This year's Oscars is a revision of the route of the past few years, respecting the elderly first, but also not taking the promotion of backwards and rewarding rookies lightly.
Stills from The Shape of Water.
Text | Rimbaud
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony has just come to an end, and to everyone's surprise, "The Shape of Water" has won an overwhelming victory, beating the hit film "Three Billboards", which once led the awards season, and winning the two most important awards of best picture and best director.
And "Three Billboards" only won the performance awards, won the best actress and the best supporting actor, the most surprising thing is that the best original screenplay award that was once ten to nine was also won by the dark horse of "Escape from Desperate Town".
Best Actress: Francis McDormand 丨"Three Billboards".
As a result, some viewers who usually pay some attention to the Oscars have some mutterings, and this Year's Oscars have begun to "value correctly", ignoring the "Three Billboards" that scare everything.
Is this the case? I don't think so.
On the contrary, I feel that this year's Oscars are precisely a revision of the route of the past few awards, and this time the bottom line they control is the "orthodoxy" that has long been ignored by the academy, which is "correction must be overkill, but it cannot be corrected.".
In the end, this attitude is reflected in the thinking of awarding awards, which has a lot of meaning of "left and right", the biggest highlight of which is that respect for the elderly comes first.
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This year's Oscars honor the elderly first
Yes, this year's Oscars not only made roger Deakins, a giant who was nominated for the Best Cinematography Award 14 times, get his wish, but also put the crown of best actor on the head of the much-anticipated Gary Oldman, and awarded the best actress to the star-winning Sister-in-law Cohen. She and Gary Oldman are both veterans of the film for more than thirty years. (Interestingly, the two collaborated in a 1989 movie called "Blood and Tears in the Apricot Forest", which played the male and female protagonists, which is also considered to be related.) ）
Photography of the little plum Roger Deakins.
The organizing committee also awarded the Best Adapted Screenplay Award to James Ivory, a master of literary adapted screenplays in his eighties. Chinese audiences should not be unfamiliar with him, and his masterpieces adapted from two literary masterpieces, "Room with a View" and "Farewell to a Sunny Day", are widely known. In addition, there is also Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece "Leaving Traces in The Past" that won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, which has also been put on the screen by him.
Even for Gilmour del Toro, his qualifications are not inexhaustible, and in the queue of "Mexican Three Masters" who have won the best director in recent years, he is the first to debut and the last to be recognized.
Best Director: Gilmour del Toro.
In 1993, he became a hit with "Devil's Silver Claw", which led to an invitation from Hollywood to shoot in the United States, but he struggled for a long time in the low budget Hollywood genre film, and was long mistaken for a b-grade film director with a bit of imagination, until he broke into Hollywood ten years later, and then won the attention of the academy with "Pan's Labyrinth".
This experience is extremely bitter compared to Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson, who became popular as soon as they debuted. This award can be said to be a belated consolation.
For fans, this is a joyous Oscar, and years of injustice have been corrected, and everyone is convinced. Except, of course, for Martin MacDonald. For Hollywood, he is still just a newcomer to the film, his work resume only "Killer No Holiday", "Seven Neurotics", "Three Billboards" three works, and, his black comedy road plus paranoid personality, is not the mainstream of the academy like, this year he himself did not get the honor he deserved is very normal, after all, the coming day can be expected.
It is not taken lightly to promote backwards and reward rookies
Fairly speaking, the Oscars, which embody the will of the academy, like the film industry in other countries around the world, are most afraid of the situation of "green and yellow", and this year's Oscars are actually doing a lot better than before to promote backwards and reward rookies.
However, the "orthodoxy" of seniority ranking is the main theme of this year's Oscars, but Rao is so, Hollywood has not taken the old and new changes, an important proposition related to the future of the industry, not taken lightly.
"Escape from Breaking Bad" poster
This is reflected in the nominations for the most important awards. There are two debut films nominated for Best Picture, Miss Bird and Escape from Breaking Bad, and the Best Director nominations are also for these two directors who have just made their debuts, Greta Gerweger and Jordan Peele.
Note that this is a female director and a black director, respectively. In addition, in the nomination for the Best Cinematography Award, there is also the first female photographer in the history of the Oscars to be shortlisted, that is, Rachel Morrison, who is in charge of "Dirt Boundary". She even squeezed out Philip Lessell, the director of photography in "Under the Peony Flower", who is also known for natural light photography, who is actually more skilled.
Poster for the movie The Shape of Water.
In the affirmation of actors, the Oscars spared no effort to praise newcomers. Timothy Chalame, Daniel Kalua, Margot Robbie, and Silsa Ronan are all "post-90s", but as long as there is a brilliant talent emerging, the academy does not hesitate to let them take the nomination seats of many old drama bones. Tom Hanks and Jessica Chastain, though also excellent in The Washington Post and Jasmine, eventually gave way to the youngsters.
Even from the perspective of the biggest winner, "The Shape of Water", isn't the winner of this implicit theme of race, ideological camp, marginalized and vulnerable groups, feminism and other themes the greatest embodiment of "right values"? The hymns of love in dark fairy tales do not dispel the taunt that bad people should go to hell.
So, the Oscars don't care about "the right values", they just weigh the pros and cons and hide it deeper.
□ Rimbaud (Film Critic)
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