Sentences with phrase «language film nomination»

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In fact, the film woke up with 0 nominations, ironically fitting considering the style of the alien language in the 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.

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.

The nomination tally is led by two Cannes winners (Stranger By the Lake in 2013, Mommy in 2014) and both French - language films.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

«Waltz with Bashir,» a Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production (Sony Pictures Classics)(1 nomination) Best foreign language film (Israel)

«The Baader - Meinhof Complex,» a Constantin Film Production (1 nomination) Best foreign language film (Germany)

«Revanche,» a Prisma Film / Fernseh Production (Janus Films)(1 nomination) Best foreign language film (Austria)

«Departures,» a Departures Film Partners Production (Regent Releasing)(1 nomination) Best foreign language film (Japan)

Her first English - language film, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, which she co-wrote with Anders Thomas Jensen, received four British Independent Film Award nominations.

Berlin - based Films Boutique has been thriving with critically - acclaimed movies such as Houda Benyamina's «Divines», which won the Camera d'Or in Cannes; Lav Diaz's «The Woman Who Left», Golden Lion in Venice, Ciro Gerra's «Embrace of the Serpent», which won Directors» Fortnight and earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign - language film.

While foreign language films have a decent track record with acting nominations (Penélope Cruz in Volver, Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose, Javier Bardem in Biutiful, to name a few), the success rate for Best Picture is much lower.

As is usual for the incredibly broad spectrum of members of the ICS, foreign language films and performances were well represented in all categories with The Assassin, The Duke of Burgundy and Li» l Quinquin among the films to garner multiple nominations.

Hirschbiegel, who received an Oscar nomination for his foreign language film Downfall, makes the alien takeover sound almost enticing, but that's because the movie has no idea how to portray the individuality that humans would lose in the deal.

After those have been shared, the nominations for actor in a leading role, actor in a supporting role, actress in a leading role, actress in a supporting role, animated feature film, directing, documentary feature, documentary short subject, foreign language film, original song, best picture, adapted screenplay, and original screenplay will be announced at 5:38:30 a.m. PT / 8: 38:30 a.m. ET (and not 30 seconds sooner).

The inimitably fluid language of London's multicultural, multi-class population is woven through the film's every exchange; if Leigh could snag a Best Original Screenplay nomination for a film as comparatively underwritten as «Vera Drake,» it's difficult to see him getting passed over for this.