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All Academy Awards articles – Page 69
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Dream Weaver selected as China's Oscar entry
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has announced that it has selected documentary Dream Weaver - Beijing 2008 as the country's contender for best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards. It is the first time China has chosen a documentary for the category. The film, produced by ...
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Hong Kong submits Painted Skin as Oscar entry
Hong Kong has selected Gordon Chan's fantasy epic Painted Skin as the territory's contender for this year's foreign-language Oscar, the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong (FMFP) said at a press conference on Wednesday. 'We think this film has something very special,' FMFP chairman Crucindo Hung said. 'It ...
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Czechs, Poles name Oscar submissions
The Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) has chosen Petr Zelenka's The Karamazovs as the Czech Republic's submission in the Academy Award contest for Best Foreign Language Film.The film is a Czech-Polish co-production between by Prvni Verejnopravni and Ceska Televize on the Czech Side and Warsaw Pact Filmproduction on the ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina submits Snow to Oscars
Aida Begic's Snow has been chosen by the Association of Film Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovina as its submission for the best foreign language film at the 81st Academy Awards. The film has already won this year's Critics' Week prizeat the Cannes Film Festival. Snow is co-produced by Sarajevo's Mamafilm, ...
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Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah enters Oscar race for Italy
Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's Cannes Grand Prix winner, will represent Italy in the Foreign Language Oscar race, the film's producer Domenico Procacci announced during a press conference in Rome today.The film is an original and unglamorous look at the Naples crime organization known as Camorra.'I am particularly happy that the film ...
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No One's Son enters the Oscar race for Croatia
Ostojic's No One's Son has been nominated as Croatia's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar despite not having an official distributor. Arsen Anton Ostojic's No One's Son (Niciji Sin) has been chosen by the Croatian Association of Film Workers as Croatia's foreign language film candidate for the 2009 Academy ...
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Serbia adds Markovic's The Tour to the Oscar poll
The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has chosen Goran Markovic's The Tour as its submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards.Markovic's film was in competition with 10 other films for the nomination. The shortlisted films were: Berlinale panorama entry Love And Other Crimes (Ljubav I ...
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Serbia adds Markovic's The Tour to the Oscar poll
The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has chosen Goran Markovic's The Tour as its submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards.Markovic's film was in competition with 10 other films for the nomination. The shortlisted films were: Berlinale panorama entry Love And Other Crimes (Ljubav I ...
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Swiss selectLewinsky'sThe Friend as Oscar entry
Micha Lewinsky's feature debut The Friend (Der Freund) has been selected by an expert group convened by the Federal Office for Culture to be Switzerland's entry for the Foreign Language Oscar.The drama about a shy outsider who poses as the boyfriend of a woman after her sudden death and is ...
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Norway names O'Horten as Foreign-Language Oscar submission
Norwegian director Bent Hamer's O'Horten will fly the Norwegian colours for the Oscar nominations as Best Foreign-Language feature, it was announced today (Sept 18) by the Norwegian Film Institute.The film was also scripted and produced by Hamer, for his own BulBul Film and was co-produced with Scanboxfilm, Pandora Film, and ...
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Cannes winner The Class enters Oscar race for France
In an expected move, Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class has been chosen to represent France at this year's Oscars.Laurent Cantet's semi-documentary about life in a tough Parisian high school will vie for a shot at a best foreign language film nomination. The candidates will be announced in January. Click ...
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Finland submits Home Of Dark Butterflies in Oscar race
Finnish director Dome Karukoski's The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien perhosten koti) will be Finland's official bid for an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature, the Finnish Film Foundation announced today.Already among the five competitors for the Nordic Council Film Prize, the Markus Selin-Jukka Helle production for Solar Films follows ...
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Necessities Of Life named as Canada's foreign Oscar submission
Benoit Pilon's Necessities Of Life (Ce Qu'il Faut Pour Vivre) has been selected as Canada's submission for the the foreign language film category at the 81st Academy Awards. Written by Pilon and Bernard Emond and produced by Bernadette Payeur of Montreal-based ACPAV, the film world premiered in competition at this ...
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Bruno Barreto's Last Stop 174 selected as Brazil's Oscar entry
Bruno Barreto's Last Stop 174 has been selected as Brazil's official entry for the best foreign language film category of the Academy Awards.Last Stop 174 selected as Brazil's Oscar entry The social drama had its world premiere in Toronto and will open the Rio International Film Festival on Sept 25.The ...
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Everlasting Momentsis Swedish pick forBest Foreign-Language Oscar
Swedish director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) has been entered as Sweden's candidate forthe best foreign-language filmOscar. Click here to see Screen review.The film stars Finnish-Swedish actress Maria Heiskanan, with Sweden's Mikael Persbrandt and Denmark's Jesper Christensen.Everlasting Moments is a Danish-Swedish co-production, realised by Thomas Stenderup, of ...
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Baader Meinhof Complex is German entry for foreign language Oscar
Germany has announced its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex.The film chronicles the Red Army Faction terrorist group, which terrorised Germany in the 1970s. Itstars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek.The filmhad its world premiere in Munich this week and ...
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Departures selected as Japan's Oscar entry
Yojiro Takita's Departures (Okuribito) has been selected as Japan's official entry for the Academy Awards' foreign-language film category, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren) announced on Friday. The final selection for films nominated in the category will be announced by AMPAS in January.Departures is a dramedy starring Masahiro ...
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Singapore selects My Magic as foreign-language Oscar entry
The Singapore Film Commission (SFC) has selected Eric Khoo's My Magic as Singapore's entry to the best foreign-language film category of next year's Academy Awards. The mostly Tamil-language film, which played in competition at Cannes this year, follows the complex relationship between a father, who is analcoholic magician, and his ...
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