While Hugo and Charlize are dancing with darkness on the far East Coast, and Leonardo is isolated in the remote countryside, the historical battle on the West Coast has gradually reached a climax.

With the film pushing the cumulative box office to 494 million in the third week of March, surpassing "Los Angeles Confidential" to become the year-end champion in 1997, it is only one step away from 500 million moats, and it has become the second work in film history to break 500 million at the box office.

With the support of the outstanding performance of the two works of "Perfection" and "Soul Catcher", retro films that respect the script, emphasize the plot, and explore deep ideas have reached the peak since the 90s, and these works have become the perfect representative of the "combination of commercial films and art films", and have become the deadly weapon of the traditionalists, telling everyone: A truly excellent film should not be simple and crude, but should be a complex with both commercial value and artistic atmosphere.

The two factions can be said to be incomprehensible, not only professional film critics, not only screenwriters or special effects professionals, including directors, producers, cinematographers, lighting engineers, stylists, editors, and other positions have been involved, not to mention the current actors, this vigorous showdown truly recreates the grand occasion after the birth of the "male and female thieves" in 1967.

In history, the reformists led by the "Titanic" had the last laugh, so can this menacing traditionalist change or even block the progress of the wheel of history? The 70th edition of the Academy Awards, which serves as a gathering place for industry representatives, will put an end to this controversy for the time being.

Six weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the list of nominees for this year's Oscars, and countless swords and swords can be seen in the nomination stage alone, which indicates that the torrent is coming!

The most watched Best Picture Award can be said to be without any surprises, "Titanic" and "L.A. Confidential", "Perfect", "Soul Catcher" are all shortlisted, and the last seat is won by the British work "Light Pig Six Heroes", which has received countless praises throughout the awards season, these top five seats are almost not much different from the results of the previous major award ceremonies, and the strength of the five works is a lot higher than other competitors, and the final finalist is completely deserved!

This is also the fundamental reason why the prototype of the Oscar "awards season" has been really felt for the first time: most of the members of the major award ceremonies are inextricably linked to the academy, professional and non-professional, East and West coast, media associations, almost everyone can be connected. As a result, people felt for the first time: the Oscars are predictable, and more importantly, the surrounding economy and public relations effects centered on the Oscars can be controlled.

The list of nominees for the 70th Academy Award for Best Picture gives such a revelation.

The same pattern was continued in the Best Director department, with James Cameron of "Titanic", Curtis Hansen of "L.A. Confidential", James L. Brooks of "Perfect", Gus Van Sant of "Soul Catcher". Van。 Sant), Peter Catannius of the "Light Pig Six". Cattaneo) was co-nominated, which is closely aligned with the five Best Picture spots, which also means that the five films have received a high degree of unanimous recognition from the Academy, which also indicates that the competition at the awards ceremony will be particularly fierce.

It is worth mentioning that among the best film editing nominations known as "Little Best Picture", four of the five works still maintain a high degree of consistency, "Titanic", "Perfect", "L.A. Confidential" and "Soul Catcher" were all successfully shortlisted, the only exception is "Air Force One" replaced the position of "Light Pig Six Heroes" and was successfully shortlisted for the final competition.

This may be a small signal, which has a suggestive effect on the trend of the best picture.

In comparison, the competition in the four major acting departments this year is weaker, but this is only relative, in fact, the competition in the acting department is the most high-profile in any year, and this year is no exception.

Known as the star-studded Best Actor Award nominations for the five seats can be said to be star-studded, "perfect" Jack Nicholson, "big hero" Dustin Hoffman, "Los Angeles confidential" Hugo Lancaster, "Soul Catcher" Matt Damon, "Titanic" Leonardo DiCaprio, these five actors constitute this year's final five, completely detonated all the topics - even close to the competition for the Best Picture award.

This list of nominees can be said to be the most star-studded in the past decade, Jack, Dustin and Hugo are the three winners of the actor statuette in previous years, the first two are two of the top four actors in the United States in the 80s, and the latter is the most powerful representative of the baby boomer generation, known as an absolute superstar that is rare in Hollywood in a century; Matt and Leonardo are two young talents, the former made a splash with his screenwriting debut and became a rising star after Woody Allen, Emma Thompson and Hugo, and the latter won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor four years ago and won Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival last year, making him one of the top actors.

Just reading this list of nominations, it's hard to ask for more, and even the most demanding and discerning critics have to admit that it's a perfect nomination, not to mention that four of the five nominees are strong contenders for Best Picture, which makes the race for best actor more compact, fiercer, and more unpredictable.

In addition, in the end, no matter who wins the award, it will make history: Dustin has won the actor gold man twice, and if he wins another one, he will become the first actor in film history to win three actor statuettes; Jack won a Best Actor and a Best Supporting Actor statuette, and so did Hugo, if they win another one, they will become the first actor in film history to win three acting statuettes - Hugo will become the only actor to win two actor trophies before the age of thirty-one; Matt and Leonardo, both born after 1970, will not only set a new record for Hugo's current youngest age to win an award, but also herald the rise of "Generation X" actors – before the Boomers were really at their peak.

Therefore, except for the Best Picture Award, everyone is paying attention to: the final direction of the actor.

In such a comparison, the competition for Best Actress looks bleak, "perfect" Helen Hunt, "Titanic" Kate Winslet, "Mrs. Brown" Judi Dench, "**** Game (Afterglow)" Julie Christie. Christie), "The pigeon's wings (The. Wings。 Of。 The。 Dove)" Helena Burham Carter (Helena. Bonham。 Carter) was successfully shortlisted.

Led by the old drama bones Judy and Julie, Helen and Helena of the Mesozoic Era are both nominated for the first time, and Kate, the representative of the new generation, was affirmed after "Sense and Emotion". But whether it is Judy and Helen, who have the highest voice, or Kate, who is the most popular, the overall nominee list is still too weak and far from being comparable to the star-studded actor contenders.

And most importantly, in this list of nominees, the Golden Globe Award's drama actress Judy and musical comedy actress Helen can almost be said to be outstanding and unbeatable. If nothing else, the final Golden Man will be between these two people.

There were quite a few surprises in the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories.

Robin Williams of "Soul Catcher", Greg Kinnear of "Perfect", Anthony Hopkins of "Broken Locks", Burt Reynolds of "Unruly Night", and Kevin Spacey of "L.A. Confidential" will compete for Best Supporting Actor.

The nominations for Best Supporting Actress gathered five actresses, including Kim Basinger for "L.A. Confidential", Joan Cusack for "The Groom's Twist", Minnie Driver for "Mindcatcher", Julianne Moore for "Unruly Night" and Gloria Stewart for "Titanic".

It can be seen that the real nominations are still concentrated on the four most high-profile works in Hollywood at the moment, and the four nominations for two projects in the screenwriting department also prove this. Except for "Titanic", all other key works were shortlisted for the competition of the script department.

From this detail, we can also see the clear attitude of the academy - they are different from the Golden Globe Awards, the Golden Globe Awards squeezed out one of the five limited positions for the best screenplay to "Titanic", but the academy believes that "Titanic" is completely a representative work of the reformist, representing the work of computer special effects to replace the position of the script and occupy the main body, its script is not bad, but there is no need to comment, because the vitality that James has given to this film has far exceeded the limitations of the script itself.

The Academy honored the "Titanic" for its imagination and contribution to the further development of the film industry. Therefore, the academy put "Titanic" and other works in two camps clearly. This also indicates that the trend of the final award will be more distinctive.

Among the best adapted screenplays, "L.A. Confidential", "Be a Big Hero", "Dove's Wings", "Donnie. Brasco", "The. Sweet。 Hereafter)" five works were shortlisted, but the competitiveness was obviously weak, and "Los Angeles Confidential" was unbeatable, and only "Being a Big Hero" could launch an impact.

Best Original Screenplay is the opposite, the competition is fierce, and the competition is the highest in recent years! "Perfect", "Soul Catcher", "Six Heroes of the Light Pig", "Unruly Night", "Deconstructing Harry. Harry: "The top five players, each of them is not good!