«Coco» was named best animated film; «Faces Places» won the best
foreign language film prize; and «Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992» won best documentary film.
Departures, a Japanese meditation on death, was the other odd winner, taking the best
foreign language film prize from the much - fancied Waltz With Bashir and The Baader Meinhof Complex.
Not exact matches
I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a
foreign language film has ever won this
prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as
foreign auteurs go.
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.
Both the LA and NY groups chose «The Social Network» as best picture and «Carlos» as best (and most)
foreign -
language film — all five and a half hours and 11
languages: English, French, German, Spanish (with a Venezuelan accent), various dialects of Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Italian... LAFCA left no doubt about its esteem for both movies, with «Carlos» coming in as first runner - up for best picture and Fincher and Assayas sharing the director's
prize.
NO won the top
prize as part of the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, and was nominated for an Oscar ™ as best
foreign language film.
He was responding to a question from an Italian journalist who observed that two of the three Italian
films in Competition were in English, Paolo Sorrentino (whose The Great Beauty recently took best
foreign language Oscar) is there with Youth, starring Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine, and Matteo Garrone (director of previous Cannes
prize - winner Gomorrah) brings an adaptation of fantastic Neapolitan classics in Tale of Tales.
The generally unpredictable
foreign language film category snubbed two top contenders — Israel's «Foxtrot,» which collected the second place
prize at the Venice
Film Festival, and Germany's Golden Globe - winning «In the Fade.»