Although Oscar is a clear night, Sean Baker “Anura”, She received prizes in five categories, all of which are major producers – the most, actress, directing, editing, and original scenario – its producers were the largest winners, because the main theme in the evening celebrations was production. All three film producers – Baker, Samantha Chiwan (partner), Alex Coco – were made of manufacture, and they all confirmed that their production was independent production (with a budget of six million dollars and a crew of about forty, according to Lukuko) and love and dedication. In this, he was far from alone. “Brutal“Independently made for about ten million dollars, won three prizes; Adrian Brody won the Best Actor Award, and the film also won the original result and cinematic filming.”Real pain“Fire at about three million dollars, Kieran Culkin brought the statues to the best support actor. The great Pixar fell on the feature of independent animation,” Flow “, which was achieved by about four million dollars by the Gints Zilbalodis director with what a basic crew of” two or three “.
Good night for an independent movie not at all unprecedented; In fact, it was a noticeable trend over the past decade, as it is clear from three of the eight awards for “”moonlight“In 2017, and three out of six”Nomadland“In 2021. However, in the context of the same ceremony, these visible victories in fact shed light on the paradoxes and conflicts that threaten economic institutions for the independent filmmaking industry, which constitute a painful mystery of the producers and other film members, in Hollywood and around the world, who constitute members of the academy. A billion people watch it all over the world. However, the best filming candidates this year with box office revenue from the assumption, “evilAnd “and”Sandin dunes: Part Two(Each of them more than seven hundred million dollars so far), has returned to their homes with only design and technology, respectively – recognition of elements that cost clear money.
In other words, the most important Academy Awards went to the films that a few viewers watched. However, while the prizes have gone out of Glitz, the Oscar party is not anything if not attractive. Like franchise and IP films to satisfy the crowds that the academy publishes largely, the display is a large and exaggerated budget production, so the account in its micro -doses of passion and magic, so that it cannot be accessed now on the borders. Just as Tentpole films are tested and managed to death, the Academy Awards party bent into distortions to meet what executives decided that the public at home wants. The ceremony works for a very long time? Well, accelerate it: Keep the Shticks shortcuts for the presenters, cut the admission speeches by dramatic force, and maintain the winners (usually) the winners of the Honorary Oscars abroad, as they wandered at a loud party that was placed outside the general view before the new year. But do not go quickly so that there is no way to make it in a show. (How much do presidents talk about, no matter how famous?) So be sure to perform songs and then find excuses for more production numbers. In one of them, Oprayne conclusively sang repeatedly, “I will not waste time”, and it was a complete waste of time.
The result is that the heart of the evening-that is, the opportunity to see members of the major films resemble themselves for more than the length of the bite of sound or a list of thanks-ever, as if the show apologizes for what is essential. With each disk, the concert becomes more distorted, more escalatory, less fun, lesser and less celebrated. With the forced chanting of his heavy speed, it has the warmth and magic of urgent care. There is a little humanity to a statue of statues nervously in the strict face of the time, and the producers click their feet in the wings.
When Sean Baker accepted his best guidance award, from Quentin Tarantino, he urged movie makers, distributors and viewers to embrace cinemas, for “a community experience that you do not simply get at home.” In one part of the filmed comedy, Operene presented a handful of broadcasting customers to the concept of the novel for the cinema, a building in which they are broadcast for them, live and widely – a cinematic theater. However, the Oscar -winning films do not attract major fans to theaters. I also love to go to the cinema, but the efforts made to reach wide fans with specialized films similar to urging readers to buy newspapers and printed magazines; It is an appeal to nostalgia.
This may be the reason why the success of independent films at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, most often, is just a form of progress. The great winners may have been presented on strict budgets and under exhausting circumstances, but they are aesthetically conservative-not progress in a cinematic form, but a postponement of serious and emotional human realism that was long in the field of Hollywood instead of the most advanced artistic cinema. There is no guarantee that a small and realistic movie, made by an artist dedicated enthusiastically for the project, will be better-more creative, more inspiring, more original, and more personal-than made with a large high-level budget than the artist. This bias has cost one of the most distinguished films in recent years.Barbie“The praise you deserve, while the amazing dramatic “Obenheimer” is a big record.
There is not a lot of style in “in”Anura“The BRUTALIST”, or “real pain”, but such films have the advantage of not needing one: to satisfy their intended audience, all they need is a good text and a good actor that can be photographed. On the contrary, a movie of the scene requires elegance, and that the method is not a matter of intention – it is closely related to the personality and the presence of directors more than the story or the topic. Very music, comedy, or direct imagination, and why it is difficult to create a more difficult Oscar than it is more than that in order to present a more fundamental mark, at the level of human being, to be ready, and speak automatically.
My biggest surprise was Mickey Madison’s victory for the best actress, which I was expecting Demi Moore to win, for her performance in French director Corali Vargate.Article“The result is cruelly reflects the theme of the Fargeat movie, which is a science imagination about the age that the actresses face in Hollywood. Moore plays a award-winning actress in her fifties, which no longer gets film roles, as a host of a TV exercise, and after she lost this party because of her age, she takes the essence of the movie title-a medication renewal with possible side effects. Moore and Madison’s performance Both of them are wonderful. It will win the accurate industrial and social criticism integrated in the “matter”, and I hope this victory will help it get a wide range of films. However, last night, life did not follow art: the youth were presented.
As for the glorification of independence at the Academy Awards ceremony, I found that it was less clear in the main awards more than one moment, when the candidates were announced for the best cinematic filming, and the camera showed for a short period, one of them ED Lachman, was nominated.Maria“It is not a very good movie, but Lachman is the ideal model for making modern independent films-not only because of his skill in wonders working on low budgets, but because he developed the vision of film makers such as Paul Schrader, Steven Soderbergh, Sofia Coppola, Todd Haynes, Shirley Clarke and Werner Werner and WIM WIM. Godard.
The successes of “Anora”, “The Brutalist” and “A Real Pain” open the door somewhat broader to movie makers from a relatively bold ambition on thin budgets. Even if they do not know the progress of the art of cinema, they represent a higher position, a greater scope of work, for the field that was already a major engine for cinematic progress, that is, independent film industry. The Academy’s readiness to support it as the avatar of industry aspirations and the ideals, despite its modest commercial prospects, represents a degree of progress, although this suffocates almost elegantly and content, through the ceremony that is fabricated for deception itself. ♦
