Will this year's Oscars be as predictable as the Golden Globes?
On March 10th, the 96th Academy Awards will take place in Hollywood. This year's Oscars are considered to be fairly predictable.
The Oppenheimer explosion was as powerful as the "nuclear explosion" that Christopher Nolan recreated, and it has already garnered hundreds of pre-Oscar awards.
The competition is also formidable, with films like Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, The Zone of Interest, and Barbie . And while predictable, the Oscars have a history of surprising audiences.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, a short film predicted to win this year's Oscars by veteran director Wes Anderson - Photo: Netflix
When even the all-time number one movie misses out on an Oscar.
Every year, across many Oscar categories, we can name a few names that stand out significantly. The results are often obvious, but sometimes they are completely unexpected.
The film currently topping IMDb's charts, The Shawshank Redemption, failed to win any of the seven categories it was nominated for at the 1994 Oscars.
Artistic glory is sometimes like the setting sun, but no one expects the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to vouch for an immutable value.
Although viewership has fluctuated over the years, in 2021, a year considered to have the lowest viewership on record for the Oscars, more than 10 million people watched the awards ceremony.
Ten million people witnessed all the extravagance and superficiality of cinema.
Ten million people focus on the glamorous dresses, the often unfunny antics, and the host's not-so-charming jokes.
The Oscars are like a stage with people coming and going. Romeo will drink poison and Juliet will commit suicide. Everyone knows that, but the audience still waits to see it.
Perhaps a surprising twist will come, like a savior arriving just in time for both of them. After all, audiences enjoy witnessing miracles or small everyday wonders.
In the movie La La Land , characters may drift apart and dreams may shatter, but they can still dance together under a starry city sky ( City of Stars is the film that won the Oscar for Best Original Song).
And just last year, Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture. Before that, a raw, unvarnished version of the "American Dream" in Nomadland took the win.
The Shawshank Redemption, the 1994 masterpiece that missed out on an Oscar, still leaves many film lovers with a lingering sense of regret today - Photo: IMDb
Even under a starry night, there are still dark corners.
Even on this starry night, there are still hidden aspects yet to be illuminated. How many short films, documentaries, or animated short films nominated this year do we remember?
Winners of these awards are often only mentioned in the news as a formality, alongside more illustrious names. Filmmakers often choose short films as a trial run to take their first steps into filmmaking.
This year's Oscars saw the opposite. Veteran director Wes Anderson, with countless awards and nominations, delivered a short film with balanced framing that was indistinguishable from his feature films.
The film, titled The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, is part of a series of short films directed by Wes Anderson, adapted from the books of the late author Roald Dahl. The film features a story within a story. Opening one doll reveals another doll with mischievous, twinkling eyes.
Wes Anderson belongs to the "jokers" club. Joking with reality, joking with himself, joking with realistic cinema. He doesn't care.
His work has a murmuring storytelling quality. Scenes are dismantled and reassembled. It playfully challenges the boundaries between stage and film. And it has Oscar nominations.
The 180 minutes of Oppenheimer and the 18 minutes of After (nominated for the Oscar for best short film) are similar in their weight of humanity in a realm of absurdity. Oppenheimer portrays the absurdity of war, while After portrays the absurdity of life.
A man loses his wife and daughter in a moment of accidental, brutal, and inexplicable grief. Finally, his pain erupts in the embrace of a stranger, a young girl. Who dares say that human suffering cannot be as destructive as a bomb?
Without prestigious film awards like the Oscars, how many of us would bother to look at Chilean cinema?
This year, their representative is El Conde , nominated for Best Cinematography. Humorous and dark, El Conde deserves a place, however humble, on your list of movies to watch.
With this year's Oscars, you're pretty sure to guess at least half of the categories correctly. And if that's not surprising enough, maybe in the middle of the ceremony, a winning male actor will run onto the stage and slap the host in the face. Who knows, that's happened before.
One hundred years old, but not old.
The world of cinema celebrated its centenary a long time ago. The Hollywood sign, perched atop the hill, also commemorated its centenary last December.
But cinema doesn't get old. Themes may repeat from one film to the next, but it still captivates us through the language of cinema.
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