Not exact matches
Sometimes those few mostly come in the form of
foreign language film contenders, but sometimes Cannes blows away
even Toronto when it comes to giving
awards season its main contenders.
The
evening began with
awards being given on the red carpet, as the BFCA does, and was a strange start as the winners announced for
Foreign Language Film, Adapted Screenplay and Documentary (Force Majeure, Gone Girl and Life Itself, respectively), were all snubbed by the Oscars that morning.
Up for Best
Foreign Language Feature at the Academy
Awards, it could
even be in line to win the prize.
It won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Metacritic deemed it the best - reviewed movie of the year, it won the Academy
Award for Best
Foreign - Language Film and
even scored a Best Screenplay nomination — a rarity for an international movie.
Cristian Mungiu's beautiful and harrowing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the Palm D'or at Cannes and Best Film at the European Film
Awards, yet didn't
even make the short list for Best
Foreign Language Film nominations.
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.
It's that middle section where a certain Hungarian filmmaker wins the
foreign language film
award or the director of a little - seen short injects mania and uncompromising glee into an
evening full of been - there - done - that Meryl Streep stares.
After following up her TV debut with a number of appearances in television commercials and music videos, Penelope went on to star in a handful of critically acclaimed Spanish films that brought home a number of Spanish Oscars and
even an Academy
Award for Best
Foreign Film.
Not sure if Bardem will make the Best Actor list, but Biutiful «s Oscar chances for a Best
Foreign Language nod are more than good, possibly
even winning the
award, which would give Inarritu some much deserved recognition.
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.
The second time is the charm for the Quarto Group's
foreign sales director, Karine Marko, who has been named Rights Professional of the Year at The Bookseller's British Book
Awards ceremony at Grosvenor House in London this
evening (May 14).
Unlike most other shopping rewards cards that offer
awards only at predesignated stores or online, Citi Rewards card provides extra miles where ever you shop,
even in
foreign countries.
Although article V (1)(d) moves beyond the text of the 1927 Geneva Convention, it is not as liberal as certain arbitration statutes, which attach
even less importance than the New York Convention to the law of the country where the arbitration took place at the recognition and enforcement stage.854 As explained in the chapter on article VII, 855 the Convention sets only a «ceiling», or the maximum level of control, which courts of the Contracting States may exert over
foreign arbitral
awards.
The UK Supreme Court decision in NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina -LRB-[2011] UKSC 31) confirms that a State is able to raise sovereign immunity as a defence in respect of enforcement proceedings of
foreign judgments and
awards,
even if the underlying proceedings relate to commercial transactions unless the State has expressly waived sovereign immunity as a defence to enforcement (as it had on the facts of that case).
It is submitted that unless there is exclusion of entire Part - I, Part - I applies
even to
foreign award.
Mr. D'vitre placed reliance on the judgment of English court of Appeal in case of Kanoria and others vs. Guinness (2006) 1 LLR 701 in support of the submission that
even though in that matter challenged to the
award in India had failed, English Court of appeal had refused to enforce
foreign award as the aggrieved party was not given due notice of plea of fraud and was unable to represent its case.
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award would be a decree of this Court and would be executed by the claimant by filing criminal proceedings against the respondent based on such perverse finding which are without jurisdiction, such
award would be thus in conflict with public policy under Section 34 of the Act and
even under the narrower ground of public policy while considering the objection to the enforcement of a
foreign award as held by the SC in case of Shri Lal Mahal Ltd..