The first category is the so-called undisputed award-winning that really contributes to the outstanding acting skills far beyond the contemporaries or even the contemporaries in a certain year. For example, Liu Huangshu's three awards can be said to be the best acting of the year, such as Robert Dinilo in Angry Bull, Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, and Marlon Brando in Docker; These roles and performances are all textbook-level performances that can be included in the classics of film history.
The second category is the performance of a single character, such as ray charles in Jamie Foxx, the father of a concentration camp in roberto benigni, Abraham who plays salieri, and even the Burundian pianist and Chief Whitaker. These guys were not professional actors before, or just worked quietly in the entertainment circle, but they met a role that was particularly suitable for their personal characteristics and produced absolutely wonderful acting skills, which eventually led to the award.
The third category is the brightest moment in a genius's career, such as kevinspacey fowler's American Beauty Award and the two championships of sean penn, Jack Nicholson and Robert Dinino. These people have performed very well in a large number of movies in their careers. But most of the time, they didn't win the prize, not because they lost to the same opponent, but because the judges said to themselves, "This fellow won the prize. This performance is not as good as last time, so forget it. " For example, Hanks in A Desert Island lost to Russell Crowe in Gladiator, and Crowe, who played a talented mathematician the next year, lost to Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. in Training Day. It is really not easy for these characters to discuss their advantages and disadvantages in detail. However, after flying over the madhouse, Nicholson waited for 20 years before he got the second actor's golden statuette with the bleak image in As Perfect as possible, and suffered too much.
The fourth category is probably the lifetime achievement award, which can be regarded as compensation and unified return for years of contribution. For example, paul newman's Nine Mention One Middle School won the prize at the age of 665,438+0 years when The Color of Money won the prize. And Jeff bridges's comeback work "Crazy Heart" was already over 60 years old when it was filmed. Of course, it is more typical that Al Pacino won the award for "The Taste of Women". Of course, there are also frustrated people, and the most important one is Peter Otto. After he starred in Desperate Love at the age of 80, his career was still doomed.
As a necessary label, the rest must consider various factors, such as politics and the times, so the first black film emperor Sidney Poitier was born in the 1960s. The tacit understanding of major production companies, even the top public relations like Varnstam, even if it is full of good cards, it is difficult to continue to occupy the Oscar acting award; The college pays attention to film trends, so the proportion of award-winning actors in independent films has increased significantly from 05 to 10 in recent years; There is a high proportion of Latinos, Jews, British departments, blacks and other ethnic groups in Hollywood. Every few years, there are always one or two award-winning actors floating on the water (the proportion of Asians is too weak).
The above may not matter, but look back at Leonardo DiCaprio's experience:
Refer to the above-mentioned Oscar winner's label: he has never played a classic role that can go down in history (let alone Jack), so he is not the first category; Became famous early, has always been an idol superstar, and has won numerous affirmations, so the second category is excluded; His qualifications have not yet reached the moment of receiving compensation, so he also ruled out the fourth category. Speaking of the third category, is it a bit difficult for Li fans to choose the most eye-catching works in his career? You always think that his Howard Hughes and Gatsby can find a lot of sex. How much is the similarity between Hoover and the middle-aged man in Revolutionary Road? Recently, the most different acting skill is "Liberation of Jiangge", or an eye-opening explosive acting skill.
Xiao Li's "Two Masters and One Match" won three Oscar nominations. The era of "Different Sky" is still young, and it is not a loss to lose; In the other two nominations, Aviator lost to Jamie Foxx and Blood Diamond lost to Whitaker. The two rivals can easily find all kinds of labels: black, Biqi's professional acting skills born in World War I, and independent films in the era when the academy encouraged independent production (those Oscars were dominated by low-budget films). At that time, Mr. Li was just doing the opposite, making large and medium-sized movies, repeating the ups and downs of life and complicated personality, either white or handsome ... After these two movies, he successively appeared in The Body of Lies, The Road to Revolution and Hoover, and his role became more and more complicated and hysterical, but he was getting farther and farther away from the Oscar.
In fact, including Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Xiao Li and paul newman, humphrey bogart and Peter Otto; These big stars, who are handsome in appearance, extraordinary in temperament and loved by thousands of people, often experience many setbacks and even depression for life on the Oscar front. First of all, they don't have such rare talents as Mei Gu, Liu Huangshu and katharine hepburn. Second, the original box office superstar is easily prejudiced by the college; Third, their appearance and star aura are too aggressive, which is an unconscious idol aura, not because of their mental problems, but because of their personal habits. For details, please refer to Andy Lau's gesture in shooting the dawn scene in Infernal Affairs 3, or Brad Pitt's deep and charming eyes in Rejuvenation. But you see Tom Cruise is suspected of intentionally playing the ugly role in tropic thunder, but his performance of returning to nature is highly praised.
Let's take a look at the award-winning works of big stars who didn't get what they wanted: erin brockovich by big mouth Roberts, color of money by Paul Newman, The Queen of Africa by humphrey bogart, The Philadelphia Story and Forrest Gump by Hanks, Hamlet by laurence olivier and Nicole Kidman. These characters have their own characteristics, but if you think about it carefully, you don't need to use words like "wash away the lead", but they do show a completely different charm from other characters of these big stars. The problem of neck and eyes mentioned by teacher Meng in an answer is wonderful; But in fact, if Xiao Li continues to play the role of Revolutionary Road or Hoover, he will never be able to correct these defects, but at present, he probably hasn't realized this, or he intends to hack all the way.
For Mr DiCaprio, who has just turned 40, there is not much time left for him if he doesn't want to be awarded lifelong achievement. It's better not to wait 10 years before he suddenly realizes.