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.