Artist director wins directors’ guild award
The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius was named the year’s best feature film director by the Directors Guild of America on Saturday, further positioning the silent movie-era romance as a front-runner for Oscars.
The movie about a fading star whose career is eclipsed by the woman he loves just as talkies are putting an end to silent pictures has been a critical darling throughout the Hollywood’s current awards season.
“This is really touching and moving for me,” said French director Hazanavicius upon accepting his award at the Grand Ballroom adjacent to the Kodak Theatre where the Oscars, the film industry’s highest honours, will be given out on Feb. 26. “It’s maybe the highest recognition I could hope for,” he said.
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‘3,300-year-old jade tool unearthed’
Scientists have unearthed a more than 3,300-year-old stone tool which they say led them to rediscover a “lost” 20th-century manuscript and a “geochemically extraordinary” bit of earth.
Found from Emirau Island in the Bismark Archipelago off the coast of New Guinea, the two-inch stone tool was probably used to carve, or gouge, wood.
It seems to have fallen from a stilted house, landing in a tangle of coral reef that was eventually covered over by shifting sands, the researchers said.
The jade gouge, they said, may have been crafted by the Lapita people, who appeared in the western Pacific around 3,300-years-ago, then spread across the Pacific to Samoa over a couple hundred years, and from there formed the ancestral population of the people we know as Polynesians. — PTI
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