Actress Nicole Kidman and Oscar-winning Life of Pi director Ang Lee will join Steven Spielberg on this year's Cannes Film Festival jury.
Tim Lee of pi Economics, a consultancy, sees a commodity crash as heralding a similar collapse in stockmarkets.
Tim Lee of pi Economics reckons that American profits may be depressed for some time, because the country is headed for a prolonged period of slow growth.
As Tim Lee of pi Economics points out, the Turkish lira is as strong against the euro as it was in 2002, even though its current-account deficit is running at around 7% of economic output and its inflation rate has been significantly higher than that of the euro zone over the past five years.
That category is another close race, with Lincoln's Steven Spielberg in a duel with Ang Lee for Life Of Pi.
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Ang Lee took Life of Pi, a book that was widely considered to be unfilmable, and turned it into a vibrant movie that is full of life.
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Best Director nods went to: Michael Haneke for Amour, Ang Lee for The Life of Pi, David O.
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Le Portier quickly became a specialist of big-cat scenes and after Pasolini came other famous screen directors such as Jean-Jacques Annaud with "Two Brothers, " Ridley Scott with "Gladiator, " and more recently Ang Lee with "Life of Pi, " which stars a digital tiger.
Life of Pi scored 11 nominations including Best Directing for Ang Lee.
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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.
Lee was adamant that an unknown was needed for Pi, so he put out casting calls for 3, 000 young actors across India.
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.
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.
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.
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