VOA标准英语2016--2016年奥斯卡提名

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Oscar Race On for 2016 2016年奥斯卡提名

The Academy Awards nominations¹ mark the beginning of the Oscar race. This year, like every year, there are thought-provoking films, new talent and tough competition. And everyone anticipates Oscar night with its glitz and glamour², Hollywood’s most prestigious³ film awards are also a reminder⁴ of the hard work, creativity and courage movie-makers employ to entertain, move and enthrall⁵ audiences the world over.

The Academy of Arts and Sciences loves quality, big budget films about real people. The Revenant by Oscar winning director Alejandro Inarritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki is partially⁶ based on a true account. The film explores family ties, and the tenacity⁷ of the human spirit in the American frontier. But there is serious competition from other movies.

Spotlight⁸ is a tough and thought-provoking film with excellent dialogue, and a riveting⁹ cast working with the talented director Tom McCarthy and script writer Josh Singer.

The film slowly and methodically unveils how Spotlight, the investigative team of the Boston Globe newspaper, uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation¹⁰ in Boston’s Catholic Archdiocese and beyond. Like the All the President’s Men in 1976, Spotlight is an ode to the power of a free press to expose corruption¹¹ at the highest levels of power.

In The Danish Girl, Hollywood turns its lens on the struggle of pioneer transgender painter Einer Wegener who transforms himself into Lily Elbe in 1920s Copenhagen.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Tom Hooper paints an intimate portrait of Einer and his spouse¹³ Gerda and highlights the very-contemporary dialogue on gender¹² and sexuality. After his Oscar-winning interpretation¹⁴ as paraplegic Stephen Hawking¹⁵ last year, Eddie Redmayne transforms himself to fragile but brave Lily. His stupendous performance may make him an Oscar winner for two years in a row.  But Redmayne has to compete among others with Leonardo  DiCaprio who plays fur trapper Hugh Glass in The Revenant. and Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle's biopic by the same name. Tough picks, but not as tough as the choices in the Leading Actress category.

Cate Blanchett is a favorite as the upper-class lesbian housewife, Carol, in Todd Haynes’ romantic drama Carol about a love affair between two women in 1950s New York.

Still, this may be Brie Larson’s year for her role as Ma in the dark film, Room. Larson plays a young, abducted¹⁶ woman who is imprisoned¹⁷ in a windowless room but dedicates her life to her son — a product of rape¹⁸ by her abductor.

Larson’s powerful interpretation is fueled by her on-screen, mother-son chemistry with Jacob Tramblay who plays five-year-old Jack¹⁹. 

Another contender is Adam McKay’s sleek²⁰, dark comedy The Big Short and its stellar cast of Christian²¹ Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brat²² Pitt on the housing bubble collapse²³ in the mid²⁴ 2000.

Also vying²⁵ for the award is the cinematic post-apocalyptic epic²⁶ Mad Max: Fury Road by veteran Mad Max director George Miller²⁷ and his A list cast of Tom Hardy²⁸, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult.