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"Brokeback Mountain" received more nominations than any other movie this year.
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Paul Haggis, the director of "Good Night, and Good Luck", also received a nomination as best actor in a supporting role.
听力原文：M: Hey, Ellen, you'll never guess who I met last week. Barbara Johnson.
W: You don't mean the Barbara Johnson who directed the choir that performed on campus last weekend？
M: That's right.
W: But she's so famous. How did you get to meet her？
M: Well, you know how in that program they handed out, they printed the words to the choral pieces a long with the translations. I found all these mistakes in the Latin text, you know typographic... Wait a minute. You were actually reading the words.
W: I like to follow the text while I'm listening. It helps me understand what they are singing about. Any way, while they were doing those Latin pieces.
M: I notice all these mistakes, mostly spelling errors. It was really annoying. So after the concert all those people were crowding around back stage to see her and the soloist...
W: Yeah, I remember there were dozens of people waiting there for autographs.
M: Well, I waited to the end, and then when I met Barbara Johnson I showed her the mistakes I'd found.
W: Was she upset？
M: Upset？ She actually thanked me and said if I sent her a copy of the corrected text, she would revise it for the next time they sing those pieces and even print my name in the acknowledgement as a pro gram editor.
W: Wow, your Latin must be pretty good to find all those errors.
M: I should hope so. I major in classics, you know.
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Shaped like a man, an Oscar, the Academy Awards, is made of pure gold.
Oscar Hopefuls
On March 5th, 2006, actors, directors, producers and other filmmakers will gather in Hollywood, the center of the American film industry. They will receive Academy Awards for the best acting, directing, writing, editing, music and other work on movies released last year.
The winners will receive an award called an Oscar. This statue is shaped like a man. It is made of several metals covered with gold. The Oscar is only about 34 centimeters tall. It weighs less than 4 kilograms. But the award can be priceless to the person who receives it.
Winning an Oscar can mean becoming much more famous. It can mean getting offers to work in the best movies. It also can mean earning much more money.
Films Nominated for Best Motion Picture
Five films are nominated(提名)for best motion picture. They are "Brokeback Mountain," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Crash," "Capote" and "Munich." The directors of these movies were also nominated for best director.
These five films are different from the ones that are often nominated for best picture. They are all realistic films for adults that deal with serious political or social issues. Four of the movies were mainly produced outside the major Hollywood movie studio system. They cost far less money to produce than most major Hollywood movies.
"Brokeback Mountain" received 8 nominations, the most of any movie this year. They include best director for Aug Lee and nominations for two actors and one actress in the film. "Brokeback Mountain" is the story of two young cowboys in the western state of Wyoming. They fall in love during the 1960s. They marry young women and have children. But the two men continue their secret relationship for 20 years.
Two of the other films received 6 nominations each. "Good Night, and Good Luck" is about the television newsman Edward R. Murrow in the 1950s. His broadcasts opposed the powerful Senator. Joseph McCarthy. George Clooney directed "Good Night, and Good Luck." He also wrote the screenplay with Grant Heslov. And Clooney acts in the movie. Clooney was also nominated as best actor in a supporting role in another movie, "Syriana." He plays a secret United States government agent in the Middle East.
The film "Crash" also received 6 nominations. Paul Haggis wrote and directed the movie. "Crash" is about racial tensions among a group of people in Los Angeles. These strangers meet during 36 hours and are involved in car crashes and crimes.
Bennett Miller directed "Capote," another nominee for best picture. It is a true story about the writer Truman Capote. It tells about his relationship with two men sentenced to be executed for killing a family in a small town in Kansas. Capote wrote about the killings in his famous book, "In Cold Blood."
The last nominee for best picture is "Munich," directed by Steven Spielberg. It is also based on true events. "Munich" deals with the killing of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian terrorists. That happened at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, in 1972. The movie is about Israeli agents and their efforts to find and kill the men responsible for the deaths.
Men Nominated for Best Leading Actor
Five men were nominated for the best performance by an actor in a leading role. Three of them play famous American men during the 1950s and 1960s. The three actors changed their appearances and voices to look and sound like the real people.
David Strathairn plays Edward R. Murrow in "Good Night, and Good Luck." Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Truman Capote in "Capote." And Joaquin Phoenix plays the famous country singer Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line."
Heath Ledger was nominated for his role as one of the gay cowboys in "Brokeback Mountain."
And Terrence Howard was nominated for his role in the movie "Hustle and Flo
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