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Best foreign film Oscar contenders
This is exciting - I love the foreign films (I'd say that at least 75% of the films I see are not in the English language).
I think Spain will win, but there again, they may feel that Spain has won too much lately. Denmark and Algeria I think are quite stong this year, but I'm going to stick my neck out now and say that Kazakhstan has a very good chance with "Nomad".
Would be funny if "Nomad" were nominated for foreign film for Kazakhstan, and Sasha Baron Cohen were nominated for best actor for "Borat" :-))
It's early days yet, and I want to see as many of these as possible before I make my final guess, but I'd say Spain is a definite with "Volver". Algeria, Denmark and Kazakhstan all in with an early shout. Still got to check the others. Oh, shite, didn't see Netherlands, "Black Book" by Verhoeven, apparently he's back to his best, pre-Hollywood sellout days. Could be in with a shout too.
Any of these that you recommend?
Algeria, "Days of Glory," Rachid Bouchareb, director; Argentina, "Family Law," Daniel Burman, director;
Australia, "Ten Canoes," Rolf de Heer, director;
Austria, "You Bet Your Life," Antonin Svoboda, director; Bangladesh, "Forever Flows," Abu Sayeed, director; Belgium, "Someone Else's Happiness," Fien Troch, director; Bolivia, "American Visa," Juan Carlos Valdivia, director; Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Grbavica," Jasmila Zbanic, director; Brazil, "Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures," Marcelo Gomes, director; Bulgaria, "Monkeys in Winter," Milena Andonova, director; Canada, "Water," Deepa Mehta, director;
Chile, "En la Cama," Matiaz Bize, director;
China, "Curse of the Golden Flower," Zhang Yimou, director; Colombia, "A Ton of Luck," Rodrigo Triana, director; Croatia, "Libertas," Veljko Bulajic, director;
Cuba, "El Benny," Jorge Luis Sanchez, director;
Czech Republic, "Lunacy," Jan Svankmajer, director; Denmark, "After the Wedding," Susanne Bier, director; Egypt, "The Yacoubian Building," Marwan Hamed, director; France, "Avenue Montaigne," Daniele Thompson, director; Germany, "The Lives of Others," Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director;
Greece, "Chariton's Choir," Grigoris Karantinakis, director; Hong Kong, "The Banquet," Feng Xiaogang, director; Hungary, "White Palms," Szabolcs Hajdu, director;
Iceland, "Children," Ragnar Bragason, director;
India, "Rang De Basanti," Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, director; Indonesia, "Love for Share," Nia Dinata, director; Iran, "Transit Cafe," Kambozia Partovi, director;
Iraq, "Dreams," Mohamed Al-Daradji, director;
Israel, "Sweet Mud," Dror Shaul, director;
Italy, "Golden Door," Emanuele Crialese, director; Japan, "Hula Girls," Sang-il Lee, director;
Kazakhstan, "Nomad," Sergei Bodrov, Talgat Temenov, Ivan Passer, directors;
Korea, "King and the Clown," Lee Jun-ik, director; Kyrgyzstan, "The Wedding Chest," Nurbek Egen, director; Lebanon, "Bosta," Philippe Aractingi, director;
Lithuania, "Before Flying Back to Earth," Arunas Matelis, director; Macedonia, "Kontakt," Sergei Stanojkovski, director; Mexico, "Pan's Labyrinth," Guillermo del Toro, director; Morocco, "The Moroccan Symphony," Kamal Kamal, director; Nepal, "Basain," Subash Prasad Gajurel, director;
The Netherlands, "Black Book," Paul Verhoeven, director; Norway, "Reprise," Joachim Trier, director;
Peru, "Madeinusa," Claudia Llosa, director;
Philippines, "The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros," Auraeus Solito, director;
Poland, "Retrieval," Slawomir Fabicki, director;
Portugal, "Alice," Marco Martins, director;
Puerto Rico, "Thieves and Liars," Ricardo Mendez Matta, director; Romania, "The Way I Spent the End of the World," Catalin Mitulescu, director;
Russia, "9th Company," Fyodor Bondarchuk, director; Serbia, "Tomorrow Morning," Oleg Novkovic, director; Slovenia, "Gravehopping," Jan Cvitkovic, director; Spain, "Volver," Pedro Almodovar, director;
Sweden, "Falkenberg Farewell," Jesper Ganslandt, director; Switzerland, "Vitus," Fredi M. Murer, director;
Taiwan, "Blue Cha Cha," Cheng Wen-tang, director;
Thailand, "Ahimsa Stop to Run," Leo Kittikorn, director; Turkey, "Ice Cream, I Scream," Yuksel Aksu, director; Ukraine, "Aurora," Oxana Bayrak, director;
Venezuela, "Maroa," Solveig Hoogesteijn, director; Vietnam, "Story of Pao," Ngo Quang Hai, director.
In addition to the above, Finland submitted Aki Kaurismaki's "Lights in the
Dusk," which the director subsequently indicated he wanted to withdraw from
the competition. Foreign Language committee chair Mark Johnson has initiated
a dialogue with Kaurismaki in an effort to persuade him to reverse that decision.
Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, at 5:30 a.m. PST in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2006/06.10.19a.html
I think Spain will win, but there again, they may feel that Spain has won too much lately. Denmark and Algeria I think are quite stong this year, but I'm going to stick my neck out now and say that Kazakhstan has a very good chance with "Nomad".
Would be funny if "Nomad" were nominated for foreign film for Kazakhstan, and Sasha Baron Cohen were nominated for best actor for "Borat" :-))
It's early days yet, and I want to see as many of these as possible before I make my final guess, but I'd say Spain is a definite with "Volver". Algeria, Denmark and Kazakhstan all in with an early shout. Still got to check the others. Oh, shite, didn't see Netherlands, "Black Book" by Verhoeven, apparently he's back to his best, pre-Hollywood sellout days. Could be in with a shout too.
Any of these that you recommend?
Algeria, "Days of Glory," Rachid Bouchareb, director; Argentina, "Family Law," Daniel Burman, director;
Australia, "Ten Canoes," Rolf de Heer, director;
Austria, "You Bet Your Life," Antonin Svoboda, director; Bangladesh, "Forever Flows," Abu Sayeed, director; Belgium, "Someone Else's Happiness," Fien Troch, director; Bolivia, "American Visa," Juan Carlos Valdivia, director; Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Grbavica," Jasmila Zbanic, director; Brazil, "Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures," Marcelo Gomes, director; Bulgaria, "Monkeys in Winter," Milena Andonova, director; Canada, "Water," Deepa Mehta, director;
Chile, "En la Cama," Matiaz Bize, director;
China, "Curse of the Golden Flower," Zhang Yimou, director; Colombia, "A Ton of Luck," Rodrigo Triana, director; Croatia, "Libertas," Veljko Bulajic, director;
Cuba, "El Benny," Jorge Luis Sanchez, director;
Czech Republic, "Lunacy," Jan Svankmajer, director; Denmark, "After the Wedding," Susanne Bier, director; Egypt, "The Yacoubian Building," Marwan Hamed, director; France, "Avenue Montaigne," Daniele Thompson, director; Germany, "The Lives of Others," Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director;
Greece, "Chariton's Choir," Grigoris Karantinakis, director; Hong Kong, "The Banquet," Feng Xiaogang, director; Hungary, "White Palms," Szabolcs Hajdu, director;
Iceland, "Children," Ragnar Bragason, director;
India, "Rang De Basanti," Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, director; Indonesia, "Love for Share," Nia Dinata, director; Iran, "Transit Cafe," Kambozia Partovi, director;
Iraq, "Dreams," Mohamed Al-Daradji, director;
Israel, "Sweet Mud," Dror Shaul, director;
Italy, "Golden Door," Emanuele Crialese, director; Japan, "Hula Girls," Sang-il Lee, director;
Kazakhstan, "Nomad," Sergei Bodrov, Talgat Temenov, Ivan Passer, directors;
Korea, "King and the Clown," Lee Jun-ik, director; Kyrgyzstan, "The Wedding Chest," Nurbek Egen, director; Lebanon, "Bosta," Philippe Aractingi, director;
Lithuania, "Before Flying Back to Earth," Arunas Matelis, director; Macedonia, "Kontakt," Sergei Stanojkovski, director; Mexico, "Pan's Labyrinth," Guillermo del Toro, director; Morocco, "The Moroccan Symphony," Kamal Kamal, director; Nepal, "Basain," Subash Prasad Gajurel, director;
The Netherlands, "Black Book," Paul Verhoeven, director; Norway, "Reprise," Joachim Trier, director;
Peru, "Madeinusa," Claudia Llosa, director;
Philippines, "The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros," Auraeus Solito, director;
Poland, "Retrieval," Slawomir Fabicki, director;
Portugal, "Alice," Marco Martins, director;
Puerto Rico, "Thieves and Liars," Ricardo Mendez Matta, director; Romania, "The Way I Spent the End of the World," Catalin Mitulescu, director;
Russia, "9th Company," Fyodor Bondarchuk, director; Serbia, "Tomorrow Morning," Oleg Novkovic, director; Slovenia, "Gravehopping," Jan Cvitkovic, director; Spain, "Volver," Pedro Almodovar, director;
Sweden, "Falkenberg Farewell," Jesper Ganslandt, director; Switzerland, "Vitus," Fredi M. Murer, director;
Taiwan, "Blue Cha Cha," Cheng Wen-tang, director;
Thailand, "Ahimsa Stop to Run," Leo Kittikorn, director; Turkey, "Ice Cream, I Scream," Yuksel Aksu, director; Ukraine, "Aurora," Oxana Bayrak, director;
Venezuela, "Maroa," Solveig Hoogesteijn, director; Vietnam, "Story of Pao," Ngo Quang Hai, director.
In addition to the above, Finland submitted Aki Kaurismaki's "Lights in the
Dusk," which the director subsequently indicated he wanted to withdraw from
the competition. Foreign Language committee chair Mark Johnson has initiated
a dialogue with Kaurismaki in an effort to persuade him to reverse that decision.
Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, at 5:30 a.m. PST in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2006/06.10.19a.html
Top answer
"Borat" is probably as close to a lock for an actor nomination as you'll ever get. Will he win? Probably not, as the Academy doesn't like to reward comedies/comedy actors.
- "Borat" is probably as close to a lock for an actor nomination as you'll ever get.
- Will he win?
- Probably not, as the Academy doesn't like to reward comedies/comedy actors.
- Shame though, as it would give Borat a chance to thank the Jews.
- -ADS.
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"Borat" is probably as close to a lock for an actor nomination as you'll ever get. Will he win? Probably not, as the Academy doesn't like to reward comedies/comedy actors.
Shame though, as it would give Borat a chance to thank the Jews.
-ADS.
Shame though, as it would give Borat a chance to thank the Jews.
-ADS.
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[nq:1]"Borat" is probably as close to a lock for an actor nomination as you'll ever get. Will he win? Probably not, as the Academy doesn't like to reward comedies/comedy actors. Shame though, as it would give Borat a chance to thank the Jews.[/nq]
Winner or not, I'm sure they'll get him to come on and present one of the awards.
Winner or not, I'm sure they'll get him to come on and present one of the awards.
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[nq:1]"Borat" is probably as close to a lock for an actor nomination as you'll ever get. Will he win? Probably not, as the Academy doesn't like to reward comedies/comedy actors.[/nq]
I think the nature of the film might stop it from getting even just a nom for his acting. Not just the fact that it's a comedy, but there's something very negative and cynical about the film which I think will tur
I think the nature of the film might stop it from getting even just a nom for his acting. Not just the fact that it's a comedy, but there's something very negative and cynical about the film which I think will tur
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[nq:2]Winner or not, I'm sure they'll get him to come on and present one of the awards.[/nq]
[nq:1]Probably the best use of the man. The whole thing is a bit thin. Was "Wayne's World" ever in the ... last week - a major weepie, believe me. There's talk of a sequel already. To avoid spoilers, I'll avoid comments.[/nq]
I thought that the animated feature Princess would have been the Danish e
[nq:1]Probably the best use of the man. The whole thing is a bit thin. Was "Wayne's World" ever in the ... last week - a major weepie, believe me. There's talk of a sequel already. To avoid spoilers, I'll avoid comments.[/nq]
I thought that the animated feature Princess would have been the Danish e
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Looking at that list of Oscar possibles for foreign film, as you know, Aki Kaurismaki has requested that his film does not get entered as the Finnish entry, out of protest against the war in Iraq etc etc.
The Academy are trying to persuade him otherwise, as of course Kaurismaki is a very high profile director.
But if Kaurismaki doesn't want his film to enter, they should let him make
The Academy are trying to persuade him otherwise, as of course Kaurismaki is a very high profile director.
But if Kaurismaki doesn't want his film to enter, they should let him make
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