The single-theater box office grossed $130,000, the weekend box office was $1.43 million, and the North American weekend box office in the third week of December ranked 10th...... This is the report card handed over by the first week of screening of "A Beautiful Mind", and it is hard to imagine that this is actually the result of a work that has only been screened in 11 theaters, even more than those that have been screened in more than 1,000 theaters.

From media reviews to theater ratings to single-hall box office, "A Beautiful Mind" exploded in full force, and after only one week of release, it became the hottest topic in the awards season, and almost everyone was discussing the prospects of the awards season for this work, and everyone agreed that this work was fully capable of becoming the "Forrest Gump" in 1999.

Although the prospect of "Beautiful Mind" winning the award at the award ceremony still depends on luck, whether it will become "Forrest Gump" or "purple" can only be seen at the award ceremony; However, the Golden Globes, which were the first to announce the list of nominees, proved the current mainstream view.

Following the big explosion in the first year of last year's awards season, this year is generally considered to be a small year for awards, with many powerful works, but there are no works that can really reach the height of "Saving Private Ryan" and "Truman's World", even "Beautiful Mind", the height of the overall theme and social influence, are one size smaller than last year's works.

Before the strong rise of "A Beautiful Mind", the most high-profile works of the awards season were undoubtedly "Puppet Life" and "Hurricane", the former being an independent film, the latter being a biographical film, both of which led the overall recognition of the awards season in all aspects, and the overall momentum was good and bad.

However, the pattern of these two works is too small, from investment to subject matter, from script to core, they have not been able to show the strength of dominating the country, except for the original script of the ghost talent of "Puppet Life", the two works and the top five players of last year's best picture are inferior in any aspect.

This makes the whole awards season seem a little uninteresting, not to mention the audience, and even many professional insiders are not interested. Most professionals are looking forward to the Christmas release of "The Talented Ripley" – a widely favoured production that is expected to complete the domination of this year's awards season and replicate the glory of the "British Patient" three years ago.

However, before the release of "Genius Prellly", the neglected "Beautiful Mind" landed first, and showed a popular level with a devastating attitude. Although "The Talented Prellly" had a grand premiere on December 12, making it eligible to compete for the Golden Globes, the overall momentum was far from peaking, and the list of Golden Globe nominees presented a very different pattern.

"A Beautiful Mind" led the nomination stage with seven nominations above the Golden Globes; Prodigy Préll followed with five nominations and showed a strong competitiveness.

"A Beautiful Mind" undoubtedly won two heavyweight nominations for Best Picture and Best Director in the Drama category, three nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress in the Drama category, plus nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Film Score, making the film the biggest favorite at this year's Golden Globe Awards.

It can be seen from the nominations that in addition to the Best Actress in the Drama category, "A Beautiful Mind" has almost swept all the nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, and the overall momentum is completely aimed at the best picture in the drama category, which makes people clearly see the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's affirmation of this work.

"The Talented Ripley" is also worthy of the popular name, winning five nominations for Best Picture in a Drama, Best Director, Best Actor in a Drama, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Film Score, and the overall momentum is not weak. However, the lack of nomination for Best Screenplay is undoubtedly a huge shortcoming, and it also makes people uncertain about the future of the film, and maybe the situation will change differently when the film is officially screened.

In addition, "Inside Story" has also won five nominations and will compete in the categories of Best Picture in a Drama, Best Director, Best Actor in a Drama, Best Screenplay, and Best Score. It can be seen that although "Amazing Insider" is on par with "Genius Ripley" in terms of the number of nominations, the quality of the nominations is not inferior, and it even won a place in the extremely competitive screenwriting department, which also makes the prospect of "Amazing Insider" suddenly climb.

Although the three works of "A Beautiful Mind", "Genius Ripley", and "Shocking Insider" have set off a frenzy of discussions, the overall situation is far from comparable to last year. Moreover, in addition to these two works, the other works that won nominations at the Golden Globes lacked the ability to make a further impact.

In the competition for the best film in the drama category, "A Beautiful Mind", "Love to the End", "Hurricane", "Shocking Insider", and "Genius Ripley" became the top five contestants; The five seats for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category went to "Toy Story 2" and "Analyze. This)", "Puppet Life", "Man on the Moon", "Notting Hill" Partition.

Judging from the ten shortlisted works for the best film, whether it is the scale of investment, box office results, or film criticism and popularity, or the ideological core and social impact, they have all fallen behind compared with the previous year. Of course, "A Beautiful Mind" and "Ripley the Genius" have not yet been fully released, and the future development curve is still unpredictable, but the most outstanding works so far are not satisfactory.

"Shocking Insider" is currently the most outstanding performance and is considered this year's "Los Angeles Confidential"; "Notting Hill" is considered this year's "Shakespearean love history", and "The Man on the Moon" is this year's "Truman's world". Just from the side of this review, it can be seen that several works this year have not been able to meet expectations, and they can only be considered the second of so-and-so's works, and the quality and reputation are one size smaller, and the influence cannot be compared.

Now all hopes are pinned on the performance of "A Beautiful Mind" and "Talented Ripley" after their full release.

The most surprising thing is that "The Sixth Sense" was not able to be shortlisted for Best Picture in the midst of all the applause, which also sparked a wide range of heated discussions - so that the "Cider House Rule", which also attracted much attention but did not win the nomination, was a little lonely, and everyone was arguing whether the work was eligible for nomination, both supporters and opponents existed, and the limitations of "The Sixth Sense" as a horror movie were reflected, which is bound to become the focus of controversy.

At least judging by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's selection, they don't think the work qualifies for nomination.

The same result also appeared in the Best Director award, with the directors of the five nominees for Best Picture in the Drama category being shortlisted, with Ron Howard of "A Beautiful Mind", Norman Jewison of "The Hurricane", Neil Jordan of "Love to the End", Michael Mann of "Inside Story", and Anthony Minghella of "The Genius Ripley" making it to the final showdown.

It can also be seen that these five works are the best performances at this stage, which makes the list of nominees for Best Picture in the Drama category and Best Director completely overlap, but it also makes the five nominees for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category a little awkward.

But if you look at the five seats for best screenplay, the overall picture becomes more and more ambiguous.

Hugo Lancaster for "A Beautiful Mind", Charlie Kaufman for "Puppet Life", Michael Mann for "Inside Story", M. Knight Shyamalan for "The Sixth Sense", John Owen for "The Cider House Rule". Irving) made it to the final standing.

In this list, Charlie, who is known as the "ghost talent", will undoubtedly be the biggest hit with his debut novel, and the two works of "Beautiful Mind" and "Shocking Insider" are both shortlisted, and they also live up to the popular name. Comparatively speaking, the "Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" won a seat, but was completely absent from the competition for the final major award, which is quite embarrassing.

This also makes it impossible for people to see the overall trend of the Golden Globe Awards.

The same can be said for other awards, with the five nominees for Best Actor in a Drama Series, Denzel Washington for "The Hurricane," Russell Crowe for "Inside Story," Matt Damon for "The Talented Ripley," and The Story of Mr. Treot. Straight。 Story)" of Richard. Farnsworth), Hugo Lancaster, "A Beautiful Mind".

Among them, Denzel, Richard, Hugo, and Matt are not nominated for the first time, but the overall influence of Richard and Matt is slightly inferior, and the two former actors, Denzel and Hugo, have attracted much attention, and Russell's strong rise will bring more uncertainty. On the whole, this year's top five players are a scuffle, but Hugo, who stands out, has received too much recognition in a short period of time, which in turn has affected this year's winning trend.

The competition for Best Actor in a Musical Comedy is star-studded, but the overall strength of the work is still slightly inferior, and the competitiveness cannot be further improved, and it has not been able to spark more discussion.

The list of nominees for Best Actress in a Drama and Best Actress in a Musical Comedy is even more so, with the only thing to be commended for Julianne Moore's reliance on "Love to the End" and "Husband Fails (An. Ideal。 Husband)" two works won double nominations for actresses in two departments, which became the biggest highlight.

Overall, after the Golden Globe nominees were released, "A Beautiful Mind" became the biggest favorite of the awards season in one fell swoop, surpassing "Inside Story" and "Talented Ripley" to become the No. 1 seed and begin to lead this year's awards season. With the affirmation of the Golden Globe Award nomination, the pace of the release of "A Beautiful Mind" has also begun to accelerate, and the box office performance and word-of-mouth trend have become the focus of attention.