The Artist’ Triumphs; Streep Surprises
Senin, 27 Februari 2012 by Android Blackberry
The Artist’ Triumphs; Streep Surprises
Hollywood celebrated its personal roots last night in the 84th annual Academy Awards. The Oscar for finest image of 2011 went to “The Artist,’’ the only silent film to take the top rated prize apart from “Wings,’’ which won in the really very first Academy Awards in 1929. The film also won statues for Michel Hazanavicius’s direction, Jean Dujardin’s lead performance as a silent star struggling with the coming of sound, costume style, and musical score.
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“Hugo,’’ Martin Scorsese’s enchanted salute for the pretty earliest days of cinema, also won 5 Oscars within the “craft’’ categories of cinematography, art direction, visual effects, sound mixing, and sound editing.
The evening’s biggest surprise was Meryl Streep’s very best actress win for her portrayal of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.’’ It was Streep’s 17th nomination, but even though the actress has much more nods than any other performer in the Academy’s history, she hadn’t won an Oscar due to the fact 1982’s “Sophie’s Selection,’’ and the intelligent cash was on Viola Davis for “The Help.’’
The intelligent cash was wrong. In her acceptance speech, Streep thanked her husband, Don Gummer, and her longtime hair and makeup artist Roy Helland, who earlier within the evening won the Oscar for most effective makeup. “I see my life ahead of my eyes, my old buddies and my new buddies,’’ said the jubilant actress, thanking them for “this inexplicably superb career.’’
Dujardin’s performance was based partly on silent icon Douglas Fairbanks, whom the actor cited as an inspiration in his speech. Dujardin is the initially Frenchman to win a best actor award, however the film’s allegiance to Hollywood then and now is clear. In accepting the ideal image award, Hazanavicius thanked the late, legendary writer-director Billy Wilder not when, but three instances.
The award for greatest supporting actress went to a tearful Octavia Spencer for her broadly touching performance in “The Aid.’’ Best supporting actor went to Christopher Plummer for his function as an elderly gay dad in “Beginners.’’
At 82, Plummer may be the oldest performer to ever win an acting Oscar; considerably loved for his a lot of roles more than the years, like Captain Von Trapp in 1965’s “The Sound of Music,’’ “Beginners’’ marked only his second Oscar nomination, immediately after a supporting actor nod for “The Last Station’’ in 2009. Said Plummer as he accepted his statue, “When I first emerged from my mother’s womb, I was already rehearsing my Academy acceptance speech. Thankfully, that was so extended ago, I’ve forgotten it.’’
This year’s Oscars seemed obsessed using the past. “Hugo’’ and “The Artist’’ led the pack with 11 and ten nominations, respectively, and both films looked back to long-vanished eras in filmmaking - the primitive movie magic of special-effects pioneer Georges Melies in “Hugo’’ as well as the tumult from the transition to talking pictures in “The Artist.’’ A lot of the nominees, in actual fact, offered retro pleasures of a single sort or a different, with only “The Descendants’’ and parts of “Midnight in Paris’’ taking spot inside the here and now.
But even “Midnight,’’ director Woody Allen’s largest hit in years and winner of the Oscar for very best original screenplay - as usual, he wasn’t there to accept - was primarily in regards to the lure in the past. Oscar voters appeared to be listening. A recent news article revealing the demographic makeup in the Academy (mainly male, white, and aged) further underscored the culturally conservative tendencies of this, the largest and oldest film awards occasion of them all.
That said, the awarding with the ideal foreign language Oscar to “A Separation’’ marked the initial time the Academy had honored a film from Iran.
Writer-director Asghar Farhadi dedicated his win to the persons of his nation inside a speech that seemed cautiously tailored to prevent political repercussions back household.
Ideal adapted screenplay went to Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Manchester-by-the-Sea native Nat Faxon for their script for “The Descendants,’’ a poignant comedy-drama that at one point last fall looked like a significant Oscar contender but that walked away with only 1 award final night.
Honorary Oscars went to actor James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith, plus the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award went to Oprah Winfrey for her international charity efforts. As expected, the Oscar for best animated feature went for the reptilian spaghetti-western parody “Rango,’’ with director Gore Verbinski thanking his vocal top man, “that real-life chameleon, Johnny Depp.’’
“Undefeated,’’ a crowd-pleaser about a struggling high school football team, won very best documentary feature in a tightly contested category. Most effective brief documentary went to “Saving Face,’’ about efforts to assist female victims of acid attacks in Pakistan.
An unexpected exception for the march of awards for “Hugo’’ and “The Artist’’ was the Oscar for most effective editing to “The Girl With all the Dragon Tattoo,’’ 1 of the couple of nominated films that was squarely inside the culture’s commercial mainstream. In a year in which the relevance in the Academy Awards was the topic of much more debate than usual, the nine films nominated for ideal image included only one particular, the civil rights-era melodrama “The Aid,’’ that made over $100 million at the box workplace. The raucous comedy hit “Bridesmaids’’ was nominated within the writing and supporting actress categories but shut out elsewhere.
The rules for nominating photographs were altered several years ago, in component to let for a broader range of genres and films, but greatest picture nominees like “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,’’ “War Horse,’’ and “Hugo’’ found it comparatively difficult to find broad commercial success.
Despite being moved up a month in 2004, the Oscars still come at the end of a three-month extended march of awards, and suspense is hard to come by. “The Artist’’ debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May and was immediately acclaimed as a dark horse longshot for most effective picture. By Oscar week, immediately after winning a Golden Globe and dozens of other awards, its momentum seemed unstoppable. The top picture win means that “The Artist’’ would be the 1st film to take the top prize in the Oscars, France’s Cesars, the British Academy awards, the Golden Globes, plus the Independent Spirit Awards.
After recent Oscar telecasts tried courting younger audiences to general derision, this year brought actor-comedian Billy Crystal back as host for his ninth time. The opening clip-reel parody and also the song-and-dance number referencing all the ideal picture nominees produced the show feel like 1998 all more than again, even if Justin Bieber made a brief appearance in a comic attempt to “court the 18 to 24 audience.’’
The nominations and wins for “Hugo’’ had been especially a vindication for director Martin Scorsese, who tackled a genre (family fantasy) well outside his accepted purview of crime fiction and who gambled further that 3-D could be more than just a technological fad. That the film employed the latest cinematic gizmo to elevate the oldest ways of making movies was just one additional retro irony in an evening packed with them.
