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Bleak depiction of the comic book character was one of last year's most controversial releases, but the phone resonated with audiences taking more than a $1,000,000,000 at the box office, and it now leads the way of the Baptist with 11 nominations, including best film on best actor for Walk in Phoenix.

So you know the Oscars.

You know the Golden Globes.

Well, here in the UK, we have the buff Tres That's the British Academy for Film and Television Arts.

They give awards every year around this time on this year, the film Joker with Joaquin Phoenix has had no less than 11 nominations, so it's very, very popular with the BAFTA people.

But not all the audience turn.

Hey, what did you think of it?

Well, I know that many people love it, and many people hate it personally.

I'm actually in the middle.

It was good, but in places I was bored about you.

And it's all the same, really.

Although it welcome Phoenix does.

Hey, just, um, creepy.

Really, really.

Well, it's all slimy and horrible.

Wasn't a school.

I was impressed by the creepiness.

Nice.

Well, we've got three words and expressions that you can use to talk about this story.

What do we have for them?

Catherine?

We have front runner we have in the spotlight on dhe.

Also leads the pack front runner in the spotlight and leads the pack.

Okay, can we have our first headline?

Most certainly is.

So we're at the Guardian first, the headline buffed is 2020.

Joker leads pack with 11 nominations.

Our vocabulary today is in this subheading, which goes like this super villain story front runner for British film awards with the Irishman just behind front runner person expected to win a competition.

Now I could see one word, but there's two other bits inside it obviously right.

It's a compound word.

Yes, two parts to it.

Front f R O N t on the second part of runner, are you double n hea r?

Put them together.

You have front runner.

Okay, so I know front is in ahead and runners in run.

So is it.

That's important.

Really?

Well, literally.

The front runner is often in the world of horse racing.

It comes from where the horse that is running at the front of all the other orders is the front runner and is most likely to win S o.

Obviously applying that to different contacts.

That means the one that's most likely to succeed, the one that's most likely to succeed the one that's doing the best is more popular, more powerful, more successful than all the other ones on most likely to win something or get the promotion, Get the job, get the recognition.

That's the front runner.

Nice.

So is it just sports award ceremonies?

Although anything that's got some sort of element of competition Maybe not an official competition, but something way you want to do better than others.

So in the world of retail, you could say that there's a particular brand of computer that is selling many more than similar brands.

The one that selling the most is the front runner is the front runner.

Okay, so the front runner for and then the category, right?

That's right.

Yes.

So the front runner for the bathtub or the front runner for computing?

Yes.

Or in computing?

You could say it's a front runner in computing.

Nicely possible.

What about candidates for a job?

You can use it there as well.

Front runner for the job is whoever I'm looking at you.

I'm already going with the job.

Yes, I'm already late for your own job.

Cool.

Right.

Let's have a quick look at a summary slide for that information, then shall we?

Okay.

I think we're ready to go to our second headline now.

Please, Katherine, We already We are going to the rap.

The headline is buffed Nominations Put 1917 in the awards spotlight again.

Onda Joker too in the spotlight, Receiving a lot of attention.

Now there's a There's a pun here.

I mean, the bath is all about film and theater, and we have the word spotlight.

Yes, spotlights are used in film.

Buster's isn't about theater.

It's multi film and television.

Yes, but and spotlights are used in the phones and theaters on television.

You I'm sorry.

We've even got some some spotlights.

You spot lights, lights lights in the studio.

A spotlight is a light that you use in film theater television.

It directs on one person, particularly if you turn the other lights off.

There's one person is glowing in this wonderful light on, and you can't see anything else.

So the spotlight really highlights one person and makes you look at them.

Okay, so draws all the attention exam particular thing.

If you're in the spotlight away, the attention is on you.

Okay?

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Depends on what you've done to deserve the spotlight.

Yes, but in the case off this film, it's done lots of good things.

It's in the spotlight because it's got 11 nominations for BAFTAs and everybody's talking about it.

You might be in the spotlight because you've done something.

You shouldn't deal something naughty.

Yeah, like steel biscuits.

Rob Rob's constantly in the spotlight for stealing the city in a biscuit, for example.

So we have in the spotlight we can also use Under can be under the spotlight is well, that's a bit more of an intense kind of your being investigated idea.

But if you're in the spotlight, you got attention, for whatever reason.

Very nice.

And you can also steal the spotlight.

You can steal the spotlight if somebody is in the spotlight and you do something that takes the attention away from them and on to you, you stolen the spotlight.

Or we can also say you stolen the limelight that spelled L I m e l I g h t.

It's all one word.

Spotlight, by the way, is S p o T e l I GHT.

And both of them have this idea of all the attention is on you.

Very nice.

Okay, well, let's let our slide steal the spotlight from us.

Can we have a look at that?

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We do.

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How about that?

Done in front of everybody?

Apparently.

So.

They asked someone to marry them.

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How exciting.

Okay, so let's have a look at our third and final headline.

Then let's do that.

And we're actually back to our first headline.

But we're looking at a different part of it.

Thank you very much.

Onda Guardian After 2020 Joker leads pack with 11 nominations.

Leads pack is better or more successful than competitors.

Now pack is the interesting would here, isn't it?

It is.

So we've got two words.

I mean, the two or three word phrase to lead the pack leader L E A.

D the obviously and then pack P a C k A pack is a group of animals, specifically dogs.

If you have a group of dogs, they are in a pack and wolves to from those they're also wolves are pack animals, too.

On every pack of wolves has a leader, so that would be the biggest or the strongest or the most successful.

Yes.

Okay, so I think I'm getting an idea of what this means.

S O n Yes.

An animal turns a pack leader is a strong this the top dog is a If we use that.

In this sense, the pack is something's leading the pack.

It's ahead.

It's the strongest and most popular, the most successful, the front runner, in fact on.

In this case, Joker is leading the pack awful.

The other phones because it has the most number of regulation.

Exactly that.

Okay, so is this just films?

Or again, is this one of those expressions that we can apply to lots of different, Much like front Runner?

You can lead the park in many different ways in many different situations.

So the most successful mobile phone is leading the pack because it's more successful and the rest.

You can have somebody at work who's leading the pack there.

More successful, they get more attention.

Lee get better results.

So yeah, anything can lead a pirate.

There's more than one person competing, and I directly or indirectly the one that's the most successful.

That's the pack leader there leading the pack.

Lovely.

Well, let's go to a quick summary slide to see that information again.

Way.

Recap the vocabulary, please.

Of course, we have started with front runner person expected to win a competition.

We also had in the spotlight receiving a lot of attention on finally leads.

The puck is better or more successful than competitors.

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