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The Carpetbagger has posted the nine semi-finalists for the Best Foreign Film Oscar Nomination. Comparing this list to the list of 67 films submitted for consideration by their countries of origin, the only real notable omission I can spot is Italy’s Gomorrah; I’ve sen some bloggy chatter already lamenting the exclusion of Let the Right One In, but that film was passed over for submission by its home country of Sweden in favor of Everlasting Moments (which did make the shortlist). The full list, with links to the films we’ve covered (as you’ll see, we have a lot of catching up to do), after the jump.
Revanche, Gotz Spielmann, director (Austria)
The Necessities of Life, Benoit Pilon (Canada)
The Class, Laurent Cantet, director (France)
The Baader Meinhof Complex, Uli Edel, director (Germany)
Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman, director (Israel)
Departures, Yojiro Takita, director (Japan)
Tear This Heart Out, Roberto Sneider, director (Mexico)
Everlasting Moments, Jan Troell, director (Sweden)
3 Monkeys, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director (Turkey)
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I think Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) wins the Oscar. Because Nuri Bilge Ceylan is the great director. This film is his best production he ever made.
The absence of Gomorrah is a travesty, especially when you consider they went for Germany’s equally violent but otherwise confused Baader-Meinhof Complex.
The inclusion of Waltz With Bashir is a nice surprise (13 animated films have been submitted for foreign language consideration, but none has ever been nominated — if Waltz advances, it would be a first).
As for Let the Right One In, Sweden didn’t slight it. The film wasn’t actually eligible, as it hadn’t opened in its home country by the Academy’s Sept. 30 cutoff (for this category), which means they still have a chance of submitting it next year (and why wouldn’t they, given all the acclaim?).
* By the way, documentaries also follows a similarly strange calendar year, which is why Waltz is eligible for animation (it received its qualifying run in December) but not docu (where the cutoff is Aug. 31). Technically, it could lose animation and foreign this year and still be nominated for docu in 2010.
hi.as for me 3 MONKEYS super film.
oh three monkeys should be “the one” !!!
3 monkees is best one for to be considered oscar winner!!!
3 Monkeys is very good!!
Hunger should be on this list. Amazing.
Three monkeys, the best movie ever!!! watch it everybody!! it should definitely be in academy and win it!!!
very good movie everyone should watch it