Sentences with phrase «language film academy»

The Insult (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Cohen Media Group Rated: R, language, violent images The lowdown: This film, set in Beirut, was nominated for best foreign language film Academy Award.

At once mythical and heartbreakingly real, this unique film features astonishing performances by its child stars and was honored with a special foreign language film Academy Award in 1952.

Not exact matches

Several hundred Los Angeles - based academy members screened submissions for the foreign language film category late last year.

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.

As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up of Yorgos's friends.

Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award — winning foreign language film Tsotsi.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

His previous films alternate between Spanish - language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), winner of three Academy Awards; and American studio movies, such as the vampire superhero action pic Blade II (2002), the supernatural adventures Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); and the sci - fi monsters - versus - robots film Pacific Rim (2013).

Disobedience marks the first English - language film for Chilean director Lelio — whose transgender romance A Fantastic Woman recently won the Academy Award for best foreign - language film — and it is also his most affecting work.

Last year's Palme d'Or winner was Ruben Ostlund's The Square, which went on to be nominated for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.

Director Oliver Hirschbiegel is a prodigious talent, whose best known movie, Downfall — the 2004 account of Adolf Hitler's last days — garnered an Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film and launched an enduring internet meme.

Swedish director Ruben Östlund's «The Square,» a many - barbed satire of the art world, was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film.

The Academy did a nice job this year in honoring foreign language films.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the nine films advancing in this year's Oscar race for best foreign language film.

The Academy has narrowed its list of foreign language film contenders down to nine ahead of next month's nominations.

South Korea's official entry in the 2018 Academy Awards best foreign - language film category.

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«Disobedience» is the English - language debut for Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, who in March received the Academy Award for best foreign film for his transgender drama «A Fantastic Woman.»

For that matter, if academy voters took international cinema seriously, they might have spared a thought for Beya, a Congolese woman who had never acted on - screen before giving her mesmerizing performance in «Félicité» (shortlisted as Senegal's entry for the foreign - language film Oscar).

Overlooked: Looking just at the list of 85 foreign - language films accepted for Academy Awards consideration this year, the most glaring omission is Paul Verhoeven's antagonistic button - presser Elle — an even more uncomfortable yuk-fest than Toni Erdmann.

Coincidentally, a reader asked yesterday why the Academy doesn't drop the foreign - language requirement from their foreign film award.

Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor John Krasinski («The Office») follow at 8:38 ET to reveal these categories: actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, directing, editing, foreign language film, original score, picture, production design, visual effects, adapted screenplay and original screenplay.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to «Tangerines,» the Estonian - Georgian drama nominated for the Academy Award for foreign - language film.

Oliver Schmitz's finessed feature also made the best foreign language film shortlist for the 2011 Academy Awards, with the work of the Mapantsula making the nine - strong shortlist but failing to endure through to the final five.

Sebastián Lelio's follow - up to his Academy Award - winning foreign language film A Fantastic Woman teems with deeply stirring passion.

In a recent article for the The New York Times, Dennis Lim wrote: «There was a time when the Academy Award for best foreign - language film reflected the state of world cinema: Fellini films won back - to - back Oscars in the mid 1950s, as did Bergman films in the early»60s.

Nominated for a Golden Globe for foreign language film, the movie recently also made the Academy's shortlist for the foreign language Oscar as well.

The Iranian drama «A Separation,» which would've been graced with a dozen Oscar nominations (instead of two) by a more internationally minded academy, won for best foreign language film for this tale of a Tehran custody battle, a series of deceptions and the emotional costs of divorce.

The original film is up for best foreign language film at this year's Academy Awards.

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 think the Academy will feel uncomfortable about nominating a silent film for anything major beyond that the same way they do with foreign language films and animated fims.

A Fantastic Woman (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, sexual content, nudity, a violent assault The lowdown: This Chilean feature, honored as best foreign - language film at the 90th Academy Awards, is a stunning and well - crafted drama about an individual's right to live her life as she sees fit, despite the prejudice and scorn of others.

The foreign language category includes two films on the Academy's short list, The Salesman and Toni Erdmann, and one that was actually nominated the year before but not commercially released: Embrace of the Serpent.

Though snubbed by the Academy for the Oscar race in the foreign language category, Paul Verhoeven's Elle edged out Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden, another film you won't see in the Oscar contest.

«Disobedience» is the English - language debut of Sebastián Lelio, who became Chile's first - ever Academy Award winner with his best foreign language film win for «A Fantastic Woman.»

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It also played at the Toronto Film Festival, and was the Chilean entry for the best foreign language film for the Academy Awards.

In that way, the film - Mexico's official entry for the Academy Awards» foreign - language category - is similar to 2004's Columbia drug - running drama, Maria Full of Grace.

So again, why has the Academy never recognized South Korea in its best foreign language film category?

France choose «the other» Isabelle Huppert film Elle, as their countries official foreign language submission to the Academy... Read More

A final note: As is too often the case, I was not able to see enough documentaries or foreign - language films to feel comfortable second - guessing the Academy's choices, so on those fronts you'll have to look elsewhere.

The two top winners last year, «The White Ribbon» and «A Prophet,» went on to earn Academy Award nominations for foreign - language film.

THE 86th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS BEST PICTURE 12 YEARS A SLAVE BEST DIRECTOR Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity BEST ACTOR Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club BEST ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Lupita Nyong» o, 12 Years a Slave BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM The Great Beauty, Italy BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Spike Jonze, Her BEST ANIMATED FILM Frozen BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn, The Great Gatsby BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity BEST SOUND MIXING Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, and Chris Munro, Gravity BEST SOUNDRead More →

THE 85TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS And the winners are: BEST PICTURE Argo BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee, Life of Pi BEST ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook BEST ACTOR Daniel Day - Lewis, Lincoln BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Chris Terrio, Argo BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Brave BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM Paperman BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi BEST COSTUME DESIGN Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina BEST DOCUMENTARY Searching for Sugar Man BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Inocente BEST FILM EDITING William Goldenberg, Argo BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Amour BESTRead More →

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this gorgeous science fiction film from Denis Villenueve follows linguistics professors Louise Banks (Amy Adams in a career - best performance) as she aids the military in interpreting the language of the aliens that have come to earth.

THE 88th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS The Complete List of Winners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this category.

It's a really special film, which France is submitting as its foreign language Academy Awards selection.

The academy did a good thing when it reformed the foreign - language film voting, requiring all voters to see all five finalists.

«The Secret in Their Eyes» surprised many by winning the 2010 Academy Award for best foreign - language film.

His fifth feature film, A Fantastic Woman, won the 2018 Academy Award for best foreign - language film and the Independent Spirit Award for best international film.