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In mid-March, with the upcoming Academy Awards, Hollywood entertainment media newspapers and magazines have given great coverage.

There is no need to say more about the status of the Oscars, the annual Oscars are a grand event in the global entertainment industry, and its influence is so great that even ordinary Chinese are familiar with this name. However, why is this award called "Oscar", what kind of films can participate in the competition of the Golden Man, and who and what kind of selection process is the final nomination and award-winning film selected? The answers to these questions are not only an intriguing and interesting historical anecdote to the Hollywood industry and the Oscars, but also an entry point for foreign audiences to get a glimpse of the professionalism and democratic spirit of American film practitioners.

During the filming process, Chen Tiandu only paid a certain amount of attention to this year's Oscars, yes, only a certain amount of attention.

Not wanting to be distracted is one thing.

He was only a few days happy when he received an invitation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when he was nominated for his first film.

Even after doing a certain amount of public relations and having four Oscar nominations, he is not sure of winning the award. knows that most of his Oscars this year are going to be a foil for people in the past, and in the future, a once popular phrase, he is going to play soy sauce!

As the highest award in the American film industry, being able to win the Oscar is a supreme honor in the eyes of most filmmakers. However, as with all awards, there is no absolute fairness at all, and there are a number of unspoken rules that have always been undercurrent.

Many filmmakers' attitudes towards the Oscars are both love and hate, some are eager to do it, some are disdainful, and of course, there is no lack of sour grapes. However, the vast majority of filmmakers still tend to identify with and praise the Oscars in their posture, after all, it is an interaction between peers.

However, there are always some mavericks who turn a deaf ear to the olive branch thrown by the academy and completely oppose the Oscars.

Playwright Dudley Nichols was the first person to decline an Oscar. In 1935, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay that year for "The Informer", but just before the Oscars, the Hollywood Writers Guild was on strike, and as one of them, Nichols resolutely refused to accept the Oscar.

In 1971, George C. Scott won the Oscar for the role of Patton in "General Patton". As an outlier among Hollywood actors, Scott is "proud of the cranes in the flock", he is tired of the competition for fame and fortune in the film industry, and has repeatedly and harshly counted the Oscars as "a wonderful competition in the slaughterhouse" and "a two-hour meat parade", refusing to be nominated by his peers.

And this time, after receiving the notice of the college's invitation to attend the awards ceremony, Scott chose to stay at home to watch the hockey game on Oscar night.

In 1973, Marlon Brando, who won the best actor for "The Godfather", was absent from the awards ceremony, but specially sent an Indian girl to attend the conference instead of him. At first it was thought that he was asking the little girl to accept the award on his behalf, "Marlon Brando is very sorry that he cannot accept this very generous award." However, after listening to the little girl's opening remarks and the speech that followed to protest the discrimination of Native Americans in film and television productions, people suddenly realized that Brando had slapped Hollywood in the face again.

And so on.

There is no way, if you don't get involved in this circle, you can't understand its details, insider and unspoken rules.

Even though the academy has set seemingly strict and fair selection rules, in the eyes of fame-seeking studios, there are no impermeable walls. They first scrambled to place dozens of pages of ads in two Hollywood trade publications, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. However, the effect of advertising is only to promote the film in the public sphere, and in order to actually win the award, it must start with the members of the academy who have the votes in hand.

Since the establishment of the academy, grabbing a seat on the jury has become the most effective way for major film companies to win academy awards. Under the joint influence of Meyer and Van Punk, almost all of the awards for Best Picture at the first ten Oscars were won by MGM. After MGM's decline, there is always an undercurrent behind the selection of Best Picture at each Oscar.

Over the past few days, he has gradually learned some of the Oscar insiders, what types of movies the academy likes, and how those judges vote.

Unlike Cannes, Venice, Berlin and other film festivals that have competition units, the judges of the Oscars have been fixed for a long time and have a large number of people, and the full members of the American Academy of Motion Pictures and a few honorary members and alternate members are all "judges" who have the right to vote for the Oscars, on the contrary, most film festivals are judged by seven or eight different guest judges who change every year (and the chairman of the jury generally has a higher voting weight).

In other words, the Oscars are similar to the popular vote of the American film industry, while the awards of the three major European film festivals are divided by the nobility from the top down.

When the Academy of Film Arts was first founded, in addition to the 36 founders such as Meyer and Van Punk, about 350 people entered the circle of judges, and they were basically film practitioners of various types of work. With the expansion of the Oscar's influence and selection, more and more people from all walks of life have joined the team of college judges. However, the invitation-only academy does not disclose the list of specific members and information, so the detailed list of Oscar judges has never been disclosed.

According to a public and detailed statistic in 1997, there were 5,371 members (basically full members) of the Academy, including 1,380 actors, 450 producers, 417 screenwriters, 413 sound engineers, 397 honorary members, 354 feature film directors, 352 artists, 346 journalists, 315 animation and short film directors, 253 soundtrack artists, 225 editors, 161 photographers, and 154 stuntmen. The remaining 154 members (judges) are mostly the leaders of major studios, as well as well-known lawyers, bankers and wealthy businessmen with close ties to Hollywood.

At the same time, in order to ensure the stability of the results of each year's selection, the college is also controlling the growth of the number of judges.

It is said that it is 6000, but in fact, there is no such number at all. And how many of these judges are still engaged in the film industry, and it is unknown who maintain the habit of watching movies. Not all of the nominated films are watched every day, but they still have the right to vote.

The first step in the selection of an Oscar is the nomination.

Each branch of the college lists the list of films that are eligible to participate in the selection of the major (that is, the actor branch selects the performance award, the director branch selects the director award, and the photographer branch chooses the photography award), which is checked by each studio, and each branch formulates the selection rules for the professional award and reports it to the college council for approval.

Then, members of each chapter will select the five films or individuals with the most votes by secret ballot, which is usually announced one month before the awards ceremony.

After the list of nominees is determined, it is time for the final vote for the awards. Each member of the Academy can only vote twice, and in addition to the fixed one vote for the best film, the other vote is for the award related to his or her profession (for example, the director committee members can only vote for the best director award, and the four categories of performance awards can only be selected by actors).

The whole voting process is similar to a one-person-one-vote democratic election, and the whole process adopts a closed vote. The invoicing and statistics were carried out by a third-party accounting firm appointed by the Academy (PwC has been responsible for more than 70 years), and the final result was the most suspenseful suspense, sealed in envelopes under the notarization of a notary public, waiting to be announced at the award ceremony.

It seems to be very fair, but in fact, there are too many doorways secretly. The judges, mostly American, and mostly old, like a nostalgic, stubborn style, and have been ridiculed countless times by the Hollywood media.

Therefore, this year's "Shakespeare in Love" and "Saving Private Ryan" are the biggest hits, while the horror film "The Sixth Sense" is still not favored even if it has four nominations.

As the first film to be shortlisted for four Oscars, Chen Tiandu is still very concerned. Many people wanted to interview him, including CCTV's invitation again after the Golden Globe Awards, but this time he chose to refuse all of them on the grounds that he was "making a movie and didn't want to be distracted." ”

He knew that he was probably a soy sauce player, and he could see it, so when the nomination was announced, he just went out drinking with a few friends. Chen Tiandu has always believed that the media are all high-end black, and if he really accepts an interview with the media now, when the Oscars are announced, he will not win a single award. He has no doubt that the media that is now chasing him will talk about the Academy Awards and find out about him.

Another important reason is that filmmakers are proud, "Is the best picture really the best?" ”

In addition to the mainstream values of the American Puritan white society and the long-term fermentation of traditional rules such as the balance between commerciality and artistry, the American-style pervasive marketing promotion and the black-box operation of "common human nature" are also self-evident unspoken rules.

He could only say, "Hehe, Wen Wu is the first!" ”

"Forget it, don't talk about it."

According to the current progress, it is not surprising that the scenes in the matrix space can be completed in three days, and the scenes inside the spaceship are even simpler, he can complete them in ten days, and then it will be when the film is officially finished.

Because this film not only needs to use computer special effects, but post-editing is also a top priority. Therefore, he plans to set aside half a month or even longer for the later production and advertising. The shooting was smooth, and it was a little difficult for him to be unhappy.

Of course, he has another good mood, "The Sixth Sense" was finally released in China, and it is said that the box office is not bad, and the products are like a tide. Although it can't compare to "Saving Private Ryan", it is conservatively estimated that it should have a look of 50 million yuan.

He is in China, and he finally has the first batch of fans.