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To clarify, the film, directed by Kristóf Deák, was not nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar; that category, which was won last year by the Hungarian film Son of Saul, is reserved for feature-length films. That does not, however, take anything away from the enormity of Deák’s achievement.

Sing has already had vast international success before its nomination last month in the Live Action Short Film category: the film won the Grand Prix prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo, the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Kids category, and the Adult Jury Prize in the Live-action Short Film category at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.

The film, which is 25 minutes long, takes place in Budapest in 1991. According to the film’s director, it is inspired by a true story, and “follows an award-winning school choir, their charming teacher and the new girl in class whose arrival starts a series of events that might expose the dark truth behind their fame.” The film stars two child actors, Dorka Gáspárfalvi and Dorottya Hais, while the teacher is played by Zsófia Szamosi, who has a prominent role in the new, warmly received Hungarian Psycho-Thriller Strangled (A Martfűi Rém), playing the part of the wrongly convicted man’s sister.

The other nominees in the Live Action Short Film are the Spanish film Timecode; Danish film Silent Nights; Ennemis Intérieurs (Enemies Within), from France; and La Femme et le TGV, from Switzerland.

Sing is the second Hungarian live-action short film only to receive an Oscar nomination; the first was 1963’s Concert, directed by István Szabó, who would go on to direct Mephisto, Hungary’s first Foreign Language Film Oscar winner. 

1. ANGELINA JOLIE

After Angelina Jolie planted a kiss on her brother and made the world wrinkle their noses, she went onstage and collected a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Lisa in Girl, Interrupted. She later presented the trophy to her mother, Marcheline Bertrand. The statuette may have been boxed up and put into storage with the rest of Marcheline’s belongings when she died in 2007, but it hasn’t yet surfaced. “I didn’t actually lose it,” said Jolie, “but nobody knows where it is at the moment.”

2. WHOOPI GOLDBERG

In 2002, Whoopi Goldberg sent her Ghost Best Supporting Actress Oscar back to the Academy to have it cleaned and detailed, because apparently you can do that. The Academy then sent the Oscar on to R.S. Owens Co. of Chicago, the company that manufactures the trophies. When it arrived in the Windy City, however, the package was empty. It appeared that someone had opened the UPS package, removed the Oscar, then neatly sealed it all back up and sent it on its way. It was later found in a trash can at an airport in Ontario, California. The Oscar was returned to the Academy, who returned it to Whoopi without cleaning it. “Oscar will never leave my house again,” she said.

3. OLYMPIA DUKAKIS

When Olympia Dukakis’ Moonstruck Oscar was stolen from her home in 1989, she called the Academy to see if it could be replaced. “For $78,” they said, and she agreed that it seemed like a fair price. It was the only thing taken from the house.

4. MARLON BRANDO

“I don’t know what happened to the Oscar they gave me for On the Waterfront,” Marlon Brando wrote in his autobiography. “Somewhere in the passage of time it disappeared.” He also doesn’t know what happened to the Oscar that he had Sacheen Littlefeather accept for him in 1973. “The Motion Picture Academy may have sent it to me, but if it did, I don’t know where it is now.”

5. JEFF BRIDGES

Jeff Bridges had just won his Oscar in 2010 for his portrayal of alcoholic country singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart, but it was already missing by the next year’s ceremony, where he was up for another one. He lost to Colin Firth for The King’s Speech. “It’s been in a few places since last year but I haven’t seen it for a while now,” he admitted. “I’m hoping it will turn up, especially now that I haven’t won a spare! But Colin deserves it. I just hope he looks after it better.” Which brings us to…

6. COLIN FIRTH

Perhaps Jeff Bridges secretly cursed the British actor as he said those words, because Firth nearly left his new trophy on a toilet tank the very night he received it. After a night of cocktails at the Oscar after-parties in 2011, Firth allegedly had to be chased down by a bathroom attendant, who had found the eight-pound statuette in the bathroom stall. Notice we said allegedly: Shortly after those reports surfaced, Firth’s rep issued a statement saying the “story is completely untrue. Though it did give us a good laugh.”

7. MATT DAMON

When newbie writers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck took home Oscars for writing Good Will Hunting in 1998, it was one of those amazing Academy Award moments. Now, though, Matt Damon isn’t sure where his award went. “I know it ended up at my apartment in New York, but unfortunately, we had a flood when one of the sprinklers went off when my wife and I were out of town and that was the last I saw of it,” said Damon.

8. MARGARET O’BRIEN

In 1945, seven-year-old Margaret O’Brien was presented with a Juvenile Academy Award for being the outstanding child actress of the year. About 10 years later, the O’Briens’ maid took the award home to polish, as she had done before, but never came back to work. The missing Oscar was forgotten about when O’Brien’s mother died shortly thereafter, and when Margaret finally remembered to call the maid, the number had been disconnected. She ended up receiving a replacement from the Academy.

There’s a happy ending to this story, though. In 1995, a couple of guys were picking their way through a flea market when they happened across the Oscar. They put it up for auction, which is when word got back to the Academy that the missing trophy had resurfaced. The guys who found the Oscar pulled it from auction and presented it, in person, to Margaret O’Brien. “I’ll never give it to anyone to polish again,” she said.

9. BING CROSBY

For years, Bing Crosby’s Oscar for 1944’s Going My Way had been on display at his alma mater, Gonzaga University. In 1972, students walked into the school’s library to find that the 13-inch statue had been replaced with a three-inch Mickey Mouse figurine instead. A week later, the award was found, unharmed, in the university chapel. “I wanted to make people laugh,” the anonymous thief later told the school newspaper.

10. HATTIE MCDANIEL

Hattie McDaniel, famous for her Supporting Actress win as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, donated her Best Actress Oscar to Howard University. It was displayed in the fine arts complex for a time, but went missing sometime in the 1960s. No one seems to know exactly when or how, but there are rumors that the Oscar was unceremoniously dumped into the Potomac by students angered by racial stereotypes such as the one she portrayed in the film.

source: mentalfloss

Can you match the Oscar winners and the facts or quotations?

Key:

1. e

2. i.

3. a.

4. j.

5. g.

6. b.

7. h.

8. c.

9. d.

10. f.

Son of Saul has been an enormous success so far. Before the Oscar it was awarded a Golden Globe, and the Grand Prix at the 68th Cannes Film Festival last year. The film, which has attracted mostly five-star reviews, is the debut of its 39-year-old director, László Nemes Jeles. His film has the power of Lajos Koltai’s Fateless tackling the same subject from a different angle. Debut films rarely get chosen for the main competition at Cannes unless they’re extraordinary. A first feature film that manages to land and win in the competition in Cannes  has done something right and László Nemes Jeles’s film proved to be really extraordinary. It’s not just another Holocaust film but something really special.

Nemes’s film focuses on the experiences of one man, a member of a concentration camp Sonderkommando – prisoners forced to work for the Nazis helping to load corpses of gassed inmates into cremation ovens. Set in the Auschwitz concentration camp near the end of World War II, almost every frame of the film is centered on the main character, Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig). He is a Hungarian Jew forced to assist the Nazis as a member of the Sonderkommando. The film begins with a group of scared new arrivals ushered into a room where German soldiers force them to take their clothes off. Then they are shuffled into the gas chamber, and the door is closed behind them. Saul and his fellow Sonderkommandos have to stand against a door that holds in the poison, but not its victims’ screams for help.

Nemes Jeles and his cinematographer Mátyás Erdély shot the film in a unique way. They never let the camera leave its subject. Saul never leaves the viewer’s sight. We can follow him, for instance, as he drags bodies out of the gas chamber. For most of the film the director shows us Saul’s agonized face. Sometimes we see his back, with the red X marked on his jacket to indicate his status. The scenes are often shot in sickly greens and yellows and with deep shadows.

The monotony of Saul’s existence is shaken when a boy is found breathing while the gas chamber is emptied. Saul becomes transfixed on the boy. A doctor is called in and stops his breathing, but there is something about the child Saul can’t dismiss. He volunteers to bring the body up to an examination room where he’ll be autopsied. For some reason, Saul is horrified at that prospect and cannot let it happen. He begins a dangerous personal mission to find a rabbi to arrange a proper burial for the boy.

Although not directly stated, the film appears to happen around October 1944, when Sonderkommandos learning about their impending extermination undertook a long-planned revolt against their Nazi captors rising up and destroying the crematorium.But Saul keeps being focused on his own plan to pay the last honours to a son he never could take care of before, making his burying a greater importance than his own escape. When another prisoner asks why he cares so much about the boy’s body, Saul replies, “He’s my son.” This response brings along an astonished look as his fellow Sonderkommando insists he never had one.

What is the explanation for this behaviour? Is Saul holding on to a semblance of humanity like this? Does he feel providing the boy a proper burial would atone him of the guilt he feels working in the camp? The director leaves it for the viewers to decide. Not everything is explained, nor should it be. It’s an extraordinarily powerful, often hard to watch film.

Saul’s character is performed by Géza Röhrig. Saul has few lines. Most of his acting has to be conveyed through his facial expressions or visible emotions.  This is a tough task considering he’s on screen for almost all of the film’s 1 hour and 47 minute running time.  But he acts brilliantly even though Son of Saul is his first film ever. His face fills almost every frame of the film.

The director says he was drawn to the actor because “his facial features and his body are always changing. It is impossible to tell his age, for he is at once old and young, but also handsome and ugly, ordinary and remarkable, deep and impassive, quick-witted and slow. He moves, is given to fidgeting, but knows how to keep silent and still.”

Géza Röhrig was born in Hungary. His father died when he was four and after some years in an orphanage he was adopted, aged 12, by Jewish friends. He studied Polish literature then film direction, lived in Jerusalem before moving to Manhattan in 2000. He now teaches, writes poetry and is working on his first novel, Dead Bread.

László Nemes Jeles (born in 1977) grew up in Paris. He is the son of film director András Jeles. He got interested in filmmaking at an early age, when he made horror films in the basement of their Paris home. He started working as an assistant director in France and Hungary on short and feature films. For two years, he worked as film director Béla Tarr’s assistant.

There are almost 60 movies nominated for Oscars in 2015. With a lot of dedication, it might be possible to watch all of them, but there are a few movies that will probably dominate most of the Oscar buzz and many of the award categories in February. Instead of trying to wade through all of the movies, we’ve pulled out some of the best. Some will get you ready for the Oscar presentations. And some are movies we just like a lot.

Here are the 11 films you need to see before the Oscars:

1. Boyhood

Filmed over 12 years, Boyhood is a masterpiece of editing, planning and storytelling. Director Richard Linklater follows young Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of 6 to the age of 18. He also charts the swirling, messy stories of the people who surround him, such as his mother, played by Patricia Arquette, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Boyhood is a mammoth film, coming in a little under three hours. Because of its length, Linklater is able to show just how slowly time seems to pass for Mason while maintaining the momentum right up until the end. Boyhood is an unusual Best Picture favorite, but it’s a film unlike any you’ve seen.

2. Gone Girl

Based on Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel, Gone Girl dissects the complications of marriage, the pressures of sexism, and the deep, dark secrets of the most perfect suburban neighborhoods. Amy, played by Rosamond Pike, goes missing in the first 15 minutes of the movie, but we slowly find out from her diary what her marriage to her husband, Nick (Ben Affleck) was like. But who’s telling the truth? This is a twisting, turning thriller, full of surprises and sneakily insightful commentary. Pike makes Amy’s cutting intellect more than just a charming trait. She is nominated for Best Actress, and we think the film should have been nominated for Best Picture.

3. The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson is one of the most distinctive directors working today. He wears bow ties, always looks uncomfortable, and creates movies as strange and complicated as they are perfectly symmetrical. The Grand Budapest Hotel, which follows the escapades of a famous hotel concierge (played brilliantly and hilariously by Ralph Fiennes), is no different. Familiar faces like Bob Balaban, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, and Bill Murray pop up periodically, and the film just gets better as it goes along; the third act is particularly strong. The movie is weirder than the usual Oscar fare, but it snatched up nine nominations anyway, including Best Picture and Best Director.

4. Wild

Wild grabbed nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, but it missed the Best Picture category. That doesn’t mean, however, that it isn’t worth watching. In a year full of stories about men, Wild tells the story of a single woman’s mid-life crisis, her struggle with drug addiction, and her relationship with her mother. Reese Witherspoon plays all of the character’s peaks and valleys. It can more than hold its own against many of the actual Best Picture nominees, and it’s a story of redemption in a world that isn’t always so forgiving.

5. The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game garnered the very first nomination for Best Actor for heartthrob of the moment, Benedict Cumberbatch. His role as the complicated, tormented mathematician Alan Turing allows him to play both Turing’s persecution as a gay man, and his cracking of a Nazi Enigma code during World War II. The Imitation Game received eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress.

6. Ida

Ida, a Polish film about a young nun in a convent, takes a trip back in time. Set in the post-war era, the movie creates an eerie feeling by presenting every scene in black and white. Ida has grown up in the convent, living her entire life separated from society by mindset, faith, and physical location. Because of that, her life has involved very little action. Ida is about what happens when all of that gets turned upside down, and she must face an onslaught of personal events that force her to see her innocence and naivety as burdens. Ida is nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film.

7. Whiplash

Whiplash is a study of the grit, power, and finesse it takes to master a musical instrument. The film features one of the year’s most indelible characters in Mr. Fletcher, a jazz instructor who also conducts an elite ensemble. J.K. Simmons, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor (and will probably win), plays the formidable teacher as he transforms jazz — a musical genre that evolved from free-flowing, impromptu rhythms — into a study of intense discipline. He meets his match in a student named Andrew, played by Miles Teller. Whiplash is nominated in five categories including Best Picture. 

8. Birdman

Michael Keaton, nominated for Best Actor, plays Riggan Thomson, a washed-up former actor best known for his role in the superhero franchise Birdman. Lost and with his relationships falling apart, Thomson moves toward Broadway. What’s amazing about the film isn’t just Keaton’s uncomfortable portrayal of a lost soul. The film is edited to look as if it was shot in a single take, a technique that drives the story forward with endless momentum and places the viewer inside Thomson’s head. Birdman is nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture.

9. The Theory of Everything

James Marsh’s biopic about the indomitable Stephen Hawking is more a story about love than about the scientist’s brilliant contributions to theoretical physics. Based on the memoir of Hawking’s first wife, Jane, the movie tells the miserable story of the two’s courtship, love, and marriage, before his rapid decline and physical deterioration. As Alex Abad-Santos wrote for Vox, TheTheory of Everything is at its best when it shows the viewer that “Love is patient … but it changes.” The Theory of Everything is nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture.

10. Still Alice

Alice‘s mind is her life’s work. The linguistics specialist at Columbia, abruptly, at the age of 50, begins to lose her speech and with it, the thoughts that have built not only her relationships with her family and friends, but her career. She discovers she has developed early onset Alzheimer’s. The movie focuses on Alice‘s journey through her condition, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Julianne Moore is nominated for Best Actress for playing her. She is the favorite to win.

11. Selma

Only nominated for two Oscars, which some saw as a huge snub, Selma is one of the year’s most powerful movies. Set in Selma, Alabama, the movie follows Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s battle to fight against voting laws that disenfranchised black Americans. The film roots itself in the history of the Civil Rights movement and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By tracing Dr. King’s relationships with the people in his life, Selma subtly depicts quieter, more intimate sides of history. See it just to find out why people are so mad its director and star failed to garner Oscar nominations.

source: vox.com

Which movie are we talking about? Match their number with the statements 

A) The hero in the story of this movie is not as popular as he used to be.

B) The hero of this story has very interesting adventures.

C) This movie takes its title from the town where the story takes place.

D) The heroine of this movie has a difficult life.

E) The heroine of this movie disappears after the beginning of the story.

F) This movie features a character that others are afraid of.

G) The health of the main character of this movie deteriorates quickly.

H) This movie is different from all the others one has seen before.

I) The hero of this movie suffers because of his sexual orientation.

J) The health of the main character of this movie declines gradually.

K) This movie is set in a religious environment.

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Key: 

A) 8.

B) 3.

C) 11.

D) 4.

E) 2.

F) 7.

G) 10.

H) 1.

I) 5.

J) 9.

K) 6.