Sentences with phrase «foreign film nominations»

I've seen four of the five foreign film nominations this year and they are so gloriously diverse, hold such promise for the future that you could do worse than starting your Oscar viewing here.

Ironically there was no recognition for Benigni, not even a foreign film nomination for his Oscar winner, Life Is Beautiful.

Not exact matches

Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

The streaming service also earned three nominations for its documentaries «Icarus,» «Strong Island,» and «Heroin (e),» and one nod for the foreign language film «On Body and Soul.»

Like fellow French - Canadian drama Incendies (see below) the previous year, Monsieur Lazhar earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign - language film.

For her work in the film, Mulligan won a number of critics awards for Best Actress, as well as garnering nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Academy.

That's an impressive feat, especially since 2015 could almost be considered a down year for the studio, since it secured just one Oscar nomination (for the acclaimed foreign - language film Son of Saul) after collecting 18 nominations the previous year.

She is best known for her two previous Holocaust films: the 1985 Angry Harvest (Oscar nomination for Foreign Language Film) and the 1991 Europa Europa (Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay).

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

After earning an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film for Embrace of the Serpent, director Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drug trade.

Inspired by the director's interaction with street actors who portray religious figures by night and pursue more commercial endeavors by day, the film once again received a Best Foreign Film nomination at the Oscars and swept the Genies — this time in 12 categories.

The 2018 Academy Award nominations also include another transgender entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category with the Chilean / German co-production, A Fantastic Woman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's death.

Two nominations Amy (British film, documentary) Inside Out (original screenplay, animation) Theeb (debut, foreign language)

Since his film was only screened for the Hollywood Foreign Press he wasn't able to earn SAG or Critics» Choice nominations but now that the film has been seen and Plummer is all over it (with just nine days of shooting and as many days of post-production) this may be the easiest and best way for the Academy to recognize the efforts and ability of director Ridley Scott (if they don't give him a Best Director nomination, that is).

The film may be smarting from its widely (if not, ahem, entirely) unexpected omission from the Oscar foreign - language shortlist earlier this week, but Xavier Beauvois's sombre religious drama «Of Gods and Men» found more love in its home country, where it scooped a leading 11 nominations for the César Awards.

This year, when the Oscar nominations were announced I had yet to see any of the films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

Participant's more than 80 films, including Spotlight, Contagion, Lincoln, The Help, He Named Me Malala, The Look of Silence, CITIZENFOUR, Food, Inc. and An Inconvenient Truth, have collectively earned 56 Academy Award ® nominations and 12 wins, including Best Picture for Spotlight and Best Foreign Language Film for A Fantastic Woman.

The latest Holocaust film, «In Darkness,» feels like a disaster movie, and iconic Polish director Agnieszka Holland has steered it to a Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

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.

The Globe nominations were kind to other films coming out later this year: Both «The Wolf of Wall Street,» the account of a win - at - all - costs stockbroker premiering on Christmas, and «Her,» a dystopian tale of severed interpersonal relationships opening Dec. 18, received multiple nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., including selections alongside «American Hustle» for best comedy or musical motion picture.

In this week's analysis, we look at two films which some pundits are considering as longshots for an Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination while others have a bit more faith in, given how straightforward their narrative is, and given how they appeal to different voter sensibilities.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

In his role, Bardem gives a terrific, organic performance, providing a much - needed intuitive quality to an overly - planned work; he received an Oscar nomination in addition to the film's nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Although his acclaimed «Pan's Labyrinth» had been nominated for foreign film, these are Del Toro's first Globe nominations.

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.

Hungary has picked harrowing Holocaust drama Son of Saul as its nomination for the 2016 best foreign language film Oscar, less than three weeks after it won the runner - up Grand Prix prize at the Cannes film festival.

The film should, by all accounts, boast two nominations, one for Best Foreign Language Film and another for Best Actress.

And consider the astonishing four nominations (director, screenplay, cinematography, editing) for the Brazilian film «City of God,» which was ineligible in last year's foreign film category because the Brazilians refused to nominate their brilliant and angry film.

It feels like the most German comedy ever made, but its Oscar and Bafta nominations for best foreign - language film suggest the fears and frailties it needles away at are universal.

And, the nomination of A Fantastic Woman in the Best Foreign Film category is another first and a very positive sign for the future of film.

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

The film thrilled audiences from Berlin to Fantastic Fest and went on to score a nomination for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.

most noms for a film that did not make my top ten list: Sicario (10 nominations) which came in at # 13 on my year - end list most noms for a film not nominated for Oscar's Best Picture: Carol (19 nominations) most noms for a film nominated for Oscar's Best Picture: Mad Max Fury Road (16 nominations) most noms for a film I was lukewarm on: Straight Outta Compton (4 nominations) most noms for a film I didn't like at all really: The Revenant (2 nominations) most noms for a film that received ZERO Oscar attention: Spy (7 nominations) most noms for a film that received only 1 Oscar nomination: Creed (6 nominations) most noms for a foreign language film: Phoenix (2 nominations)... hmm.

Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey in the film just weeks ago, but Sony Pictures was able to get a cut of the movie featuring Plummer to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ahead of the closing of its nomination window.

The voting committee for the Foreign Language Film Oscar have voted and nine films will compete for a nomination at the 87th Academy Awards.

Despite Martin Scorsese being attached as the film's presenter, the neo-realist film did not come land a nomination in the Best Foreign Language race.

In a move which would seem to add insult to injury in Spacey's demise, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association chose to bestow a Golden Globe nomination upon Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as J. Paul Getty, news which dropped several weeks before the film's theatrical release.

In 1994, Strawberry and Chocolate became the first Cuban film to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.

There is no question that Denis Villeneuve has been on a roll of late enjoying great success with movies like his Oscar - nominated foreign - language film Incendies, Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival and now Blade Runner 2049, which is earning buzz for a second consecutive Oscar Best Director nomination following last year's Arrival.

I'm grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press for the nomination and also for recognizing the importance of the song in this film.»

The sumptuously filmed classical drama will be a strong awards contender (for cinematography as well as foreign film) and could prove an art - house hit in North America, adding to such Amazon successes as Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester by the Sea» (Roadside Attractions) and Asghar Farhadi's «The Salesman» (Cohen Media), which both won Oscars, as well as last year's Sundance acquisition, summer hit «The Big Sick» (Lionsgate), which earned an Original Screenplay nomination.

The only logical explanation as to why more people aren't talking about Damián Szifron's Wild Tales this year is that they didn't realize it counts as a 2015 release (in the U.S.) after generating so much buzz last year from its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language film.

The film became the first in the country's history to receive both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination as the year's Best Foreign Film.

Released near the end of 1985 locally and the spring of 1987 in the US, My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund in its native tongue) would earn Hallström Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (the latter shared with three co-writers), two categories rarely recognizing foreign films.

Meanwhile, after earning an Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Language film, Sebastian Lelio's «A Fantastic Woman» entered the awards box office with a five screen release by Sony Pictures Classics in New York and Los Angeles.

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.

That it's usually the documentaries, foreign - language films, and short films that I end up needing to catch up on in the weeks between the Oscar nominations and the Oscar ceremony says a lot about viewing habits (my own and the culture's at large).

A possible foreign Oscar entry from Chile is director Pablo Larrain's «Neruda» (The Orchard), in Directors Fortnight, whose 2012 film «No» landed a nomination.

The 2015 Oscar nominations for foreign language film are in, and this year's picks are small films that tackle big subjects, from the plight of Jews after World War II to the Georgian civil war of the 1990s.

Wild Tales lives up to its title and to the prestige that comes with claiming one of the few Academy Award nominations relegated to foreign films.