The sea breeze blowing over the Pacific Ocean in March makes the whole of California full of warm spring atmosphere. There is no solemnity and desertion of winter, nor the prosperity and noisy of summer. Spring always has a unique atmosphere, and it stays in California for a short but wonderful time, and then leaves gracefully.

The sound of the hour hand ticking seemed to be still wandering around in my ears. When I looked up at the calendar, I realized, "God, the first quarter of 1995 is about to end!"

Yes, March is coming to an end.

In 2004, in order to cooperate with the summer season, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences held the annual Oscar one month ahead of schedule, which also turned the end of each year's awards season into February. But before that, the Oscars were held at the end of March, away from Valentine's Day, away from the Super Bowl, and away from the cold winter.

The 67th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on the last Sunday of March 27. The expectation that had been brewing for a full three months will explode on this night, and it is also the final summary of the past 1994.

This year's Oscars are undoubtedly the most competitive award ceremony since the 1976 Forty-eighth Academy Awards.

There is a big reason why people are obsessed with the 1970s in history, not only because it was a year of rock stars, but also because it was an year when masterpieces gathered to the peak. Even if the lineup of contenders for the best film at the 48th Academy Awards Ceremony was placed in 2014, it can still play the strongest title in history!

All five works that were elected that year have been recorded in history. Stanley Kubrick's epic masterpiece "Barry.lyndon" is considered by countless people to be "perfect work" and is generally considered to be Kubrick's closest to the Oscars; Robert Ultraman's "Nashville" is even praised as the most outstanding American movie since the "male and female thief". This work is also considered to be Ultraman's pinnacle of satirizing the world, and has influenced countless audiences.

The "Hot afternoon" launched by Sidney Lumet, a master of dramatic conflict, and Al Pacino, is still considered the pinnacle of police and gangster films; and Steven Spielberg developed a new horror film style, which almost influenced a whole generation of people's "Great White Shark". The movie's special effects, sound effects, soundtracks, and editing can be said to have made earth-shaking changes in Hollywood commercial films.

Finally, it is from Milos Forman (los.forman) "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum". It has a high level, profound thoughts, and excellent performances. Time has proved the classic status of this work in film history!

Whether it is the film completion, depth of thought, and its impact on the future film industry, the five works are well-deserved classics of film history. The victory of any work is natural, so when "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" won, although people sighed that they deserved it, they still sighed at the defeat of the other four works.

Such a grand occasion, I have never seen it again since.

When the nomination list for the Oscars this year came out, countless media exclaimed: This is the most intense competition since 1976. This view has been verified in the next twenty years. Even in 2014, countless people were still arguing about which one of the 48th and 67th Oscars is the classic?

The top five seats in this year's Best Picture are "Forrest Gump", "Pulp Novel", "Shawshank Redemption", "Four Weddings and One Funeral", and "Les Behind the Scenes".

Among the five works, the "Forrest Gump" and "Pulp novels" that achieved breakthroughs in all aspects such as "Furious Gump" and "Pulp novels" that were praised by critics, sought after by the audience, strong quality, excellent thoughts, and a bumper box office harvest are undoubtedly the most powerful competitors; the "Shawshank Redemption" that was not paid attention to at the beginning of the release was accompanied by the fermentation and brewing of comments, and came from behind. The extremely high voice also made it surpass its competitors at the last moment, not only received nominations, but also became a strong competitor.

Although the box office of "Four Weddings and One Funeral" in North America was limited, the outstanding original script received unanimous praise, and the strong British humor officially entered the sight of the American public; "Les behind the scenes" involved sensitive topics such as media and truth, recreating the largest TV scandal case in the United States in the 1950s. It can be said to be an in-depth analysis of the entire entertainment industry and thought-provoking.

Behind the strength of these five works are the powerful competitors who were nominated for the nomination, such as "Love Years", "The Lion King", "Born of a Killer", "Bullets over Broadway", "Red of the Blue, White and Red Trilogy", "Little Woman", "Ed Wood", etc. This long list of unselected lists also makes people feel the fierce competition.

However, objectively speaking, although "Four Weddings and One Funeral" is interesting, it is a light comedy and lacks weight in terms of depth of thought; although "Les Behind the Scenes" is profound, director Robert Redford's discussion is only a point and has not been explored in depth, so the overall thickness is also slightly inferior.

What really makes the 67th Oscars and the 48th ones complement each other is the fierce competition between "Forrest Gump", "Pulp novels" and "Shawshank Redemption". The debate over which of these three works is better and worse has continued until twenty years later, but there is still no clear result.

From an objective perspective, the shooting techniques and techniques of "Shawshank's Redemption" are stable. The biggest highlight of this work lies in the core idea of ​​the film: freedom! The sentence "Fear makes you a prisoner, and hopes to make you free again" can be said to have influenced a generation and pushed people's yearning for freedom to the extreme. This is a work whose core spirit is better than the movie itself.

"Pulp novels" are the opposite, with bold styles, alternative forms, and odd-looking. From the pattern of the script to the use of lines, from the shaping of characters to the presentation of humor, all movies break people's fixed thinking, opening a new door for the entire Hollywood, and letting professional filmmakers wake up: it turns out that movies can be shot like this! Compared to the deep digging of ideas, this work is like a title. This is just a vulgar entertainment masterpiece, but its breakthrough innovative techniques have completely changed the development trajectory of Hollywood movies.

"Forrest Gump" is like Yin-Yang Tai Chi, which brings the doctrine of the mean to the extreme. The shooting techniques are flowing, and the story is smooth and the highlights are not lost. Many truths and reflections are combined into the plot and slowly tell them. This work has no innovation in shooting techniques, but it is also a good biography; the depth of thought is not deep into the bone marrow, but it also interprets the "American Dream" to the fullest.

It can be said that "Shawshank Redemption" and "Pulp Novels" are works that people who like very much and dislike sneer at, while "Forrest Gump" can win the love of most audiences. This can be clearly felt from the box office results of the three works.

The comprehensive levels of the three works are similar, and they can be said to be on the same level. Strictly speaking, "Forrest Gump" and "Pu Li Novels" will be slightly higher, but their advantages are not obvious. Therefore, the winners and losses of the three works have become the biggest highlights. This debate has continued from the nomination list to 2014 twenty years later, and is still a topic of opinion.

Therefore, the final highlight of this best film will be **********, which is more exciting than any Oscar in the past twenty years.

This pattern can be seen from the nomination list alone. The conclusion that "Four Weddings and One Funeral" is insufficiently competitive can be directly reflected in the number of nominations. It only received two nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay; the same is true for "Les Behind the Scenes". Although both of the two major cities of Best Picture and Best Director, the acting award was only nominated for one Best Supporting Actor, and in addition, it received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, with only four nominations in hand.

The number of nominations for "Shawshank Redemption" is quite large, but the quality is slightly inferior. In addition to Best Picture, it also won six nominations, including Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Photography, Best Audio, Best Editing and Best Soundtrack, with only seven nominations in total. Not only did it miss the final battle of Best Director, but the male lead Tim Robbins also received nominations.

"Pulp Novels" received seven nominations, but its quality was one position ahead of "Shawshank's Redemption". Although "Pulp Novels" failed to win in the technical department, the acting department won a great victory, winning five important awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actress in one go. In addition, it also received two important nominations for Best Original Script and Best Editing. It can be said that the nomination for "Pulp Novels" swept all departments except the heroine, and its competitiveness level was greatly improved at once.

"Forrest Gump" is currently the most popular work in the nomination stage. No one can match the thirteen nominations. The best film, best director, best actor, best supporting actor, and best adapted scripts in the main departments were all shortlisted. Although there was no gain in female roles, the technical department swept the troops, which was the best make up for it. This also made "Forrest Gump" lead the crowd in the nomination stage.

From this nomination list, we can see that this year is probably a three-legged situation of "Forrest Gump", "Pulp Novels" and "Shawshank Redemption". In the end, who won the death of the enemy also attracted everyone's attention. Obviously, this year's award ceremony is much more exciting than last year's "Schindler's List"! The storm has risen again in an instant!

In terms of works, these three works lead, and there are many topics in single nominations, especially Tom Hanks became the biggest highlight, because at the Golden Globes not long ago, he defeated Hugo, who was highly praised, and won the title of actor again, which also made this year's Oscar's competition for actors one of the biggest highlights besides the best film.
Chapter completed!