BEST
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Nominees: A Man Called Ove (Sweden), Land of Mine (Norway), The Salesman (Iran), Tanna (Australia), Toni Erdmann (Germany) Should Win: The Salesman Will Win: The Salesman
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Foreign language film nominee «The Insult» director Ziad Doueiri.
Not exact matches
Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness is a familiar but stirring Oscar - season specimen (it's a
foreign -
language -
film nominee) centering on a spontaneously righteous Gentile, Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who becomes a guardian angel for a small group of Polish Jews after the Nazis and their Ukrainian henchman have «liquidated» their ghetto.
Denmark takes the stage back in a most dramatic fashion with A Royal Affair, recently named one of the five Oscar
nominees for best
foreign language film.
For Denmark, the
film, an Oscar
nominee in the
foreign -
language category, might seem quietly radical, but Mr. Lindholm errs too far on the side of quiet.
Three
films considered surefire Oscar
nominees — «The Lego Movie,» «Life Itself» and «Force Majeure» — didn't find favor with the academy in, respectively, the animation, documentary and
foreign -
language categories.
(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French
film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French
film and, for that matter, any non-English-
language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best
foreign language film Oscar
nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian
nominee Bullhead.
Premiering at the Cannes
Film Festival, the
film is the first English -
language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009
film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar
nominee for Best
Foreign Language Film.
Chile's Oscar
nominee for best
foreign language film is a drama called «A Fantastic Woman.»
The India - born, British - raised Radford became a double
nominee for Director and Adapted Screenplay on the 1990s Italian
film Il Postino (The Postman), the rare
foreign language production to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.
The
film marks the English
language debut of Felix Van Groeningen, director of
Foreign Language nominee «The Broken Circle Breakdown,» while the script is written by Oscar
nominee Luke Davies («Lion»).
In the last 25 years, nine best - actress
nominees have come from
foreign -
language films, compared to only three best - actor
nominees.
Bruce Springsteen once sang, «God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of,» and Force Majeure, a Critics Choice Award winner and Golden Globe
nominee for best
foreign language film of 2014, illustrates the waves that can stir from just a few ripples of such doubt.
A Fantastic Woman, Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's best
foreign language Oscar
nominee, is not the first
film about a trans woman to be in contention for an Academy Award.
I find it deeply offensive that year after year, the other critic awards (many of whom even have
nominees) fail to mention a single
foreign language film.
BEST
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM THE WINNER: The Great Beauty, Italy OTHER
NOMINEES: Blue is the Warmest Color, France The Hunt, Denmark The Past, Iran The Wind Rises, Japan
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nominees, give me a break, especially when having only three
foreign -
language films make all of BFCA seem like a bunch of amateurs who don't watch
foreign films (which is probably true, for the most part).