"In the last episode, I introduced you to the Oscars, and today I will mainly talk about the awards season. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Shen Lin's face changed in seconds and began to enter the state of program recording.

In fact, Hollywood's awards season has a narrow and broad sense. In a narrow sense, it is the general concept of the Oscar awards season, which refers to the various film awards awarded from the end of November to February of the following year, in addition to the final finale of the Oscars, it can also be divided into three categories: one is the major film critics association awards in New York, Los Angeles and other major categories; The second category is the Guild Association Award for film practitioners such as the Directors Guild, the Actors Guild, and the Producers Guild; The three categories are the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the Golden Satellite Awards, the Annie Awards, and other awards.

Broadly speaking, the awards season is even larger, and various awards events and festivals can be incorporated into the Toronto Film Festival in September, the Fantastic Film Festival in Austin, Texas, and the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.

In the early selection of the Oscars, there was no concept of the so-called awards season, and only a few awards that had an impact on the Oscars, such as the Golden Globe Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Awards, were important foreshadowing. However, after entering the 90s of the last century, major cities in North America also launched their own film critics association awards, and basically chose to award awards between December and early January every year, with more than 40 awards.

At the same time, Hollywood studios and practitioners are increasingly chasing the Oscars, and their influence and the number of awards they have won in this year's awards season will become important indicators for the Oscars.

The ups and downs and gains experienced by an Oscar winner from the beginning of the awards season to the moment he finally stepped onto the Oscar podium are called "Oscar Road" by fans.

Chronologically, the first hurdle of the awards season is the Critics Award.

Today, there are more than 40 film critic awards, large and small, covering almost every major city in North America. If it can get its ensuing recognition, it is enough to make a filmmaker who was initially demoralized make a final reversal.

To take the simplest example, the Best Director option of this Critics Awards focuses on the battle between David Fincher and Tom Hopper in the Best Director award, which has also become the main thread throughout this awards season.

Although there are winners in the history of the Oscars like Sandra Bullock and Marcia Gay Harden who have not won critics' awards, there are more favorites like Helen Mirren and Daniel Day-Lewis who have swept the awards season.

Let's talk about the most prestigious of the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Awards, and the Boston Film Critics Circle Awards, which have sprung up in recent years.

The New York Film Critics Circle Award, the oldest film critics association in North America, was founded in 1935! Focusing on artistry and encouraging avant-garde, and it favors Chinese-language films, Lao Mouzi's "The Red Lantern Hangs High" and Kai Ge's "Farewell My Concubine" have won the Best Foreign Language Film Award from the New York Film Critics Association, and Chinese films have won the award 13 times so far, of which Christopher Doyle has won 3 times.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association began awarding awards in 1975, and although it is not very long, it has quickly become an important outpost of the Oscars because of its important geographical location in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association focuses on breakthrough commercial blockbusters, such as "Star Wars" and "E.T. the Alien", which have won awards, and Chinese films are also loved by the association, winning 16 times, of which Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is the most popular, winning five awards in 2000.

Founded in 1980, the Boston Film Critics Association Awards, although far inferior to the New York old-timers in terms of "qualifications", stand out from the film critics awards for its unique taste and high hit rate for the Oscars. In the association's earliest awards, the importance of "Raging Bull" and the Brazilian film "Street Boy" once aroused doubts from the outside world, but looking back later, no one praised its insight.

The Boston Film Critics Association also led others in promoting foreign language films in the early years, and "Night in San Lorenzo" and "Chaos" all won the best picture directly, laying a solid foundation for their subsequent Oscar road.

It is also worth mentioning that when Ang Lee's first English-language film "Sense and Sensibility" competed for the Oscars, the association's awards added a lot of impression points to him, and later "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Brokeback Mountain" also won many awards from the association. ”

"The second one we're talking about is the Oscars, the Golden Globes, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, the BAFTA Awards, and the three guild awards. Being nominated by these three is also likely to be nominated for the Oscars, and the most favored in the weather vane awards is of course more justified to be the ultimate winner of the Oscars. Judging from the impact of the awards season on filmmakers in recent years, people have extended their expectations from focusing on the results to the number of nominations. After all, if you can enter the final list of Oscar nominees, this glory is enough for a filmmaker to be recognized as an important part of Hollywood. “

"The Golden Globes, which everyone is familiar with, are regarded as the second largest award after the Oscars throughout the awards season, and the selection of the awards is set to distinguish between drama and musical comedy, which has benefited many actors. But in recent years, the Oscars have changed the timing of the nominations, which has shaken its importance.

A recent example of the award as an Oscar vane is that in 2010, Sandra Bullock, the heroine of "Weakness", won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress without a critic's award, and finally completed the counterattack on the Oscars. ”

"The other two awards, I guess everyone is not very interested, I will casually say, the Radio Film Critics Association Awards was founded in 1995, by the United States and Canada 199 television and radio stations jointly founded film review organization, is also the largest film review organization in North America, every year the awards ceremony will invite many big-name stars to participate, the excitement is not inferior to the Golden Globe Awards. Of course, there are still some deficiencies in terms of influence. ”

"The British Academy Film Awards, also known as the British Oscars, was founded in 1947 and is held on February 25 every year. It merged with the Institute of Film Producers and Directors in 1959 and became the Film and Television Institute, and in 1975 it was renamed the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. It has had a very high percentage of Oscar upsets, such as Nicole Kidman and Marion Cotillard in 2003 and 2008 respectively, both of whom have reversed themselves without being favored by the outside world. In particular, Marion Cotillard, just relying on the blessing of the award, defeated Julie Christie, who had won the awards season before, at the Oscars, and broke a big upset. ”