Oscar-Winning Foreign Language Films Poster Exhibition
Next January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting "From Amarcord to Z: Posters from Fifty Years of Foreign Language Film Award Winners." The exhibition will open to the public in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery on January 19, 2007. Admission is free.
The art work is generally superb, and so are some of the films that have won the best foreign language film Academy Award in the last 50 years. Actually, one could say 60 years, for the very first best foreign language film Oscar was handed out to Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine, from Italy, in 1947.
In the ten years that followed, however, Oscars for non-English-language films remained a special — and not necessarily [...]
