After the list of nominees for the 62nd Golden Globe Awards was released, the biggest surprise was the fall of "borrowing a knife to kill".

After the release of the movie, the call for "killing people with a knife" suddenly rose, carrying the unanimous praise of the more courageous the more and more courageous, not only the box office list was very surprising, but also the attention of the awards season has also been rising. Many people are convinced that the work qualifies for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Lance's mastery of the camera has reached the point where it has perfected itself, creating a bizarre world rooted in reality but detached from reality, which is applauded. The overall quality and completion level of the works have already possessed a very strong strength, and it is entirely possible to fight a bloody way out of this year's small-scale works.

However, judging from the list of nominees for the Golden Globe Awards, the best film, best director, best screenplay and other departments in the drama category were all lost, which was a big surprise; But what is even more surprising is that the work has won a place in the fierce competition for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the drama category, and has become the biggest surprise in the list of nominees.

If Tom has a certain advantage in the competition for Best Actor in a Drama, after all, Jamie Fox, Paul Giamati, and Jim Carrey, who are nominated for Best Actor in a Musical Comedy, all have strong strength, and the competition between the two departments fell immediately after they separated; Then Lance won the nomination for Best Supporting Actor, which is an affirmation of absolute strength.

Cliff Owen for "Stealing Hearts", David Carradin for "Kill Bill 2", Morgan Freeman for "Million Dollar Baby", Thomas Harden Church for "A Cup of Wine" and Lancelot Strello for "Killing with a Knife" will compete for the Best Supporting Actor trophy.

In this list, before Cliff entered Hollywood in 1999, he was already a stalwart actor in the United Kingdom; David rose to fame in the 70s and received many accolades in TV series and films, and his first Golden Globe nomination came 32 years ago; Morgan won two Oscar nominations in the early 80s and is currently one of the most prestigious black actors in the United States; And Thomas, who has always been active in the field of independent films, is a typical backbone supporting actor.

Relatively speaking, "Killing with a Knife" is only the debut Lance, which is particularly conspicuous. Before this work, almost no one knew that Lance could still act, and even as a director, Lance was just emerging; What's more, in the supporting actor department, the Golden Globe Award does not distinguish between drama and musical comedy, which also means that the competition is more intense, and thousands of troops compete for five seats, and it is difficult to win one-fifth.

But Lance's performance in "Murder with a Knife" caught everyone's eye, and the rave of praise was like a breath of fresh air in the hustle and bustle of awards season, triggering a chain reaction, even if Lance was focused on filming a new film in Austin, which has always been the focus of conversation, and now he has been nominated for a Golden Globe in one fell swoop, which is well deserved.

This is really a very interesting thing, last year "City of God" won Lance a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, but this year Lance relied on "Murder with a Knife" to enter the competition for Best Supporting Actor, from director to actor gorgeous turn, complete the seamless transition.

Who would have thought that Lance, who has been officially in front of the spotlight for less than three years, has made an incredible start in two different aspects: director and actor. Not to mention whether Lance can win an acting nomination at the Oscars by relying on "Killing with a Knife", but no one can deny that from the birth of the "City of God" to the astonishing skill of "Killing with a Knife", Lance's every step is so bold and amazing.

In fact, after the Golden Globe nominations were announced, the biggest surprise came from Lance being shortlisted for Best Supporting Actor, and the biggest surprise came from Lance being shortlisted for Best Supporting Actor.

"Killing with a Knife" only received two acting nominations in the entire list, which really broke the glasses of countless people.

As a commercial film, the quality of the finished product of "Killing with a Knife" is eye-catching, and Lance's bold innovation of lenses and lighting has undoubtedly had a huge impact on the fixed mode of genre films, and crime and action films have entered a bottleneck stage after 30 years of development, and as a director, Lance has injected a completely new energy into this genre of works, giving the film a new life - and has been recognized by the audience, which is undoubtedly worthy of recognition.

What's more, the story is just a game within the scope of a small pattern, but it has unearthed an incomparably far-reaching repercussion. The film has a profound discussion of the confrontation between good and evil, and the social roots of the breeding of evil, especially the topic of Rashomon, which raises the core idea of the work to a philosophical level, which is undoubtedly a huge breakthrough. Not to mention commercial films, even for art films, this is not a simple proposition.

It can be said that "borrowing a knife to kill people" is a small thing and a big one, reflecting the problems of the whole society.

From this point of view, the small pattern of "killing people with a knife" deduces a big scene, which is similar to "Million Dollar Baby", and the opposite of "Finding Neverland" - the story of the latter seems to be based on a magnificent historical background, telling the lives of small people in the big background, but after moving from big to small, the theme has not been able to dig deeper, which is very suffocating.

The overall quality of "Killing with a Knife" is not inferior to works such as "Stealing Hearts", "Rwanda Hotel", "Soul Singer" and other works, or even better, and the core idea of the story is enough to be compared with works like "Rwanda Hotel" that carry historical baggage, so many film critics firmly believe that this work can be nominated for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director and other departments, and it is not groundless.

But the ending is just the opposite, "Killing with a Knife" has been ignored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in the overall project, and the commercial attribute has become its biggest stumbling block, which has not been able to make this work one step closer after achieving a box office success; But "Murder with a Knife" won two nominations in the acting category, which relies more on individual performance, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association apparently believes that acting is the soul of a movie more than a story.

After the nominees were announced, this result became the focus of controversy, except for the rising "Flyer", people are discussing whether "Murder by Knife" should be more recognized, whether this ingenious crime thriller film has reached the height of "The End of the World", and whether the two acting nominations reflect the true quality of this work?

In addition to "Murder with a Knife", "Vera Drake", which was only nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series, is also considered a regret of the Golden Globes, and this new film directed by the famous British director Mike-Leigh (Mike-Leigh) won the Golden Lion and Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival not long ago, and received eleven nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, leading the list.

Across the continent, this in-depth exploration of life and choice has received numerous accolades and is considered the deepest and most powerful work of 2004, far better than "The Flyer." However, after coming to the North American continent, he was given a cold reception at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which caused a series of controversies.

Especially the best screenwriting department.

But it is worth noting that on the one hand, people feel embarrassed by the defeat of "Killing with a Knife", and on the other hand, there is no way to accuse the Golden Globe Award nomination for being unfair, because this is a small year for awards, because a series of works are close in strength, because except for the absolutely strong leader "Flyer", it is normal for any other work to win the nomination.

However, there is one thing that everyone agrees on - among all the nominations in the two categories of the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, after deducting the unsatisfactory quality of "The Phantom of the Opera", plus "Vera Drake" and "Murder by the Knife", these twelve productions will compete for the five nominations for the Oscar for Best Picture. In addition to the "Aviator", which has almost reserved a nominated seat, the other four seats will be contested by eleven works, and the fierce pattern is really rare, and it will not be an accident that any work is selected and any work is left behind.

In the final selection made by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, "A Cup of Life" received seven nominations, and the best film in the musical comedy category, the best actor in the musical comedy category, the best director, the best screenplay, the best supporting actor, the best supporting actress, and the best film score unexpectedly led the entire list, becoming the biggest darling of the Golden Globes, which can also be called a microcosm of this year's awards season.

The high-profile "Aviator" followed closely behind, shortlisted for six nominations for Best Picture in a Drama, Best Actor in a Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Film Score.

"Stealing Hearts" and "Finding Neverland", which won five nominations each, also remained in the first group, becoming the first team of the current awards season.

It is worth mentioning that the topic "Hotel Rwanda" received three nominations, namely Best Picture in a Drama, Best Actor in a Drama, and Best Original Song, which is a good result, which once again continues the fine tradition of its production company, Diora Pictures, which has been nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for the past five years.

As the backbone of the current second-tier film companies, Diorama Pictures started with art films, and now its advantages in art films cannot be underestimated. Compared with Chaos Pictures, which relied on three movies to become famous overnight, Diorama Pictures obviously has a deep heritage.

This time, "Murder with a Knife" brought Chaos Pictures two acting nominations, but it still lagged behind "Rwanda Hotel". Such a scene, déjà vu, seemed to be the same at this time last year, but this time, there was no complacency within Diorama Pictures, and no one even celebrated. (To be continued.) )