Foreign Language Film Symposium 2008

Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium 2008: Part I

Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrzej Wajda

Sergei Bodrov, Nikita Mikhalkov

Joseph Cedar, Stefan Ruzowitzky
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Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium 2008 Photos

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.
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Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / Darren Decker (directors’ solo photos) / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Andrzej Wajda

Nikita Mikhalkov

Joseph Cedar

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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