Happy nine. Nominees for the Academy Academy "Oscar" were announced. An atypical number of paintings - not ten, but nine claims for the title of the best film this time. Briefly characterize the main applicants and put them in places from the 9th to the 1st in accordance with the chances of success-the New Times tried Last week, the most authoritative of the Hollywood guilds, a producer, with gigantic influence on Oscar’s layouts, awarded its annual prizes. The main, for the best gaming picture, the guild gave the French tragicomedy about the silent age of Hollywood "Artist". So, Oscar had a favorite. But is he a favorite?
It is difficult not to notice among the Oscar academics that they are usually unusual for them with a scatter and staggering. This is a plus for an Oscar race. So, it can finally give rise to surprises, while in recent years it has developed too predictably. The scatter is already evidenced by the fact that the list of Oscar nominees for the title of the best film thoroughly divorced a dozen gemons of 2011 tapes according to the producers guild.
Until recently, both producers and Oscar nominated for the title of better five paintings. In recent years - ten. Often the lists coincided one to one. But in 2011, a new decision was made: the number of candidates for Oscar for the best film of the year will range from five to ten-it is only necessary to overcome the five percent barrier when voting at the level of nominations. It turned out that the producers allocated ten paintings this time, and nine fell into the Oscar nominees. Moreover, three did not go to the nominees from the producer list at once: “Bridegroom in Vegas” (and correctly-the average version of “Sex in the City”), “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (also right: a good film, but not exceeding the recent Scandinavian) and “March Ida” (here it is sorry, there are many details about the unshakable American values during the time elections).
Suddenly, the cinema of Europe and America clearly dispersed. America completely or almost ignored the paintings that took many significant European prizes in 2011: Lars von Trier, recognized by the European Film Academy, the best film of the year (not a single Oscar nomination), Steve Maccuin (not a single), “Drive” by Nicholas Vinding Refine (one, secondary). The psychological thriller "Spy, go out!" Thomas Alfredson, although he is a favorite of the British movie thecake of BAFTA. It is good at least the fact that the scriptwriters who elegantly converted the first-first novel John Le Carre, and the amazing Gary Oldman, elegantly converted to the Oscar.
This year Oscar demonstrates the disappointment of American academicians in modern cinema and modernity as such. Two of the nine main nominant films are explained in the love of Paris of the past, and one is Hollywood of the past. Two out of nine are explained in love to the old cinema, one - the culture of the beginning of the twentieth century. Six out of nine films are historical. Of the three remaining two - also about the significant events of the departed - albeit recent - an era.
The second most important Oscar nomination is the “Best Director”. There are still five films in it. According to the experience of past years, only the one that is simultaneously nominated for the statuette for the best directing is able to claim the title of the best picture of the year. Therefore, films that are not nominated for directing, we have shifted to the bottom of our rating.
9 "terribly loud and prohibitively close" (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close) Stephen Doldri. We have a way out on April 5 Dark horse in the Oscar list. In Europe, they did not see the film, it is presented there in February at the Berlin Film Festival. In America, where the film was released in limited rental, the filmmakers took it skeptical - at www.imdb.com his assessment of only 6.3 out of 10. However, the original source - the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer received good reviews after translation and publication. It's about a boy who lost his father during an attack on the twin tower. The father, with whom they were fond of historical delights, left the key to some mysterious castle. Now the boy travels around New York, meeting different people who survived the tragedy, trying to choose the key to the my father’s riddle. Stars from Tom Hanks to Max von Syudov.
8 “The man who changed everything”(in the original Money Ball) Bennett Miller. Managed to go out even on DVD The drama about baseball, in which the effective manager of the poor middle peasant team, using mathematical calculations that had not previously used in this game, creates a superglub. The universal meaning of the film is that if losers give a chance, then they may be stronger than recognized masters. But in general, as they say, a strong sports drama. The Oscar interest in her can only be explained by the Americans’s love of Basbole, which is incomprehensible to us, and even the fact that the film is worth the nonsense of Pitt - as a producer. He plays the main role and, by the way, is separately nominated for the acting Oscar.
7 "War Horse) Stephen Spielberg. I went out on January 26 Spielberg was already shooting about the Second World War, now he shot about the first, placing a horse into the center of the plot, which was “drafted into the army” from a farm in good old England and sent to the bloody French fields. The horse passes from hand to hand, revealing the most human in people, until he meets his faithful master again - a young guy who went to the front as a volunteer after him. Many spectacular combat scenes, many spectacular pacifist and, perhaps, too much pathetic. It will be strange if Spielberg is awarded the next Oscars. His talent was respected by another high nomination. Well, enough - this is how most likely, most academicians will judge.
6 "The Help"(The Help) Tate Taylor. We have - from February 16 Drama with a serious rating on www.imdb.com (8.1 - and all that is above 8 is cool) and the plot almost never met in Hollywood. The history of humiliation and awakening of the self-awareness of women, who in the early 1960s, almost a hundred years after the abolition of slavery in America, still continued to be called in the southern states (in this case about Mississippi) with colored, blacks. And they were forced, calling the white youngsters of “Maam”, to respect the so -called laws of Jim Crowe - the laws of racial segregation, finally canceled in the southern states of the US Supreme Court only in 1964. An amazing discovery: after the film, you understand that black women brought up all the whites in the southern states of the United States! What did not interfere with some children when they grow up, to forbid their nannies to use common restrooms. In the development of the film too many predictable. The good in it are already very good, and the bad ones are bad. He will hardly receive the main “Oscar” (not nominated for a prize for directing), but some others, including for female roles, seem to go.
5 "Midnight in Paris" (Midnight in Paris) Woody Allen. I went out in the fall The first of the five films, simultaneously nominated for Oscar for the best directing (which immediately triples his chances for the title of the best film of the year), is loved, it seems, by all and became the most cash register film by Woody Allen in the world box office. It is necessary: to finish to the very cash film at the age (at the time of filming) 75 years! The New Times
wrote about "midnight" in which the modern American screenwriter fails to Paris of the 1920s with its legendary artistic bohemian
** The New Times No. 16 dated May 16 and No. 44, 45 of December 26, 2011. It is doubtful that Allen is falling off the main Oscar statuette - this would mean to look at the pleasant, but the past. But the Oscar for directing, which, by the way, would be the first in his glorious career (he has one Oscar for the best film and two for the best original script) ... Why not?
4 "Guardian of Time" (in the original Hugo) Martin Scorsese. I went out with us on January 5 The first so -called family film of the hard classic Scorsese and the first in 3D format. A rare case when 3D is appropriate- it
Lilo Scorsese create a truly magical world on the screen. This is a world of fictional Paris between the two world wars, fantastic clock mechanisms and fantastic cinema. “The Keeper of Time” is an explanation of love to Jorge Meles, one of the founders of film resort, the creator of the first tricky film fantasies. The main character - the boy - accidentally meets Meles, who has long lost the negatives and copies of his paintings, tries to forget about his great past and works as an old man in the doll shop. At some point, the film is harmful to the fact that he turns into an educational story about who was Meles, how the movie began, etc. At the same time, the film repeats the old misconception that the cinema was invented by the Lumiere brothers-they just came up with the first public movie series. “The Keeper of Time” - the record holder for the number of nominations - eleven (the “artist” - ten).
3 "Descendants" (The Descendants) Alexander Payne. I went out with us on January 26 The only film about modernity in the list. The protagonist depicts the producer of the film George Clooney, after his wife fell into a coma, makes an unpleasant discovery: it turns out that his wife was different. This, however, helps the character to find mutual understanding with two teenage daughters. And also to take an important decision for the people (everything happens on Hawaii) on the hoppers of a huge coastal territory, which belongs to their family - mixed descendants of the British and local Hawaiian kings. In the opinion of the author of these lines, the film is calculated, even sterile. But Payne after the paintings “On Schmidt” and “On the side of the road” are quoted among Oscar academics as one of the most serious filmmates of America.
1-2 "Artist" (The Artist) Michel Khazanavichus. Will come out with us on February 16 A clear forecast, who will take the main Oscar, is difficult to do this time. Therefore, we will divide the forecast in two. For the “artist”-and this is the lord of Hollywood-the highest (8.5) rating on www.imdb.com, a lot of critical awards received in America and, more material, a prize for the best film of 2011 from the guild of producers. In three cases out of four, the film marked by the Guild of Producers became the owner of the most important Oscar for the best film of the year. Against is that although in this silent film subtitles in English are occupied by the famous Hollywood actors (from John Goodman to Malcolm MacDauella in the episode, despite the fact that the two main roles are still performed by the French), the film is French, and the Oscar never awarded its main prize of the tape from the non -ang -speaking country.
1-2 "Tree of life" (The Tree of Life) Terrence Malik. I went out in the summer Then suddenly the chances of the “Tree of Life” grow up, on which no one put at all before the declaration of nominations. This film, in which the story and tragedy of one specifically taken American family is projected onto the fate of the universe, has already taken, contrary to the split among film critics, the main prize of the Cannes Film Festival. Why not find the main Oscar now? Malik is a classic of classics, the legendary creator of American cinema of the 1970s: “Wasteland”, “Harvest Days”. He is the author of the no less famous “thin red line”. The paradox, but this master of American directing almost did not fall before the field of view of Oscar. Meanwhile, for the history of Oscar, it would certainly be important that Terrens Malik be its owner.
