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829 Becoming a Joke

"Crash" is the first best film to win only two Little Golden Man at the Oscars since the "Butterfly Dream" in 1941. This has created a new history in sixty-five years, but has become a shameful record.

The "Butterfly Dream" regretfully missed the event of Best Director Xiao Jinren. It was the 13th Oscar, which became the representative time point for countless people to regret Alfred Hitchcock. But to take a step back, it was only the 13th Oscar. In the distant entrepreneurial era, the award settings were still not perfect at that time - the Best Soundtrack Awards were even nominated for 17 works, and even the Golden Globe Awards were not yet born. Although they had already passed the first decade of their initial stage, they were still in the exploration stage.

So, since then, there has never been such a ridiculous and chaotic situation again.

Sixty-five years later, at the 78th Oscar, "Crashing" once again wrote this "record", becoming another best film in the long history of the Oscars, which only won two trophies. In a vigorous alternative way, it announced that the year's awards season came to an end, but this year's awards season has always become a joke-

The judges were immersed in the intrigue of the college's public relations, for their own selfishness and interests first, and even distorted the black and white. They not only ignored the artistic level of the works, but also saw absurd situation of refusing to watch nominated works; the senior management of the college, film companies and the Wall Street forces behind them emerged one after another under the influence of interests, but a world film event evolved into a arena of interest exchange. This was not a movie awards ceremony, but just a self-climax full of the smell of money; during the entire awards season, there were ups and downs, dramatic twists and turns, and topics that were constantly far away from the essence of film art and completely turned into a farce.

The victory of the "car crash" pushed the farce to the top, making it a joke, and no one cared about it. The two lonely awards of Best Picture and Best Movie Editing are even more ironic!

No one expected that the awards ceremony season in 2005 would come to an end in such a dramatic way, and even the judges of the college themselves were caught off guard. The ups and downs of public opinion during the college's public relations process confused the news media and the judges of the college, and even confused the final vote. The direction of the votes was erratic, no one could judge, and they were covered in scars and didn't know it. Finally, they turned to the end of self-inflicted humiliation, but there was no time to save them.

Before the award ceremony, everyone was curious about who would win the Best Supporting Actor and Best Picture, and what would happen between Lance and George... But no one questioned that in the showdown between Lance and the Academy, the Academy would definitely laugh to the end, because regardless of whether Lance won the award or not, the Academy would be the one that occupies the upper hand in public opinion. As for future development, the Academy can ignore Lance forever, and even make people not notice that Lance has released another work - whether it is excellent or not. Even if there is a deviation, the Academy only needs to nominate Lance and then ignore him during the award voting process. This is enough.

The college can easily be invincible.

In this huge showdown, the artist always compromises. The most direct case is Viggo-mortensen. This name is quite unfamiliar to many viewers, but just mentioning Aragon, the king of humans in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is enough to awaken the memories of every movie lover.

Vigo was born in New York and was an authentic academy. He entered Hollywood in the early 1990s. It was not until the Lord of the Rings that he won the attention of the public. Vigo is an actor with solid performance but profound performance. He is generally considered a powerful actor in the industry. In fact, when "The Lord of the Rings 2" was launched, many people were optimistic about Vigo's performance and believed that he had a seat to nominate for acting skills in the awards season. However, Vigo expressed his disdain in private, believing that the Oscars were just a group of hypocrites to entertain themselves. It was originally just a joke on private occasions, but it was spread by people with intentions. From then on, Vigo's Oscar journey was completely cut off.

"History of violence", "Dangerous Way", "Dangerous Method", "Mercenary Legend" and other works have all contributed wonderful performances, but they were completely ignored by the Oscars. Only one nomination was from the "Oriental Promise" in 2007. This work directed by David Cronenberg won the title of the audience at the Toronto Film Festival and won the love of the audience. David, who has a reputation in the circle, endorsed Vigo himself, and won the nomination, but it was not from beginning to end. Daniel Day Lewis, who lost to "bloody" that year.

It was not until 2014 that Vigo gave up and expressed his friendship with the Academy many times in public, but the golden decade at the peak of his acting career has passed.

However, who would have thought that the arrogant academy dug a hole and buried itself. Although the "Fruit Hard Candy" won two little golden men, the grudge between the Academy and Lance seemed to have come to an end; the strange victory of "Crashing" was really not convincing in front of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Fruit Hard Candy". The root of all this seemed to be back to the confrontation between Lance and George and Lance and the Academy. Now, there is a chaotic mess in front of you, but the senior leaders of the college were completely stunned. What should they do? Where should they start to solve it?

Another awards season is over, but it is not a celebration. Everyone is at a loss when they look at the mess in front of them.

The American Academy of Film Arts and Sciences has grown from an unknown small organization to the king of the world's film industry. Even if people criticize Oscars for becoming more and more commercial, and even if the Oscars are becoming more and more boring every year, the Oscars are still the most influential feast around the world. Every year, the winners of the Little Golden Man and even the nominees will maintain a series of peripheral interests.

But now the Academy exudes a decay and ash all over its body. The Oscar, who is about to enter the age of 80, is staggering, stumbled, and fallen. He is not aware of it. He is still immersed in the glory of the past and refuses to be pioneering and enterprising. In terms of entertainment, he can't compete with the lively Golden Globe Awards. At the beginning of summer, Cannes is also becoming the focus of world attention; in terms of majors, he falls far behind the Berlin Film Festival, which is admiring, and even the Venetian Film Festival, which is too busy to take care of itself, is far more wise; in terms of momentum, the Toronto Film Festival is based on business, and the Sundance Film Festival starts with independence and makes a fortune... But what about the Oscars?

The list of winners of the 78th Academy Awards was in front of me, and I was confused.

The trajectory of history has not followed the rules. It takes time for the sensitive topics of homosexuality to break the shackles of centuries. The old scholars of the college also need to be a wake-up call; but the wheel of history has still undergone a subtle deviation. "Brokeback Mountain" lost the best film Little Golden Man, but won the hearts of the people. "Crashing" successfully won the ultimate prize, but I don't know whether it should be celebrated. "Fruit Hard Candy" accompanied the entire award ceremony season and failed, but achieved the glory of Lance. No one knows where it will go in the future.

However, these troubles are all from the academy and have nothing to do with Reims.

Lance could easily throw the mess behind him and shift all his energy to the summer season. Leaving the Kodak Theater, Lance's brain began to run. How should he make full use of the chaos created by Oscars to master more initiative on tonight's Oscar night and add more chips to the box office journey of "Rampant Road".

What is certain is that George will not be a problem for the time being, at least not on Oscar Night; and the members of the academy will not refuse to make friends with Lance, not only because "Fruit Hard Candy" has once again stood on the podium, but also because of the tenacity shown by Lance in the past few months of melee. There are still two people left before the summer season. No one is willing to draw conclusions too early, even Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures will not; we can even speculate more boldly that the academy does not want Lance to add fuel to the fire at such a moment, and the media hopes that Lance can explode violently, so that the party tonight will be extremely lively.

Thinking of this, the originally boring Oscar Night party suddenly became exciting.

"...It seems that Charlize is your lucky star." Cole's voice came over. Lance retracted his thoughts and looked over in confusion. Charlize, who was sitting opposite him, also looked puzzled.

At this time, they left the Koda Theater, took a car and returned to the Roosevelt Hotel diagonally opposite the Koda Theater, where they will change their clothes, eat something to suffice their stomachs, and then go to the Sunset Tower Hotel to participate in the Oscar night.

Cole shrugged and reminded, "Last year, Charlize presented Tom with Best Actor Little Golden Man, and you walked the red carpet with her tonight."

Lance's memory was awakened, he raised his eyebrows, and his eyes met Charlize, "You forgot, the best foreign language film was also awarded to me." The smile on the corner of his mouth was involuntarily outlined.

Charlize was stunned for a moment, and then recalled that night, she won the actress Xiao Jinren with her "female devil". She was also the award presenter of the Best Foreign Language Film. It was her first meeting with Lance, "Hey, it seems that someone owes me a supper!"

Lance and Cole couldn't help laughing. Such coincidences were really interesting. Inadvertently, the two of them had so many fates. "Then, I think this is a good thing for the 'Rampant Road', right?"

Charlize blinked playfully, "I will not deny such a statement. In this way, I am your goddess of luck."

Lance pointed his chin meaningfully, "Goddess of Luck, I like this title." Then, Lance took the little golden man in Cole's hand and presented it with both hands, "Dear Goddess of Luck, please accept my wish."

Charlize raised his head proudly, stretched out his slender jade fingers, and pointed the little golden man's head from a high place, "Coll, please keep it for me for the time being." The goddess's demeanor was domineering.
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