
Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure
film Life of Pi at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February
24, 2013.
Life of Pi shows
a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows swept away when his
family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few animals. Only Pi
escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant Bengal tiger.
“I really
want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this unbelievablejourney
with me,” Lee said in his speech. The film also won three other Oscars, for
best original music, best cinematography(电影艺术) and best
visual(视觉) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln
and Argo which were also among the hottest nominees.
Coming from
China's Taiwan, the 58-year-old Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director in
2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only person of Asian to win the
directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.
In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed
Asian films would come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I
was born in Asia and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to
put Asian thinking into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million
U.S. dollars, has earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of
the earnings came from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the
award on the day of the Lantern Festival, a Chinese traditional festival on
which families get together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tang Yuan. He
wished everyone a happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.
1.What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?
A.Comedies. B.Tragedies.
C.Detective
films. D.Adventure
films.
2.So far, how many Oscar directing awards has Ang Lee
won?
A.One. B.Two.
C.Three. D.Four.
3.How do Chinese people celebrate the Lantern
Festival?
A.Families get
together and have rice dumplings.
B.Children make
lanterns out of big orange pumpkins.
C.People solve
puzzles on lanterns and enjoy Tang Yuan.
D.Children go
to the display of lanterns and receive red packets.
4.What can we know from the passage?
A.The 85th
Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, California this year.
B.Pi was a
young American who had an adventure trip with a tiger in India.
C.Lincoln and
Argo won more awards than Life of Pi.
D.Asian films
have come to the main stage of the world.
5.Which of the following about Life of Pi is true?
A.It was a
great success as it won four Oscars.
B.It earned
nearly 600 million dollars in China.
C.It describes
Pi’s escape from a terrible earthquake.
D.It is the
only successful film Ang Lee has ever made.