From the Emmy Awards to Toronto, from Telluride to Sundance, from "Pacific War" to "Buried Alive" to "Love is Crazy", in just half a year, Lan Li completed an incredible triple jump, like a comet hitting the earth, with a dazzling and dazzling attitude, in a wave of praise, the first Oscar nomination of his career, in the bag!

At this time, Lan Li was only twenty-one years old. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When people re-browse the list of nominees for this year's Oscars, they find that the collective advantage of "Generation Y" has arrived, but it is far from being so strong as the media has rendered.

Fourteen-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, twenty-year-old Jennifer Lawrence, thirty-year-old Michelle Williams, twenty-nine-year-old Natalie Portman, these are the four nominees in the actress department.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jesse Katzenberg, twenty-one-year-old Ranley Hall, these are the two nominees in the actor department.

Of the 20 nominations for the lead and supporting roles, "Generation Y" occupies six seats. Such momentum has created the best record in the 21st century, but it is still slightly inferior to the Ballon d'Or.

Even the actress department is no exception.

In the supporting actress department, which has always liked to reward young actresses, only Hailey was the only one who was shortlisted, and the average age of the actress department was 37 years old, not to mention, three actresses under the age of 30 could win nominations this year, which is already the lowest average age in the past decade.

Then, the actor with an average age of forty-three years old, and the supporting actor who has been reduced to a nursing home, not to mention. After entering the list of Oscar nominees, only two "Generation Y" actors appeared on the list, which is a far cry from the strong momentum that has been used throughout the awards season.

It's like a pot of boiling water spilled into a thick layer of snow. This result is really disappointing.

In fact, for true professionals, it is not at all strange, and even takes it for granted, and is completely expected.

Where there are people, there are tendencies, even the Oscars are no exception, with more than 6,000 college judges, the Oscars have been as fair and authoritative as possible, but bias is still inevitable. The Oscars, after all, are still an awards ceremony that belongs to Hollywood.

Historically, the controversy over the Oscars has never stopped.

For example, white people are the dominant part, and minorities represented by blacks, Latinos, and Asians have always been disadvantaged, not to mention that there are still no Chinese Americans who have won nominations in major departments.

Another example is that women are at an absolute disadvantage, and the dilemma of no female director in history winning the Best Director Award did not end until 2010.

For example, young actors are almost ignored and the nomination stage is extremely difficult, and when it is the turn of actresses, it is the older practitioners who face a similar dilemma, even if they are strong.

Soon after, in 2012, after the "artist" won the Oscar for Best Picture in a controversial manner, the academy awarded the best picture to the works that were conservative and introverted, unstable and pay tribute to the golden age for two consecutive years, which caused a frenzy of public skepticism, disappointment with the Oscars, and even caused complaints from many practitioners in the industry.

Against this backdrop, the Los Angeles Times stepped forward and conducted a professional investigation.

Only then did people find out that in fact, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has never officially announced the specific list of its members, because the membership is lifelong, so there are not a few members who are no longer in the film industry, and there are many nannies, bookstore owners and retired peacekeepers among the voters, which is ironic.

The Los Angeles Times went deep into the industry, through telephone, email, subscriptions to "Variety" and "The Hollywood Reporter", and also read Oscar publications, resumes and autobiographies, etc., and sent a large number of reporters to conduct in-depth interviews, and finally confirmed the true identities of more than 5,100 judges.

After the statistics ended, the results caused a shock in the media, and for the first time, people got a glimpse of the truth about the Oscars.

According to calculations, the average age of the Oscar jury is 62 years old, with only 2 percent of the judges younger than 40 years old, and 54 percent of the judges over 60 years old. Among them, there are also hundreds of members of the academy who have not participated in the production of a single film or television for more than twenty or even thirty years.

In addition, the college has a total of 15 chapters, actors, screenwriters, directors, producers, photographers, etc.

First, by race and color, some chapters are almost entirely white male. In every chapter, the percentage of whites is over 90 percent, with the exception of the actors' section, where the percentage is 88 percent. Ninety-eight percent of the members in the executive branch are white.

Secondly, in terms of gender, in the main selection departments of the Oscars, all of which are more than 90 percent male, except for the actors' chapters, and even more frighteningly, the academy has a total of 43 board members, with only six women and only one member of color.

Of course, this is a matter of history, after all, the Oscars have come to the eighty-third, and before the eighties, the historical status of blacks and women also determined the basis of the academy members, not to mention the completely ignored Asians. Over the past decade, the Academy has begun to consciously absorb new talent to increase the diversity of the Oscar jury.

For example, Zhang/Zi/Yi opened the American market in 2000 with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and later contributed several good works, and even almost won the Best Actress nomination for "Yi/Yi/Memoir" at one point, although she finally missed out, she was still invited to be a member of the academy judges.

Since 2004, the Academy has been publishing the list of people who have been invited to join, but they will not announce who has joined or who has declined.

After 10 years of precipitation, the composition of the academy's jury has changed slightly, with 89 percent white and 73 percent male. However, ethnic minorities and women are still vulnerable.

The nature of the members is single, which in turn leads to a single perspective and a single point of view, which also makes the Oscar awards trend every year traceable, and then there are "little gold man snipers" like the Weinstein brothers.

In 2005, it is not surprising that "Brokeback Mountain" lost to "Crash", and it is not surprising that only four female directors have won nominations for best director so far, and this year, it is not surprising that all of the 20 seats in the actor department and five seats in the director department are all white, and black people are collectively absent.

Every once in a while, the Oscars will face accusations of "too white", or bold and innovative works such as "social networks" will be cold, which are all traceable, and changing history cannot be done by relying on the power of one work alone. Even though the Oscar is currently the world's highest-profile and most authoritative award ceremony, it does not mean that it is the most fair, it still has its own attributes.

This year is no exception.

The so-called Generation Y refers to the generation born from 1977 to 1990, so the oldest is only thirty-three years old, and in the eyes of the judges with an average age of sixty-two, they are just children and grandchildren, such as fourteen-year-old Hailey, who are all granddaughters.

They will always think that these actors can still be polished and polished, these actors still have a lot of time to grow slowly, these actors are far from becoming the pillars, these actors still need to continue to prove themselves, these actors do not deserve to be recognized by the Oscars, these actors still need to learn hard behind them.

As a result, only four actresses and two male actors won the nomination. This is the Oscar.

Among them, Michelle and Natalie, who had already proven themselves, won the nomination again and successfully gained a firm foothold in the hearts of the academy judges, while Hayley and Jesse more or less benefited from the strength of their works and received more attention.

However, Jennifer and Lan Li are different.

These two actors almost didn't get any bonus advantages, and they completely relied on their own strength to fight their way out of the way, especially the two actors who are only 20 and 21 years old respectively, as if they are also actors of the "Sun" generation, can overcome all unfavorable conditions and get nominations, which is really commendable, enough to make people stand up and ovate!

The 2010 awards season, which was divided into two distinct regions with the announcement of the Oscar nominees, suddenly began to change.

Especially in the Best Actor department, which was originally surrounded by young people to suppress Colin Firth, has now become evenly matched, with three old actors against two young forces, and the form immediately becomes playful.

In addition to Colin, the other four candidates have suddenly increased their winning momentum, Jeff and Javier's threat from Colin cannot be underestimated; Jesse, who is holding the sword of "social networking", has always been a strong candidate, and no one knows whether the film will achieve a counterattack in the next month and a half;

It is worth mentioning that Focus Pictures has suffered heavy losses in the nomination stage, "The Children Are Fine" only received four nominations, Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, all the advantages have been left behind, and "Buried Alive" was alone in the Best Actor competition, and other departments have no chance at all.

In such a situation, Focus Pictures focused on the competition for Best Actress and Best Actor, and all public relations resources began to tilt here, whether it is Annette or Lan Li, they all have their own disadvantages, but they also have obvious advantages, and it is not yet known who will die.

This year's awards season is entering the second stage with a bang!