Dogtooth Articles

Bill Skarsgård, Simon and the Oaks Best film Apflickorna / She Monkeys Producer: Helene Lindholm Play Producer: Erik Hemmendorff Simon och ekarna / Simon and the Oaks Producers: Christer Nilson, Per Holst Best Foreign Language Film Kynodontas / Dogtooth Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Jodaeiye Nader az Simin / A Separation Director: Asghar Farhadi Winter's Bone Director: Debra Granik Best Director Lisa Aschan for Apflickorna / She [...]

Athena Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg Athena Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is Greece's official submission for the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Last year, Attenberg earned Ariane Labed the Best Actress Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. In addition to Labed, Attenberg stars Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee [...]

Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth Oscar 2011 Surprises: Javier Bardem, Mike Leigh, David O. Russell Dogtooth in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos, this Greek comedy-drama is hardly your usual foreign-language film nominee. But since 2006, each year a committee composed of about 20 Academy members in Los Angeles and New York selects the five nominees in that category. That has led to [...]

Javier Bardem, Biutiful The nine semi-finalists in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2011 Academy Awards were announced this morning. The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Algeria, Hors la Loi (Outside the Law), Rachid Bouchareb Canada, Incendies, Denis Villeneuve Denmark, In a Better World, Susanne Bier Greece, Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos Japan, Confessions, Tetsuya Nakashima Mexico, Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu South [...]