OSCAR PREDICTIONS
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Predictions
Index There are 61 Contenders Argentina to Finland / France to Nepal / The Netherlands to Vietnam Foreign Countries-Oscar Records / 2005 -Last Year's RaceACE |
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10/19/06 THIS IS THE OFFICIAL LIST. ACADEMY VERIFIED
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Netherlands |
Peru never nominated Madeinusa d. Claudia Llosa official site? |
Poland 7 noms / 0 wins Z odzysku (Retreival) d. Slawomira Fabickiego official site ? |
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| details 135 min (Dutch / English / German) starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn and Derek de Lint synopsis In WW II a Jewish singer survives a massacre and joins the resistance in The Netherlands. misc info Despite WWII angle, said to be as outré as you'd expect from Verhoeven. academy reaction: Screening 01/03 |
details 105 min (Norwegian) starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner (Just Bea), Viktoria Winge, Henrik Elvestad, Christian Rubeck (Millions) synopsis ... misc info This is the young directors feature debut but his shorts have travelled the fresival route in previous years. academy reaction: Screening 01/13 |
details 122 min (Spanish) starring Magaly Solier, Yiliana Chong, Carlos de la Torre synopsis A young woman named "madeinusa" falls for a gringo in this American Western flavored tale of a Peruvian village. misc info Took the audience prize and 2nd place for Best First Film @ "elcine" (Latin American film festival) not selected Mariposa negra (Black Butterfly) by Francisco J. Lombardi. academy reaction: Screening |
details 100 min (Filipino, Tagalog) starring Nathan Lopez & Soliman Cruz synopsis The story of a 12 year old gay boy with a crush on a policeman. misc info Popular at festivals, most notably it won three awards at the Berlin Int'l Film Festival academy reaction: Screening |
details 103 min (Polish) starring Marek Bielecki, Jacek Braciak, Michal Filipiak synopsis A teenage boxer struggles to support his Ukranian girlfriend. misc info ... not selected Dorota's Kedzierzawska's Jesten (I Am),Marek Koterski's We're all Christs and Krzysztof Krauze's Saviour Square (compared to Mike Leigh) academy reaction: Screening 12/09 |
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Romania never nominated The Way I Spent the End of the World d. Catalin Mitulescu official site? |
Serbia never nominated Tomorrow Morning (Sutra Ujutru) d. Oleg Novkovic official site ? |
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| details ? min (Portugese) starring Nuno Lopes synopsis "The story of a father who installs cameras all over Lisbon, desperately trying to find a trace of his missing daughter Alice." misc info Martin was nominated for the Fassbinder prize at the European Film Awards. academy reaction: Screening 12/04 |
details 114 min (Spanish, English) starring Steven Bauer, Elpidia Carrillo, Daniel Lugo, Magda Rivera, Lymari Nadal, Dennis Mario synopsis An ensemble drama about three families which explores corruption in Puerto Rico. misc info ... academy reaction: Screening |
details 106 min (Romanian) starring Doroteea Petre synopsis A coming of age story about schoolmates in Communist Romania. misc info Exec produced by Martin Scorsese. TIFF review from Cinematical not selected 12:08 East of Bucharest academy reaction: Screening 01/06 |
details 130 min (Russian) starring Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksei Chadov (Night Watch), Mikhail Evlanov synopsis Young soldiers embroiled in bloody war in Afghanistan misc info ... academy reaction: Screening 11/06 |
details 85 min (Serbo-Croatian) starring Uliks Fehmiu, Nebojsa Glogovac, Nada Sargin synopsis A man returns to Belgrade to get married and reunites with old friends misc info Won a "special mention" at the Karlovy festival academy reaction: Screening 11/11 |
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| details 103 min () starring Gregor Bakovic synopsis A dramedy about a eulogist and other eccentric "Fellini-esque" characters. misc info ... academy reaction: Screening |
details 121 min (Spain) starring Pedro muses Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge), Penelope Cruz (All About my Mother), and Lola Duenas (Talk to Her) synopsis Another melodrama of mothers and daughters from the Spains cinematic god. misc info ... not selected Alatriste (which stars Viggo Mortensen) and Salvador were the two finalists. academy reaction: Screening 10/29 |
details 91 min (Swedish) starring Holger Eriksson David Johnson John Axel Eriksson Jörgen Svensson Jesper Ganslandt synopsis Five childhood friends in a seaside town must grow up. misc info ... not selected ... academy reaction: Screening 11/18 |
details 100 min (Swiss German) starring Bruno Ganz (The Downfall, Youth Without Youth) synopsis A family's dreams for their young gifted boy to become a pianist. misc info a "heartwarmer" and they do love movies about old men and young children in this category. * Won the audience award at the AFI Fest academy reaction: Screening 10/30 |
details 108 min (Mandarin, Taiwanese) starring Tarcy Su (a popular singer) and Yi-Ching Lu (The Wayward Cloud) |
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Thailand never nominated Ahimsa: Stop to Run (Ahingsa Jikko Mee Gam) d. Leo Kittikorn |
Turkey never nominated Dondurmam Gaymak (Ice Cream, I Scream) d. Yüksel Aksu official site? |
Venezuela never nominated Maroa d. Solveig Hoogesteijn site? |
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details 107 min (Turkish) starring Turan Ozdemir synopsis A comedy about an ice cream salesman whose bike is stolen by kids. misc info debuting director not selected Babam ve Oglum (My Father and My Son) a heartwarmer (the second biggest Turkish hit ever). Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates wherein the director stars with his own wife in a relationship drama --FIPRESCI, Cannes. Reha Erdem's Times & Winds and the historical comedy Killing the Shadows. academy reaction: Screening 01/13 |
details min (Russian, Ukranian, English) starring Nastya Zyurkalova Dmitry Kharatyan and Eric Roberts synopsis A young orphan accidentally becomes a witness of the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl APP and is sent to an American hospital for radiation treatment and her presence helps revive an older Russian man. misc info ... not selected ... academy reaction: ... |
details 102 min (Spanish) starring Tristan Ulloa (Sex & Lucia) & Yorlis Dominguez synopsis An 11-year-old girl raised in a violent environment becomes fascinated by music at her reform school. not selected Borrador (Rough Draft) by Jacobo Penzo, El Caracazo by Roman Chalbaud, El Don by Jose Ramon Novoa, Francisco de Miranda by Diego Rísquez and Habana, Havana by Alberto Arvelo academy reaction: Screening 10/27 |
details min (...) starring Do Thi Hai Yen (The Quiet American), Nhu Quynh synopsis ... misc info interesting article on Vietnam cinema. not selected De Muon (Surrogate Womb), Hai Trong Mot (Two In One) and Song trong so hai (Living in Fear) academy reaction: Screening 12/16 |
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