The 2011 awards season was in a state of chaos, the biggest mess in history! According to the practice of previous years, after the Golden Globe Awards ended, the overall trend and context of the Oscars surfaced, preparing for the third stage of sprint and competition, but this year this is not the case, the pattern is not only not clearer, but more chaotic!

The three major weather vanes of the Oscars - the North American Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, the National Board of Review Awards, and the Golden Globe Awards, the three major awards have completely different award trends, and even the list of nominees is a chaotic battle, which makes everyone fall through the glasses.

The North American Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards awarded Best Picture and Best Director to "The Artist," Best Actor went to "Love Crazy" Lan Li Hall, and Best Actress went to Viola Davis for "Help."

The National Review Association Awards awarded both Best Picture and Best Director to "Hugo", with Michael Fassbender for "Shame" for Best Actor and Tilda Swinton for "We Need to Talk About Kevin" for Best Actress.

The Golden Globes for Best Picture went to "Posterity" and "Artist", with Best Director going to Martin Scorsese for "Hugo", George Clooney for Best Actor for "Posterity" and Jean Dujardin for "The Artist", Meryl Streep for "Iron Lady" and Michelle Williams for "My Week with Monroe".

Staggered, all staggered! The entire circle of public opinion and professionals have been shocked! In the list of winners of previous years, there are one or two awards that are staggered and not overlapped, which is a matter of course, even if everyone expects it, it may kill the dark horse, otherwise the awards season will be boring; but it is simply appalling that it is so perfect and so neatly staggered like this year!

In addition to the three weather vanes, the five major trade unions of the American film industry - the producers' union, the editors' union, the screenwriters' union, the directors' union, and the actors' union also present the same row of chaos. At present, the five major unions have only announced the list of nominees and have not yet presented awards, which is also the top priority of the third phase of the college's public relations, but just the list of nominees is enough to make people full of confusion.

The Producers Guild of America, among the ten nominated works, "Artist", "Descendant", "Hugo", "Help", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Love is Crazy", "The Tree of Life", "War Horse", "Fighting Cancer", and "Bridesmaids" were successfully shortlisted.

This also means that the three works of "Presidential Killing", "Midnight Paris", and "Penalty Money" are all out, among which the defeat of "Midnight Paris" has triggered a seismic response.

Editors Guild of America, drama films, "Artist", "Posterity", "Help", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Presidential Killing" are shortlisted, "Hugo" is out, and musical comedy films, "My Week with Monroe", "Me Against Cancer", "Midnight in Paris", "Artist" are shortlisted, and "Bridesmaids" are out.

Among them, the defeat of "Hugo" made the entire industry gasp.

Directors Guild of America, Alexander Payne of "The Descendants", Martin Scorsese of "Hugo", Woody Allen of "Midnight in Paris", Terrence-Malick of "The Tree of Life" and Steven Spielberg of "War Horse" successfully attracted nominations.

Correspondingly, George Clooney of "Killing the President", Michelle Hazanavicius of "The Artist", and David Fincher of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" are out one after another. As a dark horse in the awards season, the little-known Michelle seems to be starting to show signs of decline.

The Screen Actors Guild, Best Actor, George Clooney for "The Descendants", Brad Pitt for "Moneyball", Lanley Hall for "Love Crazy", Leonardo DiCaprio for "Hoover", and Demlian-Bichir for "A Better Life" are among the top five nominees.

Jean Yaldan for "The Artist" is out, Ryan Gosling for "Killing the President" and "Desperate Driving" is out, and Michael Fassbender for "Shame" is out.

Best Actress, Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady", Viola Davis for "Help", Michelle Williams for "My Week with Monroe", Tilda Swinton for "We Need to Talk About Kevin", Felicity Jones for "Love Crazy", joined hands to make the nominees.

"Androgynous" Glenn Close and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Rooney Mara are both out.

Writers Guild of America, Best Original Screenplay, "Midnight in Paris", "Me Against Cancer", "Love Crazy", "Teenager", "Bridesmaids" were shortlisted, "Artist", "A Farewell", "Dead Driving" and other works are all out. It is worth mentioning that the nominations of the two works "Love is Crazy" and "I Fight Cancer" have attracted a lot of attention.

Best Adapted Screenplay, "The Descendant", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "The Tinker, the Tailor, the Soldier, the Spy", "Hugo", and "Moneyball" won the nominations, and correspondingly, "The President's Killing", "My Week with Monroe", and "Help" all fell off. The most shocking thing was undoubtedly the defeat of "help", and he was stunned.

More than 20 productions have appeared in rotation, and it is almost impossible to count, "Midnight in Paris" was absent from the Producers Guild nomination, "Hugo" was absent from the Producers Guild nomination, "Artist" was absent from the Directors Guild nomination, "Help" was absent from the Writers Guild nomination, and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was absent from the Screen Actors Guild nomination......

The only exception is "Descendants", this work has successfully received all the nominations of the five major trade unions, plus the nominations of the three major weather vanes of the Oscars, faintly, "Descendants" have quietly stood out and become the biggest favorites in this year's awards season!

But!

In such a chaotic landscape this year, there is always a "but", no one is safe, no one is strong, no one is a certainty. "The Artist", "Help", "Hugo", and "Midnight in Paris", which were slightly ahead of the curve in the early stage, did not do it, nor did the "Later Generations".

New York Film Critics Association Awards, nominated, Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Awards, not nominated, Boston Film Critics Circle Awards, nominated, San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, not nominated, Seattle Film Critics Circle Awards, not nominated, Houston Film Critics Circle Awards, not nominated.

Obviously, "descendants" are not loved by everyone in the eyes of the Film Critics Association. To be precise, many people don't like it.

In addition to the three major weather vanes of the Oscars, in addition to the five major union awards in the United States, large and small film critics association awards have also appeared, some have been awarded early, and some are still waiting for the outbreak of the third stage. But the available information reveals a chaotic landscape.

The most bizarre of them is that the Best Picture nominees of the Boston Film Critics Association and the San Francisco Film Critics Association are completely staggered with five works, and there is no overlapping option!

This is not a good thing, at least not a good thing for a hundred flowers to bloom and a hundred schools of thought to contend, but a farce of falling into chaos. This year's chaotic war pattern is really laughable.

There are no frontrunners, no first group, not even strong seeded players, and after two phases of scuffle, there is still chaos, and the pattern shows no clear signs. The division of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period directly led to the mess and hustle and bustle of the college public relations during the awards season, with all kinds of negative news flying all over the sky, and all kinds of public relations methods emerging in an endless stream.

In the midst of such a chaotic situation, this has also aroused more and more concerns about the major media: is this a good thing or a bad thing for Generation Y? Will it be a hero in chaos, or will the younger generation be annihilated again? Further, is this positive or negative for the future development of the film industry?

Last year, the "King's Speech" defeated the "social network", and the whole academy was in a state of twilight, which is worrying; this year, it is so chaotic and facing new challenges, is it true that the film industry has begun to gradually decline? Is the impact and disaster brought about by the Internet age and fast food culture finally beginning to ferment?

All the chaos, all the controversy, all the confusion, all the expectations, along with the release of the Oscar nomination list, finally settled and came to an end!

Unprecedentedly, the announcement of the Oscar nominees has attracted so much attention and attention, not because of a giant crocodile like "Avatar" this year, or a gimmick like "Social Network" and "The King's Speech", but because people can't wait to end this mess, skip the farce of Academy PR during awards season, and truly enter the third stage of the sprint.

No matter who is selected, no matter who loses, no matter who is happy, no matter who is sad, the important thing is that the chaotic situation is over for the time being, the order becomes clear again, and then hand in hand towards the Oscars. For a small number of people, they can't even wait to end this year's awards season.

The 84th Oscars may go down in history, but not in an exhilarating way.

This year's list of college nominees is grandly announced under such expectations and attention!

"The Artist", "Hugo", "Help", "Posterity", "Midnight in Paris", "Moneyball", "Very Loud, Very Close", "Tree of Life", "War Horse".

A total of nine works were shortlisted for this year's Best Picture nominees, and they were successfully killed in the chaotic war, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "The Bridesmaid", "The Fight Against Cancer", "The President Kills" and other works unfortunately went out.

Among them, "The Artist", "Hugo", "Help", "Descendants" and "Midnight Paris" continued their overall advantage in the chaos and were successfully shortlisted, "War Horse" and "Penalty Money" made a last-minute effort and took the last train, and "Tree of Life" fought a bloody way and completed the reversal in the second stage of the sprint with almost no publicity in the first half.

"Very loud, very close", became the biggest dark horse in the nomination stage, this film invested by Warner Bros. and produced by Scott Rudin, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock are blessed as green leaves, re-examining the damage caused by the "911 incident" from a child's perspective, before the Golden Globes, this work was almost obscure, but relying on strong college PR, it achieved a turnaround and successfully stood out in the chaos.

Just from the list of the top nine for best picture, it can be seen that the overall decline of this year's Oscars, on the whole, the reputation and quality of "descendants", "help", "Hugo" and "artists" are still slightly ahead, but the momentum is mediocre, even at the awards ceremony, "very loud, very close" all the way to the end, which is not impossible.

Should this be celebrated? or should it be lamented?

The list of nominees for Best Picture is just the tip of the iceberg, and the other nominees beyond this list are still full of pitfalls.