Iran, Israel Among Contenders for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Will you come? asks the wife. No, I won't he responds. She wants to leave Iran; he wants to stay. Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi has been collecting numerous awards for his fi...
'The Artist's Silent Power Leads Oscar Pack By now, many moviegoers have seen Alexander Paynes bittersweet drama The Descendants. It's about a busy lawyer who finds himself as the single parent of his two daughters as his wife lies in a coma after a...
Oscar-Nominated 'Hugo' Centers on Movie Magic Once upon a time I met a boy named Hugo Cabret. He searched to find a secret message and that message lit his way all the way home. Hugo is an orphan who lives in the shadows of a busy Paris train station...
Oscar-nominated Music Helps Movies Soar 奥斯卡提名配乐使电影锦上添花 Most people consider film to be purely visual. Yet a movie's music, or score, plays a key role in conveying the works message. 大多数人认为电影是纯粹的视觉...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The nomination ballots for 84th Annual Academy Awards were mailed Tuesday to the 5,783 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the academy announced. The voters have until Jan. 13 to...
SYDNEY, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The Oscar-winning Hollywood star Cate Blanchett has come unstuck with her fellow Australians after fronting a television commercial supporting a controversial new tax scheme in her native country. While the federal governme...
STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein. Each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California. The awards are cal...
The Academy Award nominations, announced January 25, include a Best Actor nod for Spanish actor (and previous Oscar-winner) Javier Bardem in a drama that is among the contenders for Best Foreign Language Film. Alan Silverman spoke with the star and w...
The serious consequences of Earth's changing climate are the subject of a powerful documentary film nominated for an Academy Award, the U.S. film industry's top prize. Sun Come Up is the story of the Carteret Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea...
With the Oscars just days away, media mavens are abuzz with predictions(预言,预报) of which films will win on Hollywood's biggest night. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently doubled the number of films competing for Best Pictu...
