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The Academy Awards nominations 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 glamour, Hollywood’s most prestigious film awards are also a reminder of the hard work, creativity and courage movie-makers employ to entertain, move and enthrall audiences the world over.
thought-provoking films有发人深思的影片
glitz and glamour星光璀璨、奢侈浮华的
enthrall audiences 迷倒了观众
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 partially based on a true account. The film explores family ties, and the tenacity of the human spirit in the American frontier. But there is serious competition from other movies.
(The Revenant) 《荒野猎人》
Spotlight is a tough and thought-provoking film with excellent dialogue, and a riveting cast working with the talented director Tom McCarthy and script writer Josh Singer.
(Spotlight) 《惊爆聚焦》
excellent dialogue 精彩的对白
a riveting cast强大的演员阵容
The film slowly and methodically unveils how Spotlight, the investigative team of the Boston Globe newspaper, uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation 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 corruption at the highest levels of power.
scandal of child molestation性侵儿童丑闻
In The Danish Girl, Oscar-winning filmmaker Tom Hooper turns its lens on the struggle of pioneer transgender painter Einer Wegener as he transforms into Lily Elbe in 1920s Copenhagen.
turns its lens on把镜头对准
The film highlights the very-contemporary dialogue on gender and sexuality. After his Oscar-winning interpretation as paraplegic Stephen Hawking 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.
stupendous performance印象深刻的表演
in a row 连续
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.
the Leading Actress最佳女主角
Cate Blanchett is a favorite as Carol, an upper-class lesbian housewife, in Todd Haynes’ romantic drama Carol about a love affair between two women in 1950s New York.
a love affair婚外恋情
Still, this may be Brie Larson’s year for her role as Ma in the dark film, Room. Larson plays a young, abducted woman who is imprisoned in a windowless room but dedicates her life to her son — a product of rape by her abductor.
Larson’s powerful interpretation is fueled by her on-screen, mother-son chemistry with Jacob Tramblay who plays five-year-old Jack. 拉尔森的演绎震撼人心，屏幕上还洋溢着母子情深，扮演五岁的杰克的是雅各布·特兰布雷。
We would be amazed if we didn’t mention Adam McKay’s sleek, dark comedy The Big Short on the housing bubble collapse in the mid 2000, and the cinematic post-apocalyptic epic Mad Max: Fury Road by veteran Mad Max director George Miller.
the housing bubble 房市泡沫
(The Big Short)《大空头》
the cinematic post-apocalyptic epic末日后惊悚动作片
(Mad Max: Fury Road)《疯狂的麦克斯：狂暴之路》
