Foreign Language Oscar shortlist

[mathew5000]

In a slight change from previous years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a nine-film shortlist of contenders for this year’s foreign-language-film Oscar:

• Days of Glory / Indigènes (Algeria);
• Water (Canada);
• After the Wedding / Efter brylluppet (Denmark);
• Avenue Montaigne / Fauteuils d’orchestre (France);
• The Lives of Others /

Comments

[cinemark]

My predictions on this, based on what I've seen myself, and what I've heard in media buzz is that we'll see Water, The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth, and Volver as contenders. I haven't heard anything about the rest, so I can't guess that. Where did you see these others? I don't think they have shown here in New York yet.

[mathew5000]

I saw Days of Glory, After the Wedding, and The Lives of Others at the Toronto film festival. Black Book also played at the Toronto festival; my father saw it and said it was good. Vitus was playing at the Vancouver film festival; a few people I spoke to who saw it said it was good.

[mathew5000]

Volver didn’t get nominated; After the Wedding did. So I am pleasantly surprised.