The Golden Globe Awards, which have been held for 66 years, are about to usher in its 67th SHO, and this event is undoubtedly the highlight of the awards season, but although there is also a dinner, although there is also a huge red carpet, and a good awards ceremony, but how much gold content of the Golden Globe Awards, which overlaps with the Oscars, has never been mentioned by many people.

So, what is the status of such an old award in the awards season, and how much gold is there?

To put it simply, from December of each year to the end of the Oscars the following year, this period of time is called the North American film awards season, and during this quarter, the major film and film critics' associations in North America will issue hundreds of awards, large and small.

This is the "annual summary" and "annual recognition" of American films, and among these awards, some are association and union awards, which are specifically for "specific jobs", such as the Cinematographers' Guild Award, the Writers Guild Award, the Directors Guild Award, and so on.

There are also various association awards, such as the Chicago Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Journalist Award, the New York Film Critics Award, the Online Film Critics Association Award, the Colored Film Association Award, and so on.

There are many names and varieties of such associations, and in the United States, where the name review is not so strict, the gold content of this kind of award can be imagined.

Many associations have no more than 100 registered members, and among these limited members, there are many "laymen" who are not film-oriented, and the "credibility" of the awards selected by this group of people can be imagined, and among them, there is the Golden Globe Award.

Unlike the Oscars, which take a professional and professional route, the Golden Globe Awards have taken a "peripheral route" since the day they were born.

The organizer of the Golden Globe Awards is the Foreign Correspondents' Association in Hollywood, and if it weren't for the name Golden Globes, this award would have been called the "Foreign Correspondents' Association Awards".

Its members are foreigners working in the American film media. The association has only 96 members, two-thirds of whom are part-time.

In other words, it is also a group of less than 100 people, and nearly 70 of them work in the film media only in their spare time. Therefore, it is very debatable whether their taste and appreciation can really represent the standards of industry insiders.

It is precisely because of this "layman" that there are no technical awards at the Golden Globe Awards, such as best photography, best makeup, best sound and other technical awards.

Or perhaps in order to increase the length of the list of winners, the Golden Globes forcibly split the Best Picture award into two categories: Best Drama Film and Best Cabaret/Comedy Film, and made the same splits and adjustments in Best Actor and Actress.

Before 2003, the Golden Globes were held a few days before the Oscar voting day, and since 2003, the Golden Globes have been held in January every year.

is also because the winners and the Oscars overlap too much, and people generally regard them as the vane of the Oscars, but because the award does not have the influence of the Oscars, it does not have much credibility, so the Golden Globe Awards have always been quite embarrassing, and they have almost become the "chicken ribs" in the awards season.

But Hollywood stars are still flocking to the Golden Globe Awards, how much is behind it?

In the United States, before the Oscars are awarded, there will be PR companies that "lobby" the films of the judges and agents. There are many ways to lobby, including dinners, appointments, and interviews, the purpose of which is to increase the exposure of the film or the star and increase the likelihood of winning the Olympic Award.

Before the Oscars, the Golden Globes were almost the only big awards dinner and televised, so that provided a good PR opportunity for these lobbying firms.

For example, in terms of this year's Oscar schedule, the voting for Oscar nominations will start on January 5 and close on the 13th, while the Golden Globe Awards will be presented on the 8th, which provides a window of time for exposure and public relations. Therefore, the celebrity attending the Golden Globe Awards is an act of drunkards who do not mean to drink.

Secondly, these Hollywood association awards are generally only published in professional publications, such as "Hollywood Reporter" and "Variety", which belong to the kind of awards that "win for nothing".

The Golden Globe Awards have a grand awards dinner, which is also an opportunity for production companies, agents, and actors to make connections and socialize. Therefore, the presentation of the Golden Globe Awards is more like a social party than an awards ceremony.

Finally, compared with the Professional Film Critics Association Awards, the selection team behind the Golden Globe Awards is journalists, which, to a certain extent, represents the media's evaluation of the film.

Moreover, because it is a foreign correspondents' association, it represents a non-ASP (i.e., Caucasian, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant) view outside the mainstream of the United States, which is quite referential.

Therefore, although the Golden Globe Award is not very critical, it is quite important, although its gold content is not high, but the status of the rivers and lakes is still the same.

For ordinary movie fans, the significance of the existence of the Golden Globe Awards is to reduce the difficulty of predicting the Oscars. Because in the past ten years, the overlap rate of the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars is quite high, and the overlap rate in important awards even exceeded 80% at one time.

Especially in terms of acting awards, because of the Golden Globe Awards' dual hero and heroine strategy, the overlap rate with the Oscars has reached 95%.

Song Zheng still remembers that there was a year before he was reborn, it seems that in 2013, the Golden Globe Awards gave full play to the strength of his weather vane. In terms of the overlap of awards this year, only the Best Director award was divided, with Golden Globe giving the director award to Ben Affleck and the Oscar going to Ang Lee, who filmed Life of Pi.

In all the acting awards, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Animated Feature, Best Original Song and Score, the Golden Globe and the Oscars overlap 100%.

The overlap rate of more than 90% of the awards is enough to make the Golden Globe Awards a joke, and the "independence" that the Golden Globe longs for is a very slim expectation.

Therefore, although the organizing committee of the Golden Globe Awards has been trying its best to build its own brand, in fact, after so many years, it still hasn't changed much.

So, is the Golden Globe really the bellwether of the Oscars?

In Song Zheng's view, it is really unfair to the Golden Globe Awards to say this, in fact, the so-called Hollywood-style world film factory, how many films are produced every year is blown out, and like the Chinese film market, the United States also has many movies made every year, but they don't get the opportunity to be released, and in the end they can only be dusted in the warehouse, and only a small part can be released.

In other words, there are only a few good movies every year, and it is inevitable that there will be several awards that overlap, looking at the award-winning works in the past ten years, at least in terms of best film and director, the probability of a movie winning "double yolk eggs" is not very high, only 2 to 3 percent.

According to Song Zheng's impression, the past 10 years may be "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Big Artist", and sometimes the Golden Globe reviews are more in line with his taste, such as Li Yu's "Brokeback Mountain" in 2006 won the Golden Globe Award, but lost to "Crash" at the Oscars, until now, Song Zheng has always believed that "Crash" is not as good as "Brokeback Mountain" at all, and the two movies are not a grade work at all.

Another example is 2011's "The Social Network", which won the Golden Globe by a big win, but the Oscars only won a few nominations and two small awards, and the average age of the Oscar judges is more than 60, which may be difficult to accept this trendy theme.

However, in terms of acting awards, there are more overlaps between the Golden Globe and the Oscar, and a cursory look should be more than 6 percent, so after winning the Golden Globe actor or actress, the Oscar can really think about it.

The Golden Globe Awards will be held a month earlier than the Oscars, if it is reversed, can the Oscars also be called the weather vane of the Golden Globes?

It can be said that one wrong step, one wrong step, if the Golden Globe Awards were born first in Hollywood, then the current status of the Oscars may be very embarrassing.

It's a pity that there is no ifs in the world, the Golden Globe Awards have been held since 1943, and the Oscars are in 1929, and they are born a generation shorter, in the eyes of the public, especially Chinese fans, the Golden Globes seem to be a personal maid of the Oscars, I don't know who said many years ago that "the Golden Globes are the vane of the Oscars", but this positioning is real.

In fact, these two awards are really completely different from each other in terms of selection rules and styles, first of all, from the selection rules, the Oscar is an academy award, its name is Academy Aards, and the judges are all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, most of whom are from the United States.

The Golden Globe Awards are chosen by more than 90 journalists, all of whom are foreign journalists, most of whom come from Europe and Asia, and most of them belong to a non-profit organization called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Why is the Golden Globe Award called "Globe"?

Because its jurors come from all over the world, and this "ball" does not include the United States.

In addition, the Golden Globes have been added to the selection of television awards since 1956, and the Oscars are focused on movies, so it can be said that the Golden Globes can be regarded as a small combination of the Oscars and the Emmys.

And in the design of the awards, the Golden Globe is also very different from the Oscar, first of all, the Golden Globe does not have a "professional award", what editing, art, makeup, photography, are not interested, but it has a soundtrack and song awards, so you can know what the Golden Globe pays more attention to, that is-"audio-visual experience"!

Those reporters who play with the pen don't care about how the creator of a movie is made, but only care about whether the shot is good or not.

And the Golden Globe divides the movie into drama and musical comedy, and even the male and female protagonists are also divided according to this, the Oscars have never been very fond of comedians, but the Golden Globe is not, most fans have to raise their hands and feet in favor of this, why can't comedians be on the stage?

Isn't it a very technical job to make people laugh?

So, comedians who have a huge impact, but are not treated well with the Oscars, obviously prefer the Golden Globe.

In terms of award style, the two awards are even more different, the scene of the Oscars is solemn, everyone is dressed up, and one in the audience of the Kodak Grand Theater is the same as coming to the funeral ceremony, while the scene of the Golden Globe Awards is different, where the stars can show their personalities to their heart's content, and the scene is more like a banquet.

One is the National People's Congress, and the other is a tea party.

The mentality of the stars is also completely different, the Oscars are sitting in danger, although everyone's faces are silent, but the heart of gain and loss is very heavy, after all, if you win the award, life will be different from now on. But the Golden Globes are different, according to Vanity Fair magazine, everyone at the Golden Globes is waiting for an unlimited supply of fine wine to pour a drunken heart.

In fact, the Golden Globe Awards did not start like this, before 1958, the Golden Globes were also very serious, and members of the journalists' association came to the stage to present the awards.

But in 1958, a few people suddenly came to the scene, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin, three male stars with whiskey and cigarettes, they jumped on the stage, grabbed the host's microphone, and made all kinds of jokes.

The awards ceremony, which was disturbed by three male stars, was very popular, and since then, the style of the Golden Globe Awards has been completely changed, and the family-style atmosphere has become the mainstream, and even later, the host can hold a wine glass to host.

The Golden Globe is also an award that is not afraid to kill people, the most typical is Meryl Streep, who has been nominated for the Golden Globe 28 times and won the championship 8 times, and is a well-deserved "King of the Ball".

But in any case, after nearly 70 years, the Golden Globes have accumulated huge influence in Hollywood and the world, although there have been some scandals, but artists, film companies, and media have to buy it, and even in the minds of some people, the status of the Golden Globes is greater than the Oscars.

As one film critic put it: "Although the judges of the Golden Globes are basically fools, they are always more tasteful than the Oscar guys." ”

Song Zheng doesn't care about what status is not status, who is the weather vane of whom, he doesn't care about it, he only cares that the Golden Globe Award is an internationally influential award, and it is enough to push Zhang Jingchu to a new height.

As for himself, although Song Zheng was also nominated for Best Director and Best Drama Actor this time, and "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds" was even nominated for Best Drama Film, Song Zheng himself knew that in the competition for these three awards, he had little hope of winning the award in the end.

Before the award ceremony began, people were unanimously optimistic about "Bomb Disposal Expert" directed by Catherine Bigelow, but if Song Zheng remembered correctly, the final result was that Catherine Bigelow, the bomb disposal aunt who had swept all kinds of awards, suddenly dismantled a dud, which was even more than the accidental explosion of a lethal weapon.

And in the desperate smile of her ex-husband James Cameron to hide his ecstatic smile, people finally know that the Golden Globes, which are increasingly at odds with the Oscars, have reached the invincible realm of only looking at the box office and not looking at acting.

As for Cameron's magic weapon used to sweep this year's Golden Globe Awards, I believe many people have watched "Avatar" one by one.

In the previous life, when "Avatar" was released in China, what kind of shock did it bring to the audience, and how much of a sensation did it cause?

As a veteran movie fan, Song Zheng can be said to remember it vividly.

As soon as the sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar" came out, it quickly hit the global film market with its superb stunts, magnificent scenes, unexpected imagination and "universal values".

What is surprising is that in just 20 days of release, the global box office reached 1.2 billion US dollars, and when it landed in the Chinese market, it swept away more than 1.3 billion box office, becoming the first film in Chinese film history to break 1 billion in the previous life.

When it was released, it even reached the point where it was difficult to find a ticket, comparable to buying tickets for the Spring Festival, the cinema was crowded with people queuing up to buy tickets, the audience was queuing up outdoors at more than ten degrees below zero, and all kinds of scenes appeared frequently in theaters in major cities, and the original ticket price of more than 100 yuan, some people even said that the highest price was 1500 yuan.

If you want to say which scalper is going to pour movie tickets now, no one will believe it, but "Avatar" has created a miracle and made the "movie ticket scalper" reappear.

From the initial 100 yuan, it was sold to 600 yuan by scalpers, and the ticket price of "Avatar" has soared with its popularity, and it has even been fried to 1,500 yuan on the shopping network.

However, for this astronomical figure, the vast majority of fans expressed disbelief. 1500 yuan, maybe no one will really buy it, it's just a beautiful legend, but the sensational effect of "Avatar" can be seen from this.

Whether it is a ticket price of a few hundred yuan or a queue of several hours, it cannot stop people's enthusiasm for watching "Avatar", and all fans who watched the film expressed their appreciation for this movie.

Have you watched Avatar?

Did you get a ticket?

Is it the IMAX-3D version?

In the streets and alleys, you can hear people talking about this amazing film all the time. Major post bars and forums, you can see the "Avatar" movie viewing manual summarized by everyone, and the most exaggerated thing is that even the best toilet time to watch "Avatar" has a detailed analysis in minutes and seconds.

Even to the point that you are out without watching "Avatar", after watching it once, some viewers feel that it is not enjoyable, and they have to watch it twice, three, or even four.

The influence brought by "Avatar", the feeling of being born out of nowhere, is like Apple's birth in the mobile phone industry in the future!

and Cameron's "Avatar", even if you can't say that eggs touch stones, there is basically not much chance of winning.

So, from the very beginning, Song Zheng's eyes were only on the best drama actress that Zhang Jingchu was competing for, and this time her opponents were not very strong, Emily Blunt "Young Victoria", Sandra Bullock "Weakness", Carey Mulligan "Growing Up" and Gabrie Stiby "True Love".

Song Zheng didn't know who won this award in his previous life, but after coming to the United States, Song Zheng deliberately watched these movies, especially paying attention to the performance of the heroines in them, and finally came to the conclusion that Zhang Jingchu had a great chance.