Oscar, the ultimate party of the year for the Hollywood film industry.

It may be postponed, it may be controversial, but it is never absent.

On the last weekend of February 2005, the 77th Academy Awards kicked off with a crowd of onlookers.

Every Academy Awards ceremony is always accompanied by a variety of noises.

This edition will certainly be no exception.

Groups of the Affirmative Action Movement and the Black Movement occupied the best position at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Hollywood Avenue early on, conveying their ideas to the world.

There were also activists, not far from the Kodak Theater, lighting candles in memory of the Atlanta victim.

The Los Angeles police are on the verge of a big enemy, for fear of causing a big incident that is out of control.

Fortunately, until the red carpet ceremony of the awards ceremony began, the protests and various activities only stayed at the stage of shouting slogans, and did not turn into riots that are deeply rooted in Los Angeles, and the situation was completely under control.

The current social situation has a huge impact on the Oscars.

These are not only reflected in the selection of awards, those stars with a keen sense of smell have been prepared for their outfits early on.

For example, this year's black dresses are particularly popular, not only black movie stars such as Will Smith and Halle Berry appear in a black solemn image, such as Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, etc., more than half of the guests walked on the red carpet with black or dark dresses.

Hollywood stars can be very fucked up on a lot of things, but their sense of smell is often unusually acute.

This time, the black wave is surging and unprecedentedly strong, and it is also the most nominated for a black person in the history of the Oscars.

Correspondingly, this has set a tone for this year's Oscars.

Even, the host of this year's Oscars is black comedy star Chris Rock.

Throughout Oscar history, most of the time the award seems to have been associated only with white movie stars, with only three percent of black nominees being nominated.

This is true for the performance industry, and the same is true for behind-the-scenes technical work.

Behind the scenes, the proportion of black workers is lower than that of actors.

In Hollywood, the number of black directors and producers is even smaller.

Of course, these conditions are not just caused by the environment.

Ronan entered the Kodak Theater in a black suit, and instead of immediately going to the lobby to take a seat, he chatted with Harvey Weinstein, whom he met.

"This time, you're going to have a good harvest. Harvey Weinstein shook his head and said, "How many are sure?"

Ronan shrugged slightly: "Until the end, who dares to guarantee." ”

According to his wishes, of course, it is the best to take all the nominated golden figures, but this is obviously impossible.

Harvey Weinstein said: "This time, Miramax is going home empty-handed. ”

There aren't many nominations directly related to Miramax.

The fat man was very polite in front of him, and Ronan also said politely: "It's because Disney is dragging you back." ”

Hearing Disney, Harvey Weinstein could only sigh: "Continuing is not the way to go." ”

"Do you have any other ideas?" Ronan deliberately put on a curious look, "Is there any good idea?"

Harvey Weinstein said with a smile: "Where there is a good idea, it is always pressed by Disney, a little depressed, like out of breath." ”

"It's going to pass. Ronan said nonsense that even he didn't believe.

Harvey Weinstein glanced at Ronan: "It's a pity that Miramax doesn't have the strength of Relativity Entertainment, otherwise I would have bitten Michael Eisner hard." ”

Ronan smiled: "It's hard to say this kind of thing. ”

Harvey Weinstein invited Ronan into the hall together, and the two walked out not far and met the white hat and Director Zhang, who politely shook Ronan's hand and greeted him, but ignored Harvey Weinstein.

This is also the result of Harvey Weinstein's copyright buying tricks.

Compared to this fat man, Ronan definitely belongs to the kind of person who follows the rules.

Although "Ten Faces Haze" did not do well at the North American box office, it was not particularly bad, and Lionsgate wanted to recover its investment through offline operations, and also applied for an Oscar for this film.

Following "Hero", Director Zhang was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

At the same time, the film was also nominated for Best Cinematography.

The most praised thing about "Ten Sides of Haze" is also the cinematography, and even some media in North America said that the director level of the film seriously dragged down the cinematography......

It is very difficult for this film to win an award, just say the Best Foreign Language Film award, in terms of subject matter and content, with the familiarity of the Oscar judges, even "Eavesdropping Storm" cannot be compared.

Entering the main hall, Ronan found the crew of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" and sat with Will Smith.

"Are you nervous?" Ronan glanced at Will Smith as he shook his legs.

Will Smith said: "Of course I'm nervous, I've worked so hard, and the success or failure is tonight, and everyone is nervous." ”

"It's useless to be nervous. Ronan said deliberately: "The results of the awards have come out, and we still have a chance to find someone to kill the two big leaders of PricewaterhouseCoopers." ”

Will Smith rubbed his face and said, "I'm much better." He instead asked, "Has the money invested in "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" paid off?"

Ronan understood what Will Smith meant, and said, "Don't worry, it's already back to basics." ”

The four films of Relativity Entertainment have already recovered their costs.

Today, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has been in theaters for 12 weeks, and the North American box office has accumulated $210.23 million.

Although the film is still released in North America because of the Oscars, the box office market is almost consumed, and if Will Smith can win Best Actor, he may be able to brush up again.

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature, "The Emperor Penguin's Diaries" grossed nearly $75 million at the North American box office, making it the second highest grossing documentary ever in the North American film market after Fahrenheit 911.

"Fahrenheit 911" did not receive any Oscar nominations due to its theme and content, but it was quite successful at the Golden Sour Plum Awards.

Xiao Fei beat Colin Farrell, who had a disastrous performance on "Alexander the Great", and successfully won the Golden Raspberry Award for Best Actor.

In terms of film awards, Xiao Fei has managed to surpass all American presidents.

The biggest news of this year's Golden Sour Plum is not that it is not a small no, but that Halle Berry, the best actress of the last Oscar, received the Oscar Little Golden Man in person to receive the Golden Sour Plum Worst Actress award.

The film "Catwoman" directly lowered Halle Berry's career to a notch.

The Oscar curse was fulfilled once again.

is also a film that does not invest too many resources, and the performance of "Eavesdropping Storm" is much worse, with no more than 400 North American theaters, and the North American box office has just reached $9 million until now.

Fortunately, Embassy Pictures has been very sensible and has always controlled the scale of investment in "Eavesdropping Storm", and most of the copies were shipped from the UK.

Although "Crash" is also a niche, it is about Americans after all, and after receiving a number of Oscar nominations, the market has performed much better, and after more than two months of screening, the North American box office has accumulated 55.79 million US dollars, which has already brought a lot of profits.

Similar to "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", the heavyweight Oscar award can also be a booster for "Crash" to enter the overseas market.

Over time, more and more people entered the Kodak theater, including popular seeding players like Million Dollar Baby.

Clint Eastwood was also nominated for Best Actor, and there is a possibility of an upset.

As for the "Aviator" crew led by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, it is relatively quiet, and probably the main creative team of the crew is also aware of the fate of possible accompaniment.

Compared to other films that have received multiple nominations, "The Aviator" has suffered too much criticism since its release.

Even many film critics Martin Scorsese are too ugly to try to hit the Oscars.

Finally, in the sound of music, the 77th Academy Awards kicked off.

Perhaps this year's Oscar organizing committee took into account the current social situation and specially chose a black comedy star like Chris Rock as the host.

Chris Rock gags, trying his best to constantly clarify the position of this year's Oscars.

On the other side of the Pacific, the atmosphere at Oscar tonight is best described in this way - we black people, we are really happy today......

Some things are so obvious that anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences painstakingly balances all sorts of things with the goal of being as politically correct as possible.

In the face of these, the art of cinema is no longer important, and even becomes dispensable.

Those who still have this idea of winning an Oscar for the art of cinema alone can only say that it is too simple and naïve.

Tonight, Oscar made the black brothers feel that they stood up the most important!

Therefore, the first award presented at this Oscars, that is, Best Supporting Actor, set the tone for the entire awards ceremony.

"The winner of Best Supporting Actor was ......" Scarlett Johansson, who won Best Supporting Actress last year, announced: "Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby." ”

In an instant, the audience burst into extremely warm applause, as if this was not a victory for film art, but a victory for social progress!

Morgan Freeman took the stage to accept the award, and after his usual thanks, he exclaimed: "Hollywood continues to make history, Hollywood is making progress with the world! I hope that one day, the race and skin color of actors will no longer be mentioned as characteristics!"

The applause became even louder.

Then, the technical awards began, and the time for "The Aviator" to come up.

The Oscars have always liked to strike a balance, taking into account all aspects, the competition between various companies, and the various orientations of the film, so the technical award and the adapted screenplay award have become important bargaining chips for balance. "The Aviator" did not win a major award, but it was well made, and such labor also needs to be rewarded.