Meanwhile, two-time Best Director nominee Lasse Hallstrom represents Sweden.
Australia enters foreign-language race with German-language WWII drama 'Lore'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:12 am · September 8th, 2012
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Austria enters Haneke's 'Amour' in the foreign Oscar race
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:03 am · September 4th, 2012
A foreign-language nod is likely, but can it cross over into the general race?
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Germany selects Berlinale winner 'Barbara' for the foreign-language Oscar race
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:37 am · September 1st, 2012
Christian Petzold’s superb Stasi-era drama is also playing Telluride this weekend.
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Cambodia joins the foreign Oscar race… but what of 'Amour?'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:55 am · August 24th, 2012
Meanwhile, Germany, Mexico and Israel announce shortlists
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Morocco strikes first in the foreign language Oscar race
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:09 pm · August 17th, 2012
Morocco is the first country to submit a film in this year’s Oscar race, while Denmark has a tough choice to make.
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Sony Classics says yes to 'No' at Cannes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:22 am · May 22nd, 2012
The top distributor of foreign-language fare in the US heeds the buzz around Pablo Larrain’s Directors’ Fortnight standout.
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Round-up: Calling for a collaborative performance Oscar
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · February 22nd, 2012
Also: Clothing ‘Jane Eyre,’ and rejecting the idea of ‘Oscar bait’
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Round-up: McQueen blames America's fear of sex for Fassbender snub
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:40 am · February 21st, 2012
Also: The oldest Oscar voter speaks, and Ebert sinks ‘Titanic 3D’
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Watch an exclusive clip from the Oscar-nominated 'Bullhead'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:47 am · February 13th, 2012
Many will get a chance to judge “Bullhead” for themselves when it opens in limited release on Friday, just in time for the end of Oscar voting. Meanwhile, see how you get on with this exclusive clip from the film, foreshadowing a crucial ordeal in the protagonist’s childhood around which the narrative revolves.
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The Long Shot: Language barriers
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:37 am · February 9th, 2012
This may come as a shock to readers accustomed to my usual tone of weary despair when it comes to the category, but I’m about to write in defense of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Foreign Language Film
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:10 pm · February 3rd, 2012
Best Foreign Language Film is a category where Academy voters often like to ignore the precursors and go off-script, but with frontrunner “A Separation” so far ahead of its competitors in terms of acclaim and buzz, will they do so again this year? We discuss what will win, and what should.
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'Bullhead,' 'Pina,' 'A Separation' included on foreign language shortlist
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:17 am · January 18th, 2012
The biggest surprise about the nine-film shortlist for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is, well, how unsurprising it is. Seven of the titles I predicted yesterday are on it; the two films I didn’t, Morocco’s “Omar Killed Me” and Taiwan’s “Warriors of the Rainbow,” are the kind of could-have-been-anything choices that we know to […]
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Predicting the foreign-language Oscar shortlist
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:42 pm · January 17th, 2012
Tomorrow, the Academy announces a shortlist of nine contenders for the Best Foreign Language Oscar — we take a look at what they might be.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Trying to get a bead on Best Supporting Actress
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:34 am · November 25th, 2011
In today’s round-up, the Best Supporting Actress category gets a little scrutiny, the makeup of “Super8” gets some love and scrennwriter John Logan talks “Hugo.”
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Belgian Oscar entry 'Bullhead' among AFI Fest award winners
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:12 pm · November 10th, 2011
Away from its starry premieres, the AFI Fest awards celebrate some of the festival’s less exposed works, with two awards for “Bullhead,” Belgium’s gritty submission for the foreign-language Oscar.
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Handicapping the foreign-language Oscar race
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:18 pm · October 31st, 2011
We rank the films likeliest to show up in the ever-unpredictable Best Foreign Language Film race.
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London: Foreign Oscar hopefuls 'Beauty' and 'Volcano'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:02 am · October 26th, 2011
In our latest dispatch from the London Film Festival, we review two very different, but equally moving, submissions for the foreign-language Oscar: South African gay drama “Beauty” and Icelandic old-age study “Volcano.”
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Wim Wenders brings 'Pina' to three-dimensional life in the trailer for his German Oscar entry
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:11 am · October 26th, 2011
Wim Wenders’s “Pina” is set for a December 23 qualifying release in New York as it is the German Oscar entry this year. IFC Films has offered up the final trailer.
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