Comments on: BASHIR, CLASS, MONKEYS make Foreign Film Oscar Shortlist

By: orkun yavuz

orkun yavuz — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:22:20 +0000

very good movie everyone should watch it

By: bila

bila — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:05:24 +0000

Three monkeys, the best movie ever!!! watch it everybody!! it should definitely be in academy and win it!!!

By: Kieran

Kieran — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:48:57 +0000

Hunger should be on this list. Amazing.

By: mel

mel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:30:09 +0000

3 Monkeys is very good!!

By: gamze

gamze — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:25:21 +0000

3 monkees is best one for to be considered oscar winner!!!

By: deniz

deniz — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:35:35 +0000

oh three monkeys should be “the one” !!!

By: nagihan

nagihan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:05:28 +0000

hi.as for me 3 MONKEYS super film.

By: Peter Debruge

Peter Debruge — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:24:09 +0000

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.

By: uyuyang

uyuyang — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:15:52 +0000

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.

By: Fizz › Thoughts on the Oscar’s ‘Foriegn Language’ Long List

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:08:43 +0000

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