Stefan Ruzowitzky, Joseph Cedar, Sergei Bodrov, and Academy Governor Mark Johnson
The 2010 Academy Awards' Foreign Language Film Symposium was held yesterday, February 23, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
All five directors of this year's nominated films were present: Joseph Cedar (Beaufort, Israel); Nikita Mikhalkov (12, Russia); Andrzej Wajda (Katyn, Poland); Sergei Bodrov (Mongol, Kazakhstan); and Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters, Austria).
Academy president Bruce Davis introduced the symposium, which was moderated by the Academy's Chair of the Foreign Language Film Committee Mark Johnson.
Click on the photos to enlarge them.
Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / Darren Decker (directors' solo photos) / ©A.M.P.A.S.
