Sentences with phrase «language film nominee»

-- Foreign language film nominee «The Insult» director Ziad Doueiri.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Nominees: A Man Called Ove (Sweden), Land of Mine (Norway), The Salesman (Iran), Tanna (Australia), Toni Erdmann (Germany) Should Win: The Salesman Will Win: The Salesman

Not exact matches

Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness is a familiar but stirring Oscar - season specimen (it's a foreign - language - film nominee) centering on a spontaneously righteous Gentile, Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who becomes a guardian angel for a small group of Polish Jews after the Nazis and their Ukrainian henchman have «liquidated» their ghetto.

Denmark takes the stage back in a most dramatic fashion with A Royal Affair, recently named one of the five Oscar nominees for best foreign language film.

For Denmark, the film, an Oscar nominee in the foreign - language category, might seem quietly radical, but Mr. Lindholm errs too far on the side of quiet.

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.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is the first English - language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Chile's Oscar nominee for best foreign language film is a drama called «A Fantastic Woman.»

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.

The film marks the English language debut of Felix Van Groeningen, director of Foreign Language nominee «The Broken Circle Breakdown,» while the script is written by Oscar nominee Luke Davies («Lion»).

In the last 25 years, nine best - actress nominees have come from foreign - language films, compared to only three best - actor nominees.

Bruce Springsteen once sang, «God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of,» and Force Majeure, a Critics Choice Award winner and Golden Globe nominee for best foreign language film of 2014, illustrates the waves that can stir from just a few ripples of such doubt.

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 find it deeply offensive that year after year, the other critic awards (many of whom even have nominees) fail to mention a single foreign language film.

Martin Sheen (TV's «The West Wing»), Emilio Estevez («The War At Home»), Gold & Platinum recording artist Lupillo Rivera, Latin Grammy ® Award winner and Christian recording artist Marcos Witt, world - wide Spanish - language television and recording star Jose Luis Rodriguez («El Puma»), Mexican television star Kuno Becker, Grammy ® Award nominee and Christian recording artist Jaci Velasquez, and popular Latino theater troupe Culture Clash are the English language vocal talents for the film.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM THE WINNER: The Great Beauty, Italy OTHER NOMINEES: Blue is the Warmest Color, France The Hunt, Denmark The Past, Iran The Wind Rises, Japan

3 -4-5-6 nominees, give me a break, especially when having only three foreign - language films make all of BFCA seem like a bunch of amateurs who don't watch foreign films (which is probably true, for the most part).