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The 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival, which was held from Jan. 5-18, announced this year's award winners at a luncheon at Spencer's Restaurant on Sunday, January 17, the same day as the Golden Globes. The Audience Award went to Niels Arden Oplev's Guldbagge nominee The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (above, Sweden/Denmark/Germany), a dark thriller about an investigative journalist trying to solve a four-decade-old [...]

This year, Scott Foundas won't be asking, "how do you say 'Oscar scandal' in French (or German)?" Two of the most widely acclaimed non-English language films released in 2009 — Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet — are to be found in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' list of semi-finalists for the best foreign language film Academy Award. [...]