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Oscar triumph for Hurt Locker¹

Summary

8 March 2010

The prize for best film at this year's Oscars went to The Hurt Locker, a film about American troops in Iraq. Its main rival, the multi-billion dollar blockbuster Avatar, didn't pick up any of the major awards.

Reporter:

Rajesh Mirchandani

Report

A low-budget war film that's failed to find large audiences beat off a ground-breaking fantasy epic² that's the biggest money earner in cinema history. The Hurt Locker about bomb disposal teams in Iraq won six awards including best picture, and Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Oscar for best director. She paid tribute to members of the armed services in her acceptance speech.

Meanwhile her ex-husband, the film-maker James Cameron, had to be content with three awards out of nine nominations³, for his sci-fi blockbuster Avatar.

Acting⁴ prizes went as predicted. Jeff Bridges won for Crazy Heart, Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side.

In supporting roles Christoph Waltz won for Inglourious Basterds and Mo'Nique for Precious. British nominees⁵, Helen Mirren, Colin Firth and Kerry Mulligan went home empty-handed.

Rajesh Mirchandani, BBC News, Los Angeles

1 locker   

n.更衣箱，储物柜，冷藏室，上锁的人

参考例句：

• At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
• He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。

2 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。

3 nominations   

n.提名，任命( nomination的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Nominations are invited for the post of party chairman. 为党主席职位征集候选人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Much coverage surrounded his abortive bids for the 1960,1964, and 1968 Republican Presidential nominations. 许多消息报道都围绕着1960年、1964年和1968年他为争取提名为共和党总统候选人所做努力的失败。 来自辞典例句

4 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

5 nominees   

n.被提名者，被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
• A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网