"I introduced the Oscars to you in the last episode, and today I will mainly talk about the awards season."

Chen Lin instantly turned into a serious face and began to enter the program recording state.

"In fact, Hollywood awards season has a narrow and broad sense. The narrow sense is the general concept of the Academy Awards Season, which we talk about, refers to various film awards awarded from the end of November to February of the following year. In addition to the final Oscars, it can also be divided into three categories: one is the awards of major film critics such as New York and Los Angeles; the second is the Guild Association of Directors, Actors Guild, and Producers Guild; the third is the Gotham Independent Film Award, Golden Satellite Award, Anne Award and other awards.

The awards season in a broad sense is even larger, with various awards and festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival in September, the Fantasy Film Festival in Austin, and the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.

In the early Oscar selection, there was no concept of so-called awards season, only the Golden Globes, the New York Film Critics Association Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and other very few awards that had an impact on the Oscars. However, after entering the 1990s, major cities in North America also launched their own Film Critics Association Awards, and basically chose to present awards between December and early January each year, with more than 40.

Accompanied by this, Hollywood film companies and practitioners are increasingly eager to pursue the Oscars, and their influence and the number of awards they won during this year's awards season will become an important indicator for the Oscars.

The ups and downs and gains experienced by an Oscar winner from the beginning of the awards season to the end of the Oscar podium are called the "Oscar Road" by movie fans.

In chronological order, the biggest juncture of awards season is the Film Critics Award.

To this day, there are about 40 awards from all over the world, covering almost all major cities in North America, making people dizzy. If they can get their recognition one after another, it will be enough to make a filmmaker who has been declining at the beginning to make a final reversal.

To give the simplest example, the best director option for this Critics Award focuses on the competition between David Finch and Tom Hober at the Best Director Award, which has also become the main line throughout this award season.

Although there are also winners like Sandra Brock and Marcia Guy Harden who have no awards for film critics in the history of the Academy Awards, there are more popular candidates like Helen Mirren and Daniel Day Lewis who have swept the awards season.

Let’s talk about the most well-known New York Film Critics Association Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, and the Boston Film Critics Association Awards, which have emerged in recent years.

The New York Film Critics Association Award is the oldest film critics association in North America. It was founded in 1935! It focuses on artistic and encourages pioneering nature and favors Chinese-lantern films. Lao Mouzi's "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High" and "Farewell My Concubine" directed by Kaige have all won the Best Foreign Language Film Awards awarded by the New York Film Critics Association. Chinese-language films have won the award 13 times so far, including Du Kefeng.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association began awarding awards in 1975. Although it is not a long history, it has quickly become an important outpost of the Oscars because of its important geographical location.

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association focuses on breakthrough commercial blockbusters, such as "Star Wars" and "Alien E.T.", which have won grand prizes, and Chinese-language films are also loved by the association, with a record of 16 awards, including Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and won five awards in 2000.

The Boston Film Critics Association Award, founded in 1980, is far inferior to the old New York predecessors in terms of "qualification", but it stands out from a number of film critic awards with its unique taste and high hit rate for the Oscars. In the association's earliest awards, the emphasis on "The Angry Bull" and the Brazilian movie "The Street Boy" once aroused doubts from the outside world, but when you look back afterwards, everyone praises its keen eye.

The Boston Film Critics Association also led the way in its early years to foreign language films. "Night of San Lorenzo" and "Random" all won the best films directly, laying a solid foundation for their subsequent Oscar journey.

Another thing worth mentioning is that when Ang Lee's first English film "Sense and Emotion" participated in the Oscar competition, the association's commendation added a lot of impression points. Later, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Brokeback Mountain" also won many awards from the association."

"The second one we are talking about is the Oscar's weather vane award, the Golden Globe Award, the Radio Critics Association Award, the British Film Academy Award and the three major guild awards. If you can get nominations for these three, you are likely to be nominated by the Oscar Awards. Of course, the most popular among the weather vane awards is more reasonable to become the final winner of the Oscar. Judging from the impact of the award season on filmmakers in recent years, people have extended their expectations from focusing on the results of the awards to the number of nominations. After all, if you can enter the final nomination list of the Oscars, this glory is enough to make a filmmaker recognized as an important part of Hollywood."

"The Golden Globe Awards are probably familiar to everyone. It was regarded as the second largest award after the Oscars throughout the awards ceremony. The award selection settings distinguish between plot and music and comedy, which has benefited many actors a lot. However, in recent years, the Oscars have changed the nomination announcement time, which has shaken its important position.

A recent case of this award as an Oscar vane is that in 2010, the heroine of "Weakness" Sandra Bullock won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress with the Zero Film Critics Award and finally completed a counterattack against the Oscars."

"I guess you are not very interested in the other two awards. I will just say it casually. The Radio and Film Critics Association Award was founded in 1995. It is a film critic organization jointly founded by 199 TV and radio stations in the United States and Canada. It is also the largest film critic organization in North America. Every year, many big-name stars are invited to participate, and the level of liveliness is not inferior to the Golden Globe Award. Of course, there are still some shortcomings in terms of influence."
Chapter completed!