Chapter 1965: 1965 Strong Sweep
The opening two awards, "LA Confidential" and "Good Will Hunting" won each, which also seems to indicate that the competition tonight will be extremely fierce. However, the subsequent trend of technical awards overturned this prediction, and the "Titanic" swept away with a devastating momentum.
In fact, this shouldn't come as a surprise, and while "LA Confidential," "Good Will Hunting," and "As Good As It Gets" have received critical acclaim, all three are examples of retro scripted works whose strengths in the technical department It's already very weak, but when compared with competitors, it's even less worth mentioning.
"Titanic" was able to take the lead in the nomination stage, and the sweep of the technical department was the decisive factor. Even if it won three nominations for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, but in these There is no advantage in the department. The crazy wave that this work set off in North America is due to the qualitative leap of the Hollywood industry led by visual effects. Therefore, the technical department is the field where the "Titanic" flexes its muscles.
The results of the award ceremony also proved this point.
Best cinematography, best art direction, best costume design, best sound, best sound editing, best visual effects and other technical awards have been fully covered. The only fish that slipped through the net is the best makeup award. The award was won by "Men in Black" - the alien make-up effect in the film was well received.
In addition, the best original song award was also won by "Titanic"; in the best soundtrack department, "Titanic" won the drama category, and "Six Heroes of Light Pig" won the musical comedy category. picked.
The victory of "Titanic" in the technical awards also revealed a key message: no matter who wins the best picture, what is certain is that the Academy has truly affirmed the contribution of computer special effects to the film industry. The "Titanic", which has made brilliant achievements after "Independence Day", has become an indispensable member of Hollywood, and computer special effects are bound to become an important piece of the puzzle in the future film development map.
Now, the big suspense is: How important is the academy thinking this piece of the puzzle is? Is it important enough to use best picture to announce a new era for the film industry? Is it important enough for the "Titanic" to change its dynasty with a dominant sweep?
Realizing that the footsteps of history are approaching, this also makes the audience more excited. At this moment, more than 50 million viewers across the United States have begun to watch the Oscars. This is not only the first time in history that the live broadcast of the Oscars has exceeded 50 million in average viewership, but the current average viewership has already exceeded 50 million. It broke through 54 million, and it is still rising. It has undoubtedly become the award ceremony with the highest ratings in film history, and the attention and popularity have become the highest in history.
It is worth mentioning that "Six Heroes of Light Pig" finally won a statuette. So far, four of the five nominated works for best picture have been affirmed. , this slightly controversial work among film critics is still subject to the weakening of the director's skills, and it temporarily falls behind in the final showdown, and its advantages are constantly being eroded.
This is not good news for Hugo, because as the "as good as it is" screenwriter, his chances of winning the best original screenplay department are weakening, and the battles for best director and best picture are far behind . This is the award ceremony, there is only one winner, so if there are winners, there must be losers, a cruel and simple fact.
In this way, after halfway through the awards ceremony, the "Titanic" took the lead with eight trophies, which completely changed the entire awards ceremony tonight, even though the "Titanic" itself was born out of technological innovation , but such an outstanding performance still amazes people. Is it going to go out of the standard ending tonight? By the "Titanic" swept all the way to the end? Competitors such as "LA Confidential" gave up resistance after only a short struggle?
But then Oscar gave another unexpected surprise. "LA Confidential", "As Good as It Gets" and "Good Will Hunting", which had been silent for a long time in the first half, once again regained their advantages, because the screenwriting department is about to stage the ultimate showdown, and in the screenwriting awards Before the award, there is the last award in the technical department, the Best Film Editing Award-this is also a key award that determines the direction of the best film.
The winner of the Best Film Editing category is undoubtedly "Titanic". The overall momentum has weakened a bit. In particular, the "Six Heroes of Light Pig", which was among the best film contenders, lost the award, which also made the competition more intense.
Just when everyone thought that the next story would end with the "standard ending" of "Titanic" winning strongly, a completely different name came out from the speaker - "LA Confidential"!
In an instant, everyone in the audience was shocked, and the sacred auditorium that had been silent for nearly two hours became crazy again. Compared with the sweeping army of the "Titanic", although it was exciting, it still lacked a little surprise after all. , but now the victory of "LA Confidential" has brought the suspense back to reality, making people clearly realize that the competition for the best picture has not yet settled!
What's more, the best movie editing is known as the "little best movie", because it tests a movie's comprehensive scheduling ability, editing style, and rhythm control. Often the best movie and the best movie editing are packaged together. issued. Now, the "Titanic", which has won eight trophies in a row, unexpectedly collapsed. On the contrary, its strongest competitor "LA Confidential" successfully won, which made the predictions of all media reporters have to be rewritten.
"L.A. Confidential" has once again won a place in the fierce competition with its absolutely outstanding quality, adding suspense to the battle for best picture again, and the subsequent award trend also proves this point. In the script department that was awarded immediately after, there was no such thing as "Titanic". James Cameron could only be a spectator, trying to find out some trends about the best film from the context of the winners.
"LA Confidential" has almost no rivals among the best adapted screenplays. Originally, the script of this work has been unanimously praised by professionals, but the real fierce competition in the script department is concentrated in the original division, which makes "LA Confidential" "Confidential" took the lead with an absolute advantage, undoubtedly defeated the other four contenders, and won the third statuette tonight-and the weight of the three trophies is particularly outstanding: Best Supporting Actress, Best Film editing, best adapted screenplay, even if the quantity is not comparable to "Titanic", the quality is enough to make this work have the ability to win the best picture.
The suspense increased sharply! Is it true that "LA Confidential" is going to become an iceberg as Billy said?
Brian Helgeland, who stepped onto the stage to accept the award, almost broke down in tears. He has been in Hollywood for ten years, but he has never been able to achieve brilliant results, but he did not expect that this time "LA Confidential" won With such brilliant achievements, he has unknowingly become the pinnacle of his career.
Leonardo couldn't help butting Hugo with his elbow, then slightly raised his chin and pointed to Brian on the stage, as if saying, "It will be your turn in a while." Hugo was speechless for a while, and directly gave He rolled his eyes at Leonardo, causing Leonardo to chuckle, but even Jack, who was sitting on the other side, whispered into Hugo's ear, "It's up to you now." Hugo was speechless for a while, this group of bad friends!
Hugo couldn't help but rolled his eyes, but his palms were still slightly wet and slippery. The sense of urgency swarming from all directions made him let out a long breath, as if he wanted to exhale all the dull air accumulated in his chest, but even so, he could still feel the heavy pressure on the eardrum.
Unlike previous competitions for acting awards, and also different from the previous "Before Sunrise" competition for script awards, today Hugo feels that everything is strange, and there is an indescribable strangeness. Everything is normal, and he is much calmer than the previous few times. Although he is still a little nervous, he will not panic again. The most important thing is that his mentality seems to be much calmer, but Hugo always feels that something is wrong. Something is not right, a special feeling that cannot be expressed.
This made Hugo take another deep breath, forcing himself to focus on the stage.
Compared with the "rich" Hugo, Ben Affleck's state at this time can be described as terrible. In fact, Bryan is still delivering his acceptance speech, and there is at least one or two minutes before the award of the original screenplay award , but the anxiety in his heart has already made Ben unable to sit comfortably, as if there was a hedgehog on the chair, so he couldn't help but start to adjust himself, moved left and right several times, but still felt that something was wrong, and it even felt weirder. It seemed that ants were crawling all over his body. The restlessness made Ben hardly notice the sweat slowly seeping from his forehead.
"This award belongs to me and Matt! This award belongs to me... This award belongs to me! It's mine! It's mine!" Ben kept repeating this sentence in his mind, trying to calm down his irritability , but even he himself didn't realize that he had already said it directly, although it was just a vague whisper, but it made Simon Beaufoy sitting next to him cast a surprised and strange expression?—— Matt sat in the leading actor candidate area, and sitting next to Ben was another candidate for the original script, Simon, which relieved Simon's nervous mood a little.
Best Original Screenplay! It can be said that this year's competition is second only to the best picture award. The Writers Guild of America chose "As Good as It Gets" and "L.A. Confidential"; the Golden Globe Award chose "Good Will Hunting", so what is Oscar's choice? ?