Oscar 202 1 Winner List (Best Actress)

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2022-03-29 10:32

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A big body is not necessarily strong, and a fast foot is not necessarily the first to board.

The 94th Academy Awards is more suspenseful than nominating films. The star-studded acting at the award ceremony was bursting, and it was not as good as the impromptu performance with true feelings.

The winner of the best film depends not only on the quality of the film, but also on the wind direction of the judges. Unless a movie stands on a hill like a lonely peak, the wind direction of Oscar will change at any time, just like the wind of nature.

202 1 In the last two months, Belfast, the People's Choice Award of Toronto Film Festival, was undoubtedly the leader of the best film. In the past three years, it has overlapped with the best Oscar films (Green Book and Nomadic Life) twice. Therefore, after Belfast won Toronto, most people thought it was logical for it to go on to win the Golden Award. However, Kenneth Blana's gust obviously blew too early. At the beginning of this year, the wind gradually turned to the strength of dogs. In addition to winning the excellent British film award at the British Film Awards, Belfast showed a lack of stamina early on.

Just when The Power of Dogs seemed certain to win the Academy Award, Listening Girl seemed to become a monk halfway, taking the biggest prize from the actors' union and producers' union, which happened when the Oscar was voted. Hollywood trade publications Variety and Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times all predict that Listening Girl will beat The Power of Dogs at the Oscars, because there is a great overlap between the judges of these awards and the Oscars, and the change of wind direction is usually a sign, not a groundless one.

Many fans think that the clever "listening girl" is the standard Douban TOP250 movie.

To be fair, among the ten nominated films, The Power of Dogs is relatively artistic, but the art is very subjective. You will feel very advanced after reading it. If you don't feel it, you won't like it. What's more, you will be disgusted, and it is often the content rather than the artistic technique that determines the impression. The first impression of Belfast in black and white images is very artistic, but it was soon pointed out that the film is full of true feelings, but it is not deep enough and touching enough. Everything is superficial, but at least it has not caused a bipolar reaction.

In contrast, when The Power of Dogs swept the Vision Award, there were voices of discontent, mainly because the old-school people were dissatisfied with setting cowboys as comrades and pretending that New Zealand was the American West, and so on. This view is generally regarded as politically incorrect and immediately refuted and criticized, but in fact, the power of dogs makes many people very uncomfortable, especially the foreshadowing of the plot and the reversal of the ending, as well as the slow pace.

At the beginning of the award ceremony, the host gave a diss, saying that she had watched The Power of Dogs three times, and finally she was halfway through. You might say, "Didn't Brokeback Mountain also describe gay cowboys?" The trouble with The Power of Dogs is that it may offend both the left and the right: it portrays cowboys as comrades and attacks the so-called "toxic masculinity", thus offending conservatives; But it defines this gay role as an anti-angle (sorry for the play), and the sexual minority party may also be dissatisfied.

Before the Oscar ceremony, Jane Campion, director of The Power of Dogs, made a joke about the prototype of King Richard Williams' sister "Don't compete with men", which offended some feminists.

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There is another reason why "Listening Girl" won in the final round, which is the selection system of best film. Among the 23 Oscar awards, only the best film adopted a special weighting system. Specifically, the judges did not choose the best film in their minds, but ranked all ten nominated films; The final winner was the first film that won 50% of the votes.

Let me make an analogy, which is also a guess: in the first round of voting, "Dog Power" won 35% of the first votes, and "Listening Girl" 30%; If it is one tenth, then the Power of Dogs will win, but it will not reach 50% in the weight system, so it will be counted as the second round, that is, the film with the least votes in the first round will be kicked out. Suppose it is Jade Face, the second choice of these votes will automatically rise to the first choice. Let's assume that in these polls, 5% of the second choice is "dog power" and 10% is "listening girl". If you add the first round, both films will reach 40%. Then in the third round, assuming you don't look up, who has the lowest number of votes (this film is more polarized) is the second choice in this batch of voting, with 5% voting for "dog power" and 10% voting for "listening girl". After three rounds of addition, the listening girl has reached 50% and the strength of the dog has reached 45%. Results: The best film was The Listening Girl.

However, judging from the volume of applause and the nature of applause (politeness or sincerity) at the award ceremony, it is likely that Listening Girl surpassed the Power of Dogs in the first round.

The competitors of "Listen to the Girl" seem to evaluate the two poles, which is too controversial.

Obviously, this is a shot in the dark. Why do I guess that the number of votes in the second and third rounds of "The Power of Dogs" is less than half that of "Listening to Girls"? That's because the response of "The Power of Dogs" is polarized, and most English reports describe the judges' views on it with polarization and divisiveness. The judges acknowledged its artistry, but could not empathize with it emotionally. They either put it at the front or at the back.

The chief film critic of Variety even thinks that while subverting western film routines, he has made a mistake with facebook. Even if you don't like Listening Girl best, you can't find a reason not to like it. Although simple, it is successful in emotional resonance, so it can occupy a great advantage in suboptimal selection.

"The director doesn't understand the American West" is also a great criticism of The Power of Dogs.

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If the Academy Awards are postponed for another two months, I guess "Listening Girl" may also be squeezed out and replaced by another movie. From this year's limelight, we can also see the influence of film critics, and the dislocation of their interest and psychological rhythm with the Oscar judges.

At first, Belfast was mainly praised by film critics. Do you think members of the college will go to Toronto to see a batch of new movies? When Hollywood reached a consensus that the 94th best film was Belfast, the film critics had taken a big step forward, boasting the power of dogs. The film industry has caught up and awarded many forward-looking awards to The Power of Dogs.

Unexpectedly, film critics disdained to associate with them and began to pursue "driving your car"; When Drive Your Car was nominated for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, the film critics said, "In fact, The Worst Man in the World is the best film this year. The judges were panting after it and said they didn't want to chase it anymore. Many people can't help but say, "Do you know what it's like to watch a boring movie for three hours? I want to vote for the movie that moved me. The film critic said in shock: "However, listening to girls is just an ordinary inspirational movie, which is not much better than Disney children's movies. "

If the award ceremony comes later, "drive my car" may become the second "parasite".

According to our traditional concept, Dune is the closest work to the best film of the 94th Oscar. It can represent the industrial level of Hollywood and also has artistic pursuit. Dune is also the highest-grossing film among the ten nominated films, which conforms to the unwritten principle of giving consideration to both business and art, but in the past ten years, the rules have been broken, and Dune is also "cold", not the kind of exciting cool film. So he won a bunch of technical awards like a superhero movie, and the biggest hero bullfrog director didn't even get a nomination.

In short, for many years in a row, Oscar lacked a best film widely accepted by the public-an excellent film recognized by most judges and most audiences.

Dune won six "decoration awards" without any surprise.

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In all fairness, Belfast, the strength of dogs and the girl who listens to music have their own advantages, but they have not reached an alarming level and have not really achieved their goals. The constant change of weather vane tells us that it is very important for movies to appeal to emotions. Even people in the industry will eventually decide the choice of the best movie by watching whether a movie moves people's hearts.

The phenomenon that emotion trumps reason is also reflected in the biggest surprise of this award ceremony, that is, will smith punched chris rock with an old fist, and then he burst into tears when delivering his acceptance speech, pointing out that everything he did was to protect his family and defend his beating behavior. I think it is very inappropriate and even despicable for Chris Locke to make this joke when he knows that Mrs. Smith has shaved her head for health reasons. However, when he hosted the Oscar, his jokes were known for being mean. )

Will smith's action shocked the scene, and made this ordinary Oscar instantly have a topic and heat.

Movies need to be carefully calculated, but some things cannot be calculated. Netflix spent a lot of money to make the best film Oscar. Last time, Rome was out of breath. This time, the strength of the dog was almost successful, but it was surpassed by the small piece produced by apple in the last lap. Yes, streaming media finally won the Oscar for the first time, but it wasn't Netflix.

Looking at Apple's initial practice (almost without any publicity), it seems that I never thought that "Listening Girl" had Oscar potential. If the creator of the film predicts that he will win the grand prize, maybe his creation will be burdened, maybe he will add something noble, but he may lose its natural beauty.

Apart from Smith's fist and tears, Troy Cosol is the most touching scene in the award-winning film, although it has been rehearsed many times in the Vision Award. This year's four performance awards, except for a little suspense after the film, all have clear leaders and deserve it. It won't be expanded here.

Troy Cosol won the best supporting actor for playing his father in The Listening Girl. He was deaf, and the audience shook hands instead of applauding.

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But I want to say a little about the Japanese movie "Drive My Car". The film was obviously presented by the film critics, and Oscar just followed up. When a large number of judges sat down to watch the movie, I could clearly feel that everyone's manners had become tired. Many people complained euphemistically that the film was too long and cold. Of course, they also admit that it has ideological and artistic pursuits, but a movie about the feelings of couples and lovers can't touch the feelings of the audience, so I'm afraid it can only be enjoyed as an academic paper.

If we compare the "parasites" in South Korea, especially the "Mi Na" in South Korea, we can find that the Oscar judges may not discriminate against Asian films, but emphasizing alienation may not be a good way to win them, and their tolerance for boring films is limited. If "Drive My Car" can add a little sincerity and naturalness to "Yak in the Classroom" (a Bhutanese film nominated for the best international film), and control the length of the film to two hours, maybe we can go further and even copy the achievements of "Parasite".

Because the narrative is too dull, many fans also speculate that "Drive My Car" can't impress the Oscar judges.

Of course, all this analysis is wise after the event. All filmmakers want to make a blockbuster movie, but the reality is often very skinny. No wonder this award ceremony set up memorial halls for many classic old films, including The Godfather and Pulp Fiction, to cheer up the industry. I'm afraid it's hard to make a movie like that. Obviously, Hollywood has no ability to replicate the glory of these years.

Hollywood's recession didn't start with the epidemic, so we can't just look for reasons at the box office (including before the epidemic). Every year, Oscar nominated films should include outstanding people in the industry. If none of the ten films can appear or contain the best film of the year that can really form a consensus, and are ridiculed by overseas fans as "off-year" year after year, then the Oscar will gradually lose everyone's attention and the influence of the whole Hollywood will gradually decline.

Netizens voted for the "popularity award" probably because the mechanism is not scientific enough, and it seems to have been hijacked by fans. Not only can it not "turn the tide", but it is more like a funny joke. When Oscar can't choose between business and art, all that remains is box office data, at least that's objective.

List of winners of the 94th Academy Awards

Best Picture

End of movement

best director

Jane campion's The Power of Dogs

Best actor

King Richard of will smith.

Best Actress

The eyes of Tammy Faye in Jessica Chastain.

Best Supporting Actor

Troy Cosol's Listening Girl

Best supporting actress

Ariane Debos's west side story

Best Original Screenplay

Belfast

Best adapted screenplay

End of movement

Best cinematography

dune

Best editing

dune

Best visual effect

dune

Best original soundtrack

dune

Best original song

No time to die "007: Busy as hell"

Best sound effect

dune

Best fashion design

Krula

Best art design

dune

Best makeup and hairstyle design

Sacred TV station

Best international film

Drive my car to Japan.

Best documentary

Summer of soul music

Best Animated Feature Film

Ncanto

Best live-action short film

Dolgoe proshchanie

Best documentary short film

Basketball queen

Best animated short film

Wiper

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