Looking back from the perspective of twenty years later, in November and December 1998, countless art films were bombarded in concentrated areas. Although the entire market was in chaos and there was almost no strategy at all, they just rushed forward, which allowed film practitioners to see more excellent works and also buried many excellent works. However, this melee is considered to be the first year of the emergence of "Awards Season" and "Academic Public Relations". Since then, the awards season has officially entered people's sight, further improving the commercialization of the film industry.

The 71st Academy Awards Ceremony is the iconic awards ceremony in the first year of the awards season.

During the nomination stage, it did not cause enough sensation at the beginning of its release, and the reputation and depth of the work were far from outstanding, and it later achieved an incredible counterattack. It appeared on the Oscar nomination list in a parachute, which made everyone in North America take a breath. When did the world change without realizing it?

"Shapes' Love History" has led the nomination list with thirteen nominations. This result is second only to "Titanic" and "Come Beauty" in the long history. It is tied for the second most nominations in Oscar history, along with classic film history such as "Gone with the Wind" and "Loyal Soul of the Trouble" and "Loyal Soul of the Trouble".

"Shapes' Love History" is not only beyond "Saving Private Ryan", but also as simple as "Trueman's World" becoming the biggest winner in the nomination stage, but also joining the best in film history, showing a devastating attitude, which directly surprised everyone.

Could it be that... "Shapespeare's Love History" has reached the height of "Titanic" and "Gone with the Wind"? But why no one has the feeling like this? Almost everyone is enjoying the grandeur of the war scene of "Save the Soldier Ryan" and the humanity behind the war, discussing the bloody entertainment of "Trumen's World" until death and the urgency to pursue freedom, but no one can tell the historical weight of the work "Shapespeare's Love History". When did Oscars become so "commercial"?

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

"Shapes' Love History" ruled the nomination list with an absolutely strong attitude, including the six major awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, All of them were shortlisted for the final competition. In addition, technical awards such as Best Movie Editing, Best Soundtrack, Best Costume Design, Best Art Director, Best Photography, Best Audio, Best Makeup, etc., thirteen nominations, and even showed a stronger momentum than last year's "Titanic" After all, the advantages of "Titanic" are in the technical department, and the main departments are still slightly inferior.

It can be said that in addition to the Best Actor, "Shapes' Love History" has been shortlisted for almost all major departments. Their popularity reminds people of the treatment of many film history classics. It is shocking, but it is even more puzzled. Is the Oscar going to change again? And it is not noticed by everyone.

Following closely behind "Shapespeare's Love History" is "Save Private Ryan", which is considered to surpass "Schindler's List". The Normandy landing at the opening of this work has been regarded as a classic film history, once again writing Steven Spielberg's super myth. In the end, "Save Private Ryan" received eleven nominations, and is still one of the most champion works at the Oscars.

Due to the overall theme, "Save Private Ryan" has obviously insufficient competitiveness in the main departments. The four nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay were not able to keep up with the "Shapes Love History"; however, the technical department is not inferior. The seven nominations for Best Movie Editing, Best Photography, Best Audio, Best Soundtrack Editing, Best Art Director, Best Soundtrack, Best Makeup will do its best to compete in various awards.

Another popular work at the end of the year, "The World of Truman", followed closely with ten nominations, and did not show much decline. Moreover, compared to "Saving Private Ryan", "The World of Truman" faces "Shapes' Love History" head-on in almost every award.

The main award department, "Trueman's World" will include all six nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, including "Trueman's World" lacks the competitive power of the Best Actress Department, but Nicole Kidman won the first Oscar nomination in her life with her outstanding performance, and she has definitely won the award.

In addition, "Trumen's World" has also received nominations for four technical departments, including Best Movie Editing, Best Soundtrack, Best Photography, Best Audio. However, these departments need to face the strong performance of "Save Private Ryan". Obviously, "Trumen's World" is the weak side.

It can be predicted that the competition between the two works "Trueman's World" and "Shapes' Love History" will be extremely fierce from the Golden Globe Awards to the Oscars. On the surface, the two are evenly matched, but those who really understand the inside know that "Shapes' Love History" has the upper hand and is absolutely superior. So what about the Oscars? At least in the nomination stage, "Shapes' Love History" once again gained a lead, and "Trueman's World" is now placed as an impactor. It is definitely not that simple to achieve a counterattack.

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

Surprisingly, the "Central Station" that shined at the Golden Globe Awards was completely neglected, and only received two nominations for Best Actress and Best Foreign Language Film, and replaced it with the Italian work "Beautiful Life". This work received zero nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, but it was released at the Oscars, and its overall momentum can even be compared with "Shapespeare's Love History".

"Beautiful Life" was not only shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Awards, but also ranked in the main award departments such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Soundtrack, Best Movie Editing, and Best Original Screenplay, showing strong competitiveness and is very likely to become the biggest disruptor 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 attention with seven nominations in the Oscar stage. At least from the current nomination distribution, the deviation between the Golden Globes and the Oscars has far exceeded expectations. Perhaps, the name of the weather vane needs to be considered again.

In fact, although "Beautiful Life" and "Thin Red Line" did not receive enough attention at the Golden Globe Awards, the industry evaluations of these two works were very high. The former won the Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and received high praise at the European Film Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards; the latter won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, and received unanimous praise from the academics. The unique scene has become the subject of research by many academics.

The emergence of the two cannot even be called a "dark horse", but should be said to be a natural thing.

This is the overall situation on the nomination list, and refining it on each award shows more interesting details.

Among the five competing works of the Best Picture, "Shapes' Love History" and "Trueman's World" are tit-for-tat, "Save Private Ryan" and "Thin Red Line" are needle-pointed, and "Beautiful Life" has great hope to become a contestant who changes the entire situation.

Originally, people's attention was mainly focused on "Save Private Ryan" and "Trueman's World". The outstanding performance of the two works in the summer season allowed people to lock the Oscars between the two early, but the storm of the awards season at the end of the year changed suddenly. First, "Shapes' Love History" emerged, and even later came from above to overtake, and now it has become the leader; the "thin red line" is not to be outdone, and it is a huge momentum, carrying the Berlin Golden Bear Awards to launch a fierce impact. No one should forget that "Death-in-law Walk" made a breakthrough three years ago.

As a result, the pattern has become extremely chaotic, not to mention that there is a highly praised "Beautiful Life". The representative of this European film has almost captured the hearts of all European professional filmmakers. The power of Hollywood expatriates cannot be ignored.

"Beautiful Life" is a very interesting work. Its subject matter is like "Save Private Ryan" and "Thin Red Line" and are locked in the story during World War II, but its style is divided into the comedy department like "Shapes' Love History" and "Trueman's World". The story shows profound themes in a humorous way, and is more bold and absurd than "Trueman's World", which almost reminds people of Charlie Chaplin at his peak.

It can be seen that the competition among the five works is completely entangled, and the five nominees of the Best Director are the shooters of these five works, and the five candidates of the Best Movie Editing are also these five works. It can be seen that the popularity of the five works can be completely along the way, and there is no distinction between overall quality, reputation, attention, etc.

Above the 67th Academy Awards Ceremony, the three-legged stadium of "Forrest Gump", "Pulp Novels" and "Shawshank Redemption" are hailed as the most competitive awards ceremony in the past decade. Even twenty years later, people still talk about this awards ceremony. But in fact, this is just a three-legged stadium. The other two works, "Four Weddings and One Funeral", and the overall momentum of "behind the scenes lies" is slightly inferior and cannot form a head-on confrontation.

But now, the competition for the best film has five works that are enough to go hand in hand. The five works are not weak and show an absolutely strong posture. This is considered to be the second true death group in film history since 1975!
Chapter completed!