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PermalinkTuesday, January 15, 2008
Kazakhstan's Mongol makes the Oscar short list (Picturehouse)
The Academy of Picture Picture Arts and Sciences
just announced the nine films that will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 80th Academy Awards. Sixty-three films (one film from each of the submitting countries) had originally qualified in the category.The short-listed films (note these are NOT the nominees) are:
The Counterfeiters (Austria), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil), directed by Cao Hamburger
Days of Darkness (Canada), directed by Denys Arcand
Beaufort (Israel), directed by Joseph Cedar
The Unknown (Italy), directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Mongol (Kazakhstan), directed by Sergei Bodrov
Katyn (Poland), directed by Andrzej Wajda
12 (Russia), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
The Trap (Serbia), directed by Srdan Golubovic
The list is a mix of veterans and newcomers. Denys Arcand was nominated for an Oscar for writing The Barbarian Invasions , and the film won the Foreign Film Oscar in 2004. Giuseppe Tornatore nabbed a Directors Guild of America nomination for Cinema Paradiso , and the film went on to win the Foreign Film Award in 1988. And Poland's Andrzej Wajda picked up an honorary Oscar in 2000.
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