Lif tertinggi di dunia, Lif Bailong di Taman Negara Zhangjiajie, China untuk melihat Avatar sebenar

Taman Negara Zhangjiajie, yang diiktiraf tapak warisan dunia pada 2002 di China terkenal dengan keindahan menakjubkan seperti dalam filem Avatar. Namun untuk melihat dengan lebih baik keindahan semulajadi ini, anda perlu menaiki lif outdoor paling tinggi di dunia dikenali Lif Bailong atau The Bailong Elevator yang bermakna Lif Seratus Naga.

Ia berbentuk kaca dan mereka yang tidak lemah semangat bolehlah menaiki lif ini yang setinggi 1,070 kaki atau 330 meter.

Jika anda melawat China, jangan lupa ke Taman Negara ini ya.

Found! The stunning mountain that inspired Avatar's 'floating peaks'

Hi all...

This is it. It was finally found. Remember the stunning floating mountains in the blockbuster and highest grossing ever sci-fi James Cameron movie - AVATAR??

The real life "floating mountains" are found in China.

Read the rest of the story here.


Remote: The South Hunan region is home to the 'Avatar' mountains

The film took more than five years to make and was reportedly one of the most expensive films, with a budget of at least $300 million.

It has wowed both critics and fans, winning a Golden Globe last week.

Avatar won 3 oscars in the 82nd Academy Awards including best cinematography and best visual effects.

The action-adventure movie, starring Sigourney Weaver, is set in 2154 and tells the tale of a disabled ex-Marine sent to Earth to infiltrate a race of 10-foot (3-metre) blue aliens and persuade them to let his employer mine their homeland for natural resources.




'Avatar' surpassed 'Titanic' to become the highest-grossing movie worldwide, distributor 20th Century Fox said.

Titanic was also directed by James Cameron.

The worldwide total for the James Cameron movie stands at more than £1.15billion, beating the £1.14 billion haul racked up by 'Titanic' in 1997-1998.

'Avatar' broke the seemingly insurmountable record set by 'Titanic' in little over six weeks, handing Cameron the remarkable feat of directing the world's two biggest movies of all time.

It has reigned at the top of North American box office for six weeks. It has also led the field in France, China, Germany and Russia.

However the real life floating mountains as seen in AVATAR, really exist in China, albeit not floating.

Its soaring steeple of rock topped by a small oasis of trees looks straight out of AVATAR.

But this is no special effects illusion, it's a real-life tower of quartz-sandstone deep in the rugged mountain terrain of southern Hunan in China.

The 3,544ft Southern Sky Column is one of 3,000 in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and became the inspiration for the magical 'floating peaks' in AVATAR after a Hollywood photographer spent time shooting there in 2008.



The mountain previously known as the 'Southern Sky Column' in China, which has now been named the 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain'


Another views of the mountains




The Hollywood rendering of the mountains in James Cameron's blockbuster film 'Avatar'

"The Hurt Locker" wins big at the 82nd Academy Awards

The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" has won best picture and five other prizes at the Academy Awards, in Los Angeles, USA.

"The Hurt Locker" won best picture and the coveted best director for Kathryn Bigelow as well as Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.

Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.

Bigelow beat her ex-husband James Cameron who directed the hugely successful and biggest box office earner - the sci-fi spectacle "Avatar."

Bigelow and Cameron were married from 1989 to 1991.

First-time winners took all four acting prizes: Sandra Bullock as best actress for "The Blind Side"; Jeff Bridges as best actor for "Crazy Heart"; Mo'Nique as supporting actress for "Precious"; and Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for "Inglourious Basterds."



Avatar which cost USD 300 million to make and collected a collosal USD 1.5 billion in revenue won 3 Academy awards for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.

Full list of The 82nd Academy Award Winners Are :

Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Other nominees :
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Disney/Pixar's Up
Up in the Air

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Other Nominees :
James Cameron - Avatar
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels - Precious
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
Other Nominees :
George Clooney - Up in the Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Other Nominees :
Helen Mirren - The Last Station
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Other nominees :
Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

Best Supporting Actress
Mo'Nique - Precious
Other Nominees :
Penelope Cruz - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air

Best Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker
Other Nominees :
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Disney/Pixar's Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air
Other Nominees :
District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious

Best Animated Feature
Disney/Pixar's
Other Nominees :
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells

Best Foreign Language
The White Ribbon
Other Nominees :
Ajami
El Secreto De Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
A Prophet (Un Prophete)


Best Documentary Feature
The Cove
Other Nominees :
Burma VJ
Food, Inc.
Which Way Home
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Best Animated
French Roast
Other Nominees :
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Documentary Short
Music by Prudence
Other Nominees :
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit a la Berlin

Best Art Direction
Nine
Other Nominees :
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Cinematography
Avatar
Other Nominees :
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Best Costume Design
Nine
Other Nominees :
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Young Victoria

Best Film Editing
District 91
Other Nominees :
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Live Action Short
The New Tenants
Other Nominees :
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish

Best Original Score
Disney/Pixar's Up
Other Nominees :
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes

Best Original Song
"The Weary Kind" - Crazy Heart
Other Nominees :
"Almost There" - The Princess and the Frog
"Down in New Orleans" - The Princess and the Frog
"Loin de Paname" - Paris 36
"Take It All" - Nine

Best Makeup
Star Trek
Other Nominees :
Il Divo
The Young Victoria

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
Other Nominees :
District 9
Star Trek


Best Sound Editing
Disney/Pixar's Up
Other Nominees :
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

Best Sound Mixing
Avatar
Other Nominees :
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen