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I believe the 9-title shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film is due today, but details on the announcement are oddly hard to come by, so I could be wrong. In any case, it’s one I’m having a tough time calling. The new voting system should ensure that some of the year’s most acclaimed contenders are […]
Foreign film shortlist to drop soon
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:36 am · January 13th, 2009
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Still nobody knows anything
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:23 pm · November 7th, 2008
At least, that’s the message I get from Pete Hammond’s latest column, in which he somewhat half-heartedly claims that the Best Picture frontrunners at this stage are “WALL-E,” “The Dark Knight” and “Changeling.” In that order, apparently — with “Slumdog Millionaire” creeping up behind. I realize Hammond has access to more Academy members than I […]
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Foreign film watch: all the contenders
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:37 pm · October 3rd, 2008
The race starts here. With the deadline having passed on Wednesday, 53 67 countries have submitted a candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film award. Now it’s all in the hands of the Academy’s notoriously obtuse foreign film committee. Under a new system aimed to avoid embarrassing exclusions like last year’s snub of “4 Months, […]
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Russia, Argentina, Slovenia enter the derby
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:42 am · September 26th, 2008
This morning brings three more entries in the Best Foreign Language Film race. KIcking things off, Russia has selected Anna Melikyan’s “The Mermaid,” which won the Directing Award in the World Cinema section at Sundance, before going on to scoop a FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin fest. A modern-day fairytale about a teenage girl’s coming […]
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