Steven Spielberg-directed political biopic Lincoln is leading the Oscar race this year with 12 nominations, while the Ang Lee-helmed Indian drama Life of Pi bagged 11 nods on Thursday, including 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's Lincoln, Ben Affleck's Argo, and Katheryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, a film about themanhunt for Osama bin Laden.
The other films in the race for best picture are David O Russell's comedy Silver Linings Playbook, Tom Hooper's musical Les Miserables, Michael Haneke's Amour, Quentin Tarantino's civil-war set western Django Unchained and Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Taiwanese-American film-maker Lee, 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 drifts into a civil war.
The other contenders in the best actor category are Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook (also starring Indian actor Anupam Kher), Denzel Washington for Flight, Joaquin Phoenix for The Master and Hugh Jackman for Les 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's Amour.
Jessica Chastain is also a strong contender for the best actress trophy this year for her role as a CIA agent in Zero Dark Thirty.
She is facing competition from Silver Linings Playbook star Jennifer Lawrence, and Naomi Watts from the Tsunami drama The Impossible.
(Read by Brian Salter. Brian Salter is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)
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本周四，史蒂芬•史匹柏執導的政治人物傳記片《林肯》在今年奧斯卡獎角逐中一馬當先，斬獲12項提名。而李安執導的印度電影《少年派》也將11項提名收入囊中，其中包括最佳影片獎和最佳導演獎。
今年第85屆奧斯卡最佳影片獎角逐異常激烈，共有九部影片爭奪奧斯卡小金人。
《少年派》講述的是一個印度男孩與一隻孟加拉虎在海上迷路後如何生存下來的故事。該片將與史匹柏的《林肯》、本•阿弗萊克的《逃離德黑蘭》以及凱薩琳•畢格羅的《獵殺本•拉登》等政治題材電影一決高下。《獵殺本•拉登》講述的是追捕本•拉登的故事。
同臺爭奪最佳影片提名的電影還有大衛•歐•拉塞爾的喜劇片《烏雲背後的幸福線》、湯姆•胡珀的音樂電影《悲慘世界》、麥可•哈尼克的《愛》、昆丁•塔倫蒂諾的以美國內戰為背景的西部片《解放的江哥》以及本•澤特林的《南國野獸》。
臺灣裔美籍電影製作人李安執導的《少年派》全部選用印度籍演員，一些場景也選在印度當地拍攝。李安將與史匹柏、拉塞爾、哈尼克以及澤特林一同角逐奧斯卡最佳導演獎。
《少年派》的主演為德裡男孩蘇拉傑•夏爾馬，其他知名演員還有伊爾凡•可汗、塔布和阿迪爾•海珊。該片還獲得了最佳攝影獎、最佳剪輯獎、最佳原創配樂獎、最佳原創歌曲獎（《少年派的搖籃曲》）、最佳藝術指導獎、最佳改編劇本獎、最佳視覺效果獎、最佳音效剪輯獎以及最佳音響效果獎等多項提名。
丹尼爾•戴-劉易斯因在電影《林肯》中對美國第十六任總統亞伯拉罕•林肯所做的刻畫而飽受好評，在最佳男演員獎角逐中遙遙領先。該片由印度信實娛樂公司與夢工廠電影公司聯合製作。
影片的主線是林肯在國家陷入內戰之時力爭廢除奴隸制的辛路歷程。
最佳男演員獎的其他競爭者還有《烏雲背後的幸福線》的主演布萊德利•庫珀（參演者還有印度演員阿努潘•凱爾）、《迫降航班》的主演丹澤爾•華盛頓、《大師》的主演傑昆•菲尼克斯及《悲慘世界》的主演休•傑克曼。
85歲高齡的法國女演員艾曼紐麗•麗娃是有史以來年齡最大的最佳女演員獎提名獲得者。
麗娃在哈尼克導演的《愛》中扮演一位與衰老和死亡作鬥爭的婦女。
傑西卡•查斯坦憑藉在《獵殺本•拉登》中扮演的中情局特工角色，而成為今年最佳女演員獎的又一強勁爭奪者。
她的競爭對手包括主演《烏雲背後的幸福線》的詹妮弗•勞倫斯，和主演《海嘯奇蹟》的娜奧米•沃茨。
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