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It's another year of awards season, another year of the Golden Globes, another year of the Oscars, and it seems that in the blink of an eye, the sleeping beast has awakened again, attracting the attention of people from all over the world.
For the Hollywood Foreign Press Club, authority is clearly not the focus of their attention, entertainment to death is. In order to create a splash, to attract attention, for the sake of stardom, they can make "compromises and concessions", for example, by nominating a terrible work like "Deadly Companion", by awarding the best picture in a musical comedy to a wonderful popcorn like "The Hangover", or by having six nominations for an award, or by running around with two egg yolks.
This year, it was no exception. Same recipe, same taste.
Among the best films in the drama category, six works have won nominations, "The Descendant", "War Horse", "Help", "The President's Killing", "Moneyball" and "Hugo".
In addition to relying on the overall comprehensive strength to fight a bloody way out, behind each work there is a top superstar sitting and joining: George Clooney and Alexander-Payne's "descendants", Steven Spielberg's "War Horse", George Clooney and Ryan Gosling's "Presidential Killing", Brad Pitt's "Penalty Money", Martin Scorsese's "Hugo".
It's a dilemma that can't be chosen. As a result, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave up the trade-off and generously gave six nominations, all in one go. Typical Golden Globe practice.
However, on the whole, in the awards season so far, these six works are indeed temporarily ranked in the first group, plus several other works that unfortunately did not make the selection, "Love Crazy", "The Tree of Life", "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "Girl with Dragon Tattoo", these works are bound to have a battle in the second half of the subsequent awards season.
As always, the race for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category is always relatively low, and this year's five nominees are no exception: "Artist", "Me Fighting Cancer", "Midnight in Paris", "My Week with Monroe", and "Bridesmaids".
Among them, the most noteworthy is Woody Allen, as for the other works, the topicality and attention are slightly inferior. However, the shortlisting of the two low-budget comedies "Fighting Cancer" and "Bridesmaids" has become this year's representative masterpieces, which is undoubtedly a major attraction.
It is worth mentioning that the "artist" work, after receiving praise at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the actor Jean-Dujardin (Jean-Dujardin) successfully won the best actor in Cannes, and then the Weinstein brothers bought the distribution rights, and then embarked on a unique awards season journey.
They flew all over the world to attend film festivals, large and small, Moscow, Montreal, Toronto, Athens, Zurich, New York, Austin, Amsterdam, etc., but the quality of the film was not sufficiently recognized, and major film festivals such as Telluride, Venice, Oslo, London, Rome and other important film festivals rejected the application.
Despite this, the Weinstein brothers still reawakened the self-absorption and self-affirmation of the academy judges under the sign of "remembering the golden age of Hollywood", and after being ignored by many film critics associations, they successfully received Golden Globe nominations and sounded the clarion call for counterattack before the first stage of the awards season was about to end.
It is rumored that George Clooney, who has two works in his hands this year, "Descendants" and "Presidential Killing", personally endorsed Jean Jardin and led Jean into Hollywood's academy public relations circles - even Ryan Gosling, the actor of "Presidential Killing", was not treated like this. This work is also hailed as the first work to be truly tailored to Hollywood's academic aesthetics and preferences since the concept of the 1998 awards season was officially born, which is a love letter to the Oscars.
As a result, this year's best film in the musical comedy category also adds suspense, whether Old Man Woody remains strong, or the "artist" holds high the banner of counterattack, or the "bridesmaids" replicate the miracle of the "hangover" of the year?
In addition to Best Picture, the five Best Director spots were divided between Martin Scorsese for "Hugo", Alexander Payne for "Posterity", George Clooney for "Killing the President", Woody Allen for "Midnight in Paris" and Michel-Hazanavicius for "The Artist".
Among them, Michelle, who is not well known, is undoubtedly the biggest highlight in this year's nominee list.
However, compared to the star-studded and topical cast, the list of director nominees is not shocking. Among the actors on this year's Golden Globe nomination list, it can definitely be said to be exciting.
The first is the actress department.
Best Actress in a Drama, Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady", Viola-Davis for "Helping", Felicity Jones for "Love Crazy", Glenn-Colse for "Male and Female", and Rooney Mara for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", made it to the top five.
The new generation of Felicity and Rooney became the biggest harvest in 2011, and the rise of Generation Y continued last year; Viola of the Mesozoic Generation, Meryl and Glenn of the older generation, these three are all veterans of the industry, and their absolute strength makes their nomination no suspense.
Overall, there is not much controversy in this list of nominees, except that Tilda-Sinton ("We Need to Talk About Kevin"), Kristen-Dunst ("Melancholiac" ("Melancholiac", and Leila-Hatami ("A Parting" did not make the cut, but it is not too much of a surprise.
Best Actress in a Musical Comedy, Michelle Williams for "My Week with Monroe", Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster for "The Killing", Charlize Theron for "Teens", and Kristen Wiig for "Bridesmaids" were nominated.
This year, the musical comedy department has been generally quiet, with Christine winning the nomination for the box office dark horse "bridesmaids", which is a windfall, and "artist" Berenice-Bejo (Berenice-Bejo) did not declare the leading actress, but chose a supporting actress, and it is not surprising that she is absent from the competition in the department.
In the Best Supporting Actress category, Begenis Bejo for "The Artist", Octavia-Spencer and Jessica Chastain for "Help", Janet-McTeer for "Male and Female", Jennifer Lawrence for "Love Crazy", are prominently listed.
Overall, this year is another typical Hollywood year - the popular movies are all works dominated by male actors, and the competition for actresses is still weaker overall.
Among them, the up-and-coming Jessica Chastain, Rooney Mara, and Felicity Jones undoubtedly attracted everyone's attention.
This is followed by the actor department.
Best Actor in a Drama Series, George Clooney for "The Descendants", Ryan Gosling for "The President's Killing", Michael Fassbender for "Shame", Brad Pitt for "Moneyball", and Lanley Hall for "Love Crazy", managed to occupy five seats.
In this list, Leonardo DiCaprio teamed up with Clint Eastwood to create "Hoover", which suffered an avalanche of word-of-mouth Waterloo, two top Oscar-level superstars, but they couldn't create the effect of "one plus one is greater than two", this work became the worst finished product of the two superstars in the past decade, causing a series of amazements.
Best Actor in a Musical Comedy, Jean Jardin for "The Artist", Lanley Hall for "Me Against Cancer", Owen Wilson for "Midnight in Paris", Brendan Gleason for "The Bad Guard", and Ryan Gosling for "Crazy Stupid Love" will compete head-to-head.
On the whole, there were no surprises among the five nominees, and there were not many surprises among the unsuccessful actors, which can be said to be a decent list of nominees.
The Golden Globes for musical comedies seem to have become a chicken rib, and the attention is getting off track every year — people are obviously more curious about what spoof comedies like "bridesmaids" and "hangovers" can achieve in an arts-oriented awards season, rather than how good the comedians' performances are.
The reason why Jim Carrey is so recognized is because he is the last "artistically recognized comedy master" in the 21st century, and after him, comedians led by Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, and Will Ferrell were almost invisible in the awards season, until Steve Carell's sudden revelation in 2014, which ended the decline of comedians year after year.
This year's five nominees also prove this to some extent, except for Irving Wilson, who is an authentic comedian, the other four nominees are not comedians in the strict sense of the word.
Finally, in the Best Supporting Actor category, Christopher-Plummer for "Beginner", Jonah Hill for "Moneyball", Viggo Mortenson for "Dangerous Methods", Albert-Brooks for "Desperate Driving", and Kenneth Branagh for "My Week with Monroe" were nominated.
Compared with the supporting actress, the supporting actor department is a little quiet, the weight of the entire nomination is weak, the overall quality of the "dangerous method" is limited, the performance of Albert of "Death Driving" can only be said to be average, and Jonah as a new generation of comedians with the nomination of "Moneyball", it is better to say that he is stained with the light of producer Brad Pitt.
The only thing worth affirming is the old drama bone Christopher, a golden actor who has become famous since the sixties, and handed over an award-winning performance for the second year in a row, which is eye-catching.
The entire actor department has received a lot of positive and positive "warriors", and there is no nomination, which is undoubtedly the biggest upset, Joel Edgerton (Joel-Edgerton), Tom Hardy (Tom-Hardy), Nick-Nolte (Nick-Nolte) and other actors have been completely ignored, and they have not been able to replicate the feat of last year's "fighter", which is embarrassing.
In addition, the fact that works such as "Killing", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "The Ultimatum of the Merchants", and "The Tinker, the Tailor, the Soldier, and the Spy" were not received, which can be regarded as a small accident, but not enough to spark discussion.
So, what's worth discussing? Or who's worth discussing? It's not Meryl, who has been nominated for a 17th Golden Globe, or Gen Y actors, who have once again taken the spotlight, but three gentlemen – George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, and Ranley Hall!