KAREN BUTLER || United Press International
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (UPI) — Taiwanese-born filmmaker Ang Lee admits he faced some major hurdles in adapting Yann Martel‘s 2001 fantasy-adventure novel, “Life of Pi.”
KAREN BUTLER || United Press International
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (UPI) — Taiwanese-born filmmaker Ang Lee admits he faced some major hurdles in adapting Yann Martel‘s 2001 fantasy-adventure novel, “Life of Pi.”
The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards have been announced and Lincoln leads the way, picking up a whopping 12 nominations, including nods for Steven Spielberg’s direction and Daniel Day-Lewis’s grandstanding performance as honest Abe.
Life of Pi wasn’t far behind, Ang Lee’s magical adaptation of Yann Martel’s bestselling book managing 11 nominations.
Both films make the Best Picture category, alongside Beasts of the Southern Wild, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Amour, Django Unchained and Argo.
But there was no place for the hotly tipped Skyfall in any of the major categories. Instead it picked up nominations for cinematography, music, sound mixing, sound editing and song, for Adele’s monster hit. And Bond shouldn’t be too blue, as the Academy is also paying tribute to the character on this, his 50th screen birthday.
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