«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.
Ever since Sofia Coppola's Somewhere won the Golden Lion in 2010, no other English -
language film had won this
prize.
,» this one has been reduced to a race between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, by most accounts the only two
films that have (at least should have) a stake on the Best Picture
prize, and if I discount The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, in spite of its interest in the ALSKDJFHGZMZNCBVQPOWIUEYRT's of our
language, it's because Julian Schnabel's own use of the Caps Lock function behind the camera is the star of that fashion show.
Comedy
film «In Bruges» won the award for Best Original Screenplay, while «I've Loved You So Long» was awarded the
prize for Best Non-English
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.»
Best Actor was the only major
prize handed to an English -
language film, after all — prompting cries of «Boring!»