Mission﹕Filmmaker's honour
【明報專訊】"The Oscar has come to me!" Eason claims with excitement, holding an Oscar statuette. But there is no proof that his statuette is genuine!
■Game
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the following words. (answers on the next text)
actress / know / lead / honour / annual
The Academy Awards, commonly (1)_________ as "The Oscars", is an (2)___________ American awards ceremony (3)_______________ cinematic achievements. Winning an Oscar is considered an actor's or filmmaker's most honourable achievement.
It is interesting that people playing in biographical films are likelier to win Oscars. Over the past ten years, seven actors and five (4)_____________ in (5)___________ roles in biographical films have won Oscars. They include Daniel Day-Lewis (playing President Lincoln in Lincoln, 2012) and Meryl Streep (portraying Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, 2011).
■Photo story
Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for the best actor in a leading role, for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking (霍金) in The Theory of Everything.
■English highway (words and collocations)
To play may mean to perform the actions and say the words of a particular character in a theatre performance, film etc.
e.g. He played a doctor in the drama.
■Vocab Cards ﹕Collect them all!
speech (n) 演說
comfort (v) 安慰
gown (n) 女禮服
shimmering (adj) 閃閃發亮的
■Glossary
statuette (n) 小雕像
cinematic (adj) 電影的
biographical (adj) 傳記的
portray (v) 扮演
