The popular movies of the 2020-2021 North American awards season are gradually occupying the pit.
The competitive landscape of the major awards determines the direction of the wind.
After a small year, this year's Hollywood has become lively again.
Let's first look at the popular candidates of the movie emperor, there is no shortage of first-line big names.
The 5 nominees selected in advance here have all been nominated for the Oscar without exception, and two of them have successfully won the championship.
Will Smith
Works: King Richard
The number one seed of the year!
He is the one who ranks the most in the prediction list of major media.
In King Richard, he plays a character similar to Amir Khan in Wrestling Daddy, where he doubles as father and coach to his daughters.
Although he did not gain weight significantly, he showed his father's paranoid and harsh, but humorous multi-level personality in a way that was four or two pounds, but unfortunately the script was still relatively normal, and he did not know whether the politically correct racial issues could be added back points.
He has only been nominated for an Oscar twice in his career, and the last time he was nominated was for "When Happiness Knocks" 15 years ago.
Maybe he's been working on commercial films since then, and he's rarely been in awards seasons since.
The last time Chong Di was in 2016, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for "Shock Effect". However, the Oscars gave all the nominations to white people, making him one of the main forces of the "Oscar Too White" movement.
This time, Shi Huang is finally back to the awards season, which can be called a lifetime.
One of the big themes of next year's Oscars must be "Hollywood owes the emperor of the film emperor to pay it back."
Denzel Washington
Works: The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Coen brothers' Joel Cohen flew solo, adapting Shakespeare's classic play, this protagonist did not dare to take the job without a little strength, and it was not surprising to compete for the queen.
Denzel Washington's advantage over Shi Huang is that his works are more artistic and look taller, but with the diversification of the Oscars and the broadening of the jury dimension, this advantage is now smaller.
Don't look at Uncle Washington in recent years, it seems that there has been no movement, in fact, he has quietly and quietly nominated for oscars in 2017 and 2018.
If you add this time, he will reach the seventh time in his career.
Benedict Comberbordge
Works: "The Power of Dogs"
Join Marvel to play Doctor Strange, and do not delay Benny to continue to star in literary works.
"The Power of dogs" ran for the Venice Film Festival and won the Best Director Award, and after entering the North American awards season, Benny's performance also received attention.
In addition to Jane Campion for Best Director at the New York Film Critics Association Awards, Benny was the first to win a Film Critics Award, and for the time being, no matter how he ranked, he was the top three seeded player.
The last and only Oscar nomination was for "The Imitation Game", which had a big explosion in his acting skills, and really half a hand was about to touch the little golden man, but unfortunately, in this year's "genius battle", he lost to Eddie Redmayne, who played Hawking in "The Theory of Everything".
Next year's competition will only be more fierce by visual inspection.
Andrew Garfield
Works: Countdown
Unlike Toby Maguire, who faded out of the screen after stepping down as Spider-Man, the second-generation bug Andrew Garfield chose to focus on more independent productions and hone his acting skills.
In 2017, he was nominated for the Oscar for the first time with "Hacksaw Ridge", which was quite unexpected, but the next few solid literary films failed to rush into the awards season.
This year, he has two potential works, "Tammy Fei's Eyes" and "Countdown", the former one is mainly to assist the model sister, and the latter one is to carry the banner himself, and finally ushered in a literary and artistic work with a big word of mouth.
He presents the enthusiasm of an artistic creator, and the emotional drama and the difficult state are at ease, and the Washington Film Critics Association Award first won a film emperor, and the second small golden man nomination is still far away.
Joaquin Phoenix
Works: "Calling Friends and Leading Companions"
Ranking fifth is more difficult to choose.
After being nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Lead Actor and named a Hit Actor (Photo) of the New York Times Awards Season, Joaquin Phoenix is coming after Joker.
A check of his new work "Call friends lead companions", Douban score 8.3, Rotten Tomatoes freshness of 94%, good guys, you can directly join the list of films to be watched.
Looking at the stills in this film, you know that the performance of "Joker" is completely different feelings.
"Joker" is only a 2019 film, which shows his excellent acting skills in comparison, which may be a favorable factor for him to break through.
Uncle Phoenix previously competed for an Oscar every 7 years, and he didn't know if he would break the convention next year and come twice in three years.