The 78th Oscars announced the list of nominees, "Brokeback Mountain" continued the leading momentum of the entire awards season, received eight nominations, defended the honor of its top seed, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and other six main categories of nominations, clearly proving the strength and excellence of the comprehensive strength of this work, and was unanimously praised, although the lack of Best Film Editing nominations, which cast a shadow on the film's Oscar prospects, But the nominations for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score were the icing on the cake and truly made history. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Regardless of the final Oscar results, "Brokeback Mountain" has already made history, and it is the first work in film history to win such praise for a gay film - although the 1993 "Philadelphia Story" is also a gay story, but it focuses more on human rights and the law than on gay themes, Tom Hanks won the Oscar for this work, but the work as a whole, let alone the nomination for Best Picture, even the nomination for Best Director was not shortlisted.

The birth of "Brokeback Mountain" is an important node in history, and when people look back on this moment ten years later, they will understand the artistic value and social value of this film work.

Like "Brokeback Mountain", "Fruit Hard Candy" is also creating its own history, in the history of the Oscars, there are not a few black comedies that have won Oscar nominations and even statuettes, but even the pioneering work of film noir "Sunset Boulevard" has been recognized by time, and it only won the award of the best adapted screenplay in one major department at the Oscars, as well as the best art direction and the best soundtrack. It can be seen from this that film noir is not satisfied with the Oscars, which have always upheld the optimistic, positive and bright American dream.

But now, "Fruit Hard Candy" has the strength to impact awards in many major departments, and even competes with "Brokeback Mountain", which is really incredible. On top of that, "Hard Candy" is not just a film noir, but a limited sketch independent film, and with a measly $900,000 investment – even "Sunset Boulevard" cost $1.8 million when it was filmed in 1960 – it's like a fairy tale that one of the biggest hits in this year's Oscars, a work that the Academy simply dismisses, a work that Hollywood won't even notice, has become one of the biggest favorites at this year's Oscars.

If "Hard Fruit Candy" wins, the historical significance for film noir and independent cinema should not be underestimated. Judging by the list of nominations, this possibility not only exists, but is not small.

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Effects, a total of seven nominations!

Compared with "Brokeback Mountain", "Fruit Hard Candy" is not lagging behind at all, although it lacks the other three nominations in the acting department, but this is because "Fruit Hard Candy" only has two main actors participating, and there is no possibility of competition at all; Instead, the recognition of Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography, two departments that are arguably the focus of the technical department, makes "Hard Candy" the only entry to be nominated in all core categories this year.

"Brokeback Mountain" and "Capote" were absent from the award for Best Film Editing, "Munich Tragedy" was absent from the acting department, and "Crash" was missing the award for Best Cinematography.

Who would have thought that after the list of nominees was announced, "Fruit Hard Candy" would actually become the frontrunner of this year's Oscars?

Strictly speaking, "Crash" has a tendency to catch up and compete with "Fruit Hard Candy". This work that has "participated" in the awards season for two consecutive years has fought a vigorous turnaround battle, successfully winning six nominations at the Oscars, closely following "Brokeback Mountain" and "Fruit Hard Candy", and these six nominations are all focused on the blade, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Song.

Although "Crash" was not able to occupy a nomination spot in the Best Cinematography Award, it was actually harmless, and the Best Cinematography Award was not the winner of the final pattern. On the contrary, "Crash" is the same as "Hard Candy", the director, actors, script, and editing departments all won the nominations, plus the producer department, that is, the best picture, all of them were missing. In terms of the efficiency and quality of nominations, "Crash" is even slightly better than "Fruit Hard Candy".

Judging from the current situation, the competition between "Fruit Hard Candy" and "Brokeback Mountain" will be the main theme, but unexpectedly, "Crash" has quietly possessed the ability to disrupt the situation, which makes the direction of Best Picture more and more confusing. Don't forget, there is still the "Munich tragedy" that no one can forget.

The Munich Massacre, led by Steven Spielberg, is an opponent to be reckoned with at all times, and the fact that five places have been awarded to the nominees is proof of this. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and "Crash" were all successfully shortlisted in the main categories, which means that Steven's appeal will become a ticking time bomb - just like the nomination stage, even if the overall strength of the work is slightly lower, people are still willing to vote for Steven.

In addition, those who ignore "Capote" also sound the alarm, the five nominations prove the degree of recognition of this work within the academy, and the super high quality of the five nominations is even more eye-catching, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, which reminds people of the "Mystic River" two years ago, maybe it does not have the strength to hit the best picture, but every department has the strength to cause an upset, especially the acting department and the screenwriting department.

In other words, this year's nominations are very concentrated, with five Best Picture nominees almost all the major awards in major departments in the bag, ending the scuffle of the entire awards season ahead of schedule and really directing attention to these five works; It also means that all five works have the possibility of winning, each has shortcomings, each has advantages, each has supporters, and every work has flaws, even if it is the top seed, but before the winners are announced, everything is possible.

In addition, "Walking with Songs", which led most of the awards season, was unable to replicate the miracle of last year's "King of Soul Singers", but it still received five nominations, but the quality of nominations needs to be discounted. Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Effects, the most interesting part is that after this work missed the Best Picture and Best Director nominations, it was actually shortlisted for Best Film Editing on the shoulders of "Brokeback Mountain", which makes people laugh and cry.

The same is true of the "Immortal Gardener", which has received a lot of praise before, with four nominations including three core categories including Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing, as well as a nomination for Best Original Score, but it has been completely declared out of the ultimate suspense.

After the list of nominees was announced, the awards season officially entered the sprint stage, which can definitely be called the eight immortals crossing the sea to show their powers, especially considering the melee situation this year, the top five players all have the possibility of winning the championship, and neither party is willing to give up easily, even the current leading Focus Pictures does not dare to take it lightly.

Focus Pictures is undoubtedly the biggest winner of this year's awards season, with "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Immortal Gardener" winning 12 nominations for Focus Pictures, so much so that Pride & Prejudice can't allocate PR resources, and the annoyance of choosing too much is really jealous of other major companies. Now that the list of nominees is out, all the resources of Focus Pictures are bound to tilt towards "Brokeback Mountain" for the last stand.

Making history is never easy, and you have to do your best.

However, Chaos Pictures, second only to Focus Pictures in the nomination stage, is really a bit confusing, "Hard Candy" and "Squid and Whale" two works for Chaos Pictures received nine nominations, although due to a mistake in public relations strategy, holding a good hand, but unfortunately missed the competition for best actress, highlighting the company's first single-handedly impact on the awards season of the immature and young, but no one will express regret or sympathy for Chaos Pictures, because of the praise that the two films have received in the past few monthsNo one can underestimate that Chaos Pictures took almost no time to take over all the resources of Newmarket Pictures, and quickly grew into a potential stock among independent film companies - and now even directly compete with Focus Pictures.

But here's the problem, Chaos Pictures has won the opportunity to wrestle directly with Focus Pictures, and the momentum of "Fruit Hard Candy" is like a wild horse, unstoppable, and even has the opportunity to make history to win the Best Picture crown, not to mention Lance's strong competitiveness in the three departments of Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Screenplay, no company will easily miss such an opportunity.

But at the same time, it is clear to everyone that the strong competitiveness of "Fruit Hard Candy" is built on Lance. If Lance is absent from the academy's public relations, it will be difficult to fight his way out of the encirclement under the attack of the other four works; And if Lance is absent from the Oscars, then it can almost be declared that he is completely out of the Golden Man. To put it simply, if "Fruit Hard Candy" wants to make history, Lance has to show up!

But...... But! But there is still no official movement from Chaos Pictures! But the crew of "Fury Road" is still filming in Africa! But Lance still has no sign of returning to Los Angeles, and even Charlize Theron, who was shortlisted for the actress competition, is quiet! However, the academy announced the fourth batch of guests to attend the Oscars, and there is still no Lance!

Things are starting to get weirder, and the possibility of Lance's absence from the Oscars is gradually becoming a reality. (To be continued.) )