Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/8/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 8/30/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 8/30/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
If you can tell a story in the pub, you can write a film script: You just need to know the techniques. So says 'Master and Commander', 'Happy Feet', 'Tanna' and 'Hotel Mumbai' scribe John Collee, who is emphatic that there there is no "dark magic" to screenwriting
The post John Collee talks ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and mentoring emerging writers appeared first on If Magazine.
The post John Collee talks ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and mentoring emerging writers appeared first on If Magazine.
- 2/14/2023
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Lightyear Entertainment has acquired two documentaries that made their world premieres at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival: Thomas Robsahm’s A-ha: The Movie and Eddie Martin’s We Were Once Kids. The former will open in theaters across the U.S. and Canada on April 8, with the latter set for release in May.
A-ha: The Movie celebrates the 40th anniversary of the synth-pop band’s irresistible single “Take on Me,” which is still one of the most played songs of the last millennium. The musicians from small-town Norway became global sensations and heartthrobs overnight when they released the song and its groundbreaking pencil-sketch animation video, seeing their newfound fame overshadow their original dream to make music. In the years since, each has taken separate roads to get back to what they loved most.
A-ha has released 15 albums to date, which have sold more than 55 million copies. The band has also earned eight MTV Awards,...
A-ha: The Movie celebrates the 40th anniversary of the synth-pop band’s irresistible single “Take on Me,” which is still one of the most played songs of the last millennium. The musicians from small-town Norway became global sensations and heartthrobs overnight when they released the song and its groundbreaking pencil-sketch animation video, seeing their newfound fame overshadow their original dream to make music. In the years since, each has taken separate roads to get back to what they loved most.
A-ha has released 15 albums to date, which have sold more than 55 million copies. The band has also earned eight MTV Awards,...
- 12/20/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The impact of Covid-19 and the impending removal of the Gallipoli clause from the Producer Offset have been a double blow for Australian productions aiming to film overseas across the past 18 months.
Add in a cyclone season and the process becomes even harder to navigate.
Such is the scenario for Jo-Anne Brechin’s Gardens of War, an Australian production to be filmed in Vanuatu, now at the mercy of government leniency after more than a year in development limbo.
The story follows a TV producer who leads her film crew into a remote mountain valley to discover the story of her father’s disappearance 30 years before, only to disturb his ghost and unleash havoc on the valley and her crew.
Sydney-based producer Bill Leimbach (Beneath Hill 60) penned the script with Brechin and Reg Cribb (Last Cab to Darwin), and is also producing with Bill Mulham and Ashley Burgess.
Financing was...
Add in a cyclone season and the process becomes even harder to navigate.
Such is the scenario for Jo-Anne Brechin’s Gardens of War, an Australian production to be filmed in Vanuatu, now at the mercy of government leniency after more than a year in development limbo.
The story follows a TV producer who leads her film crew into a remote mountain valley to discover the story of her father’s disappearance 30 years before, only to disturb his ghost and unleash havoc on the valley and her crew.
Sydney-based producer Bill Leimbach (Beneath Hill 60) penned the script with Brechin and Reg Cribb (Last Cab to Darwin), and is also producing with Bill Mulham and Ashley Burgess.
Financing was...
- 6/2/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Guatemala has only submitted three films for Oscar consideration in the history of the Best International Feature category. In 1995 it entered “The Silence of Neto” and in 2016 “Ixcanul,” but neither advanced in the race toward a nomination. This year, the director of “Ixcanul” Jayro Bustamante is back in the race with Guatemala’s third-ever submission “La Llorona.” In February the film became the country’s first submission to make the 15-title shortlist and is now on pace to be its first nominee.
The supernatural drama film reimagines a Latin American fable using magical realism and horror to examine Guatemala’s dark past in a story of cultural guilt and justice. “La Llorona” had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival where it won the Best Film prize at the Venice Days sidebar and then screened at TIFF shortly after, a full year before it was made available stateside via...
The supernatural drama film reimagines a Latin American fable using magical realism and horror to examine Guatemala’s dark past in a story of cultural guilt and justice. “La Llorona” had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival where it won the Best Film prize at the Venice Days sidebar and then screened at TIFF shortly after, a full year before it was made available stateside via...
- 3/8/2021
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
She Who Must Be Loved.
Another four Australian projects have joined the line-up at the Berlin International Film Festival: feature documentary She Who Must Be Loved, 2015 film Tanna and two shorts, Blackbird and The Mermaids, Or Aiden in Wonderland.
As If has previously reported, Rodd Rathjen’s feature debut Buoyancy will also make its world premiere in Berlinale’s Panorama section, while Damon Gameau’s feature doc 2040 will screen in the Generation Kplus section.
She Who Must Be Loved will make its international premiere as part of Berlin’s NATIVe program, which celebrates Indigenous storytelling. The film is a portrait of Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (Caama) and Imparja TV co-founder Freda Glynn, from director and daughter Erica Glynn and producer and granddaughter Tanith Glynn-Maloney. It first premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival last October, where it won the audience award, and will screen on Nitv later this year.
Benley...
Another four Australian projects have joined the line-up at the Berlin International Film Festival: feature documentary She Who Must Be Loved, 2015 film Tanna and two shorts, Blackbird and The Mermaids, Or Aiden in Wonderland.
As If has previously reported, Rodd Rathjen’s feature debut Buoyancy will also make its world premiere in Berlinale’s Panorama section, while Damon Gameau’s feature doc 2040 will screen in the Generation Kplus section.
She Who Must Be Loved will make its international premiere as part of Berlin’s NATIVe program, which celebrates Indigenous storytelling. The film is a portrait of Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (Caama) and Imparja TV co-founder Freda Glynn, from director and daughter Erica Glynn and producer and granddaughter Tanith Glynn-Maloney. It first premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival last October, where it won the audience award, and will screen on Nitv later this year.
Benley...
- 1/24/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Mungau Dain, an actor from the Pacific Islands best known for his role in the Oscar-nominated film Tanna, has died. He was 24.
The Vanuatu native passed away on Jan. 5, after cutting his leg open in Port-Vila and contracting an infection that was not immediately treated, according to The New York Times.
Jimmy Kawiel, a former official from the tourism department in Tafea Province, told the Times that Dain injured his leg on New Year’s Eve.
The actor leaves behind his wife, Nancy, and two children, according to AP. Meanwhile, his village Yakel — which is located on Tanna island — will...
The Vanuatu native passed away on Jan. 5, after cutting his leg open in Port-Vila and contracting an infection that was not immediately treated, according to The New York Times.
Jimmy Kawiel, a former official from the tourism department in Tafea Province, told the Times that Dain injured his leg on New Year’s Eve.
The actor leaves behind his wife, Nancy, and two children, according to AP. Meanwhile, his village Yakel — which is located on Tanna island — will...
- 1/12/2019
- by Joelle Goldstein
- PEOPLE.com
For countries in the English-speaking world, entries into the foreign-language Oscar race offer a chance to reflect on the complexity of their own cultures or examine their place in the wider world.
After digging into its colonial past last year in Francois Girard’s Quebec-set “Hochelaga, Land of Souls,” Canada enters the Oscar race with Sophie Dupuis’ “Family First.” Set in a gritty working-class neighborhood, Dupuis’ low-budget feature debut is about a Montreal family bound together by a life of crime. Canada, which took home the foreign-language Oscar in 2003 with Denys Arcand’s “The Barbarian Invasions,” has scored four nominations and three shortlist spots in the past 12 years.
Australia landed its first nomination in 2016 with “Tanna,” a Nauvhal-language romance about two young lovers defying local mores that was the first film ever shot on the island of Vanuatu. This year’s submission for the foreign-language race, “Jirga,” follows a former...
After digging into its colonial past last year in Francois Girard’s Quebec-set “Hochelaga, Land of Souls,” Canada enters the Oscar race with Sophie Dupuis’ “Family First.” Set in a gritty working-class neighborhood, Dupuis’ low-budget feature debut is about a Montreal family bound together by a life of crime. Canada, which took home the foreign-language Oscar in 2003 with Denys Arcand’s “The Barbarian Invasions,” has scored four nominations and three shortlist spots in the past 12 years.
Australia landed its first nomination in 2016 with “Tanna,” a Nauvhal-language romance about two young lovers defying local mores that was the first film ever shot on the island of Vanuatu. This year’s submission for the foreign-language race, “Jirga,” follows a former...
- 11/8/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Tanna will screen at Plaza Frontenac Cinema (Lindbergh Blvd. and Clayton Rd, Frontenac, Mo 63131) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Showings are Saturday, November 4th, at 12:05pm (purchase tickets Here) and Friday, November 10th, at 4:40pm (purchase tickets Here).
Tanna is a gripping tale of adventure and star-crossed love on a beautiful Pacific island. Based on a true story of the Yakel people and performed by them, this stirring, moving drama offers intriguing insights into the culture and history of these island people through a story of two people, a tale that has a little of both James Fenimore Cooper and Shakespeare.
Beautifully shot by co-director Bentley Dean, the script was written by co-director , Martin Butler and John Collee with the help of the Yakel. Visually stunning, Tanna immerses us in a lovely green natural setting, a Pacific Island paradise where the happy,...
Tanna is a gripping tale of adventure and star-crossed love on a beautiful Pacific island. Based on a true story of the Yakel people and performed by them, this stirring, moving drama offers intriguing insights into the culture and history of these island people through a story of two people, a tale that has a little of both James Fenimore Cooper and Shakespeare.
Beautifully shot by co-director Bentley Dean, the script was written by co-director , Martin Butler and John Collee with the help of the Yakel. Visually stunning, Tanna immerses us in a lovely green natural setting, a Pacific Island paradise where the happy,...
- 11/4/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
'Lion' director Garth Davis is among the Aussie invited to join AMPAS.
Joel Edgerton, Chris Hemsworth, Margot Robbie, Rebel Wilson, Garth Davis, Cate Shortland, Jocelyn Moorhouse and Eva Orner are among more than two dozen Australians who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Tanna.s Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, writers John Collee (Tanna, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) and Luke Davies (Lion), film editors Alexandre de Franceschi (Lion) and Tania Michel Nehme (Tanna), make-up artists and hairstylists Shane Thomas (The Dressmaker, Hacksaw Ridge), Rick Findlater (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey), and Kerry Warn (The Great Gatsby) are also admitted into the Oscars body.
Other Aussie invitees include designer Beverley Dunn (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), sound designers Peter Grace (Hacksaw Ridge), Robert Mackenzie (Hacksaw Ridge) Guntis Sics (Kong: Skull Island) and...
Joel Edgerton, Chris Hemsworth, Margot Robbie, Rebel Wilson, Garth Davis, Cate Shortland, Jocelyn Moorhouse and Eva Orner are among more than two dozen Australians who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Tanna.s Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, writers John Collee (Tanna, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) and Luke Davies (Lion), film editors Alexandre de Franceschi (Lion) and Tania Michel Nehme (Tanna), make-up artists and hairstylists Shane Thomas (The Dressmaker, Hacksaw Ridge), Rick Findlater (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey), and Kerry Warn (The Great Gatsby) are also admitted into the Oscars body.
Other Aussie invitees include designer Beverley Dunn (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), sound designers Peter Grace (Hacksaw Ridge), Robert Mackenzie (Hacksaw Ridge) Guntis Sics (Kong: Skull Island) and...
- 6/29/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
'Lion' director Garth Davis has won the Adg Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film..
Director Garth Davis has taken out the top gong at the Adg Awards for his work helming Lion..
Davis was presented the prize for Best Direction in a Feature Film by Peter Weir at an award ceremony in Melbourne on Friday..
Lion, which received six Oscar nods and has gone on to be the fifth highest-grossing Australian film of all time at the local box office, is Davis. debut feature. .
Davis was up against Simon Stone (The Daughter), Ben Young (Hounds of Love), Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks) and Jonathan Leahy (Skin Deep) — each of which was also a first feature..
The award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature Film was presented to Dan Jackson for In The Shadow of the Hill, while Hotel Coolgardie director Pete Gleeson received High Commendation. The...
Director Garth Davis has taken out the top gong at the Adg Awards for his work helming Lion..
Davis was presented the prize for Best Direction in a Feature Film by Peter Weir at an award ceremony in Melbourne on Friday..
Lion, which received six Oscar nods and has gone on to be the fifth highest-grossing Australian film of all time at the local box office, is Davis. debut feature. .
Davis was up against Simon Stone (The Daughter), Ben Young (Hounds of Love), Craig Boreham (Teenage Kicks) and Jonathan Leahy (Skin Deep) — each of which was also a first feature..
The award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature Film was presented to Dan Jackson for In The Shadow of the Hill, while Hotel Coolgardie director Pete Gleeson received High Commendation. The...
- 5/8/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
John Collee.
Tanna scribe John Collee is writing video game adaptation Just Cause for Warner Bros. and director Brad Peyton (San Andreas).
Set to star Jason Momoa (Aquaman), the film is based on the Avalanche Studios game which follows Rico Rodriguez (Momoa), an operative for a shadowy organization called the Agency whose mission is to help overthrow a South American dictator.
Collee describes the feature as his "first pure action film.".
"I think I freaked the game manufacturers out a little bit by saying we.ve got to locate this in a real moral and psychological world. He.s always indestructible in the game and he blows up lots of shit and it.s great fun, but a film is different in that you.ve got to have a moral context for all this stuff to happen in. What.s in it for him? What.s the difference between a...
Tanna scribe John Collee is writing video game adaptation Just Cause for Warner Bros. and director Brad Peyton (San Andreas).
Set to star Jason Momoa (Aquaman), the film is based on the Avalanche Studios game which follows Rico Rodriguez (Momoa), an operative for a shadowy organization called the Agency whose mission is to help overthrow a South American dictator.
Collee describes the feature as his "first pure action film.".
"I think I freaked the game manufacturers out a little bit by saying we.ve got to locate this in a real moral and psychological world. He.s always indestructible in the game and he blows up lots of shit and it.s great fun, but a film is different in that you.ve got to have a moral context for all this stuff to happen in. What.s in it for him? What.s the difference between a...
- 5/1/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
John Collee.
Tanna scribe John Collee is writing video game adaptation Just Cause for Warner Bros. and director Brad Peyton (San Andreas).
Set to star Jason Momoa (Aquaman), the film is based on the Avalanche Studios game which follows Rico Rodriguez (Momoa), an operative for a shadowy organization called the Agency whose mission is to help overthrow a South American dictator.
Collee describes the feature as his "first pure action film.".
"I think I freaked the game manufacturers out a little bit by saying we.ve got to locate this in a real moral and psychological world. He.s always indestructible in the game and he blows up lots of shit and it.s great fun, but a film is different in that you.ve got to have a moral context for all this stuff to happen in. What.s in it for him? What.s the difference between a...
Tanna scribe John Collee is writing video game adaptation Just Cause for Warner Bros. and director Brad Peyton (San Andreas).
Set to star Jason Momoa (Aquaman), the film is based on the Avalanche Studios game which follows Rico Rodriguez (Momoa), an operative for a shadowy organization called the Agency whose mission is to help overthrow a South American dictator.
Collee describes the feature as his "first pure action film.".
"I think I freaked the game manufacturers out a little bit by saying we.ve got to locate this in a real moral and psychological world. He.s always indestructible in the game and he blows up lots of shit and it.s great fun, but a film is different in that you.ve got to have a moral context for all this stuff to happen in. What.s in it for him? What.s the difference between a...
- 5/1/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
In a decisive choice to cap a tumultuous awards season among foreign films, Asghar Farhadi and “The Salesman” won for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night in Hollywood, California.
Read More: Foreign Language Film Directors Discuss Common Ground, Rivalries at Palm Springs Contenders Panel
The award has garnered increased attention in recent weeks, with increased restrictions on international travel to the United States. Nominee Asghar Farhadi announced at the end of January that he would not be attending the ceremony. In a show of solidarity, the directors of all five nominated films released a joint statement, condemning a global uptick in nationalist ideals and reaffirming cinema as a safe place to express common humanity.
“Dividing the world into the ‘us and our enemies’ categories creates fear, a deceitful justification for aggression and war. These wars prevent democracy and human rights in countries which have themselves been victims of aggression,...
Read More: Foreign Language Film Directors Discuss Common Ground, Rivalries at Palm Springs Contenders Panel
The award has garnered increased attention in recent weeks, with increased restrictions on international travel to the United States. Nominee Asghar Farhadi announced at the end of January that he would not be attending the ceremony. In a show of solidarity, the directors of all five nominated films released a joint statement, condemning a global uptick in nationalist ideals and reaffirming cinema as a safe place to express common humanity.
“Dividing the world into the ‘us and our enemies’ categories creates fear, a deceitful justification for aggression and war. These wars prevent democracy and human rights in countries which have themselves been victims of aggression,...
- 2/27/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The six directors whose films are nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony have released a joint statement condemning “the climate of fanaticism and nationalism” rising in the Us and around the world. On the red carpet ahead of the event ‘Tanna’ co-director Bentley Dean said the filmmakers had chosen to take action after seeing “thousands of people on the streets protesting” against “some mad man coming up with some racist, stupid idea”
Foreign language Oscar nominees decry ‘climate of fanaticism in Us’ Continue reading...
Foreign language Oscar nominees decry ‘climate of fanaticism in Us’ Continue reading...
- 2/26/2017
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
As the lavish Oscar swag bags get put together and awards bloggers race to get their final predictions in before tomorrow’s ceremony, it all seems a bit frivolous when looking at the political climate in the country where the Academy Awards call home. Therefore, it can’t be understated how one category seems more vital than the others, particularly this year. Following Donald Trump’s Muslim ban — which resulted the Oscar-nominated Asghar Farhadi declining to attend this year’s ceremony (he’ll be represented by two prominent Iranian Americans involved in space travel) — the entire group of nominees for Best Foreign Language Film have banded together to issue a statement.
Along with Iran’s Farhadi, who is nominated for The Salesman, they include Denmark’s Martin Zandvliet (Land of Mine), Sweden’s Hannes Holm (A Man Called Ove), Germany’s Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann) and Australia’s Bentley Dean...
Along with Iran’s Farhadi, who is nominated for The Salesman, they include Denmark’s Martin Zandvliet (Land of Mine), Sweden’s Hannes Holm (A Man Called Ove), Germany’s Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann) and Australia’s Bentley Dean...
- 2/25/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Filmmakers decry ‘climate of fanaticism and nationalism’
The five nominated directors in the best foreign language Oscar category on Friday issued a stirring joint statement two days before the Academy Awards.
Denmark’s Martin Zandvliet, Sweden’s Hannes Holm, Iran’s Asghar Farhadi, Germany’s Maren Ade and Martin Butler and Bentley Dean from Australia decried the wave of nationalism that has taken root in the Us and may other countries.
The six filmmakers (Australia’s Tanna is directed by two people) dedicated the foreign-language Oscar – regardless of who wins on Sunday – to “all the people, artists, journalists and activists who are working to foster unity and understanding, and who uphold freedom of expression and human dignity – values whose protection is now more important than ever.”
As previously reported, Farhadi is boycotting the ceremony in protest over Us president Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya...
The five nominated directors in the best foreign language Oscar category on Friday issued a stirring joint statement two days before the Academy Awards.
Denmark’s Martin Zandvliet, Sweden’s Hannes Holm, Iran’s Asghar Farhadi, Germany’s Maren Ade and Martin Butler and Bentley Dean from Australia decried the wave of nationalism that has taken root in the Us and may other countries.
The six filmmakers (Australia’s Tanna is directed by two people) dedicated the foreign-language Oscar – regardless of who wins on Sunday – to “all the people, artists, journalists and activists who are working to foster unity and understanding, and who uphold freedom of expression and human dignity – values whose protection is now more important than ever.”
As previously reported, Farhadi is boycotting the ceremony in protest over Us president Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya...
- 2/25/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The filmmakers behind the five movies nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at Sunday's Academy Awards banded together for a joint statement to "express our unanimous and emphatic disapproval of the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the U.S."
"The fear generated by dividing us into genders, colors, religions and sexualities as a means to justify violence destroys the things that we depend on – not only as artists but as humans: the diversity of cultures, the chance to be enriched by something seemingly 'foreign' and the...
"The fear generated by dividing us into genders, colors, religions and sexualities as a means to justify violence destroys the things that we depend on – not only as artists but as humans: the diversity of cultures, the chance to be enriched by something seemingly 'foreign' and the...
- 2/25/2017
- Rollingstone.com
In the 2017 Oscar race, politics have informed several Oscar categories, most notably Best Foreign Language Film.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” and whose second Oscar-nominated film, “The Salesman” (Cohen Media), is playing on more than 65 screens and has passed the $1 million mark, grabbed a lot of press when he canceled his plans to attend the February 26th Oscars ceremony following Trump’s Muslim travel ban for visitors from seven countries, including Iran. (Farhadi’s full statement is here.) He is currently the favorite to win the Oscar.
Read More: Why Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ Should Win the Foreign Language Oscar — Consider This
Before and just after the Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on February 6, Farhadi communicated with his four fellow foreign directors — Maren Ade of “Toni Erdmann,” Hannes Holm of “A Man Called Ove,” Martin Zandvliet of “Land of Mine” and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler of “Tanna.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” and whose second Oscar-nominated film, “The Salesman” (Cohen Media), is playing on more than 65 screens and has passed the $1 million mark, grabbed a lot of press when he canceled his plans to attend the February 26th Oscars ceremony following Trump’s Muslim travel ban for visitors from seven countries, including Iran. (Farhadi’s full statement is here.) He is currently the favorite to win the Oscar.
Read More: Why Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ Should Win the Foreign Language Oscar — Consider This
Before and just after the Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on February 6, Farhadi communicated with his four fellow foreign directors — Maren Ade of “Toni Erdmann,” Hannes Holm of “A Man Called Ove,” Martin Zandvliet of “Land of Mine” and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler of “Tanna.
- 2/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
In the 2017 Oscar race, politics have informed several Oscar categories, most notably Best Foreign Language Film.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” and whose second Oscar-nominated film, “The Salesman” (Cohen Media), is playing on more than 65 screens and has passed the $1 million mark, grabbed a lot of press when he canceled his plans to attend the February 26th Oscars ceremony following Trump’s Muslim travel ban for visitors from seven countries, including Iran. (Farhadi’s full statement is here.) He is currently the favorite to win the Oscar.
Read More: Why Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ Should Win the Foreign Language Oscar — Consider This
Before and just after the Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on February 6, Farhadi communicated with his four fellow foreign directors — Maren Ade of “Toni Erdmann,” Hannes Holm of “A Man Called Ove,” Martin Zandvliet of “Land of Mine” and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler of “Tanna.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” and whose second Oscar-nominated film, “The Salesman” (Cohen Media), is playing on more than 65 screens and has passed the $1 million mark, grabbed a lot of press when he canceled his plans to attend the February 26th Oscars ceremony following Trump’s Muslim travel ban for visitors from seven countries, including Iran. (Farhadi’s full statement is here.) He is currently the favorite to win the Oscar.
Read More: Why Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ Should Win the Foreign Language Oscar — Consider This
Before and just after the Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on February 6, Farhadi communicated with his four fellow foreign directors — Maren Ade of “Toni Erdmann,” Hannes Holm of “A Man Called Ove,” Martin Zandvliet of “Land of Mine” and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler of “Tanna.
- 2/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Iran's The Salesman has won best foreign-language film at the Oscars.
Asghar Farhadi's film was nominated alongside Land of Mine (Denmark - Martin Pieter Zandvliet), A Man Called Ove (Sweden - Hannes Holm), Tanna (Australia - Bentley Dean, Martin Butler) and Toni Erdmann (Germany - Maren Ade).
Anousheh Ansari accepted the award on behalf of Farhadi, reading from a statement that he sent for the awards show: "I'm sorry I'm not with you tonight. My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to...
Asghar Farhadi's film was nominated alongside Land of Mine (Denmark - Martin Pieter Zandvliet), A Man Called Ove (Sweden - Hannes Holm), Tanna (Australia - Bentley Dean, Martin Butler) and Toni Erdmann (Germany - Maren Ade).
Anousheh Ansari accepted the award on behalf of Farhadi, reading from a statement that he sent for the awards show: "I'm sorry I'm not with you tonight. My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to...
- 2/24/2017
- by Jennifer Konerman,Farnoush Amiri
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The six nominated directors in the best foreign-language Oscar category on Friday issued a stirring joint statement two days before the Academy Awards.
Denmark’s Martin Zandvliet, Sweden’s Hannes Holm, Iran’s Asghar Farhadi, Germany’s Maren Ade, and Martin Butler and Bentley Dean from Australia decried the wave of nationalism that has taken root in the Us and may other countries.
The six filmmakers (Australia’s Tanna is directed by two people) dedicated the foreign-language Oscar – regardless of who wins on Sunday – to “all the people, artists, journalists and activists who are working to foster unity and understanding, and who uphold freedom of expression and human dignity – values whose protection is now more important than ever.”
As previously reported, Farhadi is boycotting the ceremony in protest over Us president Donald Trump’s short-lived executive order banning entry to citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia.
The order has...
Denmark’s Martin Zandvliet, Sweden’s Hannes Holm, Iran’s Asghar Farhadi, Germany’s Maren Ade, and Martin Butler and Bentley Dean from Australia decried the wave of nationalism that has taken root in the Us and may other countries.
The six filmmakers (Australia’s Tanna is directed by two people) dedicated the foreign-language Oscar – regardless of who wins on Sunday – to “all the people, artists, journalists and activists who are working to foster unity and understanding, and who uphold freedom of expression and human dignity – values whose protection is now more important than ever.”
As previously reported, Farhadi is boycotting the ceremony in protest over Us president Donald Trump’s short-lived executive order banning entry to citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia.
The order has...
- 2/24/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
There have been countless renditions of Romeo and Juliet during the past five hundred or so years and yet its themes still haven’t grown stale. Bentley Dean and Martin Butler‘s Tanna isn’t an official retelling considering its tale is based on a real-life romance, but it’s nearly impossible not to think about the Shakespearian classic while watching. The events onscreen occurred in 1987 in the midst of civil unrest between two tribes of the Kastom roads. With colonialists and Christians arriving at their Vanuatuan island to convert natives to their ways, a few inhabitants stayed devoted to the ancient traditions. Despite their common lifestyle, however, tensions remained via a struggle for land. And like European wars centuries ago, the surest way to stop the bloodshed was marriage.
Before Dean and Butler reveal this hopeful alliance, though, we must become acquainted with the Yakel people. The actors are...
Before Dean and Butler reveal this hopeful alliance, though, we must become acquainted with the Yakel people. The actors are...
- 2/21/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
As voters hover over their ballots, which are due February 21, the Best Foreign-Language Feature category presents a dilemma that’s unique to this year. Traditionally, many don’t vote in this category unless they’ve seen all the films. While the Academy sends links as well as screeners for all five nominees, it’s an honor system.
No one’s asking them to do anything differently now, but this year they may have a different reason to vote. Three out of the five documentary short Oscars focus on fallout from the Syrian conflict, as does documentary feature “Fire at Sea.”
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” and whose second Oscar-nominated film, “The Salesman” (Cohen Media), is playing on more than 65 screens and could pass the $1 million mark this weekend, grabbed a lot of press when he canceled his plans to attend the February 26th...
No one’s asking them to do anything differently now, but this year they may have a different reason to vote. Three out of the five documentary short Oscars focus on fallout from the Syrian conflict, as does documentary feature “Fire at Sea.”
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” and whose second Oscar-nominated film, “The Salesman” (Cohen Media), is playing on more than 65 screens and could pass the $1 million mark this weekend, grabbed a lot of press when he canceled his plans to attend the February 26th...
- 2/18/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
As voters hover over their ballots, which are due February 21, the Best Foreign-Language Feature category presents a dilemma that’s unique to this year. Traditionally, many don’t vote in this category unless they’ve seen all the films. While the Academy sends links as well as screeners for all five nominees, it’s an honor system.
No one’s asking them to do anything differently now, but this year they may have a different reason to vote. Three out of the five documentary short Oscars focus on fallout from the Syrian conflict, as does documentary feature “Fire at Sea.”
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” and whose second Oscar-nominated film, “The Salesman” (Cohen Media), is playing on more than 65 screens and could pass the $1 million mark this weekend, grabbed a lot of press when he canceled his plans to attend the February 26th...
No one’s asking them to do anything differently now, but this year they may have a different reason to vote. Three out of the five documentary short Oscars focus on fallout from the Syrian conflict, as does documentary feature “Fire at Sea.”
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” and whose second Oscar-nominated film, “The Salesman” (Cohen Media), is playing on more than 65 screens and could pass the $1 million mark this weekend, grabbed a lot of press when he canceled his plans to attend the February 26th...
- 2/18/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
A heartfelt story, enacted in lush locations by the Yakel tribe of Tanna island, tells of forbidden love across the tribal divide
This glowing, anthropologically flavoured drama – Australia’s nominee for the foreign-language film Oscar – features an unlikely cameo from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip by way of an argument for arranged marriage. It’s one way in which Tanna, set among the tribes of the eponymous Pacific island in the Vanuatu archipelago, outlines its interest in how indigenous peoples experience broader human truths: in this case, how society always exacts its price from the individual.
Chieftain’s son Dain, the villager with the flyest fern headdress, falls for broad-smiling beauty Wawa, but their attraction threatens neighbouring tribal bonds. It could be something from Renaissance drama. In fact, it is: Romeo and Juliet (almost). With such lush locations, it must have been a temptation for directors Martin Butler and Bentley Dean...
This glowing, anthropologically flavoured drama – Australia’s nominee for the foreign-language film Oscar – features an unlikely cameo from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip by way of an argument for arranged marriage. It’s one way in which Tanna, set among the tribes of the eponymous Pacific island in the Vanuatu archipelago, outlines its interest in how indigenous peoples experience broader human truths: in this case, how society always exacts its price from the individual.
Chieftain’s son Dain, the villager with the flyest fern headdress, falls for broad-smiling beauty Wawa, but their attraction threatens neighbouring tribal bonds. It could be something from Renaissance drama. In fact, it is: Romeo and Juliet (almost). With such lush locations, it must have been a temptation for directors Martin Butler and Bentley Dean...
- 2/16/2017
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
By Jose Solís.
At first glance Tanna might seem like another take on the Romeo and Juliet story, as we see two star-crossed lovers, living in the title South Pacific island, fight their way in a society that doesn’t understand their love. But upon giving it a closer look, the film reveals itself to be a fascinating anthropological study about the way in which ancient civilizations have been able to maintain their traditions for centuries, as the colonizers around them always seem to be on the verge of self-destruction. Watching the idyllic living of the Ni-Vanuatu people in the film makes one wish our governments also found ways to listen to everyone in the community. But even when it’s clear that not everything in the island is good, after all they’re living in a conservative patriarchal society, directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler are able to remove all romanticism,...
At first glance Tanna might seem like another take on the Romeo and Juliet story, as we see two star-crossed lovers, living in the title South Pacific island, fight their way in a society that doesn’t understand their love. But upon giving it a closer look, the film reveals itself to be a fascinating anthropological study about the way in which ancient civilizations have been able to maintain their traditions for centuries, as the colonizers around them always seem to be on the verge of self-destruction. Watching the idyllic living of the Ni-Vanuatu people in the film makes one wish our governments also found ways to listen to everyone in the community. But even when it’s clear that not everything in the island is good, after all they’re living in a conservative patriarchal society, directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler are able to remove all romanticism,...
- 2/10/2017
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
Exclusive: Ryan Kampe arrives at the Efm with a sales roster that includes Sundance premieres Family Life and Columbus, Rotterdam entries X500 and Rat Film, and Oscar-nominated Tanna.
Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, and Eric Schlosser’s Berlinale Special selection documentary the bomb screens on Friday and explores the power and fascination of nuclear weapons. the bomb premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year as a multimedia installation.
Amman Abbasi’s feature directorial debut Dayveon premiered at Sundance last month and screens in Forum on Friday. Newcomer Devin Blackmon plays the eponymous 13-year-old grieving the loss of his older brother who falls in with a local gang. FilmRise acquired North American rights after the premiere in Park City.
Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez’s Family Life premiered at Sundance before going to the Rotterdam Film Festival. Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Blanca Lewin and Cristián Carvajal star in the story of a lonely fabulist who concocts a tale...
Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, and Eric Schlosser’s Berlinale Special selection documentary the bomb screens on Friday and explores the power and fascination of nuclear weapons. the bomb premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year as a multimedia installation.
Amman Abbasi’s feature directorial debut Dayveon premiered at Sundance last month and screens in Forum on Friday. Newcomer Devin Blackmon plays the eponymous 13-year-old grieving the loss of his older brother who falls in with a local gang. FilmRise acquired North American rights after the premiere in Park City.
Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez’s Family Life premiered at Sundance before going to the Rotterdam Film Festival. Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Blanca Lewin and Cristián Carvajal star in the story of a lonely fabulist who concocts a tale...
- 2/8/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
There were celebrations across Australia — and Vanuatu — as news of a record 13 Oscar nominations for three Australian films, Lion, Hacksaw Ridge and Tanna, landed on Wednesday. The nominations set a number of precedents: Hacksaw Ridge and Lion mark the first time two Australian films have been nominated in the best picture category and Tanna, shot in Vanuatu, is Australia’s first-ever best foreign-language film nominee.
Tanna co-director and producer Bentley Dean told The Hollywood Reporter he is looking forward to introducing the people of Yakel, whose story is told in the film, to Hollywood.
"It took...
Tanna co-director and producer Bentley Dean told The Hollywood Reporter he is looking forward to introducing the people of Yakel, whose story is told in the film, to Hollywood.
"It took...
- 1/25/2017
- by Pip Bulbeck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tanna.
This year's Academy Awards will feature a healthy contingent of Australians, with films as disparate as Lion, Hacksaw Ridge.and Tanna vying for top awards.
21 years after Braveheart won the top gong, Mel Gibson has been welcomed back into the Academy fold, with Hacksaw Ridge nominated for six Oscars: Best Picture (producers David Permut and Bill Mechanic), Best Director (Gibson), Best Actor (Andrew Garfield), Best Sound Editing (Robert Mackenzie, Andy Wright) and Best Sound Mixing (Robert Mackenzie, Andy Wright, Kevin O'Connell, Peter Grace).
Hacksaw is also up for Best Editing for Kiwi John Gilbert, who edited Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and is clearly a new Icon favourite.—.he's currently cutting Gibson's next acting vehicle,.The Professor and the Madman, in which the star appears alongside Sean Penn..
Gibson called the nomination "a truly wonderful honor..
.I.m especially happy for Andrew Garfield,...
This year's Academy Awards will feature a healthy contingent of Australians, with films as disparate as Lion, Hacksaw Ridge.and Tanna vying for top awards.
21 years after Braveheart won the top gong, Mel Gibson has been welcomed back into the Academy fold, with Hacksaw Ridge nominated for six Oscars: Best Picture (producers David Permut and Bill Mechanic), Best Director (Gibson), Best Actor (Andrew Garfield), Best Sound Editing (Robert Mackenzie, Andy Wright) and Best Sound Mixing (Robert Mackenzie, Andy Wright, Kevin O'Connell, Peter Grace).
Hacksaw is also up for Best Editing for Kiwi John Gilbert, who edited Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and is clearly a new Icon favourite.—.he's currently cutting Gibson's next acting vehicle,.The Professor and the Madman, in which the star appears alongside Sean Penn..
Gibson called the nomination "a truly wonderful honor..
.I.m especially happy for Andrew Garfield,...
- 1/24/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Updated with filmmaker reactions: Unlike the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film shortlist, which offered up snubs galore when it was revealed in December, today's Foreign Language Oscar nominees are pretty much in keeping with expectations. However, like last year's nominees, this batch comes with a number of firsts. Chief among them is Tanna: The film from directors Martin Butler and Bentley Dean is the first to score a nomination for Australia, which has submitted 10…...
- 1/24/2017
- Deadline
Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek in Maren Ade's Oscar nominated Toni Erdmann
This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Germany's submission for the 89th Academy Awards, Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, starring Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek, is one of the five Oscar Best Foreign Language Film nominees.
Martin Zandvliet's Land Of Mine, from Denmark; Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman, from Iran; Bentley Dean and Martin Butler's Tanna, from Australia; and from Sweden, Hannes Holm's A Man Called Ove round out the field. Isabelle Huppert, for Paul Verhoeven's Elle (France's submission), received a Best Lead Actress nomination. Switzerland's My Life As A Courgette, directed by Claude Barras, received a Best Animated Feature nomination.
Sandra Hüller on Ines Conradi: "She should be a boss."
Filming Toni Erdmann in Romania, connecting Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld to King Kong, and what it means...
This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Germany's submission for the 89th Academy Awards, Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, starring Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek, is one of the five Oscar Best Foreign Language Film nominees.
Martin Zandvliet's Land Of Mine, from Denmark; Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman, from Iran; Bentley Dean and Martin Butler's Tanna, from Australia; and from Sweden, Hannes Holm's A Man Called Ove round out the field. Isabelle Huppert, for Paul Verhoeven's Elle (France's submission), received a Best Lead Actress nomination. Switzerland's My Life As A Courgette, directed by Claude Barras, received a Best Animated Feature nomination.
Sandra Hüller on Ines Conradi: "She should be a boss."
Filming Toni Erdmann in Romania, connecting Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld to King Kong, and what it means...
- 1/24/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Australia on Tuesday nabbed its first-ever nomination in the best foreign-language film race at the Oscars.
The Academy announced that the country’s submission, Tanna, a Nauvhal-language film shot by co-directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler on the island of Vanuatu, was one of the five final nominees in the foreign-language category, which was narrowed down from a field of nine. The overall nominations were led by La La Land with 14.
Based on a true story, the Australian film looks at the Tanna people in Vanuatu and tells the story of two young lovers who challenge the island’s...
The Academy announced that the country’s submission, Tanna, a Nauvhal-language film shot by co-directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler on the island of Vanuatu, was one of the five final nominees in the foreign-language category, which was narrowed down from a field of nine. The overall nominations were led by La La Land with 14.
Based on a true story, the Australian film looks at the Tanna people in Vanuatu and tells the story of two young lovers who challenge the island’s...
- 1/24/2017
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The snubbing of “Neruda” and “Elle” from the shortlist will go down as one of the Foreign Language committee’s biggest failures, but frontrunner “Toni Erdmann” thankfully still made the cut. These are the current predictions based on the nine films officially on the shortlist. [Dec. 29]
Top Five
Australia, “Tanna,” Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, directors
Denmark, “Land of Mine,” Martin Zandvliet, director
Germany, “Toni Erdmann,” Maren Ade, director
Iran, “The Salesman,” Asghar Farhadi, director
Sweden, “A Man Called Ove,” Hannes Holm, director
Almost There
Canada, “It’s Only the End of the World,” Xavier Dolan, director
Norway, “The King’s Choice,” Erik Poppe, director
Russia, “Paradise,” Andrei Konchalovsky, director
Switzerland, “My Life as a Zucchini,” Claude Barras, director
Gregory Ellwood’s Current Oscar Predictions:
Best Picture
Director
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Editing
Cinematography
Production Design
Animated Feature Film
Foreign Language Film...
Top Five
Australia, “Tanna,” Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, directors
Denmark, “Land of Mine,” Martin Zandvliet, director
Germany, “Toni Erdmann,” Maren Ade, director
Iran, “The Salesman,” Asghar Farhadi, director
Sweden, “A Man Called Ove,” Hannes Holm, director
Almost There
Canada, “It’s Only the End of the World,” Xavier Dolan, director
Norway, “The King’s Choice,” Erik Poppe, director
Russia, “Paradise,” Andrei Konchalovsky, director
Switzerland, “My Life as a Zucchini,” Claude Barras, director
Gregory Ellwood’s Current Oscar Predictions:
Best Picture
Director
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Editing
Cinematography
Production Design
Animated Feature Film
Foreign Language Film...
- 12/30/2016
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
‘The Salesman’ (Courtesy: Habib Majidi)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but we’re well on our way to seeing how the best foreign language film race will shape up at the Oscars in 2017. Leading the pack of the shortlist is The Salesman from Iran, which could land filmmaker Asghar Farhadi a rare second win in the category. How often do we see someone with more than one win in this worldwide competition?
The shortlist of nine films — more about those here — will, on January 24, be trimmed down to the official five nominees that will eventually face off at the Oscars on February 26. This site’s namesake, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg, lists the current frontrunners as: Germany’s Toni Erdmann (written and directed by Maren Ade), Denmark’s Land of Mine (written and directed by Martin Zandvliet), Sweden’s A...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but we’re well on our way to seeing how the best foreign language film race will shape up at the Oscars in 2017. Leading the pack of the shortlist is The Salesman from Iran, which could land filmmaker Asghar Farhadi a rare second win in the category. How often do we see someone with more than one win in this worldwide competition?
The shortlist of nine films — more about those here — will, on January 24, be trimmed down to the official five nominees that will eventually face off at the Oscars on February 26. This site’s namesake, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg, lists the current frontrunners as: Germany’s Toni Erdmann (written and directed by Maren Ade), Denmark’s Land of Mine (written and directed by Martin Zandvliet), Sweden’s A...
- 12/26/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
‘My Life as a Zucchini’ (Courtesy: Rita/Blue Spirit/Gebeka/Knm)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
With a shortlist announced, the best foreign language film category is quickly whittling down and gearing up for the 2017 Oscars. A grand total of 85 movies were accepted from the record 89 submissions, but now the Academy is only eyeing nine of them to eventually nominate five from. Let’s take a closer look the lucky ones to make the shortlist — as controversial as they are — and get to know them better and see if history can provide context for what makes them so special.
Tanna (Australia)
Tanna, Australia’s submission, is set on the titular island that is a part of Vanuatu in the South Pacific and focuses on the Romeo and Juliet-esque romance between a couple who decide to marry for love instead of obeying their parents’ wishes. The film — co-directed by Martin Butler...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
With a shortlist announced, the best foreign language film category is quickly whittling down and gearing up for the 2017 Oscars. A grand total of 85 movies were accepted from the record 89 submissions, but now the Academy is only eyeing nine of them to eventually nominate five from. Let’s take a closer look the lucky ones to make the shortlist — as controversial as they are — and get to know them better and see if history can provide context for what makes them so special.
Tanna (Australia)
Tanna, Australia’s submission, is set on the titular island that is a part of Vanuatu in the South Pacific and focuses on the Romeo and Juliet-esque romance between a couple who decide to marry for love instead of obeying their parents’ wishes. The film — co-directed by Martin Butler...
- 12/21/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann won five European Film Awards Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The 89th Academy Awards Oscar Best Foreign Language Film shortlist has been revealed.
From Norway, The King’s Choice, Erik Poppe, director; Denmark, Land Of Mine, Martin Zandvliet, director; Germany, Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade, director; Iran, The Salesman, Asghar Farhadi, director; Sweden, A Man Called Ove, Hannes Holm, director; Canada, It’s Only The End Of The World, Xavier Dolan, Australia, Tanna, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, directors; Switzerland, My Life As A Zucchini, Claude Barras, director; Russia, Paradise, Andrei Konchalovsky, director.
Julieta director Pedro Almodóvar is hopeful for his composer Alberto Iglesias. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Gianfranco Rosi's Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) Italy's Oscar submission is one of the nine documentaries that has been shortlisted for Best Documentary.
Pablo Larraín, the director of Neruda, Chile's submission, has Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, released this year that could...
The 89th Academy Awards Oscar Best Foreign Language Film shortlist has been revealed.
From Norway, The King’s Choice, Erik Poppe, director; Denmark, Land Of Mine, Martin Zandvliet, director; Germany, Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade, director; Iran, The Salesman, Asghar Farhadi, director; Sweden, A Man Called Ove, Hannes Holm, director; Canada, It’s Only The End Of The World, Xavier Dolan, Australia, Tanna, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, directors; Switzerland, My Life As A Zucchini, Claude Barras, director; Russia, Paradise, Andrei Konchalovsky, director.
Julieta director Pedro Almodóvar is hopeful for his composer Alberto Iglesias. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Gianfranco Rosi's Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) Italy's Oscar submission is one of the nine documentaries that has been shortlisted for Best Documentary.
Pablo Larraín, the director of Neruda, Chile's submission, has Jackie, starring Natalie Portman, released this year that could...
- 12/16/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Maren Ade’s much-fancied German crowd-pleaser is among nine selected by the Academy to proceed to the nominations phase but there is no joy for Asia or Latin America.
The shortlist, announced on Thursday afternoon, includes three from Scandinavia – Hannes Holm’s Swedish selection A Man Called Ove, Martin Zandvliet’s Danish entry Land Of Mine, and Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice from Norway.
Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian submission The Salesman is in the mix, as are Australia’s Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, and Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World for Canada.
Flying the flag for Russia is Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise, while Switzerland’s My Life As A Zucchini by Claude Barras also makes the cut.
Conspicuous by their absence are The Age Of Shadows (South Korea), Afterimage (Poland), Neruda (Chile), Elle (France), Julieta (Spain), Sieranevada (Romania) and The Happiest Day In The Life Of [link...
The shortlist, announced on Thursday afternoon, includes three from Scandinavia – Hannes Holm’s Swedish selection A Man Called Ove, Martin Zandvliet’s Danish entry Land Of Mine, and Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice from Norway.
Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian submission The Salesman is in the mix, as are Australia’s Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, and Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World for Canada.
Flying the flag for Russia is Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise, while Switzerland’s My Life As A Zucchini by Claude Barras also makes the cut.
Conspicuous by their absence are The Age Of Shadows (South Korea), Afterimage (Poland), Neruda (Chile), Elle (France), Julieta (Spain), Sieranevada (Romania) and The Happiest Day In The Life Of [link...
- 12/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Maren Ade’s much-fancied German crowd-pleaser is among nine selected by the Academy to proceed to the nominations phase but there is no joy for Asia or Latin America.
The shortlist, announced on Thursday afternoon, includes three from Scandinavia – Hannes Holm’s Swedish selection A Man Called Ove, Martin Zandvliet’s Danish entry Land Of Mine, and Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice from Norway.
Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian submission The Salesman is in the mix, as are Australia’s Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, and Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World for Canada.
Flying the flag for Russia is Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise, while Switzerland’s My Life As A Zucchini by Claude Barras also makes the cut.
Conspicuous by their absence are The Age Of Shadows (South Korea), Afterimage (Poland), Neruda (Chile), Elle (France), Julieta (Spain), Sieranevada (Romania) and The Happiest Day In The Life Of [link...
The shortlist, announced on Thursday afternoon, includes three from Scandinavia – Hannes Holm’s Swedish selection A Man Called Ove, Martin Zandvliet’s Danish entry Land Of Mine, and Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice from Norway.
Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian submission The Salesman is in the mix, as are Australia’s Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, and Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World for Canada.
Flying the flag for Russia is Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise, while Switzerland’s My Life As A Zucchini by Claude Barras also makes the cut.
Conspicuous by their absence are The Age Of Shadows (South Korea), Afterimage (Poland), Neruda (Chile), Elle (France), Julieta (Spain), Sieranevada (Romania) and The Happiest Day In The Life Of [link...
- 12/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Academy Foreign Language Executive Committee, comprised of about 20 people, met Thursday to choose three movies to create a shortlist of nine. The other six reflect the most popular, highest-ranked films of the 85 screened by a larger committee of about 300 voters between mid-October and December 12. (For more details about the arcane way that the Academy chooses the foreign language films, read here.)
Another committee of 30 — 10 people in New York, 10 in L.A. and 10 in London — will screen the nine films over three days, from Friday, January 13, through Sunday, January 15, viewing three films each day. They will then cast their ballots for the final five to be announced on Oscar nominations morning January 24.
Read More: Oscars 2017: How the Academy Picks the Foreign Language Shortlist
Those five films will be sent to the entire Academy to vote for the Oscar winner, which last year was “Son of Saul” (Hungary).
The films,...
Another committee of 30 — 10 people in New York, 10 in L.A. and 10 in London — will screen the nine films over three days, from Friday, January 13, through Sunday, January 15, viewing three films each day. They will then cast their ballots for the final five to be announced on Oscar nominations morning January 24.
Read More: Oscars 2017: How the Academy Picks the Foreign Language Shortlist
Those five films will be sent to the entire Academy to vote for the Oscar winner, which last year was “Son of Saul” (Hungary).
The films,...
- 12/16/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Academy Foreign Language Executive Committee, comprised of about 20 people, met Thursday to choose three movies to create a shortlist of nine. The other six reflect the most popular, highest-ranked films of the 85 screened by a larger committee of about 300 voters between mid-October and December 12. (For more details about the arcane way that the Academy chooses the foreign language films, read here.)
Another committee of 30 — 10 people in New York, 10 in L.A. and 10 in London — will screen the nine films over three days, from Friday, January 13, through Sunday, January 15, viewing three films each day. They will then cast their ballots for the final five to be announced on Oscar nominations morning January 24.
Read More: Oscars 2017: How the Academy Picks the Foreign Language Shortlist
Those five films will be sent to the entire Academy to vote for the Oscar winner, which last year was “Son of Saul” (Hungary).
The films,...
Another committee of 30 — 10 people in New York, 10 in L.A. and 10 in London — will screen the nine films over three days, from Friday, January 13, through Sunday, January 15, viewing three films each day. They will then cast their ballots for the final five to be announced on Oscar nominations morning January 24.
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Those five films will be sent to the entire Academy to vote for the Oscar winner, which last year was “Son of Saul” (Hungary).
The films,...
- 12/16/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
- 12/16/2016
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said today that nine pics have made the shortlist for nominations in the Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Oscars. Here they are, alphabetical by country with the filmmaker included: Australia, "Tanna," Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, directors Canada, "It's Only the End of the World," Xavier Dolan, director Denmark, "Land of Mine," Martin Zandvliet, director Germany, "Toni Erdmann," Maren Ade, director Iran, "The…...
- 12/16/2016
- Deadline
Thanks to Gold Derby for the info – Mel Gibson and Hacksaw Ridge swept the awards down under, with a whopping ten wins: Best Picture “The Daughter” “Girl Asleep” “Goldstone” X...
- 12/8/2016
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Female film-makers donned sausage costumes to protest gender disparity in the Australian industry.Scroll down for full list of winners:
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge was named best film of the year at the 2016 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards, with the wartime drama taking nine of its 13 nominated awards, at an event that was also marked by activism on and off the stage.
Hacksaw Ridge was produced in New South Wales and financed through the Producer Offset and other state and federal government subsidies.
The film’s star Andrew Garfield was named best actor for his portrayal of conscientious objector Desmond Dawes, and Hugo Weaving won best supporting actor (again, after winning in 2015 for The Dressmaker) for his role as Dawes’ battle-scarred father.
Garfield accepted his award via video message from Los Angeles, and expressed “pure joy” at the win. He also singled out “Mel’s brilliant ability to make everyone feel valuable...
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge was named best film of the year at the 2016 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards, with the wartime drama taking nine of its 13 nominated awards, at an event that was also marked by activism on and off the stage.
Hacksaw Ridge was produced in New South Wales and financed through the Producer Offset and other state and federal government subsidies.
The film’s star Andrew Garfield was named best actor for his portrayal of conscientious objector Desmond Dawes, and Hugo Weaving won best supporting actor (again, after winning in 2015 for The Dressmaker) for his role as Dawes’ battle-scarred father.
Garfield accepted his award via video message from Los Angeles, and expressed “pure joy” at the win. He also singled out “Mel’s brilliant ability to make everyone feel valuable...
- 12/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
Hacksaw Ridge has picked up four Aacta Awards so far..
The first winners of this year.s Aacta Awards were unveiled yesterday at the Aacta Industry Luncheon.
Some 33 awards were presented during the event, celebrating screen craft excellence across features, television, shorts, and documentary. The remainder of the awards will be announced at the 6th Aacta Awards Ceremony on Wednesday evening.
Hacksaw Ridge picked up the most gongs: four from a possible six, including Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Mel Gibson's film is up for another seven awards, to be presented at Wednesday evening's ceremony..
Composer Antony Partos picked up his sixth AFI/Aacta award for his work on Tanna, while Simon Stone took out Best Adapted Screenplay for his debut feature The Daughter..Girl Asleep's Jonathan Oxlade won Best Costume Design.
The Aacta Award for Best Short Animation was presented to Angie Fielder,...
The first winners of this year.s Aacta Awards were unveiled yesterday at the Aacta Industry Luncheon.
Some 33 awards were presented during the event, celebrating screen craft excellence across features, television, shorts, and documentary. The remainder of the awards will be announced at the 6th Aacta Awards Ceremony on Wednesday evening.
Hacksaw Ridge picked up the most gongs: four from a possible six, including Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Mel Gibson's film is up for another seven awards, to be presented at Wednesday evening's ceremony..
Composer Antony Partos picked up his sixth AFI/Aacta award for his work on Tanna, while Simon Stone took out Best Adapted Screenplay for his debut feature The Daughter..Girl Asleep's Jonathan Oxlade won Best Costume Design.
The Aacta Award for Best Short Animation was presented to Angie Fielder,...
- 12/6/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
A 2015 Meet the Nominees event.
Aacta has unveiled the full schedule for its Meet the Nominees series: nine events featuring Aacta nominees presented by Aftrs.
"We.re thrilled to be partnering with Aacta to present the 2016 Meet the Nominees events; an exclusive opportunity to hear the inside stories from Australia.s leading film, television and documentary makers," Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow said..
This year.s events will feature nominated editor Veronika Jenet Ase (The Daughter); editor Andrew Cooke (Hitting Home); sound designer Liam Egan Assg (The Daughter); editor Steven Robinson Ase (In The Shadow of the Hill); and sound designers Yulia Akerholt Assg (The Daughter) and Robert Mackenzie (Hacksaw Ridge).
Director Rosemary Myers (Girl Asleep) will feature on the panel for The Directors event, alongside Bentley Dean Adg and Martin Butler Adg, whose film Tanna was recently announced as Australia.s foreign language Oscars entry.
Bentley Dean Adg will also...
Aacta has unveiled the full schedule for its Meet the Nominees series: nine events featuring Aacta nominees presented by Aftrs.
"We.re thrilled to be partnering with Aacta to present the 2016 Meet the Nominees events; an exclusive opportunity to hear the inside stories from Australia.s leading film, television and documentary makers," Aftrs CEO Neil Peplow said..
This year.s events will feature nominated editor Veronika Jenet Ase (The Daughter); editor Andrew Cooke (Hitting Home); sound designer Liam Egan Assg (The Daughter); editor Steven Robinson Ase (In The Shadow of the Hill); and sound designers Yulia Akerholt Assg (The Daughter) and Robert Mackenzie (Hacksaw Ridge).
Director Rosemary Myers (Girl Asleep) will feature on the panel for The Directors event, alongside Bentley Dean Adg and Martin Butler Adg, whose film Tanna was recently announced as Australia.s foreign language Oscars entry.
Bentley Dean Adg will also...
- 11/14/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
A year after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler’s “Tanna” opened to strong reviews last month. In addition to being selected as Australia’s submission to the Academy Awards in the Foreign-Language Film category, it’s now received five nominations from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta), also known as the Aussie Oscars.
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“Tanna” got nods in the Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Original Music Score categories. The first film shot entirely in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, it’s performed by the people of Yakel in their native Nauvhal language. Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” leads the Aacta nominations with 13, including Best Picture and Director.
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Other notable Oscar submissions include “The...
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“Tanna” got nods in the Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Original Music Score categories. The first film shot entirely in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, it’s performed by the people of Yakel in their native Nauvhal language. Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” leads the Aacta nominations with 13, including Best Picture and Director.
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Other notable Oscar submissions include “The...
- 10/27/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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