The nominations for the 79th Academy Awards, many of the films and filmmakers with international backgrounds in the Oscar nominations show that the once-self-centered Hollywood is increasingly looking global, with many of the nominated films shot outside of the country, telling stories far from the country and exploring themes of international significance such as terrorism, global warming, and the situation of individuals in war and violence.

The three films "Babel", "The Queen" and "Letter from Iwo Jima", which won the first Oscar for Best Picture this year, tell stories that take place outside of the United States. Among the five actors nominated for the Best Actress Award, only Merrill Streep's "The Devil Wears Prada" is a U.S. actor, Judan Dickey's "Diary of a Scandal", Helen Mirren's "Queen" and Kate Winslet's "Being a Mother" are all British actors, and Penelope Cruz's "The Return" is from Spain, and Cruz is also the first actor in the history of the Oscars to be nominated for a Spanish role.

Of the five directors nominated for the Best Director award, "Babel" is directed by Mexican Alejandro Iñárritu, and "The Queen" and "Flight 93" directors Stephen Friers and Paul Greengrass are also British.

As the process of globalization swept the world, Hollywood is obviously trying to change itself, as Iñárritu, who lives in the United States, said, the Hollywood film industry now has some characteristics of globalization: cultural and linguistic barriers no longer exist, cinema has become a way to express emotions and humanity, and has the power to break through geographical and national barriers, Iñárritu's "Babel" tells the story of 4 families in different parts of the world through a chance shooting, revealing the misunderstanding and estrangement caused by the lack of communication among human beings.

The German film "Eavesdropping" was nominated for the best foreign language film, the director of the film, Donnes Mark, said that in the final analysis, film is the real language of communication in the world, not English, French or Spanish, and the Mexican film "Pan's Labyrinth" is also one of the five films nominated for this award, and the film also received five nominations for best original screenplay and best cinematography, second only to "Dream Girl" with nine and "Babel" with seven nominations Nominated for the Best Costume Design Award, it became the only hope for a Chinese-language film to win at this year's Oscars.

While looking at the world, this year's Oscars have blocked one of the most typical Hollywood film companies from important awards, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount's "Dream Girl" was previously quite optimistic, but it failed to win the Best Picture and Best Director nominations, and the company's animated films were wiped out, indicating that the United States animation market has become a competitive position for major film companies, and the three films nominated for the Best Animation Award are Pixar's "Cars", Warner Bros.'s Happy Feet and Sony's Monster House.

Tomorrow, the annual top event in the entertainment industry, the 79th Academy Awards, will be held again at the Kodak Theater,

"Babel" has become a big hit, and it is a strong contender for Best Director and Best Picture in the two heaviest awards.

Among the 5 nominations for Best Picture, "Infernal Affairs", "Babel", "Little Sunshine Beauty", however, according to outside speculation, the biggest suspense for Best Film is that "Infernal Affairs" and "Babel", although many people like "Little Sunshine Beauty" very much, but a family-themed film is not the opponent of the first two to get the depth of the film and the concept expressed in the film.

And "The Departed" as Scorsese's turnaround does surpass his recent two previous works "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator" at all levels, and it will be very suitable for the taste of the academy, but as a remake, having the preconceived notions of the Hong Kong version may have an impact on the eyes of the judges, and in addition, the whole film is full of "Fuck" and other national scoldings may also help some judges divide the votes.

After watching "Babel", it feels like the Mexican-American director has made the most of his ability to combine different stories into one film. Alessandro's first two very good works, "Love is a Son of a Dog" and "21 Grams", may have shocked many people, and this time "Babel" will also very please the judges by using human communication as a philosophical theme of the film, compared to last year's best film "Crash", "Babel" has a broader concept of time and space, and the meaning is more profound. Coupled with the excellent performances of many actors, and the film has already won the Golden Globe Award for Best Feature Film, which is known as the vane of the Oscars, I believe that Alejandro is more likely to return home this time.

However, the only uncertain factor of the film is that the film is similar to last year's best film "Crash", although the subject matter is different, but the two films can be judged to be the same type of film, and Scorsese, who has lost many times, moved out of his most skillful gangster + police theme, therefore, "Infernal Affairs" is also likely to win the award, but I am more optimistic about "Babel".

Among the five nominations for Best Director, in fact, the suspense lies in Scorsese and Alessandro, Alessandro's "Babel" is very similar to the shooting technique of the previous two works, in this skill, I have to admire Alejandro, he has mastered this kind of film has been perfected, but this Scorsese, who is more than twice as old as him, was famous for "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" The famous old Jiang is not casually comparable, Scorsese was quite observant of social films before the 80s, and after the 90s, he paid more attention to gangster-themed movies.

And the old horse, who is familiar with all kinds of films, has recently lost the golden man twice, before "Gangs of New York" was bounced away by Roman Polanski of Poland's "The Pianist", and "The Aviator" was knocked down by the boxing gloves of the 80-year-old cowboy.

Among the Best Actors, Forrester of "Doomsday Dictatorship" is a big favorite, with the identity of the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Feature Film, Forrester defeated his other black brother Will Smith very easily this time, and Xiao Lizi lost two nominations at the Golden Globe Awards with "Blood Diamond" and "Infernal Affairs", and the chances of winning this time are not high.

In terms of Best Actress, the big beauty Penelope, the old drama bone Streep, and Mrs. M Judi Dench are good, but Helen Mirren's performance in "The Queen" is very amazing, and she has been sweeping the awards season, and she is overwhelming the crowd at the Golden Globe Awards, and this time she is generally optimistic.

And the best supporting actor has its own characteristics, Eddie Murphy wants to win the award, because since "Beverly Hills Detective", he has been considered a brother who has "nothing to do with the Oscars all his life", and this time a nomination is a compliment; Alkin, I have to admit that his performance is very skillful, even if the appearance time is not long, but it is the most impressive character in this movie, and the guy has already won the Golden Globe trophy, and the odds are very good.

However, Heath Ledger of "Infernal Affairs" is also very strong, he won the nomination for the actor in the last session, and after a year, he made a comeback, to be honest, he can squeeze Jack Nicholson, an old actor, out of the candidate, which can already show that Heath's strength should not be underestimated, and "Infernal Affairs" , he did leave an impression beyond all the protagonists, and played Colin's very character character very well, and there was no feeling of acting, which can be called a very good performance, although it is also due to the careful training of Lao Ma, but his own plasticity and acting skills are also quite important, although he is twenty-six years old, but if he can break through and win the award, it is not an upset.

In terms of Best Supporting Actress, "Babel" is a double insurance, Andreana Barraza Mexico's actress plays a Mexican female nanny in "Babel", which is also the best role in the whole film, when she cried to the police at the police station in the film, the interpretation of motherhood made people cry involuntarily, some people said that it was also in "Babel" Rinko Kikuchi, a Japanese personality actor with an outstanding performance, will share the ticket with Andreana, but I still support Andreana, Rinko Kikuchi is also very good, and she boldly performs in the film, but the last time a Japanese person was nominated for an Oscar was more than 40 years ago, and the possibility of winning the award is very small.

Her biggest rival at the moment should be Jennifer Hudson in "Dream Girl", the iconic singer's outstanding performance has won her a Golden Globe, but she is still quite young, and I don't think it's enough to compete against the Mexican nanny in terms of the difficulty of the role, and the Oscar judges are relatively unlikely to award her again due to a number of factors.

And the 10-year-old "little beauty" Abigail Breslin was nominated is already a surprise, but this cute little girl's future may be quite promising, here I also want to mention the elf queen Cate Blanchett, her performance is very good, has always been favored by the college, and is nominated professional, but in terms of scenes and performances, Blanchett's performance this time can only be described as good rather than excellent.

As for the other 18 awards, except for people in the industry, who is interested? If you are not interested, there will be no topic and traffic.