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Good News, Bad News for Waltz with Bashir
Awards Daily —
... All These Wonderful Things’ AJ Schnack has reported that Waltz With Bashir is not eligible for the doc feature Oscar along with Young@Heart. It is, however, eligible for animated feature and foreign language film - it has just named as Israel’s pick. Depending on how it all shakes down, it could be eligible for screenplay as well. It probably has the best shot of winning anything in the foreign language category; you know how prickly those doc voters are. ...
iW ROUND UP | Monday, September 29th
indieWIRE Recent —
... Monday.
Studios Hoping to Pick Up Oscar Slack Pegged to David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a look at studio prospects for Oscar season. [NYT]
Weinstein Getting Into Oscar Race Daldry's "The Reader" set for '08 release, despite reported recent battle between producer Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein. [VAR]
$1 billion to go to equipping 15,000 movie theaters with digital projection systems. [HR]
"Bashir" Out of Doc Oscar Race Sony Classics faced decision about having film ...
Oscar Watch: Frozen River is Year's First Screener
Thompson On Hollywood —
... As I previously reported, Ari Folman's animated doc Waltz with Bashir won't be tracking a documentary nod, SPC confirms, although it's eligible in the foreign film and animated categories. Documentarian/writer/ blogger A.J. Schnack has more. ...
Waltz With Bashir’s Oscar Chances: Why Sony Should Push For Animation Nod
SpoutBlog —
... to the foreign category, Folman’s film fell out of contention for the documentary prize after its distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, had to choose between having a qualifying theatrical release and taking part in the New York Film Festival. ...
'Wire' and 'Waltz' Split the IDA Documentary Awards
Cinematical —
... Waltz with Bashir, on the other hand, won't be getting an Oscar nod, at least not in the documentary category -- it's ineligible because it didn't open theatrically before the Aug. 31 deadline. (The doc eligibility period is September-August, not January-December like it is for other awards.) It may still be nominated in the foreign-language and animated categories, however. ...
