also trembling across the river by feeling the stones.
As the presenter, Tom Hanks, in the sight of countless eyes, revealed the answer, "Robert Richardson, 'Hugo'."
PR, won; "Hugo", won; Robert Richardson, after "Kennedy Assassination" and "The Aviator", won the third golden man, in addition, this is him and Martin Scorsey It's the sixth collaboration.
Robert, who was on the stage to accept the award, said, "I can't believe that you put the photography award in the first place. Are you serious?" Laughter, and then, it was easy to start his own testimonials.
After briefly thanking his family, Robert said, "Also, thanks to the filmmakers of the past, present and future, this is dedicated to you." In just 20 seconds, he ended his acceptance speech.
Obviously, the light car is familiar.
Immediately afterwards, Tom Hanks continued to present the second award, the Best Art Direction Award.
The "Hugo" crew achieved an incredible succession after the opening, beating "The Artist" and "Midnight in Paris", as well as "War Horse" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)", will be tonight Oscar's second statuette continues to be in the bag.
Such an opening, unexpected, but reasonable.
The entire awards season has gone to the end of the Oscars, and the four works of "Hugo", "The Artist", "Midnight in Paris" and "The Descendants" have successfully stood out and formed the first group to win the award, however, " "Midnight in Paris" lost the best editing nomination, and "Descendants" concentrated on the main core departments, so the competition in the technical department focused on "Hugo" and "Artists".
Outside of these two works, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "War Horse" are powerful spoilers in the technical department. Now, "Hugo" has defeated strong enemies successively and won two trophies in the technical department, which also means that in the battle for the best picture, it has taken the lead and has a slight advantage.
However, the subsequent Best Costume Design Award was unpopular. Mark-Bridges, who won the Oscar nomination for the first time, defeated the "Hugo" Sang with his retro costume design in "The Artist". Sandy-Powell, who was nominated for the ninth Oscar and won two statuettes.
It's still a retro showdown between "artist" and "Hugo", but this time, the former has the last laugh, with a shiny black horse, smashing a bloody road, pulling his teeth out of Sandy Powell's hands and capturing it with all his might" At the same time as the first statuette of the "Artist" crew tonight, it also changed the pattern of tonight's awards ceremony.
Then, the best soundtrack award was upset again, not John-William, who was nominated for 42 Oscars, nor Howard-Shore, who established his status as a master with the "Lord of the Rings" series. , is also not Alberto-Iglesias nominated for three years in seven years, but the little-known Ludovic-Bource.
It is an unheard-of name, a name that has disappeared from commercial works to art works in the world film industry, and a name that has risen strongly this year with a work. It's all so familiar: Ludwig Burs won the best score for "The Artist."
Before "The Artist", Ludwig's career consisted of only two small-budget commercial works, all in collaboration with Michel Hazanavicius.
After the official opening of the 84th Oscars, the four statuettes, "Hugo" and "The Artist" each captured two, and tonight's awards ceremony really showed some appearances.
Although it is said that the two trophies of the "artist" have a huge upset, which is really incredible for the technical department, and it can even be said to be unbelievable, and it has been rare in the past few decades; although, " Hugo's two technical awards are old faces of the Oscars - coincidentally, the three winners of both awards all received their third golden statues tonight.
But overall, it's still unsurprising. Obviously, the confrontation pattern between "Hugo" and "artist" has been formed, especially the rise of the latter, once again witnessing the Weinstein brothers' superior and well-planned academy public relations standards, worthy of the absolute power in Hollywood.
So, who will have the last laugh between "Hugo" and "The Artist"? If there is an accident, who will be the dark horse? What's next for awards in the technology sector? And will the awards in the core departments change the competitive landscape for the best picture
The suspense, just solved, is far from being decrypted.