As the world's most famous and influential film award, the Academy Awards has always been the most desirable honor for all filmmakers.
If nothing else, look at how hard the little plum has put into this little golden man to know how heavy it weighs.
But this little golden man does not simply say who makes a good movie and who has good acting skills, and who gives the award to whom.
Why? Or that answer, because there is capital manipulating behind the scenes.
However, in general, the effort on the surface still has to be done, so capital generally does not go too far.
But today's 71st Oscars is an exception, and to put it bluntly, this Oscar is a joke.
The reason is very simple, because capital in order to hold the "family" to the top, even the basic kung fu is too lazy to do, that eating is really ugly.
The 71st Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles on March 21, 1999, selected films released in 1998.
Although this year's film industry is not as fairy fighting as in 1994, there are also many excellent films.
"Saving Private Ryan", "Truman's World", "Beautiful Life" (only released in the United States in 1998), "She is lonelier than fireworks", "Thin Red Line", "Central Station" and so on...
In particular, Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" was very loud at that time, and basically most people thought that the Oscar for Best Picture was none other than it.
However, the final winner of the Best Picture Award was "Shakespeare's Love Story" starring "Pepper" Gwyneth Paltrow.
Strictly speaking, "Shakespeare's Love History" also has its merits, it is not a pure bad film, and historical films and biopics are still popular in the eyes of the Oscar judges at that time.
But the problem is that not too bad quality does not mean that you are eligible for Best Picture.
Or in layman's terms, this movie and "Saving Private Ryan", "Beautiful Life", "Truman's World" and so on can be described as a day and a place, belonging to the "level gap", not a grade at all.
In fact, as long as you have seen these movies, you can intuitively feel it, although "Shakespeare's Love History" is a historical film, but as its name is, it is actually a love story, and it also belongs to the kind of rather routine, unfazed old-fashioned love.
However, this film not only won the Oscar for best picture, but also Gwyneth also won the position of queen.
This is another thing that has become a joke in the future, because with Gwyneth's acting skills, this post-film position she can't sit in any way.
This can be seen by looking at the other actresses who were nominated for best actress that year.
Kate Blanchett, who starred in "Elizabeth", should be familiar to everyone, and her acting skills are basically impeccable, even people who do not like the movie "Elizabeth" will definitely not deny Kate's almost perfect performance in it.
Meryl Streep, who starred in "Priceless Affection", has been nominated for more than 20 Oscars as a regular guest, which is in itself a recognition of her strength by the judges and even the public.
Emily Watson, who starred in "She's Lonelier Than Fireworks," an actress who, like the little plums later, put in great effort for the little golden man, her role in the movie is a musician, and she did months of ultra-intense training before the show, and even the cracking of her fingers did not stop.
Brazilian actress Fernand Montago, who starred in "Central Station", although her reputation is not high, her acting skills in this movie are really shocking, and among all the nominees, she is the most vocal.
In fact, among the five nominees, Gwyneth is arguably the least competitive, and the four actresses basically only regard each other as competitors.
Therefore, when the award was awarded to Gwyneth, they were all shocked, and just by looking at their expressions, they guessed that they really couldn't believe it.
In addition, this "Shakespeare Love History" won 13 Oscar nominations and won 7 of them that year (this record is almost comparable to "Titanic")
Of course, this film can achieve this result, and I have to say that it is inseparable from the capital behind it, Harvey Weinstein.
This person should be no stranger to everyone, in Hollywood power, the head of Weinstein Pictures.
In order to hold their own "little peppers" on the top, they really did everything to the extreme.
For example, hiring the water army to smear "Saving Private Ryan", pulling Gwyneth everywhere to send gifts to the Oscar Academy to solicit votes, etc., basically all the public relations methods that can be used are used.
Therefore, after Gwyneth got the film queen, the first person to thank on the stage was Weinstein.
And many media also know that behind this is because the man is manipulating.
After "Shakespeare Love" defeated "Saving Private Ryan", it also attracted countless media to sigh for the latter, the quality of the film is so high, the director is the legendary director Spielberg, starring tom Hanks, who is also one of the "double soups".
Especially after the outbreak of the Weinstein incident, the extranet no longer needs to worry about Harvey's face, basically for the "Saving Private Ryan" of that year.
Gwyneth is not happy to get the queen, most people know that she is "not worthy", so they do their best to satirize.
For example, you can see her terrier in American dramas.
It was even listed as the most hated star NO.1.
In fact, if you say that several 90-point films, one of which finally won the award by means of public relations, then everyone will not say anything, because originally these are a horizontal line of works, whoever takes it is the same.
However, how can it not be a joke that you forcibly pull a sixty-point film to the head of a bunch of eighty-ninety-ninety films, and you have to pull your own actress to take the back seat?
Although Weinstein has now fallen, the recent new regulations of the Oscars have further restricted the performance of good films.
Let's see what happens to the Oscars in the future.