Best Visuals, Best Sound, Best Sound Editing, Best Cinematography.

After officially entering the technical department, "Gravity" gradually showed the strong strength of the number one favorite in the nomination stage, winning four statuettes in a row, faintly making people feel the extraordinary advantages of "Titanic" and "Avatar" that year, but in the end, "Gravity" can become "Titanic" or "Avatar"? Unconsciously, the Oscar competition for Best Picture has quietly entered the second half!

Surprisingly, "The Great Gatsby" became the biggest winner of the first half of tonight's awards ceremony with two statuettes, because both trophies were won from the hands of "American Hustle" and "Twelve Years of Slavery", such a feat is even more powerful and exciting than "Gravity", which won four trophies in a row!

After the list of nominees was released, the awards season entered the second stage, and the "Twelve Years of Slavery" featuring the race card and the "American Hustle" focusing on the American dream gradually gained the upper hand in this college public relations game.

But on the whole, the main battlefield of the three works is slightly different.

The strength of "gravity" lies in the technical department, and this year's awards season can be said to be almost unrivaled. Whether it can take advantage of the best picture race is undoubtedly crucial for the technical department, and once the technical department is eaten away by competitors, then the best picture is a luxury.

Therefore, Warner Bros. has always been unswerving in the process of college public relations, focusing on the technical card, speaking with absolute strength, and fighting a bloody way, while the other two competitors have played the emotional card, carrying out public relations work like lobbyists, which may soar or fail.

The advantage of "12 Years a Slave" and "American Hustle" lies in the acting department and the script department, the number of nominations for the two works is nine and ten respectively, "American Hustle" only has one more nomination for Best Actress than "12 Years a Slave", and among the other nine categories, the nomination department of the two works overlaps by eight, the only exception is the script, "12 Years a Slave" is an adapted screenplay, and "American Hustle" is an original screenplay.

All this means that the two works will start a head-to-head duel with bayonets. The outcome of each project may determine the direction of the best picture, and the outcome of each award may determine the pattern of the entire awards season, but there are subtle differences

"12 Years a Slave", which focuses on the race card, may have more impact in the acting department, because the actor's charisma can often win more votes, while the "American Hustle", which focuses on the American dream, is slightly weaker, although their acting department is the strongest, and all four departments are full, but the public relations situation is still slightly thin without the foothold of "race".

Relatively speaking, "American Hustle" has a slight advantage in the technical department, and the sense of the times presented by the whole work is undoubtedly one of the biggest attractions of the film, each character has its own characteristics, making the screen image jump on the paper, and many topics have been created during the filming stage.

Therefore, the Best Costume Design Award and the Best Art Direction Award are definitely not just two technical department awards for "American Hustle", but also an outpost of the best picture, which opens up the situation for the follow-up acting department and the script department, and is also a small summary of the second phase of the college's public relations.

But now, the "American Hustle" has lost in the competition for two awards in a row, and it is not lost to "Gravity" and "Twelve Years of Slavery", but to "The Great Gatsby", which is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the "American Hustle" crew, and the second phase of the academy's PR does not seem to have been able to play a role.

Although the two competitors were not able to win these two awards, which is barely good news, it is undeniable that the powerful momentum of "American Hustle" is gradually weakening, and then the "American Hoax" crew ushered in the most important award.

Best Supporting Actress!

In between the technical awards, a number of other awards, including honorable mentions, were awarded

The best animated short film goes to "Mr. Habloh", and the best animated feature film goes to "Frozen".

The best documentary broke out a small upset, the popular work "Kill/Kill/Interpret" unfortunately fell, and "Twenty Feet from the Superstar" won the little golden man.

The fierce competition for best foreign language film has become a "beautiful city", and this film, which has been highly praised since last year's Cannes Film Festival, won the Oscar without suspense.

A number of awards have been announced, although there are still three major events in the technical department that have not been awarded: Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song, but now it is time to get the audience's attention back on track to the awards ceremony, and the award of Best Supporting Actress has officially sounded the whistle in the sprint stage of the Best Picture race, which also means that this year's awards ceremony has entered the final stage.

In fact, Best Supporting Actress can be said to be a battleground for soldiers! Especially for the "American hoax".

In the Best Actor category, "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Gravity" are the protagonists, "Twelve Years a Slave" waits for an opportunity, and "American Scam" has limited advantages.

In the Best Actress category, "Blue Jasmine" led the way strongly, followed by "Philomena" and "American Hustle".

There is also the Best Supporting Actor department that has already revealed the answer, the head-to-head competition between "Dallas Buyers Club" and "American Hustle", and in the end it was Jared Leto who continued the momentum of the awards season and topped the Oscars in one go.

In other words, although "American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave" have strong strength in the acting department, and each award seems to have the strength to compete, on the one hand, it is limited by the university's public relations power, and on the other hand, the strength of the competitors is strong, which also makes the best supporting actress department that can really compete strongly between the two works!

Lupita Nyong'o for "12 Years a Slave", Jennifer Lawrence for "American Hustle", Julia Roberts for "August: Osage County", Rooney Mara for "Gravity", Carey Mulligan for "Drunken Country Folk"

This is the top five contestants for Best Supporting Actress.

In terms of pure strength, Julia Roberts leads the way, and it has been 14 years since she last won the Oscar, and she is now fully capable of winning the award, but unfortunately, the overall reputation and level of "August: Osage County" has not been recognized, despite the strong operation of the Weinstein brothers, it has still not been able to open up the situation, coupled with the strength of competitors, Julia's winning prospects are not optimistic.

And the weaker Carey Mulligan also fell behind early, despite the "drunken country ballad" It became the favorite of countless art practitioners in 2013, but this work has never really risen in the awards season, and after winning six nominations in the first stage, the momentum is slowly declining, especially the loss of the Best Actor nomination, which proves that this work is not suitable for the soil, which was also selected by the American Film Critics Association as one of the biggest regrets of this year's Oscars, everything made Carey's Oscar prospects come to an early halt.

As a result, the competitive landscape has once again come to the troika.

This is not the first time that the three films have gone head-to-head tonight, after all three films won nominations on top of the Best Art Direction Award but lost to "The Great Gatsby", and this time for the Best Supporting Actress award, the strength of the three works is the closest, and the competition is also the fiercest.

Judging from the reputation of the industry, the strength is Rooney Mara's lead, although her performance time in "Gravity" is limited, but her performance is gentle and powerful, and the spark role between her and Lan Li has injected a wonderful and unique traction, laying the foundation for the sublimation of the core idea of the whole movie. Among the five nominees, Rooney's overall performance was second only to Julia, earning a round of applause in the industry.

Judging from the popularity of the academy, Jennifer Lawrence is still a well-deserved darling, compared to the arrogant, indifferent, critical and demanding Natalie Portman, the approachable, hearty and bright Jennifer is obviously more down-to-earth, not only has no shelf, but is also easier to contact and socialize, and now among the academy judges, she seems to be the first of the new generation of actresses, as evidenced by three nominations in four years.

From the perspective of the college's public relations, Lupita Nyong'o has seized the commanding heights. Although this is her acting debut, although the retro performance style full of stage drama is incompatible with Michael Fassbinder, Chiwett Ejiofor and other co-actors, and although black actor Octavia Spencer just won the Best Supporting Actress award two years ago, all these shortcomings can't stop her from the momentum of the awards season, and all the advantages of "race/race/brand" are concentrated in her, and she fully exploded in the second stage of the awards season and became a leader.

The three actresses form a triumvirate, each with its own strengths, and the momentum of winning the award has also changed wonderfully as the awards season progresses.

Rooney-Mara has won the British Academy Award, as well as the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Boston Film Critics Circle Award, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award, and the Chicago Film Critics Circle Award.

Jennifer Lawrence has won the Golden Globe Award, the North American Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, the National Board of Review Award, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and the Seattle Film Critics Association Award.

Lupita Nyong'o won the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

According to common sense, the first stage is the two-person turn of Jennifer and Rooney, obviously Jennifer is slightly better, under the strong public relations of the Weinstein brothers, although Jennifer just topped the Best Actress last year, but this year's momentum to win Best Supporting Actress again is unstoppable, and Rooney's momentum is gradually weakening;

Now, there is no way to predict things.