Best Foreign Language Film is a category where Academy voters often like to ignore the precursors and go off-script, but with frontrunner “A Separation” so far ahead of its competitors in terms of acclaim and buzz, will they do so again this year? We discuss what will win, and what should.
Oscar Guide 2011: Best Foreign Language Film
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:10 pm · February 3rd, 2012
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Predicting the foreign-language Oscar shortlist
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:42 pm · January 17th, 2012
Tomorrow, the Academy announces a shortlist of nine contenders for the Best Foreign Language Oscar — we take a look at what they might be.
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London: Foreign Oscar hopefuls 'Beauty' and 'Volcano'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:02 am · October 26th, 2011
In our latest dispatch from the London Film Festival, we review two very different, but equally moving, submissions for the foreign-language Oscar: South African gay drama “Beauty” and Icelandic old-age study “Volcano.”
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Previewing the best of the London fest
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:16 pm · October 11th, 2011
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the BFI London Film Festival, which opens with Fernando Meirelles’s tepidly reviewed “360.” But I’m beginning on a positive note, with a list of the 15 best already-seen films of the fest.
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China and South Africa bring a little English to the foreign Oscar conversation
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:00 pm · September 23rd, 2011
We talk about name appeal being a factor in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race, but no country this year can boast it to quite the same extent as China: not only is their submission, just announced today, directed by three-time Oscar nominee Zhang Yimou, but it stars reigning Best Supporting Actor champ Christian Bale.
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