It's the day that movie lovers are most eagerly awaited every year, and the 94th Oscars in 2022 will finally be held on March 27, Beijing time, and will come to an end.
This is also a revival of the film school after two years of depression in the Hollywood film industry during the epidemic.
This year was also the highest turnout in oscar history, with voting from members from 82 countries and regions and 17 branches. The number of college voters has also been expanded globally, and according to PwC's data to college executives, there are currently 9487 college members who are eligible to vote.
For us as spectators, the most anticipated part of the Oscars every year is the red carpet before the ceremony, the live stage performance, and of course, the final attribution of the major awards.
From these three perspectives, this year's Oscars can be described as wonderful.
The red carpet line-up alone is a long-lost star-studded one.
From Nicole Kidman, the red carpet queen in Armani Privé's custom dress—
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Including Will Smith, Andrew Aarfield, Zendaya, etc., these big stars who are active in the global vision make the flash on the scene uninterrupted.
The live performance that night used the adjective prefix of "the largest scale in history". This is thanks to the live performance of "The Female President of the Music World" who brought the Oscar nomination for Best Original Song "Be Alive".
This is also the first return performance of Bishenju after five years of leaving the major awards ceremonies. As the most powerful Live Queen on the active surface, the grandeur of the whole performance is epic.
Also bringing the performance was Billie Eilish, who won best original song with the theme song of the movie "007: No Time to Die".
This time winning the award also achieved the 007 series of movies in the awards of the lock award three consecutive awards!
This year's major awards competition is also very fierce, from the nomination announcement, the major weather vane awards have been announced, the competition is in a state of glue. With the exception of individual technical awards, the gap between the nominated seeded players is very small, both in terms of odds and an anonymous sample of votes.
In the end, the best actor was won by Will Smith, who beat up Chris Rock at the awards ceremony and sparked an explosive topic.
The move, which caused a sensation on social platforms, was caused by awards presenter Chris Rock joking about Will Smith's wife, Jada Bald, on stage. Jade shaved her hair because she suffered from a disease of the immune system, and after a long period of hair loss, she bravely chose the bald head to show herself under the encouragement of her family - Will Smith, who was eager to protect his wife, was out of control for a while, and this picture appeared.
In the face of this sudden event, the audience in front of the live and live video is also quite dumbfounded.
That's right, we witnessed a scene that will go down in Oscar history.
The awards for best feature-length animation and best international film were won by Disney's "Full House of Magic" and Japan's "Driving My Car".
As the frontrunner at this year's awards ceremony, "Dune" swept almost all the technical awards including photography, editing, and sound effects.
"The Power of dogs", which was once optimistic about all walks of life, finally won the best director (sad for Benny).
The biggest award of the night, Best Picture, was won by "Hearing Girl".
This touching work focuses on the deaf and the hearing-impaired and the family, and the hearing-impaired characters are all played by hearing-impaired actors.
Different from big-budget movies such as "Dune" and "West End Story", "Listening Girl" produced by Apple TV+ focuses on humanistic care, family and dreams, and moves people with emotion. This is also the second time after "Parasite" that the academy has shown the breadth and diversity of its pattern to the public.
It is worth mentioning that this is also the first time in the history of the Oscars that the film released by the streaming platform has won the "Best Picture" award.
The awards that receive the most public attention every year, in addition to best picture and best director, must be the best actor and actress.
The battle for the heroine of this oscar has staged various reversals, counterattacks and upset dramas since the end of last year. Until the day before the award was announced, the social network was still chattering about the heroine's belonging.
In the end, jessica Chastain became the new film, which ended the scuffle.
The actresses shortlisted this year have two characteristics in common.
First, they all missed the nomination for the lead actress of the BAFTA British Academy Film Awards, known as the "British Oscars".
Second, for the first time since 2006, none of the five nominees were nominated for Best Picture.
In fact, it also indirectly illustrates a problem, to some extent, their performance itself is actually greater than the quality of the film. Therefore, the academy judges are also more inclined to use the performance award as a film recognition point.
Looking at the performances of the five actresses shortlisted for this year's Best Actress, all of them contributed very superb acting moments.
Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of Tammy Faye integrates herself into this controversial theatrical archetypal character. She uses exaggerated expressions, acoustic singing, combined with special effects makeup, so that the audience forgets the actors themselves.
Olivia Colman, known as Meryl Streep's successor, has always left no trace of her acting in "The Lost Daughter."
Even when faced with complex inner drama, it can make all emotions flow naturally.
Spanish national treasure actress Penélope Cruz and her old partner Pedro Almodóvar reunited in Madres paralelas. Dedicated to a strange story full of historical metaphors, Penélope Cruz is quite good at grasping the layers of emotions.
Kristen Stewart, who starred as Princess Diana in Spencer, contributed to the top performance of her career.
In this allegorical story based on real tragedy, accompanied by a variety of face-threatening close-up captures, her most detailed performances are also vividly displayed.
But one of the most amazing and emotional performances for me was "Being the Ricardos" from Nicole Kidman.
Many people's initial impression is that this is a standard eight-strand literary style Chong Ao biopic. Like Renee Zellweger starring in Judy Garland's Judy, or Meryl Streep's The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher.
In fact, first of all, you can fully believe that the script of the film director Aaron Sorkin, known as the "ace screenwriter", provides a full 2 hours of machine-gun-like witty lines.
The plot story line is also an alternate process, compressing the most famous comedy originators in television history, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who have been hindered by crises in their lives and work, into a week's time.
Maybe a lot of people don't know Lucille Ball and her place in Hollywood. However, to make a not so appropriate analogy, her position in the North American comedy industry can be analogous to the teacher Song Dandan, whom we are familiar with.
Originally, the project was to be made into a mini-series with Cate Blanchett starring. In the end, it was changed to the film work starring Nicole Kidman, which cannot be avoided here, and the story time is highly compressed.
The conflict point of the drama continues to be output five minutes after the beginning of the film.
Therefore, many people may feel very difficult when watching the movie for the first time. Because the content to be explained is too full, the confrontation between the actors is even more climactic. If you don't concentrate, you may miss Aaron Sorkin's all-encompassing mappings, meticulous connection to the structure of the story.
At the same time, if you don't know enough about the background era and story archetype, it will also make the movie experience a little difficult. Overall, "The Ricardo Family" is a movie with a certain threshold for watching movies.
But that doesn't stop it from becoming a well-made work, a "difficult" academic drama.
In one play, it presents "I Love Lucy", a classic sitcom starring the prototype of the movie. At the same time, it is also necessary to tell the real story behind the production of this play, so as to create a real play within a play.
However, the processing intensity of this "high compression" also makes the performance of these excellent actors more "strong when strong". This is also why this year's Oscar "Ricciardo Family" can win three nominations in the performance awards, including best actress, best actor, and best supporting actor.
In particular, Nicole Kidman's performance can be said to be a textbook for the performance of actresses in this era.
It is not the kind of explosive closure that the public praises the most, and it is only for the highlight to eliminate all difficulties. Nor is it a close-up focus entirely on the actors themselves, in every detail. It is a kind of pure fire that goes deep into the "performance" thing, steady and steady, and continues to progress.
Every look, every body movement, and even every pause in the gap between lines got rid of some of the habitual small movements of the actor himself. Even her body shape and temperament reached a kind of flowing water like a muscle memory, and it was carried out in a regular and exquisite manner.
In order to imitate Lucille Ball's playful tone in comedy performances, she also specially sought out professional language teachers for long-term training. In order to further restore the character's deep voice, she even began to smoke in order to better model its true timbre.
In this work, she is also playing two roles in one person. One is the lively and delicate character Lucy in the TV series "I Love Lucy", while the other is the real-life strong woman and actress Lucille Ball.
When these two roles are fused with the second degree of creation of Nicole Kidman himself, who is an actor, it is a combination of three women on the screen. Among them, switching and resonance are also grasped just right.
From beginning to end, the film revolves around a woman's struggles in career, marriage, and self, and echoes in many ways, from a miniature reflection to the universal thinking of the entire female group, and has been sublimated.
But such a difficult, cumbersome, and not in a hurry to show the dew, for the audience like Aaron Sorkin's script, is laborious and unflattering.
The highlight of the film appears at the end of the second when Lucille Ball stands on the stage and forgets his words.
In her acting career, she has never forgotten words, and Lucille, who has always been extremely harsh on performances, because she understands that the "family" she is closely attached to has finally fallen apart, when she hears her husband say the classic line of "Lucy I'm Home...", she can't help but lose her mind.
In this clip, Nicole Kidman's just a few flowing eyes and breath adjustments perfectly capture the most complex and subtle emotional transformation, and also achieve the most fleeting golden moment in the entire 2021 actress's work.
This is a high-level processing at the bone level, which can be called pure fire.
But in today's fast food, without the sudden appearance of inspiration, without the explosion of the set, without the greatest effect at the most effective time, it is difficult to poke the excitement of the "critics".
Therefore, a performance like this, which is worth savoring everywhere and sculpting every moment, is naturally likely to be overlooked.
As the saying goes, winning the prize tests luck, and the shortlist depends on strength.
In my opinion, Nicole Kidman, whose career spanned four decades, won the fifth Otti of his career, which is already a victory.
Maybe she is not the kind of talented actor that everyone calls, but she is definitely a resilient and full of vitality, an actor among actors.
Like many actresses on the Big Flower Dan route, Nicole Kidman, whose looks and body can be said to be amazing, seems to have been surrounded by skepticism since her debut.
A vase that can't act, a resource on top of ex-husband Tom Cruise... She was constantly mentioned in her early career.
When she divorced Tom Cruise and surprised everyone with her performances in movies such as "Moulin Rouge", "Moments and Moments", "Island Horror" and so on, it suddenly made the public realize that this big star is a serious actress.
Looking at her resume, whether it is the number, type, or thickness, it is enough to compete with any top actress in active service.
In 2017 alone, she attended the Cannes Film Festival with four works, including "Under the Peony Flower" and "The Death of the Holy Deer", and was given the 70th Anniversary Award by the official tribute of Cannes. (On the 60th anniversary, the festival honored a film.)
But in fact, she has never been in the original intention of rushing awards and box office, all of which is her pure love for performance.
In this year's awards season, she is almost invisible. The reason is that because of the long-term high-intensity filming, she had a recurrence of her leg injury and had to withdraw from this public relations game in advance, which also had a certain impact on her eventual loss of the opportunity to win the award.
But as she said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, she doesn't decide whether a movie is "well received" or recognized at the moment.
She hopes that her work will remain fresh and impact others for the next ten, twenty or even longer years.
The film that was once given a bad review by film critics, but now it has been re-examined by countless fans and media, and the highly praised "Rebirth" is the best example.
In the era of news gossip and gossip and hot searches, the four words "entertainment to death" are staged every day. At the moment when facial anxiety is rife, Nicole Kidman is also one of the very few female stars who dares to stand up and admit it and regret injecting botulone.
But turning to the social media comments, you can still see a lot of mockery and jokes about her stiff face and plastic surgery, rather than an objective acknowledgment that she has been working hard in the film and contributing to a high-quality performance.
Taking the "established impression" as a partial generalization, being examined by colored glasses, still happens to this veteran actress.
In 2017, veteran commentator Anne Helen Petersen published "How Many Times Does Nicole Kidman Have To Prove Herself?" to defend Nicole Kidman.
And pointed out that it is a difficult job to get the mass media to take actresses seriously.
This continues to play out from Joan Crawford and Isabelle Adjani to Renée Zellweger and Nicole Kidman.
Even in the plot of "Ricardo", there are vivid descriptions of Lucille Ball's termination of the company because of his age.
Since the announcement of the film's casting, Nicole Kidman's decision to star has been constantly questioned, and even met with a large number of hate attacks.
Netizens have mocked her for not being able to act in comedy, her face is like plastic, and she is more blunt that she relies on the label of a big star and steals the opportunity of other actresses.
But Nicole Kidman still withstood the pressure of the outside world, relying on her ten years of experience in the acting career, and her passion for the art of film, which seemed doomed to failure in the eyes of outsiders and difficult performances that were impossible for her, brought another rise in the performing arts for her career.
At the same time, she also added another Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, won another Oscar nomination, successfully handed over a beautiful answer sheet, and responded to those who looked down on her.
As one netizen film critic wrote, maybe the play is not perfect, or maybe Nicole is not the most suitable actor. But I feel emotional, I love the story, and I love the trial and error of 50+ female stars, standing with the best creators of this era.
She sang, she danced, until she died.
She proved with her strength that 50+ actresses can still amaze the screen.
You can still challenge the "impossible" and prove your own possibility.
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