Best Foreign Language Film
5 Nominees (and the 65-Wide Official Submission List)
Albania -France - 22 films |Georgia -The Netherlands -20 Films |Norway -Vietnam -23 Films
Once upon a time The Film Experience was virtually the only website that compiled all this information. Now, virtually every awards site and many random movie sites cover the foreign language film submissions as they are announced. I'm no longer the soul source of info for this category -- something that fills me with both joy (people are paying attention...) and panicky melancholy (...and they don't have to pay attention to me to do it!) -- but I still compile them in the most comprehensive chart for the ease of your reference. Information herein is culled from all over the web, official sites, trades, e-mails from international readers and film professionals and my own research.Related: Google map of this category | Oscar records by country |2008 Foreign Language Race
WILL WIN: People say it's going to be The White Ribbon. But currently I'm suspecting Un Prophete. Voters must actually see all five movies in order to vote (a rule that the Academy would be wise to impose on every category)
SHOULD WIN: I haven't seen them all yet.
WORST SNUB: Not sure as many of the films are hard to come by. But I know a lot of people were rooting for Australia's Samson & Delilah
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Peru 1st nomination! THE MILK OF SORROW Claudia Losa Official Site |
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| Director Juan José Campanella and Argentinian movie star Ricardo Darin, who previously made the Oscar race with Son of the Bride (2001), reunite for this mystery thriller. Darin plays a detective who hopes to solve a 30 year old cold case in Buenos Aires.
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Jacques
Audiard is one of France's most exciting auteurs: Read My Lips
and The Beat That My Heart Skipped and now this prison
drama about in illiterate Arab (Tahar Rahim) in the French prison
system? Wow
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Master Michael Haneke once again confronts moviegoers with a puzzle without answers... or at least the answers aren't the point in this "children's story" about evil mysterious events in a small German village on the eve of World War I.
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Ajami is the name of a violent neighborhood in Jaffa where Jews, Muslims and Christians all live. The film was made on location with a large cast of amateur actors improvising. It's intertwining stories are told with jumbled chronology (as is all the rage everywhere).
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We first heard about this one when Tilda Swinton's Berlinale jury gave it their top prize. (It really was a rich year for female directors). This allegorical drama is about women suffering from a disease brought on my breastfeeding after years of rape and wartime abuse.
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