OSCAR PREDICTIONS
by
Nathaniel
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Predictions
Index 54 Eligible Contenders Argentina to Finland / France to Norway / Palestine to Vietnam |
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FOREIGN
RELEASES (2005) BOX OFFICE
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FOREIGN COUNTRIES -OSCAR
RECORDS / 2004 -LAST
YEAR'S SUBMISSIONS
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Palestine never nominated Paradise Now Hany Abu-Assad |
Peru never nominated Dias de Santiago Josué Méndez |
Poland 7 nominations Bailiff (Komornik) Feliks Falk |
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| WIP Now Playing |
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details 90 min (Arabic / English) starring Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, and Hiam Abbass synopsis The story of potential suicide bombers in Tel Aviv. misc info ... academy reaction: very positive. |
details 83 min (Spanish) starring Pietro Sibile, Milagros Vidal, Marisela Puicón, Alhelí Castillo, Lili Urbina and Erick García synopsis A young solider returns from years of warfare, and struggles to adjust to the chaos of life in Lima with his family. misc info ... academy reaction: mixed. |
details 100 min (Polish) starring ... synopsis The story of a debt collector misc info the big winner at the Poland Film Festival academy reaction: mixed. |
details 94 min (Portugese / Russian) starring Fernando Luís, Cleia Almeida, Rita Blanco, and Beatriz Batarda synopsis Family conflicts within a brothel on the Portuguese countryside. misc info ... academy reaction: mixed. Too harsh for AMPAS tastes perhaps. |
details ... starring Roselyn Sanchez synopsis Memories of three friends. misc info ... academy reaction: mixed. |
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Romania never nominated The Death of Mr Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lazarescu) Cristi Puiu |
Russia 13 noms / 4 wins The Italian Andrei Kravchuk |
Serbia
& Montenegro never nominated Midwinter Night's Dream Goran Paskaljevic´ |
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Tartan
Films Opens June 2006 |
Opens
2006 TBA |
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details 153 min starring Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminta Gheorghiu, Gabriel Spahiu, and Doro Ana synopsis An alcoholic suffers through the Romanian health care system in this black comedy. misc info ... academy reaction: It doesn't sound at all like the type of thing they like. But reaction is said to have been very positive. |
details ... starring Kolya Spiridonov, a child actor getting raves. synopsis ... misc info this film has been picked up for American distribution. academy reaction: very positive. A contender. |
details 95 min (Serbian) starring Lazar Ristovski, Jasna Zalica & Jovana Mitic synopsis A man returns home after a decade long absence to discover a Bosnian refugee and his daughter in his home. misc info ... academy reaction: probably too depressing to be in play. |
details 95 min (Czech, Slovak) starring Oldrich Navrátil, Ivan Martinka, Lubo Kostelny and Igor Bares synopsis Unemployed friends in Ostrava, a border town. misc info One of the 40+ selections for the European Film Awards last year. academy reaction: mixed. not their kind of thing. |
details 87 min. starring Natasıa Burger,Vesna Jevnikar,Darko Rundek synopsis A drama about a theater director and his casts of actors. misc info ... academy reaction: mixed. but AMPAS does like films about actors. |
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Spain 19 noms / 4 wins Obaba Montxo Armendáriz |
Taiwan 3 noms / 1 win The Wayward Cloud Ming-Liang Tsai |
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details ... starring Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, and Mothusi Magano synopsis Six days in the life of a ruthless tsotsi (which means thug, gangster, etc...) who ends up caring for an infant after a car-jacking." misc info Got a huge profile just last week as it won the Toronto Film Festival's "People's Choice" academy reaction: extremely positive. |
details 117 min (Spanish) starring Pilar López de Ayala, Juan Diego Botto, Mercedes Sampietro, Bárbara Lennie and Eduard Fernández. synopsis A film student, comes to Obaba, a small town where the habitants have a long held secret. misc info Armendáriz was nominated once already in this category for Secrets of the Heart in 1997. not selected: Princesses and Ninette were the other finalists. academy reaction: mixed to positive. But it's Spain so it can't be ruled out. |
details 103 min (Arabic, Swedish) starring Imad Creidi, Antoinette Turk, and Viktor Axelsson synopsis Story of an Arabic kid immigrating from Lebanon to Sweden misc info Apparently an autobiographical film as the director also moved from Lebanon to Sweden when he was a young boy. His first film Jalla! Jalla! was submitted a few years back. academy reaction: mixed to positive. |
details 88 min (French) starring Blerim Gjoci Marie Matheron Gabriela Muskala Aurélien Recoing synopsis ??? misc info ??? academy reaction: mixed to positive. |
details 114 min (Mandarin) starring Kang-Sheng Lee synopsis some sort of pornographic musical. seriously. misc info Well Mike D'Angelo certainly loves it academy reaction: They couldn't have known what hit them. |
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Vietnam 1 nomination Buffalo Boy Minh Nguyen-Vo |
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details ??? (Turkish, Kurdish) starring Sener Sen, Meltem Cumbul, Timuçin Esen, synopsis ??? misc info ??? academy reaction: mixed to positive. |
It's Buffalo Boy which has been making the festival rounds (I saw it at TIFF in 2004) for a year now. academy
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