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unusual facts about Best Foreign Language Film



Adam Bakri

Adam Bakri is an actor best known for playing lead role in Hany Abu-Assad's film Omar which made the 86th Academy Awards's shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film.

Aszparuh

The film was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Betty Blue

The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, as well as winning a César Award for Best Poster.

Deathmaker

It was chosen as Germany's official submission to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.

Derek de Lint

In 1986 he played the role of Anton Steenwijk in The Assault, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.

Fred Breinersdorfer

His first full-length cinema screenplay was for the 2005 production of Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards.

Gerardo de León

His 1961 film The Moises Padilla Story was selected as the Philippine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

I Killed My Mother

On 22 September 2009, Telefilm announced the film had been selected as Canada's submission for Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults

The success of Children of Heaven in many International festivals and its candidacy for the Best Foreign Language Film of academy awards (Oscar) in 1999, was a significant achievement for Kanoon productions.

John de Rantau

His film Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan (Denias, Singing on the Cloud) was Indonesia's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but not nominated.

Karl Francis

The film opened the Hay Sony Film Festival 2008 and was submitted as the UK nominee for the category of Best Foreign Language Film for the 82nd Academy Awards; though it failed to be selected for the final five nominees.

Mahanagar

The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Masahiro Motoki

He played cellist-turned-mortician protagonist in this dramatic film which received the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 81st Academy Awards.

Ole Christian Madsen

His 2011 film SuperClásico has been shortlisted as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.

Otto Plaschkes

On Valentine's day 2005, Plaschkes, as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, had just attended a West End screening of Kay Pollak's As It Is in Heaven, which had been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film.

Ramparts of Clay

The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Ratna Sarumpaet

This film was submitted to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film but not nominated.

Rie Miyazawa

Then in 2002, she starred alongside Hiroyuki Sanada in Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai), the year's hit movie that won numerous awards at home, including ones for the lead actors, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film.

Snow Prince

Snow Prince is Kundo Koyama's second work, after his work on the Departures, which won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 81st Academy Awards.

Sonderaktion Krakau

It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards ceremony.

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2001 for Best Foreign Language Film.

Yoji Yamada

His movies have won the Best Picture award at the Japanese Academy Awards four times: in 1977 for The Yellow Handkerchief, in 1991 for My Sons, in 1993 for A Class to Remember, and in 2002 for The Twilight Samurai, which was nominated for the 76th Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film.


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Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson

In December, Ways of Love was voted the best foreign language film of 1950 by the New York Film Critics Circle.

Krsto Papić

1988 – My Uncle's Legacy (Život sa stricem) – nominated for the Golden Globe Award (Best Foreign Language Film)

Marinos Antypas

An 1966 Greek film, "The Earth was painted Red" (aka "Blood on the Land"), starring Greek movie star Nikos Kourkoulos, partly depicted Antypas' campaign and assassination, and was nominated for the 1966 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Maxime Rémillard

Initially focusing on film distribution, Remstar ensured the Canadian success of a number of productions, including Karakter (Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film); Monster (Academy Award for Best Actress/Charlize Theron); The Triplets of Belleville (Genie Award for Best Film); The Beat That My Heart Skipped (César for Best Film); Tanguy; and the mega-production Napoléon.

Music Box Films

Other Music Box releases have included the Academy Award-nominated film Monsieur Lazhar (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film), Séraphine (winner of seven César Awards in France), Mozart's Sister, North Face, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Names of Love.

Producing Adults

It was Finland's official Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film of 2004 and Minttu Mustakallio won 'Best Supporting Actress' at the 2005 Jussi Awards (Finland's main film industry awards).

Pyotr Konchalovsky

Nikita Mikhalkov is also a movie director who won the 1994 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Burnt by the Sun.

The Kings of the Kilburn High Road

Adapted into a motion picture Kings, directed by Tom Collins, and premiered at the Taormina Film Festival (Italy) June 2006, and selected as Ireland's official entry for the 2008 Academy Awards for best foreign-language film.