More countries enter foreign-language Oscar race as deadline looms

Posted by · 5:08 pm · September 22nd, 2011

With the deadline for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submissions on October 1, a number of countries have officially entered the fray in the past week. Among them are France, with a terminal-disease drama that could be a sleeper, and Russia, which has caused an outcry with the selection of an expensive Nikita Mikhalkov bomb.

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