On March 25, the 63rd Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Holy Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles, and the host was still the same as last year's, Billy Christo

After a series of performances, the awards officially began

The most watched films of this Oscars are the four films, Dances with Wolves, Speechless Ask the Sky, Godfather Three, Good Guys

All four films received numerous nominations, notably for Best Picture

And among them, the godfather three and the good guy directors are all famous, two of the four major directors in Hollywood

The director of The Godfather III is Francesco Pola and the director of Goodfellas is Martin Scorsese

It's impossible for these two people's movies not to attract attention

However, this year's award-winning favorites are not the works of these two directors, but the work of a rookie director, Kevin Costner, called Dances with Wolves

Dancing with wolves is so awesome,

In the previous awards season, it has won the National Review Association Award for Best Film and Best Director, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay

Not to mention the many awards, the box office is still good, with a total investment of only 18 million US dollars, but in the end, it cut down more than 424 million US dollars at the box office

With such a return ratio, there are really few films that can do it

Crucially, this is director Kevin Costner's directorial debut

Kevin Costner, before and after shooting Dances with Wolves, is a hanging

The screenwriter who dances with wolves wrote this script but couldn't sell it, and the poor couldn't do it

But Kevin Costner saw that it was good to dance with wolves

He not only encouraged Michael Blake to change the script to publication and then bought the adaptation rights, but also pulled in investment to direct and star in it

And in the end, because the filming was overscheduled, the investment was overrun, and he also contributed $30,000 himself, which finally finished the film

This is a super long movie, even in the United States, where the movie itself is very long, this movie is considered long

A total of three hours, the director's version even reached four hours

But why is there still so many viewers watching such a long movie, and it can still get more than $400 million at the global box office

Because on the one hand, the audience was firmly attracted by the vast and beautiful western grassland scenery under the lens of the movie, and on the other hand, they were deeply moved by the sincere attitude and deep humanistic care that the director instilled in the film

Therefore, Kevin Costner, who became a director for the first time, succeeded, not only won a lot of awards, became famous, but also earned a huge return of tens of millions of dollars

The success of Dances with Wolves is probably something that Kevin Costner himself did not dare to imagine

Because before he became a director, he was just an actor, and he was not the kind of famous actor

A person born in 55 was electrocuted for the first time in 82, when he was 27 years old, and starred in the movie

It wasn't until five years later that he began to attract attention because he co-starred with Sean Connery and Robert De Niro in the crime film "Iron Mask", playing a federal official who bans moonshine

Then three years later, he directed and starred in Dances with Wolves, which became an instant hit with a global box office of more than 400 million

Of course, the reason why Dances with Wolves will be the biggest hit at this Oscars is not because of its high box office

Because those who are familiar with the Oscars know that the judges are all white old men, and they are actually very resistant to those high-grossing commercial films in their hearts

But Dances with Wolves isn't just a high-grossing commercial film, it's a film that overturns the case of the Sioux Indians, in other words, it's a politically super-correct movie

In contrast, the speechless Cangtian is a scholar engaged in biological research, unable to adapt to his new job, he accidentally discovered the characteristics of dementia patients, and finally used drugs to restore Leonard and other dementia patients to normal, but although they woke up from decades of sleep, these dementia patients have to face the problem of finding themselves

The theme of this film is that compared to the care and respect of human nature, the effect of medicine is far from enough

As for Godfather 3, this movie was chosen by director Francesco Polpola because he made a high-budget movie but lost blood, and was forced to make it for economic reasons

The film was in a hurry from the beginning of the script, and Francisco Coppola and hoped to complete the script of the film in half a year, and it was released in time for Easter 1991, but Paramount Pictures only gave them six weeks to complete the script, because of the shortage of movies in the holiday schedule, so the film had to be released in 1990 on Christmas Day

Moreover, Francesco Polpola and the screenwriter and author of the original book Mario gave the film "The Death of Michael Corleone"

Because they tend to think that the film is the end of the first and second parts, not the third

But Paramount didn't agree at all, considering the company's economic interests, the company naturally wanted to make the third part into a blockbuster about the new generation of godfather Vincent, and rudely named the film "The Godfather 3"

As a result, all elements of the early script were ultimately lost to the film, with the exception of the scene where two men break into Vincent's residence

All this has led to a serious decline in the quality of Godfather 3 compared to the previous two films, and Francisco Coppola's daughter Sofia Coppola also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Newcomer and Worst Supporting Actress for starring in this movie

And The Godfather 2 has already won Best Picture and Best Director, so it is generally believed that although The Godfather 3 has received multiple nominations, it is unlikely to win the award

Compared with the above two movies, Martin Scorsese directed, Robert De Niro starred in the good guys are quite optimistic

Because this movie is known as one of the top three gangster movies on a par with The Godfather, Once Upon a Time in America

And coincidentally, all three movies have Robert De Niro starring, and of course Robert De Niro starring The Godfather 2

Goodfellas is based on true events and tells the story of American gangster celebrity Henry Hill's legendary encounters on the rivers and lakes for more than 30 years

It depicts the life of a New York-Italian gangster from childhood to adulthood, and realistically shows the unique life style and distinctive values of the underworld characters

It's just that unlike the American Dream in the past, "Goodfellas" seems to be a gangster film in the traditional sense, but it actually wants to express a kind of "American Dream"-style ideal shattering

And that's why it's not the biggest favorite at this Oscars, because it's not so politically correct

Dancing with wolves is a perfect fit for Hollywood's political correctness at this time

With the end of World War II, humanitarianism was mentioned to a considerable position in literature and art, and historical reflection made the theme of war and the history of western development the two major themes of the film

In the past few years, many anti-war films about the Vietnam War won the Oscar because of their political correctness

Although "Dances with Wolves" is not anti-war, it reflects the history and thinking of the expansion of the western region, which is extremely difficult to grasp and express, and it puts forward the ideal of giving up struggle and peaceful coexistence between ethnic groups, and plays the melody of fraternity, equality, and peace

So, Dances with Wolves won a total of fifteen Oscar nominations

Then in the award process, those who were nominated for Dances with Wolves were rarely disappointed

In the beginning, a bunch of technical awards were won except for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design

In the next few awards, Dances with Wolves lost all the acting awards that were nominated, Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor, all of them

But the most important ones won Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing, Best Cinematography

Judging by the loss of all the acting awards, the Oscar judges recognized the theme of Dances with Wolves more than its performance

From this point, you can see how important it is to be politically correct at the Oscars in Hollywood

But the flaws are not hidden, and the incomparably politically correct Dances with Wolves won a brilliant victory in the race for the Oscars, with 10 out of 15 nominations

Compared with the ecstatic dances with wolves crew creator, Zhang Yimou is much more lonely, because Ju Dou really missed the Best Foreign Language Film Award unsurprisingly

But there's really no way around it

If there is no accident, Lao Mouzi's loneliness will come a few more times in the future