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Undoubtedly, City of God is the biggest dark horse of this year's Oscars. In the absence of a name, it turned out with a proud appearance and received six nominations, along with Mystic River, Cold Mountain, The Pentium Era and other popular works are tied, ranking third in the nomination stage. Even if it is described as amazing, it is not enough. The number of nominations even surpassed the four of Lost in Translation, and it has truly reached the height of Oscar popularity.

This makes people think of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon who received ten nominations and captured four statuettes three years ago.

In fact, City of God is indeed continuing the glory of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In addition to the best picture and best director, City of God also successfully occupied a place in the competition for the best foreign language film, taking the most intense, hottest, most difficult, most anxious and most important Oscar It has both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film nominations.

In the long history of Oscar, there are only three nominations for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film at the same time, Focus News in 1968, Life is Beautiful in 1997, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000. . Now, one more seat can be added to this historical record: the City of God in 2003!

It's no exaggeration to say that just two nominations for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film are enough to put City of God in a real tie with Mystic River and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Becoming the biggest winner in the nomination stage, even all eyes is not enough to describe the praise and affirmation received by City of God.

However, this is not the end.

City of God also included three nominations including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography, which is undoubtedly another victory. The importance of Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing goes without saying. The former is one of the core nominations in the main department, while the latter is the most important nomination in the technical department. In addition, the technical department has the highest attention and discussion , The most competitive individual award - Best Photography Award, it is no exaggeration to say that City of God has achieved the most incredible results in a limited space.

Without a real protagonist, with a city and an area as its protagonists, City of God is doomed to get nothing out of the four nominations in the actor department, but under such unfavorable circumstances, the work does nothing. Showing weakness, won the praise of the Academy judges, and won six nominations with full weight. In the case of publicity, the victory of the work is even more commendable. This is not a social victory, but a eulogy of strength!

No one can underestimate this ocean biscuit.

Looking at the entire nomination list, in addition to winning the best film and best director, it is also in the screenwriting department-the best original screenplay or best adapted screenplay, as well as the best editing award. There are only two nominations: The Return of the King and City of God.

only! only! The Return of the King and City of God!

Attack missed out on a nomination for screenplay, Mystic River missed out on an editing nomination, and as for Lost in Translation, it also missed out on an editing nomination.

The Lost in Translation, which is so glorious above the Golden Globe Awards, has continued its strong posture to the Oscars. The four nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor are enough to prove that The college attaches great importance to it. The four nominations are full of weight, just slightly inferior to Mystic River, especially Sofia Coppola has received three nominations alone, and no one can ignore the name of a talented woman.

However, against the background of City of God, Lost in Tokyo really looks a little lost. A day ago, it was the darling of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, as if it was only one step away from the altar; but a day later , the halo is still there, but suddenly finds that it has fallen behind its competitors, and is carried away without knowing it.

As a small literary film with a small structure, it is very difficult for Lost in Translation to make a breakthrough. The four nominations it won were all expected, and Scarlett Johansson was not able to nominate Best Actress. It was an accident, and it was a reasonable result to miss the Best Film Editing Award. In other words, the four nominations for Lost in Translation are largely in line with expectations, so what went wrong?

It's not that you don't do well, but that your competitors do too well.

The Jedi counterattack of City of God just makes Lost in Tokyo look like Xiaojiabiyu, middle-aged people lost on the streets of the city, like murmuring in a midnight dream, trapped in their own small world for a long time to find There is no exit; but the City of God is rushing left and right in a vast and magnificent world, trying to touch the dawn of tomorrow with the sharp edge of despair, the weight, the atmosphere, and the depth , completely conquered the academy judges.

In the best film editing department, City of God competed with The Return of the King, The Pentium Age, Raging Seas, and Cold Mountain. The director's wisdom and precipitation are revealed in the atmosphere. It can be seen that City of God has replaced Mystic River as the top five of the awards season, and the admiration of the academy judges for this work can be seen.

In the script department, Lost in Translation, Brutal Invasion, Advance to Paradise, Finding Nemo and Dirty Sweet Things gather in the original department. In this small year when original scripts are scarce, even Finding Nemo has a place, and Lost in Translation and Brutal Invasion will undoubtedly become the biggest favorites for the award.

The adapted script gathered five strong players including The Return of the King, City of God, Mystic River, The Pentium Era and Glorious America. The strength is clearly visible. City of God and Glorious America ​​have once again collided head-on since Sundance. Although The Return of the King was absent from the screenwriting nomination for the Golden Globe Awards, it is magnificent and sweeping.

In addition, the best foreign language film, which is known as the fierce competition even surpasses the best picture, ushered in a completely different and new nomination list, Canada's Barbaric Invasion, Brazil's City of God, Sweden's Evil, Tears of Beacon Twins from the Netherlands, and Erila from the Czech Republic are among the top five!

This result is undoubtedly shocking. Except for Brutal Invasion and City of God, the other three films are all new faces. Girl Osama, which just won the Golden Globe Award, actually lost the Oscar The list of nominations-this proves once again that the Golden Globes for best foreign language film are just a tasteless decoration and don't get much attention at all. Compared with the loss of Girl Osama, people were more shocked by the loss of Goodbye Lenin and Return, which caused a lot of exclamation.

Even in the best foreign language film department where the competition is so fierce, City of God still conquered the critical judges and achieved another breakthrough after the best film, further affirming its absolute strength.

It can be seen from this that the City of God is facing more intense competition and facing more powerful opponents, but it still has not lost the wind; Lost in Translation easily left behind Lost in Translation with six nominations, and even showed a posture that surpassed Mystic River and Raging Seas, becoming the Return of the King to compete for the best picture. strong competitor.

In addition to Lost in Translation, The Last Samurai also received four nominations, nominations for Best Supporting Actor, plus three technical nominations for Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, and Best Sound Mixing. Nomination, this seems to be a lot weaker, far from being comparable to other works.

As for the individual awards, the biggest surprise is Johnny Depp in the Best Actor department. Relying on his outstanding performance in Pirates of the Caribbean, he has unexpectedly entered the battle for the best actor. Sean Penn of The River and Ben-Kingsley of Dust and Fog Home launched an impact, which is undoubtedly a highlight.

Charlize-Theron (Charlize-Theron) and Keisha-Castle-Hughes (Keisha-Castle-Hughes) in the Best Actress department have become the biggest highlights, and the former relies on The Devil to be brilliant The performance completely reversed people's fixed impression of its vase; the latter was only thirteen years old and won the best actress nomination, which is also the youngest actress nominee so far—her work Whale Rider also Had a blast at Sundance.

Works such as City of God, Whale Rider, Glorious America, and Youth Thirteen, which shined at the Sundance Film Festival this year, have won a place in the Oscars, which is also something to talk about one thing.

So far, the list of nominations for the seventy-sixth Oscars has been fully announced. The dominance of The Return of the King is in crisis; Lost in Translation once again amazed the academy judges;

Such a result, there were surprises and surprises, but it was more of excitement, which made people look forward to the upcoming awards ceremony on February 29th.

When Michelle Pfeiffer announced all the nominations, some people were happy while others were worried, some were fanatical and some were crazy, some were angry and some were bored... Especially for Diorama Films, they were even stronger than the Weinstein Brothers. Astonishment—Cold Mountain promoted by the Weinstein brothers failed in the nomination stage.

City of God, six nominations, bright and dazzling, even if you want to ignore it, you can't deceive yourself, even if you want to find a reasonable explanation... What's more ridiculous is , Even if you want to be angry, you can't do it. Ryan Kavalaugh and Tucker Toure just stood there, transfixed.

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