Snowy and windy in January, the winter is already cold, and Park City, located in the vast expanse of the western United States, is even more inconspicuous and difficult to attract attention, so it is naturally difficult for the Sundance Film Festival to enter the mainstream media.

What's more, the Sundance Film Festival starts on January 19 and lasts until the 26th; The Golden Globes, which attract countless top superstars, will hold the 52nd Awards Ceremony to conclude the 1994 film on January 21. Choosing between Sundance and the Golden Globes is not too difficult for journalists.

In the past, this would have been the case, but this year is a little different, and this qiē is only because of one name: Hugo Lancaster.

The list of nominees for the 52nd Golden Globe Awards, which was announced not long ago, has caused widespread discussion.

In this year's Golden Globe Awards, the three movies "Forrest Gump", "Burning Years" and "Vulgar" plus a "Lion King" launched a fierce confrontation. As expected, "The Shawshank Redemption" has not made any movement, still has not attracted any attention from film critics, and has been almost completely ignored at the Golden Globe Awards.

"Forrest Gump", "Burning Years", "Vulgar", "Behind the Scenes Lie (quiz. show)" and "nell" were among the top five nominees for Best Picture in the Drama category; "The Lion King", "The Desert Enchantress" (the. adventures。 of。 priscilla), "four weddings and a funeral", "Ed Wood (ed. wood)" and "Pret-A-Porter" were among the top five nominees for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category.

The five nominees for Best Director and four spots for Best Picture in a Drama category remain the same, with the only change being the loss of "Neil's Heart" and "Born to Kill Maniac" (Natural. born。 killers)" director Oliver Stone was shortlisted, and the five productions nominated for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category were all wiped out in the division.

In terms of film nominations, "Forrest Gump" led the way with seven nominations, "Vulgar" followed closely with six nominations, and "The Burning Years", which was once considered to be a bitter battle for word-of-mouth, also had four nominations. Although "The Lion King" was limited by the "discrimination" of animated films and lost the nomination process for best director, it still relied on the excellence of the soundtrack, and won a total of four nominations - three of which were related to music.

"Vulgar" was nominated for three main awards in the drama category: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, as well as three nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

"Vulgar" is the only work that can go toe-to-toe with "Forrest Gump" in the nomination stage, only one less nomination for Best Film Score than its rival, which also makes people look forward to the film's performance at the awards ceremony: can it make a further breakthrough, once again create a new chapter of independent cinema, and break the monopoly of the eight major film companies on the awards ceremony?

In terms of individual awards, Hugo received two nominations, the first of course is the nomination for Best Actor in a Drama without any doubt, and the outstanding performance in "Vulgar" makes Hugo the most powerful contender for this year's Best Actor Award, and the other four contenders competing with Hugo are Tom Hanks of "Forrest Gump", Morgan Freeman of "The Shawshank Redemption", and "Nobody's." Fool)" of Paul Newman, Brad Pitt of "Burning Years".

Morgan's representation of "The Shawshank Redemption" has attracted the attention of many film critics, but it is limited in the end, and people are more lamenting that Tom can rely on the wonderful performance of "Forrest Gump" to win the Golden Globe Award, and whether the two rising stars Brad and Hugo can make an impact - of course, there is also the head-on confrontation between these two actors.

Just like the trend during the release of the movie, although the overall quality of "Burning Years" has been criticized, the two leading actors Brad and Aidan have received a lot of praise, among which Aidan has won more attention with his acting skills, but Brad's popularity has soared, coupled with the bonus of "Night Interview with Vampires", so in the end, Brad completed the counterattack, replacing Aidan, the competitor of the same show, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, which is also Brad's first official nomination at a mainstream American awards ceremony, which is of great significance.

Whether Hugo can overthrow Tom and what results he will achieve in the new round of competition with Brad is undoubtedly the hottest topic.

In the past two years, Hugo has won two nominations for leading actor and supporting actor, but all of them have gone home empty-handed, and what is even more ironic is that Hugo has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but has not won a Golden Globe trophy so far. This is definitely a huge mistake for the Golden Globes, which are committed to combining the topicality and commercial value of the Oscars. Not to mention the events that followed the 1993 Golden Globes, which were even more unpleasant, and although the focus was on Hugo and Mr. Bond, the mistakes of the organizers of the Golden Globes could not be ignored.

Therefore, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will definitely not let this situation continue for too long, not to mention, this time Hugo's performance in "vulgar" also ushered in a lot of applause, and was unanimously praised by film critics including the Cannes Film Festival and North American and European film critics. Relatively speaking, Tom Hanks only relied on the "Philadelphia Story" to be crowned the Golden Globe and Oscar winner last year, so it is logical that the Golden Globe Award will award the honor of Best Actor to Hugo.

Of course, this is just a prediction, and almost all the media have been talking about it since the nominees came out.

In addition to the nomination for Best Actor in a Drama, Hugo's other nomination was not Best Supporting Actor as it has been in the past two years, and his performance in "Life and Death" did not win Hugo any nominations, but Hugo's name unexpectedly appeared in the list of nominees for Best Screenplay.

Not to mention the media, even Hugo himself was surprised.

"The Shawshank Redemption" received only two nominations at the Golden Globes, one for Best Actor in a Drama Series by Morgan Freeman and the other for Best Screenplay by Frank Darabont and Hugo Lancaster.

Frank said in an interview that although Hugo and the crew missed it, he would never erase Hugo's contribution to the entire script, so he still added Hugo's name to the screenplay. Regardless of Hugo's attitude, this is at least his honesty.

As a result, Hugo inexplicably appeared in the list of nominees for Best Screenplay, and the other four contenders are also familiar faces, namely "Vulgar", "Forrest Gump", "Behind the Scenes", "Four Weddings and a Funeral".

On the whole, this year's Golden Globe Award nomination list is still full of topics, not only because this is the year when classic masterpieces are in full swing, some people are nominated for nominations, and some people are lost, almost every film critic has a list of nominations of their own, so when the Golden Globe Awards announced the nomination results, it attracted countless heated discussions in the media; It's also because the competition for the awards is so fierce – and it's the result of a collection of classics.

Among them, whether Hugo can end his situation of still being empty-handed at the Golden Globe is an important point to watch, not to mention that he is still playing against another "Tom" Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt, although this time the three-person turn is also "Hugo, Tom and Brad", but the result will be no one can predict.

As the Golden Globe Awards ceremony approached, the guest list was gradually announced, but after entering 1995, the media sensitively discovered one thing for the first time: Hugo's name did not appear in the first three lists, which is definitely a huge question mark.

Not to mention that Hugo is one of the most important points of interest in the competition for awards, just talking about Hugo's current momentum, it can be said that without Hugo, one-third of the focus is missing.

At the beginning, the reporters asked NBC TV, the broadcaster of the Golden Globe Awards, and they said with a mysterious look on their faces, "Please expect a surprise", but when the reporter threw the same question to Rick Rosen, they got a meaningful answer, "Hugo has just returned from vacation, and we are still communicating about his next work arrangements, and there will be a result in the near future." Although Rick's answer was completely objective and impartial, at this sensitive moment, reporters could completely interpret it as: Hugo is unwilling to attend the Golden Globes!

Sure enough, NBC TV has been secretive, but after the fourth batch of lists was announced, they finally couldn't hide it anymore, and they "regrettedly" announced: We will not see Mr. Lancaster at the Golden Globes this year. In an instant, the media exploded.

Many media are speculating that since the Golden Globe Awards incident in 1993, in fact, Hugo was very dissatisfied with the handling of NBC TV and the Foreign Correspondents' Association at that time, and Hugo was absent from the Golden Globes last year on the grounds of filming "life and death", and the Golden Globes did not pay attention to Hugo, making the hot Hugo completely invisible, but who would have thought that two months later, the Oscar would give the Best Supporting Actor to Hugo, making the Golden Globes completely lose face.

This year, the Golden Globes have been begging Hugo to attend, but unfortunately Hugo is not interested in the Golden Globes, even though NBC TV and Rick continue to communicate and negotiate, but still have not been able to reach a consensus. Therefore, the next Golden Globe Awards award trend has added more uncertainties.

Of course, this is all just speculation in the media, and when the media interviewed Rick, he denied it all, saying only, "Hugo has to start promoting his new work, and he decided to take 'Before Sunrise' to the Sundance Film Festival for this event of independent films." It's a pity that Sundance's timing and the Ballon d'Or clashed, and Hugo struggled to make a decision. Hugo personally regrets his absence from the Golden Globes, and he will personally express his apologies to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. ”

As a result, in an instant, the Sundance Film Festival, which was originally unattended, became hot. Closely behind Hugo, many reporters must also make a choice: is it Sundance or the Golden Globe? Can Hugo's attraction alone overshadow the star-studded Golden Globes?

Nicholas McLaen's decision was not a difficult one, so he showed up in Park City, followed by a large number of reporters who made a similar decision, and the sudden influx of these people also brought a touch of warmth to the cold winter of Park City, as if the footsteps of spring were approaching.