Best
foreign language film went to Chile's «A Fantastic Woman,» Sebastian Lelio's drama starring transgender actress Daniela Vega.
Best
foreign language film went to Germany's In the Fade.
Not exact matches
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).
Villeneuve broke through with «Incendies,» which earned an Oscar nom for best
foreign language film in 2011, but he has hardly
gone Hollywood.
I'd imagine The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds or A Serious Man if they pick an English -
language film, and The White Ribbon or Summer Hours if they
go foreign -
language.
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.
Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z»
Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It
Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»
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.
«For a
foreign language film to work, a lot of things need to
go right,» said Cowal.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS Christmas in Wonderland (PG for crude
language) Holiday comedy about a couple of kids from L.A. who find a million dollars of fake money in a Canadian mall and
go on a shopping spree while being chased by a hapless gang of counterfeiters and a Canadian Mountie.
Nine
films were nominated for best picture, with the most surprising nod
going to Michael Haneke's Amour, which was also nominated (as expected) for best
foreign language film.
BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «
Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR
FILM: «The Babadook»
TOP 100
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS FOR 2017 Listed By US Box Office Gross only Title links
go to reviews = still in theaters Note: Figures are as of January 21st, 2018
BEST
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: The Assassin, Well
Go USA Goodnight Mommy, Radius / TWC Son of Saul, Sony Pictures Classic The Tribe, Drafthouse Films White God, Magnolia
BEST
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM This is the category where Cannes
films most often show up — being chosen for the festival can
go a long way toward making a movie its home country's official Oscar submission.
As so often seems to be the case, my favorite
foreign language film of 2017 isn't going to be in contention for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the upcoming
foreign language film of 2017 isn't
going to be in contention for the Best
Foreign Language Film category at the upcoming
Foreign Language Film category at the upcoming Oscars.
Flights of fancy also imbued Nguyen's previous feature Rebelle, which premiered at the 2012 Berlin
Film Festival, where Congolese newbie Rachel Mwanza won best actress, before
going on to nab an Oscar nomination for best
foreign language film.
The two top winners last year, «The White Ribbon» and «A Prophet,»
went on to earn Academy Award nominations for
foreign -
language film.
Often touted as an heir to Tarkovsky, Russian cinema's other famously austere Andrey, Zvyagintsev previously competed at Cannes with «Leviathan» (2014), which won the jury's screenwriting award and
went on to score an Oscar nomination for
foreign -
language film.
In 2012, Telluride showcased the French end - of - life drama «Amour,» which
went on to win the Oscar for
foreign -
language film, and this year programmers have scheduled several notable international
films.
In particular, Netflix has acquired at least three major science fiction juggernauts (one
going international) and one fairly well acclaimed
foreign language film, and all deserve your attention.