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Spain and Oscar's Big Foreign Film Race
Film Experience Blog — ... First round of official entries Page 1: Austria to Finland Page 2: France to Japan Page 3: The Netherlands through Turkey ...

Oscar Watch: Producers, Hosts and Show
Thompson On Hollywood — ... Meanwhile, I remain obsessed with the foreign Oscar submissions, and so is Film Experience, which maintains a handy country-by-counntry chart every year. (Latest news: Gomorra is the Italian entry--btw, Israel's Waltz with Bashir is official.) ...

Foreign Film Oscar Submission List
Film Experience Blog — It keeps growing. The deadline for submissions has passed but, as the Academy has still not announced the "official list" --they need time for paperwork and fact checks you'll understand, we still fill in the blanks. Here's the full list of 53 contenders thus far (with movie posters, links and info). More Oscar updates coming over the weekend. ...

New Podcast: Oscar 2008 Foreign Film Competition
Film Experience Blog — ... about the current Oscar Best Foreign Film race. [The official 67 film-wide submission list has been announced. You can see the full list here]. But this installment of the podcast kicks off with an interview with one of cinema's future bright lights, director Joachim Trier who talks about the inspiration for his first feature ...

Oscar Watch: 67 Foreign Entries Announced
Thompson On Hollywood — ... time and is overdue (she was nominated once, for The English Patient). 4) Scott Thomas is also earning raves on Broadway for The Seagull. This does not hurt one little bit. Tom Tapp agrees. Meanwhile, word from the foreign film voters is that it is another strong year. The full list of 67 foreign entries is up at indieWIRE.com , where Anthony Kaufman looks at the foreign Oscar race. And check out the exhaustive database at The Film Experience. Of the four out of 67 that I've seen, France's The Class is ...

Zhang Ziyi Sings... Breathily
Film Experience Blog — ... had (almost) forgotten about this mode of music video making. Film your singer(s) in less than an hour in one plain setting... maybe with a wind machine. Accessorize the boredom with movie clips. Presto! A 3 minute commercial for your movie is born. Mei Lanfang is from director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine, Temptress Moon, The Promise). I originally thought his latest would be China's submission to the Oscar but it's not being released until December and the Oscar submissions had to be released in their home country before September's ...

Gomorrah Rubbed Out
The Hot Blog — ... The new set up has an executive comittee with 3 selections aside from the straight committee votes on the other six candidates. The Italian mob movie was expected to be an exec committee lock. It wasn't. From here, there will be more screenings for a group who will choose 5 from the 9 after seeing all of them. I still expect Waltz With Bashir to win the Oscar. (For more info on the films that were in the chase, check out Nathaniel R's excellent pages on all the contenders.) Headshaker to come... doc nods.

Foreign Film Hoopla, 60+ Oscar Submissions
Film Experience Blog — ... for example when I first began tracking it and sharing the info online, there were 51 official submissions for Best Foreign Language Film. Last year there were 67. For the 2009 Oscar race (the submission deadline has now passed) ...