'The Revenant' leads Oscar nomination with 12 nods
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E-mail Xinhua, January 15, 2016
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Alicia Vikander picked up a supporting actress nomination for her role as the wife of a transgender pioneer in "The Danish Girl." Other actresses nominated in the supporting category include Jennifer Jason Leigh ("The Hateful Eight"), Rooney Mara ("Carol"), Rachel McAdams ("Spotlight") and Kate Winslet ("Steve Jobs").
"Carol," the tender portrayal of a female photographer who falls in love with a married older woman in the 1950s' New York, boasted six nominations in total, though it failed to pull one for best picture or director Todd Haynes. The screenplay, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel "The Price of Salt," garnered a best adapted screenplay nomination.
Actors vying for the golden statuette for supporting roles include Christian Bale ("The Big Short"), Tom Hardy ("The Revenant"), Mark Ruffalo ("Spotlight"), Mark Rylance ("Bridge of Spies") and Sylvester Stallone ("Creed"). Stallone, who received his first Acting nomination in 1976 for "Rocky," is the sixth person nominated for playing the same role in two different films.
Films nominated for best animated feature include writer/director Charlie Kaufman's downbeat stop motion drama "Anomalisa," "Boy and the World," Disney's "Inside Out," "Shaun the Sheep Movie" and "When Marnie Was There."
Foreign films selected to compete for Oscar gold are Colombia's "Embrace of the Serpent," France's "Mustang," Hungary's "Son of Saul," Jordan's "Theeb" and "A War" from Denmark.
The box office tent pole "Star War: The Force Awakens," the highest grossing film of all time in North America, received five nominations -- for film editing, original score, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects.
Another record breaker this year is Steven Spielberg, who produced and directed "Bridge of Spies." The film's nomination for best picture is Spielberg's ninth in that category, the most for any individual producer.
The nominations were announced by directors Ang Lee and Guillermo del Toro, actor John Krasinski, and Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of AMPAS.
The Oscars will be presented at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Feb. 28, 2016. Chris Rock, the Oscar host in 2005, will host the event for the second time this year.
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