The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 25, 2021, rather than its usual late-February date due to special reasons.
Winners
The nominees were announced on March 15. The winners were announced during the award ceremony. Chinese film-maker Chloé Zhao became the first woman of Asia to win Best Director and the second woman overall after Kathryn Bigelow, who claimed the title at the 2010 ceremony for directing The Hurt Locker. Best Actress winner Frances McDormand became the seventh person to win a third acting Oscar and the second to win Best Actress three times. As a producer of Nomadland, she was also the first person in history to win Oscars for both acting and producing for the same film. Best Supporting Actress winner Yuh-Jung Youn became the first Korean performer and the second Asian female to win an Oscar after Miyoshi Umeki, who won the same category for her role in 1957's Sayonara.
Part of awards
Best Actor Anthony Hopkins ——The Father as Anthony
Best Supporting Actress Yuh-Jung Youn —— Minari as Soon-ja
Best Director Chloé Zhao ——Nomadland
Best Production Design Mank ——Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
Best Picture Nomadland——Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao
Best Cinematography Mank ——Erik Messerschmidt
Best Costume Design Ma Rainey's Black Bottom —— Ann Roth
Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya —— Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
Rule changes
Due to the ceremony date change, the Academy changed the qualification deadline for feature films(故事片)from December 31,2020 to February 28, 2021.The Academy also revised its release and distribution requirements by allowing for films that were released via video on demand or streaming(流媒体)to be qualified for the awards.
Jack Andraka was 15 when he came up with an idea for a new way to test for pancreatic(胰腺) cancer. When Andraka was 14, a family friend died of the disease, and this affected him deeply. This kind of cancer is particularly serious because there is no test you can have done to find it in the early stages. By the time standard tests determine you have the disease, it is often too late. Realizing that this was the case, Andraka decided to try to develop a test that might catch problems at the earliest stages.
The road ahead looked difficult for Andraka. He was still a high school student, and he wanted to create something that no one else had done. Andraka read endlessly about the disease, wrote a proposal for his idea, and sent it out to 200 cancer researchers. Only one professor, Dr. Anirban Maitra, responded positively. Dr. Maitra agreed to work with Andraka on his idea, giving him guidance and access to a laboratory.
The next big reward for Andraka's perseverance was winning the grand prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. This great award is given to young innovators who have developed a world-changing idea. Developing the test is likely to take many years, but Andraka hopes the test will eventually improve people's lives and maybe save them.
Jack Andraka is not alone as a young innovator. After all, there were 1,499 other contestants for the Intel award, and all of them had ground-breaking ideas. For Andraka, having a family that loves science and encourages creative thinking gave him an advantage. But the key for Andraka is that reading, research, and discovery are just plain fun and the chance to improve the world around him in the process makes it even better.
Fou Ts'ong, a Chinese-born pianist known for his sensitive interpretations of Chopin, Debussy and Mozart,
died on Monday at a hospital in London, where he had as lived for many years. He was 86.
A lover of classical music from a young age, Mr.Fou began taking piano lessons when he was 7. Mr. Fou made his first stage appearance in 1952.The concert caught the attention of officials in Beijing, who selected him to compete and tour in Eastern Europe. Mr.Fou soon moved to Poland, where he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory on a scholarship to prepare for the fifth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955. He practiced so diligently that he hurt his fingers and was nearly cut from the first round of the competition.
Mr. Fou was one of the first Chinese pianists to achieve global prominence when he took third place in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955. He also won a special prize for his performance of Chopin's mazurkas. Almost overnight, he became a national hero. To China, Mr. Fou's recognition in a well-known international competition was proof that the country could stand on its own artistically in the West. Chinese reporters flocked to interview Mr. Fou, while many others sought out his father, Fu Lei, for advice on educating children.
In 1981, a volume of letters written by his father, primarily to Mr. Fou, was published in China. Full of advice, encouragement, life teachings and strict paternal love, the book Fu Lei's Family Letters became a best-seller in China. Besides influencing a generation of Chinese, Mr. Fu's words resonated long after his death among people for whom they were intended.
"My father had a saying that 'First you must be a person, then an artist, and then a musician, and only then can you be a pianist'," Mr. Fou once recalled in an interview. "Even now, I believe in this order-that it should be this way and that I am this way."
Music is good for health. And drumming may be best of all. As well as being physically demanding, it requires people to adjust their limbs and to react to outside stimuli, such as what the rest of the band is up to. It is particularly helpful for children who have emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Researchers at the Clem Burke Drumming Project, an organization named after Blondie's drummer, who was one of its founders, have found that teaching such children to drum helps them to control their reactions more generally, to focus more effectively on tasks they are given, and to communicate better with other people.
The project's latest work, led by Cahart of King's College London, goes a step further. It looks at the neurological (神经系统的)changes which accompany these shifts.
Ms. Cahart and her colleagues found 36 autistic(自闭症的) teenagers and divided them into two groups. One had drum lessons twice a week for eight weeks. The others did not. At the beginning and end of the project everyone was asked to stay still for 45 minutes in a machine to see how the activity of their brains had changed. Their behavior was also recorded.
As expected, most of the drumming group showed positive behavioral changes. And these were indeed reflected in their brains. The machine scans showed that several groups of connectivity between parts of those brains had strengthened during the experiment. In particular, two regions involved in attention control, formed strong links, respectively, with places associated with introspection(内省) and with areas involved in understanding facial expressions.
These changes in the brain thus nicely match the changes in behavior which learning to drum brings. Not a surprise, perhaps. But a confirmation of drumming's power to heal(治愈) oneself.
When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy, and he spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a special hospital for people with mental health problems.
When he left the hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, the USA. For example, he didn't like the doctors' white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients, and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn't like Adams very much because he was too different.
He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital, and often put a special red nose on his face to look like a clown and to make the children laugh.
When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called "The Gesundheit! Institute", together with some other doctors.
Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1998, Universal Pictures made a film about his life.
In the film (called Patch Adams),Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, "Hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who's a friend. "
A.I enjoyed playing him. B. It was very successful. C. He eventually gave up his studies.
D. Adams succeeded in persuading other patients. E. But when he was there, he did things in a different way.
F. But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine.
G. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.
Matt Stutzman is one of the top-ranked bowmen (弓箭手) in the USA. "The last time we looked into it, 1% of bowmen in the world made a 1 from archery," he said. "January of 2010 was when I 2 to be the best
bowman in the world. And by 2012, I went to my first game, and won silver!" And he did it all with his feet.
Stutzman was born without arms. "I couldn't find 3 ," he said. "I was pretty 4 that nobody would give me a chance to 5 myself."
In 2009, a deer season in Lowa, he thought that if he could teach himself how to 6 an arrow, maybe he could at least 7 a deer and support his family. He said, "I went out and got the 8 bow I could find, and I actually shot a deer 9 . I was excited."
"I started archery just to 10 my family. But now I've seen it's much 11 . When someone with a disability comes up to me saying they saw me do this or that, and now they can do that, then it makes me feel 12 about myself," he said. "The feeling is better than 13 . The best bowman in the world is somebody who 14 the sport and makes it better, or changes people that 15 what you do and makes them better."
The story of Li Tian, "ancestor of firecrackers", is one of the beautiful folk (legend) about the origin of fireworks.
About 1, 400 years ago, on both sides of the Nanchuan River, people (kill) by mandrills(山魈).Even Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty(618-907), Li Shimin, was so disturbed he ordered medical treatment from all over the country.
Li Tian, from Liuyang, central China's Hunan Province, worked hard and invented firecrackers, were used to ward off(抵御) evil spirits (protect) not only the citizens, but also the emperor. Li was awarded the title of "ancestor of firecrackers" by the emperor his valuable rescue.
(develop) till the Song Dynasty, around the beginning of the 13th century, Liuyang fireworks began to be introduced to India via the Silk Road. Later, fireworks were introduced into Arab countries through India, into Spain, and ( gradual) spread to European and American countries.
After more than 1,400 years of development, Liuyang has formed an industrial cluster (群) of production, operation, research and development and logistics, (become) a global fireworks production and trade base and the "hometown of fireworks" in the world.
