Looking back from the perspective of 20 years later, in November and December 1998, countless art films were bombarded, although the whole market was in chaos, there was almost no strategy to speak of, just a swarm of front, which allowed film practitioners to see more excellent works, but also buried many excellent works. However, this scuffle is considered to be the first year of the emergence of "awards season" and "academy PR", and since then, awards season has officially entered people's attention, and the commercialization of the film industry has been further improved.

The 71st edition of the Oscars is the signature awards ceremony of the first year of the awards season.

In the nomination stage, "Shakespeare's Love History", which did not cause enough sensation at the beginning of the release, and the reputation and depth of the work were far from reaching the outstanding level, later came out on top and achieved an incredible counterattack, appearing on the Oscar nomination list as a parachute, making everyone in North America gasp - when did the world unconsciously change the sky?

"Shakespeare's Love History" leads the nomination list with 13 nominations, which is second only to "Titanic" and "Comet Beauty" with 14 nominations in history, and tied with film history classics such as "Gone with the Wind" and "Gone with the Wind" for the second most nominated work in Oscar history.

"Shakespeare's Love History" not only surpassed "Saving Private Ryan" and "Truman's World" to become the biggest winner in the nomination stage, but also ranked among the best in film history, showing a devastating posture, which directly stunned everyone.

Could it be that ...... "Shakespeare's love history" has reached the height of "Titanic" and the height of "Gone with the Wind"? But why doesn't anyone feel that way? Almost everyone is happy to discuss the grandeur of the war scenes of "Saving Private Ryan" and the humanity behind the war, the bloody entertainment of "Truman's World" and the urgency of chasing freedom, but no one can say the historical weight of "Shakespeare's Love History". Since when did the Oscars become so "commercial"?

It can be said that after the Oscar nominations came out, the world was already in chaos!

"Shakespeare's Love History" dominated the list of nominees with an absolutely strong attitude, and the six major awards such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Screenplay were all shortlisted for the final competition, plus the best film editing, best soundtrack, best costume design, best art direction, best cinematography, best sound, best makeup and other technical awards, a full thirteen nominations, and even showed a stronger momentum than last year's "Titanic" - after all, "Titanic" The advantages are in the technical department, and the main department is still slightly inferior.

It can be said that except for Best Actor, "Shakespeare's Love History" has been shortlisted in almost all major categories, and the momentum is reminiscent of the treatment received by many classics of film history. is shocking, but even more incomprehensible, is the Oscar going to change the sky again? And even without anyone noticing.

Immediately following "Shakespeare's Love History" is the "Saving Private Ryan", who is considered to have surpassed "Schindler's List", and the Normandy landing at the beginning of this work has been regarded as a classic in film history, once again writing Steven Spielberg's super myth. In the end, "Saving Private Ryan" received eleven nominations and is still one of the most championship-looking works at the Oscars.

Due to the overall theme, "Saving Private Ryan" is obviously not competitive in the main departments, and the four nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay have not been able to keep up with the footsteps of "Shakespeare's Love History"; However, the technical department is no slouch, with seven nominations, including Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Sound Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Soundtrack, and Best Makeup, all of which will compete in the various awards.

Another year-end hit "Truman's World" followed with ten nominations, and it didn't show much decline, and compared to "Saving Private Ryan", "Truman's World" has almost every award and "Shakespeare's Love History" head-on.

The main award department, "Truman's World" will be Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and other six nominations are all included, and "Shakespeare's Love History" corresponds to "Truman's World" lacks the competitiveness of the Best Actress department, but Nicole Kidman still won the first Oscar nomination in her life with her outstanding performance, and the award is definitely not small.

In addition, "Truman's World" was also nominated for four technical categories: Best Film Editing, Best Soundtrack, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound. However, these departments need to face the strong performance of "Saving Private Ryan", and it is clear that "Truman's world" is the weak side.

It is foreseeable that the competition between "Truman's World" and "Shakespeare's Love History" will be fierce - from the Golden Globe Award to the Oscars. On top of the Golden Globes, on the surface, the two are evenly matched, but those who really know the inside know that it is "Shakespeare's love history" that has the upper hand - and the absolute upper hand, but what about the Oscars? At least in the nomination stage, "Shakespeare's Love History" once again took the lead, and "Truman's World" is now placed in the position of the shocker, and it is definitely not so simple to achieve a counterattack.

In addition to these troikas, "The Thin Red Line" and "Life is Beautiful" received seven nominations each, and "Elizabeth" received six nominations, which also became a very shining work in the nomination stage.

Surprisingly, "Grand Central Station", which shone at the Golden Globes, was completely ignored, and only received two nominations for Best Actress and Best Foreign Language Film, and was replaced by the Italian work "Life is Beautiful". This work received zero nominations at the Golden Globes, but it was born at the Oscars, and the overall momentum is even comparable to "Shakespeare's Love History".

"Life is Beautiful" was not only shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, but also in the main awards such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Screenplay, showing strong competitiveness and is likely to become the biggest spoiler at this year's Oscars.

It is also worth mentioning that the "thin red line" only had two nominations at the Golden Globes, but it attracted countless eyes with seven nominations at the Oscar stage. At least judging from the current distribution of nominations, the deviation between the Golden Globes and the Oscars has far exceeded expectations, and perhaps, the name of the weather vane needs to be reconsidered.

In fact, although "Life is Beautiful" and "The Thin Red Line" did not receive enough attention at the Golden Globes, both of them were highly praised in the industry, with the former winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and being well received at the European Film Awards and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards; The latter won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and at the same time received unanimous praise from the academy, and the unique style of the scene has become the object of study by many academics.

The emergence of the two cannot even be called "dark horses", but should be said to be logical.

That's the overall picture on the list of nominees, but breaking down into the individual awards reveals more interesting details.

Among the five contenders for Best Picture, "Shakespeare's Love History" and "Truman's World" are-for-tat, "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Thin Red Line" are needle-pointed, and "Life is Beautiful" is a hopeful contestant that will change the entire battle situation.

Originally, people's attention was mainly focused on "Saving Private Ryan" and "Truman's World", and the outstanding performance of the two works in the summer made people lock the Oscar competition between the two early, but the year-end awards season boom changed dramatically, first "Shakespeare's Love History" sprung up, and even later overtook it, and now it has become the leader; Not to be outdone, the "thin red line" is a huge force, carrying the momentum of the Berlin Golden Bear to launch a fierce assault - no one should forget that the "Death Row Walk" broke through along this route three years ago.

As a result, the landscape has become extremely chaotic, not to mention the acclaimed "Life is Beautiful", a European film that represents almost all European film professionals - the expatriate power of Hollywood is absolutely impossible to ignore.

"Life is Beautiful" is a very interesting work, its theme is as locked as "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Thin Red Line" is locked in the story during World War II, but its style is divided into the comedy department like "Shakespeare's Love History" and "Truman's World", the story shows deep themes in a humorous way, and it is more daring and absurd than "Truman's World", almost reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin in his prime.

It can be seen that the competition of the five works is completely entangled, and the five nominees for best director are precisely the filmmakers of these five works, plus the five candidates for best film editing are also these five works, which shows that the momentum of the five works can be completely neck-and-neck, and they are indistinguishable in terms of overall quality, word of mouth, and attention.

At the 67th Academy Awards, the triumph of "Forrest Gump", "Vulgarity" and "The Shawshank Redemption" has been hailed as the most competitive awards ceremony in the past decade, and even after 20 years, people still talk about this year. But in fact, this is just a three-legged stand, and the overall momentum of the other two works, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Lies Behind the Scenes", is slightly inferior and cannot form a head-on confrontation.

But now, in the race for Best Picture, there are five works that are enough to go hand in head, and the momentum of the five works is not weak, showing an absolutely strong posture, which is considered to be the second real group of death in the history of film history since 1975!