Best Cinematography.

It's not Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress, it's Best Cinematography. Tonight's Oscars kicked off in an unexpected way.

In general, in order to attract the audience and also to create suspense, the Oscars are often unveiled with a supporting cast department. Because the supporting actor category is highly competitive, it is also one of the awards in the core main department, but relatively speaking, the competition is less fierce and the audience attention is less.

As an opening, the supporting actor department can often bring surprises at the beginning, whether it is the supporting actress department that likes to reward newcomers, or the supporting actor department who is keen on summarizing their careers, for the audience, one is the shining appearance of fresh faces, and the other is the reappearance of familiar faces, which is a good thing for ratings.

But this year, the first Oscar award was Best Cinematography. It's really intriguing.

Unlike other film awards ceremonies or film festivals, the Oscars have formed a system of awards.

The first part is the core main awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Four Actors and two screenplay awards, the second part is the technical department, which mainly recognizes the behind-the-scenes work team, and the third part is the less focused but highly competitive additional awards, documentaries, short films, animations and foreign language films.

In the technical category, Best Makeup, Best Soundtrack, Best Song, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography and Best Editing, one of the ten awards, constitute the highest level in the North American industry.

According to the voting rules of the Oscars, only members of the association are allowed to vote during the nomination stage, in other words, actors can only vote for four awards in the actor department, and screenwriters can only vote for two awards for screenplays. However, once the nominees are released, all House judges will be able to vote for all awards.

It is precisely because of this that people say, "Nomination depends on strength, and winning awards depends on luck".

In the nomination stage, the pickiness and test from peers, absolute strength is the guarantee of customs clearance, and the main force of the college's public relations at this stage should be placed on publicity, so that more people can know their works, let more people watch their works, and improve their popularity.

The winning stage is a public relations confrontation of networking, public relations, publicity, operation, and calculation, especially the core awards in the first part, the competition is beyond imagination, and everyone can vote according to their own judgment. However, the second and third parts are exceptions.

The second part is too professional, and the third part is too unpopular.

All the judges choose their best film, best director, or their favorite performances and scripts, but the technical awards are confusing. For example, for Best Makeup, the five works nominated for the nomination all look wonderful and professional, and it is really difficult for the screenwriters to choose the best.

As a result, most of the judges tend to skip the second and third parts to avoid making unprofessional choices and making jokes. Of course, if the judges have their own favorites, it makes perfect sense to check the second and third parts.

Relatively speaking, the technology sector is very unpopular. In the end, the winners are still works that have been universally recognized by professionals in the industry.

In the technical department, the biggest votes were for best cinematography and best editing. These two awards are also the most cinematic and imagery elements, with the former presenting a cinematic picture and the latter presenting a cinematic style. What's more, the best editing was called the "Little Best Film Award", which shows its importance.

Tonight, the first to appear is the Best Cinematography Award. Among the five nominees, there are four industry leaders.

"Hugo's" Robert Richardson, seven Oscar nominations, twice winner, and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Jeff-Cronenoeh, David Fincher's royal photographer, "Fight Club", two consecutive Oscar nominations.

Janusz-Kaminski of War Horse, five-time Oscar nomination and two-time winner, and Emmanuel-Lubezki of Tree of Life, five-time Oscar nomination.

The last nominee is the "artist" Guillaume-Schiffman, who is previously unknown and unknown even in the French film industry – but this does not seem unusual, as the director, the actor, the heroine and the screenwriter of the "artist" all rose to prominence with this work.

Among the five nominees, all four of the works were shortlisted for Best Picture except for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Tonight put the Best Cinematography award in the first place at the opening, and it is clear that the race for Best Picture has begun.

From a professional point of view, Emmanuel of the "Tree of Life" has outwhelmed the other four competitors, and throughout the awards season, the Mexican photographer has led the way in the industry, almost becoming a god, and the Mexican photographer is a genius, with natural light, long lenses, handheld photography and ultra-wide-angle lenses used and matched, and the praise cannot be stopped.

But from a PR point of view, Robert and Gilliam stood out with their strong momentum in the awards season, especially Gilliam, who went from nobody to well-known, and under the impetus of the Weinstein brothers, he seemed to have become the favorites tonight.

So, is it a profession or public relations? Moreover, this is still an extremely important technical award but a technical department that has been deserted, and the tentative meaning of the academy is really obvious - the result of the award, only PricewaterhouseCoopers, which is responsible for ticket statistics, knows that all the guests on the scene, like the tens of millions of viewers in front of the TV, can only wait for the results with anxiety and excitement.

In the midst of the chaos of the small year, the academy also trembled and crossed the river by feeling the stones.

Tom Hanks, who was the guest of honor, revealed the answer in the midst of countless eyes, "Robert Richardson, 'Hugo'." ”

PR, won, "Hugo", won, Robert Richardson, after "JFK" and "The Aviator", won the Golden Man for the third time, plus, this is his sixth collaboration with Martin Scorsese.

Robert, who took the stage to accept the award, said that his first sentence was, "I can't believe it, you actually put the photography award first, are you serious?", which triggered a low laughter from the guests at the scene, and then he started his own testimonials with ease.

After a brief thank you to his family, Robert said, "And thank you to the past, present, and future filmmakers for you." In just 20 seconds, he ended his acceptance speech.

Obviously, it's easy to get acquainted.

Immediately after, Tom Hanks went on to present a second award, Best Art Direction.

The crew of "Hugo" achieved the incredible succession after the opening, defeating "The Artist" and "Midnight Paris", as well as "War Horse" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II)", and continued to win the second statuette of tonight's Oscars.

Such an opening is unexpected, but it is reasonable.

The whole awards season has come to the end of the Oscars, and the four works of "Hugo", "The Artist", "Midnight Paris" and "Posterity" have successfully stood out and formed the first group to win the award, but "Midnight Paris" has lost the nomination for Best Editing, and "Posterity" has concentrated on the main core departments, so the competition pattern in the technical department is focused on "Hugo" and "Artist".

In addition to these two works, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "War Horse" are powerful spoilers in the technical department. Now, "Hugo" has beaten strong opponents and won two trophies in the technical department, which also means that it has taken the lead in the race for best picture, occupying a slight advantage.

However, the award for Best Costume Design that followed was an upset, as Mark-Bridges, who won an Oscar nomination for the first time, beat out Sandy-Poell of "Hugo" for his retro costume design in "The Artist", who was nominated for a ninth Oscar and won two statuettes.

It is still a retro duel between "artist" and "Hugo", and this time, the former has the last laugh, with the appearance of a dark horse with oil and black light, fighting a bloody way, pulling teeth from the hands of Sandie Powell, and trying to capture the first golden man of the "artist" crew tonight, while also changing the pattern of tonight's awards ceremony.

Subsequently, the Best Score award was another upset, not John Williams, who was nominated for forty-two Oscars, nor Hoard-Shore, who established himself as a master with the "Lord of the Rings" series, nor Alberto-Iglesias, who was nominated for three years in seven years, but the little-known Ludovic-Bource.

It is another unheard of name, a name that has disappeared from commercial works to works of art in the world film industry, and a name that has risen strongly this year with a work. Everything is so familiar: Ludwig Boss won the award for Best Score for "Artist".

Prior to "The Artist", Ludvik had contributed only two low-budget commercial works, both of which he had done with Michel Hazanavicius.

After the official opening of the 84th Oscars, the four statuettes, "Hugo" and "Artist" each captured two, and tonight's award pattern really showed a little face.

Although the two "artist" trophies were huge upsets, which is really unbelievable for the technical department, it can be said that it is unbelievable, if not unbelievable, in the past few decades, although the two technical awards of "Hugo" are Oscar veterans - coincidentally, the three winners of both awards all received their third gold medals tonight.

But on the whole, it is still difficult to say that it is unexpected. Obviously, the confrontation pattern between "Hugo" and "Artist" has been formed, especially the rise of the latter, which once again witnesses the Weinstein brothers' superior and strategic college public relations standards, and deserves to be the absolute rulers of Hollywood.

So, who will have the last laugh between "Hugo" and "Artist"? If there is an accident, who will be the dark horse? What is the trend of the next awards in the technical department? And will the awards in the core department change the competition pattern for the best picture?

The suspense has just been solved, but it is far from being deciphered.