Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Candidates 2008

OSCAR RACE 2008
commentary by Nathaniel R

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Best Foreign Language Film
Japan's Departures

Final Nomination Predictions I scored 3/5. I was guessing based on a hunch (Austria which I was right about) and preparing for the worst (a snub for France which I am DELIGHTED to be wrong about)
Nathaniel's Preference The Class (of those I've seen thus far) which one the silver medal for the whole film year in my own Awards

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Austria 3rd nomination Revanche d. Götz Spielmann Official Site	France 35th nom / 9 wins The Class (Entre Les Murs) d. Laurent Cantet Official Site	Germany 15th nom / 3 wins Der Baader Meinhof Komplex d. Uli Edel Official Site	Israel 8th nomination Waltz With Bashir d. Ari Folman	Japan 12th nomination Departures (Okuribito) d. Yojiro Takita trailer
The finalists that were passed over for the nominated shortlist number four and they are Canada's The Necessities of Life which James reviewed for me here, Turkey's Three Monkeys (also reviewed by James), Mexico's Tear This Heart Out and Sweden's Maria Larssons' Everlasting Moment.
Earlier: The 67 Official Submissions With Information, Posters & Links
Afghanistan to France		Georgia to Morocco		The Netherlands to Venezuela

You can also check out Oscar records by country or visit previous years if you want to catch up. What was submitted in 2007? 2006? 2005? 2004? 2003? 2002? 2001? Discuss the Oscars on the Blog Check out The Film Experience google map of this category --under construction Brief Rules and Dates: Oscar Submissions in this category are announced by each country individually, generally between the months of July and October. See the full submission list Submission Release Rule -The submitted film must have played for a week in its home country (just like US releases but released between October 1st, 2007 and September 30th, 2008 instead of January 1st 2008 to December 31st 2008) Submissions Deadline Entries due to AMPAS by October 1st, 2008 Finalists The list of 67 submissions will be pruned to 9 "finalists" after all have been screened by the committee. From those 9, five lucky nominees are chosen. Oscar nominations announced in all categories Thursday, January 22nd 2009 Oscar Night is Sunday, February 22nd, 2009