Oscar Nominations Announced

It's officially Academy Award season as nominations for the prestigious① Oscar awards poured out of Hollywood last night. Leading the pack are Gravity 地心引力 and American Hustle 美国骗局 with 10 nominations each followed by 12 Years a Slave 为奴十二载 and Wolf of Wall Street 华尔街之狼 bagging nods in several categories. In the best picture category not surprisingly the 4 previously mentioned films plus Spike Jonze's Her 她 starring Joquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with his digital personal assistant. Also making the list are Somali pirate film Captain Philips 菲利普船长, Dallas Buyers Club, Nebraska, and Judi Dench's Philomena. Director nods went to Alfonso Cuaron 阿方索·卡隆 for Gravity, David O Russell for American Hustle, and Martin Scorsese for Wolf of Wall Street. This is an important nomination for Scorsese as he has yet to win an Academy Award despite his extensive filmography② of Oscar contending films. Will this finally be his year? Leonardo DiCaprio 莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥 代表作：泰坦尼克号 picks up a best actor nod for his role in Wolf of Wall Street as does Bruce Dern 布鲁斯·邓恩 最近作品：被解救的姜戈 for Nebraska and Christian Bale 克里斯蒂安·贝尔 代表作 蝙蝠侠 for American Hustle. Matthew McConaughey has made the list too for Dallas Buyers Club. In the best actress category, Sandra Bullock 桑德拉·布洛克 地心引力 女主角 holds a spot for Gravity along with Amy Adams 艾米·亚当斯 最近作品：超人钢铁之躯 for American Hustle, Cate Blanchet for Blue Jasmine, and Judi Dench for Philomena. Meryl Streep 梅丽尔·斯特里普 代表作：铁娘子 is in the running again as well for August: Osage County. For best supporting actress we have Jennifer Lawrence 詹妮弗·劳伦斯 代表作：饥饿游戏 who won best actress last year. Also Lupita Nyong'o, Julia Roberts, June Squibb, and Sally Hawkins. Supporting actor nominations for funnyman Jonah Hill, Jared Leto, Michael Fassbender, Barkhad Abdi, and Bradley Cooper. Barkhad Abdi appeared as a Somali pirate in Captain Philips his first acting role. "I'm really, really, you know, humbled and honored, to be nominated for the Oscar you know, it's, you know, I can not describe to you how I am feeling, you know I am really, really excited about this." Though missing out on the best foreign film category Wong Kar Wai's 王家卫 film The Grandmaster 一代宗师 has received two nominations for cinematography③ and costume design, which is nothing to be ashamed of considering the caliber④ of the other nominations in those categories. Also up for cinematography is not surprisingly Gravity, Coen-brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska, and Prisoners. For costume design the Grandmaster will compete against the Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比, American Hustle, and 12 Years a Slave. For original screenplay we have American Hustle, Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, Dallas Buyers Club, Nebraska, and Spike Jonze's offbeat Her. Visual effects goes to Gravity, the Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug, Iron Man 3, the Lone Ranger, and Star Trek: Into Darkness. Gravity's special effects supervisor, Neil Corbould, opened up about the difficulty of achieving Gravity's effects. "When I first started it was just one of those movies that was such a challenge right from day one, you really couldn't think about anything else, about how you are gonna get this movie made. No, it took a long, long time before you realized, when before I realized, that it was gonna be a special movie." I was surprised to see Hunger Games: Catching Fire did not receive nominations for neither sound mixing nor sound editing. So who was snubbed⑤ this year? Well two men who are no strangers to the award, the Coen brothers 科恩兄弟 代表作：老无所依, do not appear in any major categories with their film Inside Llewyn Davis. Oscar winning Tom Hanks has also been looked over for his lead role in Captain Philips as has Joaquin Phoenix for Her. The Nelson Mandela biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom has only received one nomination for best original song performed by U2. For best original score Arcade Fire and Owen Pallet have received a nomination for their collaboration⑥ on Her. The winners of the 86th annual Academy Awards will be announced on March 2nd. 1. prestigious 有声望的 2. filmography 电影年表 3. cinematography 电影艺术 4. caliber 水准 5. snubbed 被冷落 6. collaboration 合作