Oscar is predictable, still waiting

Will this year's Oscars be as predictable as the Golden Globes?

On March 10, the 96th Academy Awards will take place in Hollywood. This year's Oscars are considered quite predictable.

Oppenheimer has the same destructive power as the "nuclear explosion" that Christopher Nolan recreated, and has now won hundreds of pre-Oscar awards.

The competitors are also "no pushovers" with Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, The Zone of Interest, Barbie . And although predictable, Oscar is not without precedent in surprising the audience.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, a short film predicted to win an Oscar this year by veteran director Wes Anderson - Photo: Netflix

When the top movie of all time also missed the Oscar

Every year in many Oscar categories, we can name a few names that stand out. The results are sometimes obvious, but often beyond prediction.

The film that is proudly standing at the top of IMDb - The Shawshank Redemption missed all 7 categories that it was nominated for at the 1994 Oscar.

Artistic glory is sometimes a late afternoon sun, but no one asks the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to guarantee an immutable value.

Although viewership has fluctuated over the years, in 2021, which was considered to have the lowest viewership of any Oscar season, more than 10 million people tuned in to watch the awards ceremony.

10 million people witnessed all the luxury and frivolity of cinema.

Ten million people tuned in to the gorgeous dresses, the juggling acts that were sometimes unfunny, and the host's jokes that weren't always charming.

The Oscars are a stage full of people coming and going. Romeo will drink poison and Juliet will kill herself. Everyone knows that, but the audience still waits to see.

Who knows, maybe there will be a twist that will leave us stunned like a timely savior for both of them. After all, audiences love to witness miracles or a small miracle in everyday life.

In the movie La La Land , characters can be apart and dreams can be shattered, but they can still dance together under the starry sky ( City of stars in the movie won the Oscar for Best Original Song).

And just last year, Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture. Before that, a naked take on the American dream in Nomadland won.

The Shawshank Redemption, the 1994 masterpiece that missed out on an Oscar, has haunted many movie lovers to this day - Photo: IMDb

In the starry night there are still dark corners

On this starry night, there are still hidden corners that have not been illuminated. How many short films, documentaries, or animated shorts can we remember that were nominated this year?

Winners of these awards are often mentioned in the news as a courtesy, alongside more famous names. Filmmakers often choose short films as an exercise in taking their first steps into cinema.

This year's Oscars saw the opposite case. Veteran director, with countless awards and nominations, Wes Anderson delivered a short film with frames that were as proportional as his feature films.

The film is called The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, part of a series of short films directed by Wes Anderson, adapted from the books of the late author Roald Dahl. The film has a story-within-a-story structure. When you open this doll, there will be another doll blinking mischievously at you.

Wes Anderson belongs to the "joker" club. Joking with reality, joking with himself, joking with realistic movies. He doesn't care.

His work has a narrative murmur. Has scenes that have been disassembled and reassembled. Playfully challenges the boundaries between stage and film. And has an Oscar nomination.

Oppenheimer 's 180 minutes and After 's 18 minutes (Oscar nominated short film) are similar in the weight of being human in an absurd world. Oppenheimer is the absurdity of war, and After is the absurdity of life.

A man lost his wife and daughter in a moment of inexplicable cruelty. His pain finally exploded under the embrace of a strange little girl. Who dares to say that human pain is not as destructive as a bomb?

Without film awards like the Oscars, how many of us would bother to take a look at Chilean cinema?

This year, they're represented by El Conde , nominated for Best Cinematography. Funny and dark, El Conde deserves a spot, albeit a humble one, on your movie watch list.

With this year's Oscars, you're pretty much guaranteed to get at least half of the categories right. If that's not surprising enough, there's a chance that in the middle of the ceremony, a winning actor will run up on stage and slap the host in the face. Who knows, it's happened before.

One hundred years old but not old

The world of cinema has been celebrating its centenary for a long time. The Hollywood sign sprawled on a hill also celebrated its centenary last December.

But cinema is not old. Themes may repeat from film to film, but it still attracts us with the language of cinema.

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