All Academy Awards articles – Page 60
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Foreign affairs
Screen profiles all 65 films submitted for this year’s foreign-language Academy Award — a true smorgasbord of styles, genres and personal and political subjects
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Ten live action shorts to go forward in Oscar race
Voters will now select 3-5 nominees from among the titles.
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Ten animated shorts progress in Academy voting
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences today [30] announced that ten animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 83rd Academy Awards.
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Jeremy Thomas to be honoured by Academy
Veteran UK producer Jeremy Thomas will be celebrated with a tribute evening from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) in London on Thursday.
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Academy unveils 15 doc feature contenders
The Academy has announced the documentary hopefuls for awards consideration, with Charles Ferguson’s financial crisis investigation Inside Job, Shlomi Eldar’s human drama Precious Life and Davis Guggenheim’s education jeremiad Waiting For Superman (pictured) all in the mix.
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Weinsteins go to war over MPAA ratings for awards duo
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is preparing to lock horns with the MPAA over the ratings for its two top awards season contenders.
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Fifteen films to vie for animated feature Academy Award
The Academy has received 15 submissions for the animation feature category for the 83rd Academy Awards, paving the way for three nominations in January.
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The starting post
A host of titles are jostling for position in the awards race as Venice and Toronto kick off. Jeremy Kay assesses the credentials of the leading contenders.
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No January move for 2012 Oscars
The Oscar ceremony will not be moving to January in 2012, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Wednesday [13], though a move is still a possibility in subsequent years.
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Eight documentary shorts up for Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has named the eight documentary shorts that have been short-listed for this year’s documentary short subject Oscar.
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65 submissions for foreign language Oscar
Sixty-five countries, including first-time entrants Ethiopia and Greenland, have submitted films for consideration for the foreign language film Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced.
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Slovenia picks 9:06 for Oscar race
The Slovenian Film Fund announced today that the country’s submission for the best Foreign Language film Academy Award is Igor Sterk’s 9:06.
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Academy sets October 1 deadline for foreign language submissions
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has set an October 1 deadline for submissions in the foreign language film and the live action short film and animated short film categories.
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Brazil picks Lula for Oscar race
While Fabio Barreto remains unconscious after a car accident, his Lula, the Son of Brazil has been chosen to represent the country in the Foreign Language Oscar race.
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Italy selects The First Beautiful Thing for Oscar race
Paolo Virzi’s bittersweet comedy The First Beautiful Thing (La Prima Cosa Bella) has been selected as Italy’s candidate to the foreign Oscar.
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Dogtooth enters the Oscar race for Greece
Giorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (Kynodontas) will represent Greece in this year’s Foreign Language Academy Awards race.
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Spain selects Even The Rain for Oscar race
The Spanish Film Academy has selected multi award-winning director Iciar Bollain’s drama Even The Rain to represent Spain for the foreign-language Oscar, beating off competition from prison drama Cell 211 and historical romantic epic Lope.
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Iceland selects Mamma Gogo for Oscar race
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s Mamma Gogo will represent Iceland in this Foreign-Language Oscar race.
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Hong Kong, China announce foreign-language Oscar submissions
Hong Kong has selected Alex Law’s Echoes Of The Rainbow, while China has picked Feng Xiaogang’s box office hit Aftershock.