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　　LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- "Birdman" and "The GrandBudapest Hotel" led Thursday's Oscar nominations, with nine nominations each for the 87thAcademy Awards, followed by "The Imitation Game," which got eight nods.

　　The other five best picture nominees include "American Sniper," "Boyhood," "Selma," "The Theoryof Everything" and "Whiplash."

　　The 12-years-in-the-making movie "Boyhood," the big winner at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards,picked up six nominations, including a directing nod for Richard Linklater. Best picture hopeful"Selma " which some had predicted would earn a shot at the Oscar for director Ava DuVernay,received one other nomination -- for its original song, "Glory."

　　In addition to Linklater, director nods also went to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for "Birdman,"Bennett Miller for "Foxcatcher," Wes Anderson for "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and MortenTyldum for "The Imitation Game."

　　As widely expected, Michael Keaton picked up a nomination for his role as a one-timeblockbustersuperhero actor trying to revive his career on Broadway in "Birdman." British actorEddie Redmayne joined best actor category for his role as physicist Stephen Hawking in "TheTheory of Everything." Other best actor nominations are Benedict Cumberbatch for his portrayalof World War II codebreaker Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game," box- office favorite and nowthree-time nominee Bradley Cooper for " American Sniper" and Steve Carell for his transformationinto millionaire murderer John du Pont in "Foxcatcher."

　　All but Cooper are first-time Oscar nominees. Keaton and Redmayne both took home prizes atGolden Globe Awards four days ago.

　　Best actress nominees include Julianne Moore for her role as a linguistics professor diagnosed withAlzheimer's disease in "Still Alice," 2008 Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard for her portrayal of a youngmother fighting to keep her job in the Belgian film "Two Days, One Night," Felicity Jones for herwork opposite Redmayne in "The Theory of Everything," Rosamund Pike as the murderous wife in"Gone Girl" and Reese Witherspoon for her soul-searching role in the adaptation of CherylStrayed's "Wild." Moore, now a five-time Oscar nominee, won a Golden Globe Sunday.

　　Actresses scoring nominees for supporting roles were first- timers Patricia Arquette for "Boyhood"and Emma Stone for "Birdman, " along with Laura Dern for "Wild," Keira Knightley for "TheImitation Game," and Meryl Streep for "Into the Woods." This is Streep's 19th nomination and shehas already won three Oscars.

　　Supporting actorsgarneringnominations included 84-year-old Oscar-winner Robert Duvall for "TheJudge," four-time nominee Ethan Hawke for "Boyhood," Ed Norton for "Birdman," Mark Ruffalo for"Foxcatcher" and first-time nominee J.K. Simmons for "Whiplash. "

　　Best foreign language films nominated were "Ida" (Poland), " Leviathan" (Russia), "Tangerines" (Estonia), "Timbuktu" ( Mauritania) and "Wild Tales" (Argentina). The Oscar nominees for bestanimated feature film are "Big Hero 6," "The Boxtrolls," "How to Train Your Dragon 2," "Song ofthe Sea" and "The Tale of Princess Kaguya."

　　One of young leading Chinese directors, Hu Wei, 32, got best live action short film nomination forhis 15-minute Tibetan themed film "Butter Lanp." This is the only Chinese film in this year's Oscarrace.

　　The Academy reformed its process for announcing the nominations this year. Traditionally, theearly morning live-televised announcement at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre only featured some ofthe top categories. On Thursday, the Oscar nominations were announced in all 24 categories atthe early morning event.

　　The Oscars will be presentedFeb. 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, with NeilPatrick Harris hosting. (via CNTV)

　　重点解析 Key Phrases/Words

　　1. nomination n. 任命;提名;被提名

　　2. blockbuster n. 重磅炸弹，了不起的人或事;大片;风靡一时的事物

　　3. revive v.使复活，使恢复;使振奋，使重新流行;唤醒，唤起

　　4. garner v. 获得;贮藏，积累

　　5. be presented 授予，赠送，提出

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