Chapter 1816

Is there any suspense about the best picture?

After regretfully losing the best director and best actor in a row, "twelve years of slavery" has officially announced the launch of the best picture competition. Like the "American scam", the strong momentum in the second stage of the award season only blossomed but did not bear fruit. However, compared with the empty handed "American scam", they have at least won a best adapted screenplay award, It's not too embarrassing. It's the best comfort.

The "American scam" and "twelve years of slavery" in the troika have lagged behind, while "gravity", which won eight golden man trophies tonight, is on its own. It swept all the way from the technical department to the unexpected surprise of the best supporting actress. In addition, it also included the best film editing in its pocket. Now who can stop it from reaching the top?

No,

When "Avatar" was defeated by "bomb disposal unit", it had already been revealed in the technical department. Among the seven production technical departments, "Avatar" only got the best photography and visual effects, while "bomb disposal unit" got the best sound effect, the best sound effect editing and the best film editing. The overall development trend can be seen early.

The Titanic, on the other hand, has already been wiped out in the technology sector.

This also means that "gravity" will become another top commercial masterpiece after "Lord of the rings 3: the return of the king", which is undoubtedly a night worth remembering for Oscar.

With all the attention, Will Smith is on the stage.

Will Smith?

It's Will Smith!

In the past three decades, countless black actors have sprung up in Hollywood, but only Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington and Will Smith can really be called the top stars. Whether it is the status of the industry, or market appeal, they are incomparable to the highest existence.

From the Academy's arrangement of Will Smith as the best picture award guest, we can understand many deep meanings. This is not a casual arrangement, but it is not an arrangement to know the award result in advance. There is nothing fishy about it.

First of all, the college has no way to know the winning result in advance. Only the accounting firm responsible for counting the voting results knows it. Even in the accounting firm, only the two staff members who are ultimately responsible for escorting the winning list know it. Only by ensuring that the suspense can be kept until the last moment can the biggest surprise be made.

Secondly, the process of arranging award winners is very complicated, which has to be started early. Considering the list of nominees and participants, and the status of award winners, all these have been properly arranged before the statistics of award results are completed.

Therefore, the college itself has knowledge when arranging the awarding guests. The only exception is the acting department. The four awards retain the tradition, and the winners of the previous year will announce the results alternately - but occasionally, the winners of the previous year may not be able to attend the award ceremony, and the college also needs to arrange guests temporarily.

On the whole, the college is arranged according to the trend of the whole award season. To some extent, this reflects their prediction of the award results - this is the summary of public relations and wind direction from the college.

For example, in 2007, Martin Scorsese, a strong leader in public relations in the second stage of the college, was expected to realize his Oscar dream with the help of "the Inferno". The college arranged Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, who were also known as the "four directors of the 1980s" with Martin, to witness Martin's coronation ceremony.

This is undoubtedly the best salute!

But before the list of winners was announced, the college could not be sure that Martin would really win the prize. It was just a prediction. But for journalists, this is the most authoritative prediction. They are always used to predicting the final trend of some important awards from the list of awarding guests, especially the best director and best film.

Tonight, the Academy invited Will Smith to be the guest of the award. The reason is very simple

Judging from the public relations momentum of the college in the second stage, the summit of "twelve years of slavery" is a high probability event, so the college invited the most top and most recognizable black actors to show their attention and respect to the topic of "race" - that's why Ellen made those jokes in the opening remarks.

But the actual process of the award ceremony was completely unexpected, and the sweeping momentum of "gravity" was almost unstoppable. Now there is almost no suspense about the best picture winners, and all the guests are ready to witness the coronation ceremony of "gravity"! They can even imagine how turbulent, boiling and sharp reproaches college judges will encounter after the award ceremony for not choosing "twelve years of slavery".

As Alan said at the beginning, you are all racists.

At this time, when we see Will Smith on the stage, the faces of the guests on the scene become interesting, and even will himself is a little uncomfortable.

Bradley Adams, a reporter for the New York Times, is watching the live broadcast of the awards ceremony at the official media center, but at the same time, his hands are also beating fast on the keyboard.

He knows what kind of frenzy will be ushered in after tonight, because other colleagues in the media center are all eager to try - they are now beating the press release, and the contents all have the same theme: strongly condemning the college judges for ignoring the excellence of "twelve years of slavery". Is the college too "white"?

It has been confirmed that the Los Angeles Times, variety show, San Francisco Chronicle, entertainment weekly, Empire and other media will report on this topic. In fact, the "New York Times" has the same theme. The editor in chief called Bradley to write this article, but Bradley refused. Finally, the editor in chief gave the article to another senior reporter to write; As for Bradley himself

He hopes to write according to his own idea: cheer for gravity!

Although Bradley knows that the "New York Times" may not adopt this article, he still hopes to finish it. Even if it's published on his personal blog, it doesn't matter. After all, he still wants to make his voice heard, and he is willing to applaud for the victory of "gravity".

He firmly believes that "gravity" is a work more worthy of recognition than "twelve years of slavery" - not because "twelve years of slavery" is not good enough, but because "gravity" creates a more important presence in cinema viewing experience, which is of great significance for the future development of the film industry!

All the ideas in my mind are like a spring, flowing quickly along the fingertips, and turned into words on the screen through the keyboard.

Then Bradley's hands came to a standstill, and the entire media center's keystroke came to a standstill - because Will Smith was about to find out.

"The winner of the 86th best picture Oscar is..." when he opened the envelope and took out the card, will directly scanned the card without further delay. There was a subtle pause in his expression, but before the audience could savor the meaning of the pause, will's smile rose, some strange and some wonderful, "Twelve years of slavery," Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen, Dede Gardner

what?

wait!

Who?

The whole Dolby theater and the whole media center are solemn and quiet, just for a second. But the pause and silence of this second are like a century. The shock and amazement ripple in everyone's eyes. The first reaction in my mind is the same: did I hear wrong?

The "gravity" sweeping eight little golden men tonight, the "gravity" winning three heavyweight trophies of best film editing, best supporting actress and best director in succession tonight, the "gravity" winning irresistible momentum tonight, and the "gravity" about to write another new history tonight... How can you lose the best film in this way?

In a trance, time seems to have gone back to the Oscar two years ago - the "artist" who only won the best original score and the best costume design beat "Hugo" and ascended to the top of the best picture throne, causing a cry of surprise. I can still remember it now, and now history repeats itself!

The award ceremony only received a best adapted screenplay golden man's "twelve years of slavery", and even beat the "gravity" to the top of the Oscar!

Everything seems to follow the trend of the second stage of college public relations, everything seems to fit the language of Allen's opening stage, everything seems to be the expected standard ending... But why do you feel a little wrong now?

Just relying on the strong advantage of "race card", it has successfully reversed the "gravity" of various departments, which has been praised in an all-round way. Can the best film "12 years of slavery" really be called "the best"? In the case of winning only one best adapted screenplay, "twelve years of slavery" did not win the favor of the college judges in other projects, but still topped the best picture. How should the meaning of "best picture" be explained?

wait. wait!

The impact was so strong that everyone was stunned for a short time. A second, even if it was only a second, produced an unparalleled tsunami.

All the reporters in the media center were stunned. A second later, they looked down at the manuscript on their computer screen, and their rude remarks began to burst out. They collectively opened a new document and began to write the manuscript in a more crazy and urgent manner.

It's a mess. It's all a mess.

Bradley was stunned for about three seconds. The deep loss made him unable to recover. He took a deep breath. He looked back at his computer screen, thought for a moment, and continued to write on the basis of the original manuscript. He still insisted on his idea: "gravity" is more commendable than "Twelve years of slavery".

As for "twelve years of slavery", after winning, they still win. At least for them, this is good news.