Not exact matches
His latest, «In the Fade,» is Germany's Oscar
submission and one of the nine
films shortlisted for best foreign
language film.
Several hundred Los Angeles - based academy members screened
submissions for the foreign
language film category late last year.
This one picked up the Silver Bear at the Berlin
Film Festival and is on the short list for the best foreign
language film Oscar as Switzerland's official
submission.
Not for Maren Ade, the abundantly talented writer and director of «Toni Erdmann,» Germany's official
submission for a foreign
language film Oscar.
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.
Definitely one of the year's most beguiling performances came in one of the smallest packages: Günes Sensoy, star of Deniz Gamze Ergüven «s «Mustang,» the Turkish -
language film confusingly entered as France's
submission for the Best Foreign
Language Film Oscar.
One of the strangest facts about In the Fade, Germany's
submission for Best Foreign
Language Film, is that it's the first time German actress Diane Kruger starred in a
film made entirely in the German
language.
Chile's
submission for this year's best - foreign -
language -
film Oscar wouldn't have worked without its star.
All this helps move the
film — which is Germany's
submission for best foreign
language movie — beyond a simple comedy, as does the director's refusal to objectify Ines» sufferings.
France choose «the other» Isabelle Huppert
film Elle, as their countries official foreign
language submission to the Academy... Read More
But, the
film currently has no US distribution in order to mount a Best Actress campaign for Kruger and with a release of November 23rd in its native Germany, that will put it outside of the eligibility for this year's foreign
language film Oscar
submissions, which is September 30th.