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February 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The last silent film to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars was 1928
movie The Patriot.
Only one film – Hugo,
Martin Scorsese’s 3D ode to early cinema – has more nominations but many of
its nods are in technical categories.
Streep, who last won an Oscar for 1982 movie Sophie’s Choice, said she was “honoured”
to be nominated.
She is up against Michelle Williams for her role as screen siren Marilyn
Monroe in My
Week With Marilyn, Glenn Close for her turn as a woman disguised as
a man in Albert Nobbs, Viola Davis (The
Help), and Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo).
Oldman – whose best actor rivals are Dujardin, George Clooney (The
Descendants), Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
and Mexican Demian Bichir (A Better Life) – described his nomination as “extremely
humbling, gratifying and delightful”.
Britons Kenneth Branagh, 51, and Albert Nobbs star Janet McTeer, 50, are also
in the running for the supporting actor categories.
Branagh, nominated for his performance in My Week With Marilyn, said: “It
was a rare honour to play Sir Laurence Olivier. To be recognised by the
Academy for doing so is overwhelming. I’m absolutely thrilled.”
One Briton guaranteed to get his hands on an Oscar this year is Colin Firth.
Firth, who carried away the best actor award last year for his performance as
King George VI in The King’s Speech, will present one of the trophies at
this year’s event.
Steven Spielberg’s War
Horse, based on the National Theatre play inspired by Michael
Morpurgo’s novel, is among nine films up for best picture.
The film, up for six awards, is pitted against The Artist, The Descendants, Extremely
Loud And Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight
In Paris, Moneyball and The
Tree Of Life.
The Artist’s supporting actress contender Bejo said she was “overjoyed
and filled with happiness”.
“I can’t believe that a year ago I was learning how to tap dance and
today I am nominated for an Academy Award,” she said.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’s Peter Straughan is nominated for adapted
screenplay with his late wife, Bridget O’Connor, who died of cancer at the
age of 49.
He picked up the Bafta equivalent earlier this month and paid tribute to
O’Connor who died before the film came out, saying: “Bridget, I love
you, I miss you, this is for you.”
Oscar nods had been predicted for British actress Tilda Swinton for We Need to
Talk About Kevin, and Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, stars of Steve
McQueen’s tale of sex addiction, Shame, but they were ignored.
In the short subject documentary, London-born film-maker Lucy Walker is
nominated with Kira Carstensen for The Tsunami And The Cherry Blossom, which
was made in Japan following the devastating tsunami.
Saving Face, which follows London-based surgeon Mohammad Ali Jawad as he
treats the victims of acid attacks in Pakistan, is also up for the award.
London animators Sue Goffe and Grant Orchard are nominated for short film
(animated) for A Morning Stroll, while the short film (live action) category
includes Irish film-maker Peter McDonald’s Pentecost and Terry and Oorlagh
George’s Northern Ireland-set short The Shore.
The 84th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, take place at the Kodak
Theatre in Hollywood.
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