Oscar 2008: Foreign Language Film Nominees Symposium
Katyn (top); The Counterfeiters (middle); Mongol (bottom)
The filmmakers of this year’s Academy Award-nominated foreign-language films will take part — "subject to availability" — in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Foreign Language Film Award Nominees Symposium on Saturday, February 23, at 10 a.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. [2008 Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium Photos.]
The event, which includes clips from the nominated films and a Q&A session with audience members, will be moderated by Oscar-winning producer and Foreign Language Executive Committee Chair Mark Johnson.
The 2007 Foreign Language Film nominees are:
Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director
Israel, Beaufort, Joseph Cedar, director
Kazakhstan, Mongol, Sergei Bodrov, director
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by Andre Soares | January 29, 2008
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Oscar 2008: Nine Foreign-Language Film Semi-Finalists
Oscar 2008: Best Foreign-Language Film Semi-Finalists
The semi-finalist films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director
Nazis have a Jewish prisoner create fake American and British currency in order to weaken their enemies’ economies
Brazil, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Cao Hamburger, director
In 1970, during the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil, a boy is left alone in São Paulo’s Jewish quarter after his parents "go on vacation"
Canada, Days of Darkness, Denys Arcand, director
A civil servant finds solace from his drab existence by coming up with all types of Walter Mitty-like fantasies
Israel, Beaufort, Joseph Cedar, director
Israeli platoon leaves the last [...]
by Andre Soares | January 15, 2008
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Tags: 12, 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Beaufort, Days of Darkness, Film Awards, Foreign Language Film Category, Katyn, Mongol, The Counterfeiters, The Trap, The Unknown, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
