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Foreign Film Hoopla, 60+ Oscar Submissions
filmexperience.blogspot.com - 10/5/2009
Foreign Film Hoopla, 60+ Oscar Submissions
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In the years I've been documenting Oscar's once largely undocumented foreign film category, we've seen the number of players creep up virtually every year, despite the concurrent dwindling of foreign film distribution in the United States. In 2001 for example when I first began tracking it and ...

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In Contention:  Foreign film race slowly taking shape

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Foreign film race slowly taking shape
In Contention — ... Perhaps not. As Nathaniel Rogers points out in his preliminary survey of the category, the Academy is capable of throwing curveballs in this race, embracing films that hardly seem Oscar-friendly (Aki Kaurismaki’s gleefully bizarre “The Man Without a Past” is one of the best recent examples) while sidelining ones that seem to play right into their hands. (How on earth did ...

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