Oscar Prize: presentation ceremony. Oscar winners

About the famous "Oscar" Award they know in all corners of the world. There is, probably, a figure of the cinema art that would not dream of a treasured gilded statuette. Such dreams are justified, because the Hollywood Award was originally conceived as the highest evaluation of the work, the limit of the dreams of any filmmaker, the highest award and praise for the director and actor. Although the procedure for determining winners is still being questioned by many mass media and film critics, the Oscar award ceremony remains the most prestigious and expected not only in the cinema world, but also beyond the blue screen. What is the history of the institution of the award? And what films, as well as persons, received Grand Prix in the last 15 years?

Oscar Award: the history of the institution

"Oscar" is a prize given out on behalf of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences in the USA. It is considered one of the most authoritative and ancient, because the ceremony is more than 80 years old.

And it all began in 1926, when the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer seriously thought about how to unite the American filmmakers in one kind of organization. Now it's hard to say whether he really paid attention to the development of American cinema or simply tried to expand his sphere of influence, but the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences was created, and Luis B. Mayer headed the committee that selected members for the organization. Well, which academy will cost without a nominal award?

This was how the "Merit Awards" were developed - statuettes-knights, reigned in a pensive posture on a film. The "Oscar" award, more precisely a figurine, is cast from an alloy of tin and copper, and then covered with gold.

Voting for the winners in the categories was conducted in two stages:

1. At first, members of the Academy selected five nominees each in their own sphere - producers in the production sphere, actors in acting, etc.
2. The main council of the Academy, formed from representatives of 5 professional departments (directors, actors, screenwriters, producers and technicians), chose the final winners in all nominations by voting.

The procedure for determining laureates has not changed over time, only nominations have become 24, and professional guilds that carry out voting - 15.

How does the ceremony take place?

The awarding of the Oscar in 1929, the first in history, was modest enough: at the Roosevelt Hotel (Los Angeles) in the form of a banquet for 270 people. But modern ceremonies differ in unprecedented pomposity and scope.

Everything begins with the procession of invited guests on the red carpet to the building where the presentation will take place. Stars in dazzling evening toilets go past crowds of jubilant fans and flashes of cameras, and are housed in a huge hall, which is designed for several thousand spectators.

Leaders of the ceremony vary from year to year - they are famous comedians, popular actors or TV hosts.

For the scoring of the names of applicants in each nomination are invited famous people - here the list is also great: producers, directors, actors and actresses, TV hosts, etc. Periodically, musical and choreographic performances are performed on stage. Well, and, of course, the winners take the answer, in which they thank their relatives, friends, etc.

Cinematographs that won the "Best Film" nomination

For 86 years of the existence of the award a lot of film works became its laureates. Since the list is very long, we will only review films nominated for an Oscar in the 21st century. And won the category "Best Film".

The new century was marked by the victory in the nomination "Best film" of Sam Mendes's film work "American Beauty": a story about how a 40-year-old man has a passion for a young girlfriend of his daughter.

In 2001, Grand Prix took the historical drama Ridley Scott "Gladiator" - a spectacular costume picture of the times of Ancient Rome, and in 2002 the jury members of the film academy were most struck by the thriller "The Minds" by Ron Howard.

The musical "Chicago" won in 2003, and in 2004 Oscar was awarded a painting in the genre of fantasy - "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (directed by Peter Jackson).

In 2005, "Oscar" went to the drama Clint Eastwood "The Baby in a Million", in 2006 - a picture of Paul Haggis "Collision", in 2007 - the thriller "The Departed" Martin Scorsese.

The year 2008 brought the award to the film "The Old Men Are Not Here" (directed by the brothers Cohen), 2009 - the drama "Slumdog Millionaire" (directed by Danny Boyle), 2010 - thriller "The Lord of the Storm" (dir. Kathryn Bigelow), 2011 - tragicomedy "King says!" (Directed by Tom Hooper).

In 2012, she was awarded the film art prize "Artist" Michel Hazanavichus, in 2013 - "Operation Argo" by Ben Affleck, and in 2014 - "12 Years of Slavery" by Steve McQueen.

Oscar-winning films, the list of which was listed above, always had good fees at the box office and high IMDb ratings.

Directors who received an Oscar

So, the winners of the Oscar for the last 15 years in the category "Best Direction":

• 2000 - Sam Mendes (for his work as "American Beauty");
• 2001 - Stephen Soderbergh (for the film work "Traffic");
• 2002 - Ron Howard (for the film work of "The Game of Reason");
• 2003 - Roman Polanski (for the film work "Pianist");
• 2004 - Peter Jackson (for his film work "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King");
• 2005 - Clint Eastwood (for the film work "The Baby in a Million");
• 2006 - Eng Lee (for his work on Brokeback Mountain);
• 2007 - Martin Scorsese (for his work on the film "The Departed");
• 2008 - Joel Cohen (for his film work "No Place for Old Men");
• 2009 - Danny Boyle (for his film work "Slumdog Millionaire");
• 2010 - Kathryn Bigelow (for his film work "The Lord of the Storm");
• 2011 - Tom Hooper (for his film work "King says!");
• 2012 - Michel Hazanavicius (for the film "Artist");
• 2013 - Eng Lee (for the film work "Life of Pi");
• 2014 - Alfonso Cuaron (for the film work "Gravitation").

"Best Actors" by the version of "Oscar"

Oscar-winning films bring universal recognition to the actors involved. For example, Kevin Spacey in 2000 became the winner of "Oscar" for the winner in several nominations "Beauty in American style". In 2001, history repeated itself, and took home a statuette of Russell Crowe for the main role in Gladiator.

The year 2002 brought victory to Denzel Washington for his work on the "Training Day" project, and 2003 - to Adrien Brody for the film "The Pianist."

In 2004 Sean Penn received the Grand Prix for the tape "The Mysterious River", in 2005 - Jamie Fox for the shooting in the movie "Ray", in 2006 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, in 2007 - Forest Whitaker, in 2008 - Daniel Day-Lewis, and in 2009 - again Sean Penn for the shooting in the film "Harvey Milk."

In 2010, the best was recognized actor Jeff Bridges, and in 2011, the prize was given to Colin Firth for best actor in the film "King says!". In 2012, Jean Dujardin won the nomination - the performer of the main role in "Artist"; In 2013, the second statue was received by Daniel Day-Lewis, who played the role of US President Lincoln; In 2014, Matthew McConaughey distinguished himself with a talented work in the "Dallas club of buyers."

"Best Actress" by the version of "Oscar"

The "Oscar" award was awarded in the nomination "Best Actress" to such performers as:

• Hilary Swank (for work in the project "Guys do not cry" (2000) and "Baby in a Million" (2005));
• Julia Roberts (for work in the project "Erin Brokovich", 2001);
• Halle Berry (for work in the project "The Monster's Ball", 2002);
• Nicole Kidman (for work in the project "Watch" 2003);
• Charlize Theron (for work in the project "Monster", 2004);
• Reese Witherspoon (for work in the project "Cross the Line", 2006);
• Helen Mirren (for work in the project "Queen", 2007);
• Marion Cotillard (for his work in the project "Life in Pink", 2008);
• Kate Winslet (for work in the project "Reader", 2009);
• Sandra Bullock (for work in the project "The Invisible Side", 2010);
• Natalie Portman (for his work in the Black Swan project, 2011);
• Meryl Streep (for his work in the project "Iron Lady", 2012);
• Jennifer Lawrence (for his work in the project "My Guy the Psycho", 2013);
• Keith Blanchett (for his work in the project "Jasmine", 2014).

Foreign films of the "Oscar" award - the list from 2000 to 2014.

Foreign films are winners:

• 2000 - "Everything about my mother" (Spain);
• 2001 - "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (China);
• 2002 - "No-Land" (Bosnia-Herzegovina);
• 2003 - "Nowhere in Africa" (Germany);
• 2004 - "Invasion of the Barbarians" (Canada);
• 2005 - "The sea inside" (Spain);
• 2006 - Tsotsi (Great Britain);
• 2007 - "The Life of Others" (Germany);
• 2008 - "Counterfeiters" (Austria);
• 2009 - "The Departed" (Japan);
• 2010 - "The Mystery in His Eyes" (Argentina);
• 2011 - "Revenge" (Denmark);
• 2012 - "Nader's Divorce and Simin" (Iran);
• 2013 - "Love" (France);
• 2014 - "Great Beauty" (Italy).

Winning Writers

The "Oscar" award was also awarded in the nomination for "Best Screenplay" to the following scriptwriters:

• 2000 - to Alan Ball ("Beauty in American Style");
• 2001 - to Cameron Crowe ("Almost Famous");
• 2002 - to Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park);
• 2003 - Pedro Almodovaru ("Talk to Her");
• 2004 - Sofia Coppole ("The difficulties of translation");
• 2005 - Charlie Kaufmann ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind");
• 2006 - to Paul Haggis ("The Collision");
• 2007 - to Michael Arndt ("Little Miss Happiness");
• 2008 - Diablo Cody ("Juneau");
• 2009 - Dustin Lance Black ("Harvey Milk");
• 2010 - to Mark Boal ("Lord of the storm");
• 2011 - To David Saydler ("The King says!");
• 2012 - Woody Allen ("Midnight in Paris");
• 2013 - Quentin Tarantino ("Django the Liberated");
• 2014 - Spike Jones ("She").

Criticism of the ceremony

Recently, the impartiality of the judgments of members of the jury of the American Academy of Cinematography is increasingly being questioned. Critics are puzzled, because the Oscar-winning films and their quality are getting worse every year, tapes with an art-house bias that previously never collected such huge amounts at the box office, after becoming Oscar winners, increased the revenue from the shows Order of 12 million. $.

But, despite all the gossip and guesswork, the Oscar ceremony does not give up its positions and still remains an interesting and important event in the world of motion picture art.