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"There was no surprise at the 70th Oscar!"

This is the title of the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times. As an authoritative media with the largest circulation in North America, this evaluation almost represents a summary of this year's Oscars.

"The academic selection results of the 70th Academy Awards this year were not surprising, and of course, there were no surprises. "Titanic" had previously won a record 14 awards nominations. Long before the start of this Academy Awards, the film was predicted to be the biggest winner, including the best director and best film in the heavyweight awards.

James Cameron's "Titanic" has so far achieved a box office of nearly $1.3 billion from around the world. In the face of such unprecedented results, I believe that it has conquered most of the judges of the academy. 14 nominations won 11 Little Golden Man, last night, was destined to be the crew of "Titanic" and director James Cameron."

Not only the Los Angeles local Los Angeles Times, but basically all the newspapers on the market are reporting around the Oscars that ended last night.

"Titanic won 11 of 14 last night's Academy Awards, making the 70th Academy Awards a solo dance stage for Titanic. The Academy Awards that ended last night did not show any unpopular surprises. The sweep of Titanic was basically consistent with the outside world's predictions before the awards ceremony.

Perhaps the only surprise that brought to the audience last night was that Nicholas Cage, who won the Best Supporting Actor through his superb performance in "Batman: The Dark Knight". This was the first time that the Oscars had participated in a non-realistic film in 70 years, and someone won the Performance Golden Man.

Best Supporting Actor Little Golden Man and Best Makeup Design Little Golden Man can be regarded as the only two fig leafs of "Batman: The Dark Knight" at this Academy Awards. Since the Academy announced the nomination results at the nomination luncheon, it seems that "Batman: The Dark Knight" will miss this Academy Awards.

No one can tell why the Academy treats a film that has influenced the trend of the world film market. No matter what aspect, "Batman: The Dark Knight" deserves better recognition, and Wayne Greenberg deserves better recognition. The Academy's neglect of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is destined to become a shame for the 70th Academy Awards many years later..."

----The New York Times

"While "Titanic swept the 70th Academy Awards ceremony, there is one thing that must be attracted by everyone. The great Batman: The Dark Knight actually only received two insignificant little gold men at this Academy Awards ceremony. Obviously, these two little gold men cannot demonstrate the greatness of this movie at all!

At 7 p.m. on March 23, 1998, North American time, the 70th Academy Awards officially opened at the Temple Theater in Los Angeles. The host of this award ceremony is still a familiar old friend and talk show star Billy Christo. Just as everything is familiar to everyone, there were no unexpected surprises at this Academy Awards ceremony.

As predicted by many predictive agencies of colleagues, Titanic won 11 Little Golden Man out of 14 nominations. If the biggest surprise is probably the Oscar organizer, the neglect of "Batman: The Dark Knight" and the neglect of the great Wayne Greenberg, this is a practice that tens of millions of movie fans cannot tolerate.

"Batman: Dark Knight" swept through the summer season of 1997, and "Batman: Dark Knight" with a global box office of more than 1.2 billion US dollars, it actually won only two small gold men at this Oscars, one for the best makeup design and one for the best supporting actor. Wayne Greenberg was obviously treated unfairly..."

-----The Hollywood Reporter

The voices of mainstream media are filled with praise for "Titanic". There is no surprise that any movie that won 14 Oscar nominations and earned 11 as a Little Golden Man is worthy of being praised by media all over North America.

What was more unexpected was that almost all mainstream entertainment media, while praising "Titanic", did not forget their traditional tracks, that is, after the Oscars, they complained about the films that had not received recognition.

But the situation this year seems to be a bit out of control. Although the same happened in previous years, at most it was just taking advantage of the popularity of the Oscars that had just ended, which caused a wave of public discussion, which was regretful.

But this year's situation is completely different. In the eyes of most people, the greatness of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is not inferior to "Titanic". Although the former's box office rankings in film history were surpassed by the latter, in the hearts of countless people, this is the most perfect film that combines commercial and artistic history in history, no doubt.

The widespread reports in newspapers seemed to have ignited public sentiment at once, and the media's keen sense of smell also realized that this year was different from previous years. So, just two days later, not only the reports in newspapers, but also the discussions about "Batman: The Dark Knight" and Oscars began to appear on various TV shows.

"There is no doubt that Titanic deserves 11 awards, but the academy should not ignore Batman: The Dark Knight."

ABC TV's famous morning program "Good Morning America" ​​studio, Kenneth Tulan, a well-known local film critic in Los Angeles, is talking to the host about his views.

As one of the representatives of the younger generation of film critics, he understands very well that the era of movie fans watching movies through the recommendations of film critics has long ended. Now that if you want to continue to expand your influence, you must change the old methods that have been decades and take the initiative to cater to more young movie fans.

So when "Good Morning America" ​​invited him to be a guest talking about the current hot programs, he agreed without hesitation. Being a guest on this program is a win-win situation in his opinion. The TV station increased its ratings through popularity, and he gained a better reputation among more young movie fans.

"Hey, Kenny, you are known to be a determined Greenberg movie fan."

If you agree, there will be objection. Without exception, another film critic of "Hollywood Daily Entertainment" invited by Sam Snyder, who immediately expressed his views in the face of the camera.

"In my opinion, the academy has not deliberately ignored "Batman: The Dark Knight". Wayne Greenberg has won all the heavyweight awards the year before. If he wants to regain those little gold men, it is obvious that he has to make better results..."

“What?!”

Hearing Sam Snyder's reason for refuting, Kenneth Tulan immediately interrupted the other party with a sharp scream, as if he heard something incredible, and asked loudly: "Isn't the results of "Batman: Dark Knight" great? A better result? If the results of "Batman: Dark Knight" are not good, then what results are considered better results?

Does this have anything to do with whether I am a Wayne fan? Yes, I am a hardcore fan of Greenber movies. To be honest, I am still the most ordinary member of the Wayne fan association, but so what? Does it affect the objective greatness of the film "Batman: The Dark Knight"?"

Letting two film critics with different opinions express their opinions to each other in a conversation program is one of the most commonly used methods by TV stations.

Seeing that the two film critics were getting more and more excited today, the director who had been standing behind the scenes waved his hand. The host immediately understood it, raised the microphone in his hand, and opened his mouth to interrupt the quarrel that was about to break out.

"Kenny, we all have to admit that "Batman: The Dark Knight" is a great work, and there is no doubt about this." While speaking, the host blinked at Sam Snyder, who was speechless and continued to smooth things over:

"What Sam wants to express is not what you think. He also agrees with the view of whether Batman: The Dark Knight is great."

"yes, I never denied the greatness of Batman: The Dark Knight."

Sam Snyder nodded immediately, but he had already regretted participating in this show in his heart. If he had been hated by Wayne's massive movie fans for the sake of the little reward given by the TV station, it would be completely unworthy of the gains.

"You misunderstood what I mean, I mean, compared to Mr. Greenberg, who had already won all the honors the year before, this year James Cameron and Titanic are obviously more qualified to gain recognition from the Academy..."

"Hey, this is not an excuse for the academy to only give Batman: The Dark Knight."

It is obvious that Kenneth Tulan is not so easy to let the other party go. He is more clear than anyone else. What is the point of giving some money to the TV station? As long as the countless Wayne fans become fans of his newspaper column, the film company will have ten times or hundreds of times the "guidance funds" waiting for him in the future.

"In my opinion, no matter what excuse the academy makes, it should be given a fair chance to compete in Batman: The Dark Knight. The fact is that they did not give it, the great movie has lost the opportunity to compete for the heavyweight award since the end of the nomination luncheon! Isn't this neglect?"

Speaking of this, his ostentatious glance at the camera and found a red light flashing on it. He knew that he was giving himself a close-up. After a moment of pause, he immediately said even more angrily: "In my opinion, Wayne Greenberg has been treated unfairly by the academy!"

There are quite a lot of similar TV shows. Since the end of this year's Oscars at the end of March, it seems that the entire North American media have complained about Wayne. Film critics, film critics, so-called veterans in the circle, print media, and TV stations seem to have discovered huge business opportunities here, allowing the national discussion of this Oscar to continue until mid-to-late April.