通过这篇文章大家应该可以对奖季和公关的重要性有一点点了解，不是逐字逐句翻译，各位随便看看

Oscar Voting Closing Today With Non-Stop Campaigning As Town Preps For Golden Globes
By Pete Hammond
Awards Editor & Columnist
January 8, 2015

奖季第一阶段是“淘汰”，这在圈内已成为共识。美国时间今天下午五点，奥斯卡提名投票截止，提名将于本月15日宣布。
What has become commonly known in the trade as “Phase 1〃 of awards season is about to phase out, with today’s 5 Pm Pt closing of 2014 Oscar nomination balloting being the most significant indicator that we are about to move on to the finals. Oscar nominations will be announced January 15 at the crack of dawn.

影评人协会要到下周一才开始投票，结果也是在15号宣布；而今年导演协会的提名比往年晚了一周，将于周二公布。明天英奥会公布提名。（LZ注：英奥提名己出）
Actually, the Broadcast Film Critics Association ( I am a member) is still to be heard from, with balloting for their The Critics Choice Movie Awards not even beginning until Monday ahead of its A&E broadcast also on January 15th. And the all-important DGA nominations are a week later this year, and aren’t being announced until Tuesday. BAFTA nominations will be announced tomorrow overseas. The whole season though feels like it is just sailing along now since the holidays officially ended last weekend.

本周派对无数，周六有英奥的下午茶和独立电影奖的早午餐，周日则是金球的。虽然这些不会直接影响到奥斯卡提名，但冲奥方却可以借此机会提醒奥斯卡委员们去看自己的电影。这说明今年的奥斯卡之争异常激烈，没有谁敢说一定拿得到提名。
Of course this is still a very big weekend in the first phase of the season, with tons of parties, the BAFTA tea and Independent Film brunch both on Saturday, and of course the Golden Globes on Sunday. Those results will obviously have no influence on the Oscar nominations, but certainly their noms might have convinced Oscar voters to check out some of the movies they may have missed. This remains a wide-open race: No surefire winner has emerged, so that makes the nail-biting even more intense than usual.

《少年时代》以发行蓝光为借口的派对，招待奖季新兵“独立国际电影奖”，付账的是其DVD发行商派拉蒙。派对上有很多外国记者协会成员和奥斯卡评委，还有主办方邀请来当“主持人”的大牌们：戴安.基顿、弗兰克.马歇尔和乔.汉姆。
Speaking of Boyhood, writer-director Richard Linklater and his cast were toasted last night at a packed-like-sardines party at Chateau Marmont, which ostensibly was thrown to herald the release of the Blu-ray. Indie IFC Films, which is a newcomer to the Best Picture contest this year, was helped footing the bill for this by Paramount, which is distributing the DVD. It was an interesting convergence of Hollywood Foreign Press members mixing with Oscar voters (and many many others): Among those listed on the invite as “hosting” were Diane Keaton, Frank Marshall and Jon Hamm.

马歇尔告诉我他觉得《少年时代》有多好多具标志性，戴安.基顿则一直在和导演套近乎。外国记者协会的成员们纷纷表示会在最后一分钟才投票，因为他们不单要看完所有提名电影，还要看提名的电视剧。
Marshall told me how much he thought Boyhood was such a remarkable, landmark achievement. Keaton was deep in conversation with Linklater when I squeezed by at one point. The HFPA members there had to turn in their final Golden Globe ballots Wednesday morning, and most that I talked to had waited until the last minute — almost literally. They not only have to see every movie but also every TV show nominated, a Herculean task if you ask me.

我猜不出最佳电影会花落谁家，一位评委告诉作者要么是《少年时代》要么是《赛尔玛》，因为这两部电影各有众多支持者。另一个告诉我她对于金球没有提名《美国狙击手》很失望。派对后一些奥斯卡评委去了肖恩.潘主持的《美国狙击手》Q&A。与我聊过的评委们大多都在热烈讨论华纳对于这部电影的公关从头到尾都做得有多大。或许华纳推迟公映的计划会成功，就像十年前伊导凭《百万宝贝》赢得奥斯卡的那次。
I couldn’t get a strong sense of what will win the Best Picture-Drama prize. One member said she thought it was a split between Boyhood and Selma, saying both had their big supporters. Another told me she was disappointed the group didn’t nominate American Sniper because she would have voted for it. Some of the Academy members at the Boyhood party were headed to a dinner and Clint Eastwood Q&A at a Sniper event hosted by Sean Penn (he won an Oscar for Clint’s Mystic River). That movie really seems to be gaining big steam among members I have been talking to so Warner Bros was maximizing the campaign right to the end. Perhaps its late-breaking release strategy will work in Eastwood’s favor, just as it did a decade ago for his Best Picture winner Million Dollar Baby.

一位参加了《美国狙击手》Q&A的资深女演员告诉我她是如何期待这部电影、并且在DVD一到手后立刻开看。她表示电影很好看，并且已经投出了自己的5部最佳。这样看来迟公映也是有好处的。另一方面，这位评委兼奥斯卡提名获得者透露她的第一选择是《布达佩斯大饭店》。而与《美国狙击手》相反，这部电影早在三月就公映了。
One veteran actress who was going to the Sniper event told me she felt she couldn’t wait until the last minute to see the film so she popped the screener into her DVD player and watched it Tuesday night (and was blown away by it, she said). So maybe being last out can be an advantage; she filled out her ballot yesterday and voted for it among her top five. On the other hand another voter and past Oscar nominee confided her No. 1 vote was going to “The Great Budapest Hotel.” Actually of course it’s the Grand Budapest Hotel, but I don’t think spelling counts on these ballots. That movie came out in March, so it’s the opposite of Sniper.

直到今天，各种五花八门的宣传活动都还没消停。安吉丽娜.朱莉在梵蒂冈宣传《坚不可摧》，还与教皇见了面，在这分秒必争的时刻得了大量推广。周二《赛尔玛》在纽约搞了个导演与男主的Q&A，昨天拉娜德雷则为她在《大眼睛》里的歌曲搞了个简短有趣的午餐会。【在纽约学院与《赛尔玛》午餐活动的当晚，一小队奥斯卡评委出席了准备充分的《夜行者》庆功宴。这场气氛融洽的晚宴由苏珊.兰多院士在其私宅举行，以招待编剧/制片丹.吉尔罗伊及其妻子、《夜行者》主演之一蕾妮.罗素。片中表现精彩绝伦的主演杰克.吉伦哈尔则因当晚有舞台剧演出未能出席。罗素告诉我她对本片广受好评非常之开心。】此外还有《爆裂鼓手》，它已经成为独立电影冲奥的最佳例子。关于最佳电影，与我聊过的评委们坸各有所好。
As noted there really have been TONS of events, even continuing today. Angelina Jolie was in Rome showing Unbroken at the Vatican, where she met the Pope and received lots of nicely timed publicity at a moment when everything counts. There was a big Selma lunch in New York on Tuesday with a Q&A with director Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo, and a quickly created lunch for Lana Del Rey and her Big Eyes song yesterday in L.A. among lots of other awards happenings. While the New Yorker Academy types were lunching with Selma that same night, a small contingent of Oscar voters attended a dinner celebration of the success of Nightcrawler, which has really been building. The intimate dinner thrown by Susan Landau at her house feted writer-producer Dan Gilroy and his wife, and Nightcrawler co-star Rene Russo, so great in the film as is star Jake Gyllenhaal who was on stage in his play in New York. Russo told me how excited she was with the reception the film has gotten. Along with Whiplash, it’s clearly become the awards story among the indie pictures. Opinions about favorite movies this year among those Academy members to whom I spoke at that dinner were all over the map.

本周Q&A绵绵不断。从《万物理论》到《模拟游戏》、《少年时代》、《鸟人》、《夜行者》以及其他很多。今年男主之争尤其激烈，发行商们开始热衷于通过网络电话与身在洛杉矶的评委们视频。因为《美国狙击手》男主库珀和《夜行者》的吉伦哈尔都有百老汇舞台剧在身，无法到处拉票，两部片子这周在纽约都有通过卫星或者网络电话与在洛杉矶参加特别公映的评委们沟通。
The Q&As haven’t stopped either. Every movie from The Theory Of Everything to The Imitation Game to Boyhood, Birdman, Nightcrawler and on and on have been out there with those this week. Interestingly, with every last vote counting in the tightest Best Actor race in years, distributors have come up with the increasingly popular idea in Skyping in contenders to Academy screenings in L.A. Because both American Sniper’s Bradley Cooper and Nightcrawler‘s Gyllenhaal are currently appearing on Broadway and can’t do the Hollywood awards circuit as they usually might have, both films had Q&As this week in New York that were satellited or Skyped into LA screenings.

每个人都很好奇这些公关活动对最后的投票能有多大影响，很快就有结果了。
How all this will impact the vote is anyone’s guess, but we will find out soon enough. Oscar voters, you have until 5 PM to make a difference.

The End

＠@长醉云城

涨知识了

吧主夜行者的资源有清楚点的出来了吗，在奥吧看见一个糊版的

老吉真是好莱坞的另类啊

先码再看

马克下

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