Life Of Pi's smooth cruise to the Oscars, grabs 11 nominations !!!
Steven Spielberg directed political biopicLincolnis leading the Oscar race this year with 12 nominations while Ang Lee- helmed Indian dramaLife Of Pibagged 11 nods on Thursday, including in the best picture and director categories.
The best picture category for the 85th Academy Awards is highly competitive this year with nine films fighting for the golden statuette.
Life Of Pi, the survival story of an Indian boy lost in the ocean with a Bengal tiger will fight closely with political dramas like Spielberg'sLincoln, Ben Affleck'sArgo, and Katheryn Bigelow'sZero Dark Thirty, a film on the manhunt for Osama bin Laden.
The other films in the race for best picture are David O Russell's comedySilver Linings Playbook, Tom Hooper's musicalLes Miserables, Michael Haneke'sAmour, Quentin Tarantino's civil-war set western Django Unchained and Benh Zeitlin'sBeasts of the Southern Wild.
Steven Spielberg'sLincolnhas won 12 nominations. Taiwanese-American film-makerLee, who chose an entirely Indian cast for Pi and shot some scenes in India, is in the race for the best director trophy with Spielberg, Russell, Haneke and Zeitlin.
Pi, which starred Delhi-boy Suraj Sharma in the lead and noted actors such as Irrfan Khan, Tabu and Adil Hussain, also gained nominations in categories like cinematography, film editing, original score, orginal song (Pi's lullaby), production design, best adapted screenplay, visual effects, sound editing and sound mixing.
Daniel Day-Lewis is leading in the best actor category for his widely-praised portrayal of the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln in the Reliance-DreamWorks produced Lincoln. The film follows Lincoln's struggle to abolish slavery as the country goes for a civil war. The other contenders in the best actor category are Bradley Cooper forSilver Linings Playbook(also starring Indian actor Anupam Kher), Denzel Washington for Flight, Joaquin Phoenix for The Master and Hugh Jackman forLes Miserables.
85-year-old French actress Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest ever to be nominated in the best actress category. Riva plays a woman struggling with old age and death in Haneke'sAmour. While the record for being the youngest-ever nominee in the same category goes to 8-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis for her role inBeasts of the Southern Wild. Jessica Chastain is also a strong contender for the best actress trophy this year for her role of a CIA agent inZero Dark Thirty. She is facing competition fromSilver Linings Playbookstar Jennifer Lawrence and Naomi Watts fromTsunami drama The Impossible.
The supporting actor list is full of Oscar-winning actors such as Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook) and Alan Arkin (Argo). The supporting actress category actors such as has Amy Adams (The Master), Sally Field (Lincoln), Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables). Carnatic music vocalist Bombay Jayashri is nominated in the original song category for "Pi's Lullaby" fromLife Of Pialong with composer Michael Danna. British soul singer Adele has earned an Oscar nomination with her rendition of the theme song ofSkyfall.
The best picture category for the 85th Academy Awards is highly competitive this year with nine films fighting for the golden statuette.
Life Of Pi, the survival story of an Indian boy lost in the ocean with a Bengal tiger will fight closely with political dramas like Spielberg'sLincoln, Ben Affleck'sArgo, and Katheryn Bigelow'sZero Dark Thirty, a film on the manhunt for Osama bin Laden.
The other films in the race for best picture are David O Russell's comedySilver Linings Playbook, Tom Hooper's musicalLes Miserables, Michael Haneke'sAmour, Quentin Tarantino's civil-war set western Django Unchained and Benh Zeitlin'sBeasts of the Southern Wild.
Steven Spielberg'sLincolnhas won 12 nominations. Taiwanese-American film-makerLee, who chose an entirely Indian cast for Pi and shot some scenes in India, is in the race for the best director trophy with Spielberg, Russell, Haneke and Zeitlin.
Pi, which starred Delhi-boy Suraj Sharma in the lead and noted actors such as Irrfan Khan, Tabu and Adil Hussain, also gained nominations in categories like cinematography, film editing, original score, orginal song (Pi's lullaby), production design, best adapted screenplay, visual effects, sound editing and sound mixing.
Daniel Day-Lewis is leading in the best actor category for his widely-praised portrayal of the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln in the Reliance-DreamWorks produced Lincoln. The film follows Lincoln's struggle to abolish slavery as the country goes for a civil war. The other contenders in the best actor category are Bradley Cooper forSilver Linings Playbook(also starring Indian actor Anupam Kher), Denzel Washington for Flight, Joaquin Phoenix for The Master and Hugh Jackman forLes Miserables.
85-year-old French actress Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest ever to be nominated in the best actress category. Riva plays a woman struggling with old age and death in Haneke'sAmour. While the record for being the youngest-ever nominee in the same category goes to 8-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis for her role inBeasts of the Southern Wild. Jessica Chastain is also a strong contender for the best actress trophy this year for her role of a CIA agent inZero Dark Thirty. She is facing competition fromSilver Linings Playbookstar Jennifer Lawrence and Naomi Watts fromTsunami drama The Impossible.
The supporting actor list is full of Oscar-winning actors such as Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook) and Alan Arkin (Argo). The supporting actress category actors such as has Amy Adams (The Master), Sally Field (Lincoln), Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables). Carnatic music vocalist Bombay Jayashri is nominated in the original song category for "Pi's Lullaby" fromLife Of Pialong with composer Michael Danna. British soul singer Adele has earned an Oscar nomination with her rendition of the theme song ofSkyfall.
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