[Article] Oscar: Instructions for use.

This material is not about who will win. And we will not guess the winners. We will deal with predictions next month, in front of the film award, in Stream with one fashionable translator and king of Galperia.

Yesterday I rolled out a brief note on my VK wall. While I wrote it, I realized that I still do not cut the specifics of some nominations (technical), and we must understand more serious. In addition, the local srachik flared up, and it turned out that some points require explanations, proofs and historical reference.

Usually I avoid such formulations, but let’s be honest: movie academics are those still ghouls. Anyone who at least once sat down to watch the paintings who received the Oscar, probably seriously disappointed. The Internet is full of comments of random people who are running through the list of nominees, watching a half of the film at random, and then they write: “Do not listen to the cinema huts, you need to trust the reviews of friends”, “They choose some kind of dull, Oscar does not mean anything at all” and, my beloved: “I take into account the presence of an Oscar! If he is, then the film shit!”.

We recognize an objective fact: for the layman Oscar is not a guarantor of quality.

But, on the other hand, it cannot be that anyone would be nominated! They cannot take away exclusively sad shit – there are Cannes (joke, joke) for this). Good cinema on the “Main Film Premium of the World” still comes across. And now I will tell you how to look for it: you just need to correctly understand the essence of the nominations, know a little specificity and represent the inner kitchen.

1. The best film of the year.

What to watch: We don’t look at anything.

On this nomination we put the bolt right away. If you are looking for a good movie, it is useless to look for it here. Until 2010, the winners really meant something: “The old people have no place”, “apostates”, “baby for a million” were much cooler than their competitors in all respects. If you see the old “best film of the year”, then you have to watch.

But recently, this nomination is determined by anything, but not the quality of the film. The prize can be given for the correct ideology. For the social significance of the picture, for its experimentality. In addition, the film studios strongly crush: “The best films of the year” are especially carefully advertised, subtly positioned. The winner in this nomination brings a lot of money from sales on DVD and cinema sessions – therefore, they often even guess the release so that after the prize, the audience can break into the cinema halls.

Since 2010, minced meat is going on in the nomination. The very average “lady of the storm” won simply because it is socially significant, shows the difficult fate of an American soldier. And allows you to poke James Cameron once again, for the ex -wife will arrange him.

Further – even more controversial. “Black Swan” loses “The King Says”, “Argo Operation” is cooler than “Life Pi” and “Dzhango released”, and last year they won “12 years of slavery”, which, it seems, did not like anyone at all. The winner becomes “Drama against the backdrop of historical events”, “The story of a big man” or “Politically the right movie”. Okay, I’m not saying that they specially choose something bad. I say that victory in recent years means nothing. And do not be afraid that miss something: worthy will still catch our eye in other nominations.

2. The best director’s work.

We look: winner.

In fact, the best film of the year can be hidden here. The award for directing means that the movie has a whole, intelligible idea. That it is sustained in an even rhythm that it is harmonious. The worse the “film of the year” will be chosen, the steeper the “best director” will be cooler. Koaron for “gravity”, whether for “life pi”. You can watch all nominees, but there is especially no need.

In the historical perspective with this, more or less normal. Old “best directors” always fire. There are a lot of Eastwood, Zemeckis with Forrest Gamp, Forman and Amadeus, and so on.

There is, however, one stupid tendency: Oscar loves to get out of one film and give him all the awards. Unlike the Golden Globe, where everyone gets on the gingerbread, they win here in one gulp. 5, 7, sometimes 12 nominations at once. And the best film can drag the director. For the same reason. The same “artist”, “ruler of the storm”, “the king speaks!”.

The “lack of stylistic integrity” is to blame for. Tarantino royal-fortune.uk/ is a very bright, perirable director, who grew up on a trash and is often guided by the principle “let it be also carbon monoxide!!”. He was nominated twice: for “criminal reading” and “inglorious bastards”, but even there and there for Tarantino is more important than a cool episode than harmony, even narrative and a single idea.

3. Best male role.

We look: winner and nominees if you like them.

Very good nomination, but here not without pitfalls. Victory means that this is a very interesting character, and, therefore, the film has a good script. It will be interesting to watch, but the hero is played really cool. The winners are very awesome: Sean Penn in the “Mysterious River”, McConahi in the “Dallas Club of Buyers”, Spacey in the “Marine Beauty”, and even in the boring “Lincoln” Day-Lyuis looked interesting.

The winner is always good, but sometimes there are nominees better. For example, it is very sorry for Bardem in Beutiful, Bale in the American scam, Depp in the “Magic Country”. This is because many awards give for previous merits and contribution to the industry, if it was not before. Therefore, any actor interesting to you, not even a winner, is worthy of viewing.

Someday it will definitely get its statuette for the above reasons. He always puffs, tries, shouts loudly and makes an impression on the viewer, but, in fact, this is not enough. Leo always remains himself: he does not largely control facial expressions, does not always change plastic. Once I watched a video dedicated to Robin Williams, and this man even Faispalm in each film did differently, depending on the song. Still, which is very important – Leo ironically obeys the director of the director, as they say. That is, he rarely brings his own to the image, but perfectly executes instructions. And he is not lost 40 kilograms, this is important.

4. Best female role.

We look: Do not look.

We, boys, miss this nomination. Unlike a man, the “best actress” will play either an old woman, or will be most of the film to suffer. This, of course, is cool, but very much for an amateur. I will not recommend Kate Blantestt in “Jasmine” or Cotillard in the role of Edith Piaf, “Life in Pink”. (Let me remind you, we are driving a guide under the average film amateur. I’m not saying a bad movie).

If someone is cool in there, like Portman in the Black Swan … (She was given a reward not for suffering, but for a gorgeous lesbian scene with cute Kunis, I’m sure) … then we will see this movie somewhere in other nominations.

With secondary roles about the same garbage.

5. The best original script.

We look: The whole nomination.

“The best films always get a prize for the best script”. Said Quentin Tarantino, receiving the second Oscar as a screenwriter. And he is right. The script is the best space for actors to play well;the best story that does not tear off from;The most witty dialogs.

You need to watch reinforced concrete the whole nomination. Even when the “Dzhango freed” wins is the “kingdom of the full moon”, and next to “the king says!”Hide” fighter “. And even some incomprehensible movie, for example, “Bordy in Vegas” or “Love” Haneca can become pleasant discoveries.

6. The best adapted script

We look: Do not look.

In the ass. That’s serious. Adapted script is “We made a script based on a book. Or biographies. Or grandmother’s letters “. The success of adaptation, competent arrangement is noted, but even the winner is unbearably boring, because, corny, “the book is better”. These are not too memorable “descendants” of Clooney, “Treasure”, “12 years of slavery” and well-tak-and-and-in-and-in-and-out “Operation Argo”. She is still nothing, but also loses to most original scenarios.

7. Best animated full -length film.

We look: All that have not yet been in the cinema.

Here is the alignment. There are always 2-3 nominees from Pixar and Dreamworks. Most likely they will win. Exclusively politics and classical academicity of the production. Cartoons, of course, are good, but they are unlikely to be able to surprise something.

The secret of the nomination lies in incomprehensible Mexican nouns. They must eat: Academics correct points and say: “Yes, we are watching animation from around the world”. And they really select the most adult and interesting cartoons in the year. The nominees were “illusionist”, “trio from Belville”, “the wind is strong”, “the incomparable Mr. Fox”. This is always amazing, non -standard visually, coolly directed work. The main thing is to get together with the spirit and force yourself to see this, at first glance very strange, damp.

8. The best film in a foreign language.

We look: The whole nomination.

A similar situation. First, understand the essence correctly. These are the best films of the world. Technically, the nomination is absolutely equivalent to the main prize and is separated simply due to the language barrier. Sometimes politics seeps, but there is not so much.

In the cinemas of Russia, they simply do not roll European or Asian cinema. This does not make him bad. The mead of our viewer is to blame. So the list of nominees must be watched necessarily and completely, powerfully expands the horizons and practically guarantees excellent viewing. There were “hunting”, “beauty” and “love”, and “life of others” and “labyrinth of the faun”.

I. The best visual effects.
Come on, you already went to the cinema for all this.

10. Technical nominations: sound, operator, artists, installation.
You do not understand this nichrome. Dot. You do not know the installation rules, and the best installation is generally invisible. Artists generally painted concepts, not the film made. Sound and his monatage on dubbing will be port. And no, you do not understand anything in the operator work. That’s for sure. If the director is not koaron, then do not even stick, earn only bewilderment, where there are cool operators there.

11. The best song.
Well, drop it on the player, okay.

12. Short.

We look: Yes.

Yes, you have to watch it. The short form is much easier to make more interesting than a hour and a half film. Cartoons are generally amazing, there such a visual extravaganza turns around. And if you see black humor in the lists of nominees, watch it with a run urgently! It will surely be super meal.

Of course, all of the above is a very simplified picture. In some points, it may not even coincide with my own opinion. But if you really want to somehow study the list of the best films per year, then they should be highlighted in this way. One way or another, who does not get there. Whoever wins is yes, it happens. : D