From Eighty-three to Nine Foreign Language Film category features are in contention for the 87th Academy Awards and will advance to the next round of voting.
For the Foreign Language Film nominations for 2014 are being determined in two phases category, the first stage consists of LA-based Academy members screening the submissions and the groups top six choices plus three voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist. On January 9th-11th 2015, the shortlist will be winnowed down to five nominees by specially invited committees in New York, Los Angeles and, for the first time, London to make up the final nominees. Check out the list of 9 features below…
The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
- Argentina, “Wild Tales,” Damián Szifrón, director
- Estonia, “Tangerines,” Zaza Urushadze, director
- Georgia, “Corn Island,” George Ovashvili, director
- Mauritania, “Timbuktu,” Abderrahmane Sissako, director
- Netherlands, “Accused,” Paula van der Oest, director
- Poland, “Ida,” Paweł Pawlikowski, director
- Russia, “Leviathan,” Andrey Zvyagintsev, director
- Sweden, “Force Majeure,” Ruben Östlund, director
- Venezuela, “The Liberator,” Alberto Arvelo, director
Let us know who you think is going to win this category!
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The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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