Best Director nods went to: Michael Haneke for Amour, Ang Lee for The Life of Pi, David O.
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This year's only male on the shortlist, Suraj Sharma, got his break when he was picked from 3, 000 hopefuls to star in Ang Lee's epic adaptation of the novel Life of Pi.
Great floods wash away the bonds of family, among other things, in "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " "Life of Pi, " "The Impossible" and "Moonrise Kingdom" (nominated for Best Original Screenplay).
Will best film editing go to "Argo, " the taut minimalism of "Zero Dark Thirty" or the careful rhythms of "Life of Pi"?
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That evening, after watching the movie "Life of Pi" at a mall, they strolled by a fountain and snapped some pictures.
The studio is hoping to make up some of the losses with the Asian box office where they feel Life of Pi will do really well.
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And if Lincoln is destined to fall, it seems more likely that an upset would come at the hands of either Silver Linings Playbook (which I previously explained might be positioned for a surprise win) or Life of Pi, the only two films that have enough nominations in traditionally predictive categories to win Best Picture.
Both are up for this year's original song prize, alongside tracks from Les Miserables, Life of Pi and the documentary Chasing Ice.
Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Life of Pi took home the most awards on Sunday, winning four prizes including a best director accolade for Taiwan's Ang Lee.
The 85th annual Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, with Lincoln leading the way with 12 nominations, and Life of Pi not far behind with 11.
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Other nominees in the PGA movie category were "Les Miserables, " "Zero Dark Thirty, " "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " "Django Unchained, " "Life of Pi, " "Moonrise Kingdom, " "Silver Linings Playbook, " and Skyfall.
Kerry's many audio books include Life of Pi (Reader of the Year, APA Awards).
If we just subtracted budget from box office earnings to get a net gross, Life of Pi would have topped the list.
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In February Lee won his second best director Oscar for his 3D film Life of Pi, based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger.
The Oscar for Best Production Design will go to Life of Pi or Les Miserables.
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For example Life if Pi has been one of the most positively tweeted about films on Twitter.
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Ang Lee's 3D epic Life of Pi - which went into the awards with nine nominations - picked up two awards for cinematography and special visual effects.
He had signed up to direct the pilot episode of Tyrant in March, just weeks after Life of Pi won four Oscars.
Dr Marshall said the central plot line where the caterpillar eventually becomes a butterfly is transformational and "worthy of Life of Pi, possibly even more meaningful than Life of Pi".
Moonrise Kingdom and The Master are among the films nominated for the Writers Guild's original screenplay prize, while Argo, Life of Pi and Lincoln compete for its adapted screenplay honour.
Life of Pi earned a solid 11 nominations, mostly in the technical categories.
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The latest entry in the Bond franchise had eight nominations, but Stephen Spielberg's "Lincoln" led the field with 10 nods, followed by "Les Miserables" and "Life of Pi, " which both received nine nominations.
Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
At the time he had admitted that he had been "obsessing about every detail of Life of Pi, " for four years and it had "completely consumed" him.
American films that opened in China after "Life of Pi" and are awaiting their cut of box office grosses in the country include "Skyfall, " released by Sony Pictures Entertainment, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" from Time Warner Inc.
"Life of Pi" also fell to ninth place after maintaining a steady hold of the fifth place spot for its first four weeks in theaters.
By the time Ludolf van Ceulen died in 1610, he had spent many years of his life tediously calculating pi, resulting in only 35 accurate digits.
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