News Article Translation Practice #2 [JP to EN]

On March 4th, in Hollywood, California, the 90th Academy Awards was celebrated. with the announcements and its ceremony.

with the announcements and its ceremony. We know that celebrated means there were announcements and ceremonies.

Mr. Tsuji earned the makeup and hairstyling award along with two other other two colleagues for his special makeup work on the film 'Darkest Hour'. 

for his special makeup Not needed because we know why he won and it makes the sentence harder to read.

Mr. Tsuji is a 48-year-old artist from Kyoto, Japan. In his teen years, he began to learn special makeup techniques on his own. After working for several films including those of the film director Akira Kurosawa, he moved to the United States and has continued his work.

In the past recent five years, he has had more focused more on his career as a contemporary artist and has been less active in apart from the movie industry, until he accepted an the direct offer from Gary Oldman, as a the special effects makeup artist. for the film.

For him, this was the third time as an Oscar nominee, and he became the first Japanese person to win this award. Adding person sounds more polite.

He has issued a statement after his winning to express his gratitude. "I am truly honored to be able to get this, and I want to share this moment with my colleagues. Also, I am sincerely humbled to be awarded among so many talented nominees."

Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20180305/k10011351891000.html?utm_int=news_contents_news-main_004

This seems like it was hard to translate. Good job!

News Article Translation Practice #2 [JP to EN]

In his teen years, he began to learn special makeup techniques on his own. After working for several films, including some with the film director Akira Kurosawa, he moved to the United States and to continue his craft.

For the past five years, he has focused on his career as a contemporary (think about your word choice) artist and has been apart from the movie industry, until he accepted the direct offer from Gary Oldman as the special makeup artist for the film.

This was his third Oscar nomination. he became the first Japanese to win this award.(repetition).

He has issued a statement after his winning to express his gratitude.

"I am truly honored to be able to get this, and I want to share this moment with my colleagues. Also I am sincerely humbled to be awarded among so many talented nominees."

I don't know what the assignment is, but I think your teacher would be really impressed if you also talked about the stars from the night used their speeches to discuss important issues like diversity, inclusion, #timesup, gun laws/school shootings, AIDS awareness, and things of that nature. It would also be interesting if you provide like a statistic about the amount of people of Asian decent who were won awards during the Oscars. I feel like it would make for an interesting class discussion. 

Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20180305/k10011351891000.html?utm_int=news_contents_news-main_004