An Aesthetic Research Of Oscar Films

Movie is one of very important forms in the family of contemporary visual arts, and the Academy Award of the United States (called as Oscar hereinafter) is rated as the "vane" of movie art and movie style for the United States even for the global. Therefore, it is completely necessary and valuable to study the Oscar films. But the domestic study on the Oscar films is insufficient, moreover, the study from the perspective of aesthetics is more infrequent.Movie is a kind of expression of ideology with aesthetics value. Theme becomes an indispensable ingredient in all Oscar films. Some of them are universal values for human-being and can be treated as the mainstream ideas of American movie, of Oscar Academy Award committee, and even of American people, such as liberty, benevolence—in detail, liberty includes individual liberty and national liberty; benevolence embodies kinship, friendship, love, and even fraternity, individual heroism, and perseverant faith, which all reflect the mainstream values of Americans who have always been pride of them.The Oscar films become greatly popular owing to their mature artistic techniques. They have unique styles in the aspects of plot design, structure arrangement and role characterization. Furthermore, they are master-styled respecting to artistic techniques in sound, spectacle, music and photograph. Grandeur of scenes with abundance of details is a common prominent trait of Oscar films. Contemporary Chinese movie has risen after 1980 upon the international stage. It has formed a serial of "Chinese characteristics", but has hardly touched Oscar. The Oscar films positively evaluate the mainstream society and culture of the United States of America all along. They are very helpful for producing and improving Chinese movie. Specifically, the enlightenments from them see that: focusing on the combination of universality in themes and nationality in images, emphasizing the integration of greatness in magnitude and reality in details, stressing on the unification of diversity in characters of main roles and logical consistency in plots.The "world taste" needs neither Americanizing China nor westernizing the eastern culture. It should be formed in the process of constant communication and collision among various kinds of culture. Chinese movie has to pay special attention to the connotation in deep and value orientation of our national culture, basing on the approval of the world taste; and by mastering the universality of human-being, give the world an eastern perspective, i.e. understand the world with help of unique eastern philosophy. By study on Oscar films, we can summarize their merits for developing and improving Chinese movie. After that, we can export splendid Chinese culture into the world and make Chinese movie an indispensable part of the world movie.