“The Great Gatsby” will open Cannes
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66th Cannes Film Festival will be open in May 15 with the film of Baz Luhrmann "The Great Gatsby" on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Picture with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan will be shown out of competition.
Talks about "The Great Gatsby" will open Cannes 2013 came more than a month. Food for thought served as the appointed date for May 15 release of French painting, exactly on the day of the start of a major European film festivals.
Baz Luhrmann's film "Moulin Rouge" opened the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.
It is expected that to introduce "The Great Gatsby" in Côte d'Azur will come Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and rapper Jay-Z. The last time DiCaprio came to the Croisette in 2007, when he presented a documentary "The 11th Hour."
The film's director, Australian Baz Luhrmann so reacted to the news: "For all those who worked on "The Great Gatsby"- a great honor to know that the film will open the Cannes Film Festival. We are happy to return to the country and to the place that has always been close to our hearts. And not only because it is my first film "Strictly Ballroom" was shown at Cannes 21 years ago, but also because many of the bitter and beautiful lines of this outstanding novel were written nearby Saint-Raphael villa."
In the story of "The Great Gatsby" the writer Nick Carraway comes from the Midwest to New York in the spring of 1922. In pursuit of his own American dream, he settles next to the mysterious, known for his partying millionaire Jay Gatsby, and on the opposite side of the bay live his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, a rake and aristocrat. Nick is involved in the exciting world of the rich, their illusions, love and lies. He witnesses what is happening in this world and writes the story of impossible love, eternal dreams and the human tragedy that reflect contemporary mores.
BAFTA 2013: the great “Argo” collection
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London has hosted the 65th awards ceremony, the British Academy. The main film of the year was the "Argo". Also, Ben Affleck as the best director.
Among the actors of the first plan better to call Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln") and Emmanuelle Riva ("Love"), and for the supporting roles were awarded Christoph Waltz ("Django unchained") and Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables").
From the hands of Danny Boyle, the award for outstanding contribution to British film has received producer Tessa Ross.
Most nominations (ten) was in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln", in nine categories were nominated for the award, "Les Miserables" and "Life of Pi."
However, the number of awards in the first place came the "Les Miserables" by Tom Hooper (win in four nominations), one less than the statue at the "Argo", the two prizes in the films "Skyfall", “Django unchained", "Love" and "Life of Pi".
The list of winners is as follows:
Best Film
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Zero thirty one"
"Argo"
"Les Miserables"
Best British Film
"Skyfall"
"Anna Karenina"
"Les Miserables"
"Hotel" Marigold ": The best of the exotic"
"Seven psychopaths"
Best British debut in directing, producing or writing the script
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (Producer) - "The Pretender"
Dexter Fletcher (director / writer), Danny King (writer) - "Wild Bill"
James Bobin (director) - "Muppets"
David Morris (director), Jack Morris (Director / Producer) - "McCallin"
Tina Garavi (director) - "Ali in Wonderland"
Best Director
Ben Affleck - "Argo"
Quentin Tarantino - "Django unchained"
Kathryn Bigelow - "Zero thirty one"
Michael Haneke - "Love"
Ang Lee - "Life of Pi"
Best Actor
Ben Affleck - "Argo"
Bradley Cooper - "Silver Lining Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis - "Lincoln"
Joaquin Phoenix - "Master"
Hugh Jackman - "Les Miserables"
Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Lining Playbook"
Jessica Chastain - "Zero Thirty One"
Marion Cotillard - "Rust and Bone"
Helen Mirren - "Hitchcock"
Emmanuelle Riva - "Love"
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin - "Argo"
Christoph Waltz - "Django unchained"
Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln"
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Master"
Javier Bardem - "Skyfall"
Best Supporting Actress
Judi Dench - "Skyfall"
Sally Field - "Lincoln"
Helen Hunt - "Surrogates"
Amy Adams - "The Master"
Anne Hathaway - "Les Miserables"
Best Documentary Film
"Bob Marley"
"Looking for Sugar Man"
"West of Memphis"
"McCallin"
"The Pretender"
Original Screenplay
"Django unchained" - Quentin Tarantino
"Moonrise Kingdom" - Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
"Love" - Michael Haneke
"Master" - Paul Thomas Anderson
"Zero Thirty One" - Mark Boal
Adapted Screenplay
"Life of Pi" - David Magee
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Lucy Alibar Ben Zaytlin
"Lincoln" - Tony Kushner
"Silver Lining Playbook" - David O. Russell
"Argo" - Chris Terry
Film in a foreign (non-English) language
"1 +1"
"Love"
"Hunting"
"Bounty Hunters"
"Rust and Bone"
Animated cartoon
"Paranorman, or How to Train Your Zombie"
"Frankenweenie"
"Braveheart"
Composer
Alexandre Desplat - "Argo"
Dario Marianelli - "Anna Karenina"
John Williams - "Lincoln"
Michael Denna - "Life of Pi"
Thomas Newman - "Skyfall"
Operator
Danny Cohen - "Les Miserables"
Claudio Miranda - "Life of Pi"
Roger Deakins - "Skyfall"
Seamus McGarvey - "Anna Karenina"
Janusz Kaminski - "Lincoln"
Editor
Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg - "Zero Thirty One"
Stuart Baird - "Skyfall"
Tim Skuayres - "Life of Pi"
William Goldenberg - "Argo"
Fred Raskin - "Django unchained"
Artist
Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock - "Skyfall"
David Gropmen, Anna Pinnock - "Life of Pi"
Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson - "Les Miserables"
Rick Carter, Jim Erickson - "Lincoln"
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer - "Anna Karenina"
Dresser
Beatrix Aruna Pazhtor - "Great Expectations"
Joanna Johnston - "Lincoln"
Jacqueline Durrant - "Anna Karenina"
Colleen Atwood - "Snow White and the Hunter"
Paco Delgado - "Les Miserables"
"Skyfall"
"Django unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Les Miserables"
"The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey”
Visual Effects
"Life of Pi"
"The Avengers"
"Prometheus"
"The Dark Knight: The Legend Continues"
"The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey”
Make-up and hairstyles
"Anna Karenina"
"Lincoln"
"Les Miserables"
"Hitchcock"
"The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey”
Short film
"Mess"
"Mystery Wurman"
"The Swimmer"
"The Curse"
"Good night"
Animated short film
Here To Fall
I'm Fine Thanks
The Making Of Longbird
Award best young acting talent
Alicia Wikander
Andrea Riseborough
Juno Temple
Suraj Sharma
Elizabeth Olsen
65th BAFTA Awards ceremony took place on 10 February.
Lance Armstrong’s stories adaptations
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Paramount and Bad Robot of JJ Abrams bought the film rights to the book about the decline of career of cyclist Lance Armstrong, received a lifetime ban for doping. Armstrong himself long denied the charge, but this week in an interview with Oprah Winfrey has publicly admitted that he took illegal drugs.
"I deserve to be punished. But do not think that I deserve the death penalty"- a famous cyclist admitted in a TV interview, followed by a few million people. He apologized to his fans, saying he had betrayed them. Lance Armstrong started his career in the early 90's and by 1996 was the best driver in the United States. However, the same year he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. After heavy chemotherapy and recovery Armstrong returned to the sport and has achieved remarkable results, becoming the only cyclist in the world, seven times winner of "Tour de France". He has twice announced his retirement for the second time - in 2011, when the U.S. began to investigate him on the admission of doping. In 2012, he was disqualified for life and taken of all titles, won by him from August 1998.
The book “Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong”, which should appear in bookstores in June, written by sports journalist The New York Times Juliette Makur. Makur wrote about Armstrong and bicycle races for the newspaper after his victory over cancer until the receipt of the seventh title of winner of the "Tour de France" and the first charges in the use of doping drugs.
This is not the first project about Armstrong. The history of athlete, which was a lot of exciting events, including a victory over the disease, seemed an ideal basis for the movie. Sony Pictures was developing a biopic long cyclist, at some point got hold of Jake Gyllenhaal for the lead role. The actor was even beginning to train and show up with Armstrong at the event. However, after allegations of doping became louder, the project could hardly be heard.
In 2013, well planned out the documentary "Lance Armstrong: The Road Back," which tells the story of training in 2009, when an athlete tries to return to cycling and win again "Tour de France".
Association of American operators awards
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The Association of American operators - ASC Award in the 27th time sums up the year, choosing the best in their field. Eleventh nominations gets Roger Deakins, nominated for his work on the thriller "Skyfall".
The British Deakins already has two award of ASC Award, received for "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Man Who Was not There." Constant operator Coen brothers, he was nominated nine times for "Oscar", including "Fargo," "Oh, where are you, brother?", "Old Men" and "True Grit." In 2011, Roger Deakins noted honorary award for his contribution to cinema.
Full list of nominees for awards is:
Danny Cohen - "Les Miserables"
Claudio Miranda - "Life of Pi"
Roger Deakins - "Skyfall"
Seamus McGarvey - "Anna Karenina"
Janusz Kaminski - "Lincoln"
Note that these same operators yesterday received nomination for BAFTA.
At constant operator Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's situation is the opposite: he was twice the winner of "Oscars" ("Schindler's List," "Saving Private Ryan"), but never received the recognition of colleagues.
Irishman Seamus McGarvey shot "Anna Karenina" immediately after "The Avengers", and it is difficult to imagine two more different from each other pictures. McGarvey worked with Joe Wright on "Soloist" and "Atonement," which was nominated for the "Oscar" and the award ASC Award.
Danny Cohen, who was shooting for Tom Hooper's not only the "Les Miserables" and "The King's Speech" (nominated for an ASC Award and the "Oscar"), combines work in cinema with the shooting television series.
A native of Chile, Claudio Miranda deftly lifted a three-dimensional journey boy and a tiger in the ocean and was working on a second "Tron," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (nominated for "Oscar" and the award ASC) and recently wrapped production fiction "Oblivion."
ASC award winner will be announced on February 10.
Movie about WikiLeaks
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Because of the role in the film adaptation of comics "X-Men: Days of future past" James McAvoy left the project from studio DreamWorks to create the site WikiLeaks. The vacant place was German Daniel Brühl. Founder of the controversial role of the resource will continue to play Benedict Cumberbatch.
McEvoy looked closely at the image of the German tehnoguru Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who began working with Julian Assange in 2007. Based on the original book Domscheit-Berg's "Inside WikiLeaks: As I worked with Julian Assange at the world's most dangerous website".
The role of companion of Assange have been tried three actors - let's hope for good. The first applicant was a Swede Youel Kinnaman, but because of shooting in "Robocop" by WikiLeaks stories had to be abandoned. Then the producers tried to invite James McAvoy, but the studio has launched Fox shooting "X-Men" earlier than expected, so that the British actor could not agree on work schedules.
Website WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange in 2006, has become a headache for the governments of the world: WikiLeaks published anonymously important diplomatic correspondence.
Daniel Brühl, replacing James - star of European cinema, occasionally peeks in Hollywood projects. Viewers know well his role in "Inglourious Basterds", where Daniel played a soldier in love with the heroine Melanie Laurent. This year, the actor starred in Ron Howard's sports drama "Race" and the thriller Anton Korbeyn "Wanted."
Director of yet untitled project is Bill Condon, who finished "Twilight Saga." Among other projects is directed drama "Gods and Monsters" and the musical "Dreamgirls."
Movie about Rolling Stones
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The tenth studio album by British rockers The Rolling Stones «Exile on Main Street» is one of the best recordings of the group. The eccentric entrepreneur Richard Branson, founder of record label Virgin, found the story quite interesting record of the plate to turn it into a feature film.
By the spring of 1971, the band was in great debt to its native Britain, but to pay all taxes, Mick Jagger and his friends could not, which led to their departure from London. Jagger settled in Paris, while guitarist Keith Richards rented a villa near Nice. The other band members were scattered in the south of France. Basement Richards' villa converted into a studio where he recorded album «Exile on Main Street».
Then the group split with its manager Allen Klein, as a result of losing the right to trial a number of his compositions, written before 1971.
Working in the basement into a continuous party: changing session musicians, guests came, the flowed river of alcohol, and through the veins of Keith Richards with a vengeance ran heroin. Released in May 1972 «Exile on Main Street» was warmly received by critics and is still considered one of the best albums in the history of rock music.
History of the plate has already been shown on the screen recently - in 2010 released a documentary film "Rolling Stones" in exile". The project will be Branson's book by Robert Greenfield, "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones”, published in 2008. The film tells about the personal and professional relationship between Jagger and Richards, and the script will write brothers Brandon and Phil Murphy, whose studio Sony has recently invited to write a biopic about Steve McQueen.
Branson and Jagger band brings together not just a future film project: a 90-company Virgin Richard has released three albums of rockers.
Note that the "Exile on Main Street" is not the only project on the "Rolling." In September will be released documentary on the fiftieth anniversary of the group, which now takes Brett Morgan.
Sundance 2012 – part II
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In 2012, at the festival Sundance will be held 91 world premieres. "Reservoir Dogs," "American Psycho," "Little Miss Sunshine," "The Science of Sleep," "Moon 2112", "Treasure" - all of these paintings were first shown on this festival.
Among the non-competition premieres in this year is "Arbitrage" - a drama of Nicolas Dzhareki with Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere and Tim Roth in the lead roles. Nicholas Dzhareki first took an artistic movie, but his track record of documentary film "Outsider." He was also a screenwriter and producer of "The Informers" with Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Billy Bob Thornton and Mickey Rourke. Docudrama, "Tyson," which also produced Dzhareki, won the special jury prize at Cannes in 2008.
"Arbitrage" is - is the story of billionaire Robert Miller, who on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the investment fund is trying to sell a large jar until it opened its machinations that made money out of thin air. Bladder is not only financial assets, but the relationship of Miller with around people.
Another premiere of the festival - "California Solo" with Robert Carlyle as a rock musician descended, worked on a farm and slowly ruins himself with the drink. The film "California solo" shot Marshall Levy, beloved author of "Blue State".
Among the documentary films - and for them too, there are as competitive and non-competition program, for example, a film about the supermodels of the last century and this century, which shows how fashion has changed in the environment, drug-related, aging and plastic surgery. In the documentary competition involved 28 films: 16 paintings - in the U.S. program, 12 - international. Among the competitive belts two films about contemporary artists, Chinese dissident Ai Wave and Perfomance legend Marina Abramovic.
Peter Jackson is coming to Park City as a producer of the documentary film "West Memphis", in which it is a heinous crime, the punishment for which innocent people have suffered. "Trinity of Memphis" recently was released after spending 18 years behind bars. The last time the director of "Lord of the Rings" was a guest of the festival Sundance in 1993, when a non-competitive program showed his tape "Braindead".
Sundance 2012 – part I
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On January 19 has started the Independent Film Festival Sundance, founded by actor and director Robert Redford in 1981. Festival screenings and events will be held within ten days in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance Ski resort.
International Sundance - Redford's namesake hero of the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" – has become in 1985. Then in his program included 86 films. In 2012 the festival will feature 117 feature films from 30 countries, and the program of short films will be shown 64 pictures from 18 countries, more than half of them from the United States. These were game, animation, documentaries, short films, selected from more than 7,500 applications.
For each of the competitive programs of the festival there is a separate jury and separate category. In the international program of Sundance this year, competing 14 full-length feature films from Japan, Turkey, Brazil, Czech Republic, Spain, Greece, Argentina, Britain, Denmark, India, Chile, Australia and France. They will be judged by the organizer of the New York Film Festival, Richard Peña, actress Julia Ormond and Russian director Alexei Popogrebsky.
In the U.S. competition - 16 tapes. The jury consisted of the director's late films franchise, "Fast and the Furious," Justin Lin, star of “The Adjustment Bureau" Anthony Mackie, composer Cliff Martinez, directors Lynn Shelton and Amy Vincent.
Let's look at some of the competitive pictures.
"The End of Love" Mark Webber with Amanda Sayfred and Michael Cera about a young father trying to raise his son after his wife died.
Autobiographical film "Keep The Lights On” by Ira Sachs, tells the story of love, friendship and mutual dependence between two men. The plot is very similar to Britain's "Weekend", released last year and participated in several festivals, but in the "Weekend" it was a couple of days, Ira Sachs talks about the relationship up to ten years. "Keep the lights on" is praised for the manner of shooting accurately convey the atmosphere of the late 90th and texture of New York, for the embedding of disco and cello in an eclectic soundtrack.
Another participant in the contest - based on real events "Surrogate" Ben Luini about 38-year old journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, connected to the machine forced ventilation. In this state, he decides that he wants to give up his virginity, and with the help of his doctor and after the blessing of a priest is an unusual professional surrogate partner. In "Surrogate" have starred John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy.
BAFTA nominees
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British Film Academy announced the nominees for its award. BAFTA this year will be handed to the 65th time. In addition to the familiar pictures such as "Artist" and "Hugo" among nominees often paints a picture of Thomas Alfredson, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy".
The maximum number of nominations - twelve - still at the "Artist". "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” received 11 nominations for the British Academy Award.
Winners will be announced on February 12 at the awards ceremony, which will hold Stephen Fry.
Full list of nominees is as follows:
Best Film
"Artist"
"Descendants"
"Drive"
"The Help"
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Best British film
"7 days and nights with Marilyn"
"Senna"
"Shame"
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
"We need to talk about Kevin"
The best British debut in directing, producing and script writing
"Attack the Block" - directed by Joe Cornish
"Black Pond" - the director and screenwriter Will Sharp, director Tom Kingsley, producer Sarah Brocklehurst
"Coriolanus" - directed by Ralph Fiennes
"Submarine" - directed by Richard Ayoade
"Tyrannosaurus" - directed by Paddy Considine, producer Dermid Skrimsho
Director
Michelle Hazanavichus - "Artist"
Nicolas Refn Vinding - "Drive"
Martin Scorsese - "Hugo"
Thomas Alfredson - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Lynn Ramsey - "We need to talk about Kevin"
"Living in a material world: George Harrison" - directed by Martin Scorsese
"Project "Nim" " - directed by James Marsh, Simon Chinn
"Senna" - Asif Kapadia
The original script
"Artist" - Michelle Hazanavichus
"Bridesmaids" - Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
"Once in Ireland," - John Michael MacDon
"Iron Lady" - Abi Morgan
"Midnight in Paris" - Woody Allen
Adapted Screenplay
"Descendants" - Alexander Payne, Nate Fakson, Jim NES
"The Help" - Tate Taylor
"The Ides of March" - George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Bo Uillimon
"Moneyball" - Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zellian
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”- Bridget O'Connor and Peter Strohal
Film in a foreign (not English) language
"Fires"
"Pina"
"Potiche"
"Divorce of Nader and Simin"
"The skin, in which I live"
Animated Film
"The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn"
"Secret Service of Santa Claus"
"Rango"
Actor
Brad Pitt - "Moneyball"
Gary Oldman - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
George Clooney - "Descendants"
Jean Dujardin - "Artist"
Michael Fassbender - "Shame"
Actress
Berenice Bezho - "Artist"
Meryl Streep - "Iron Lady"
Michelle Williams - "7 Days and Nights with Marilyn"
Tilda Swinton - "We need to talk about Kevin"
Viola Davis - "The Help"
Actor
Christopher Plummer - "Beginners"
Jim Broadbent - "Iron Lady"
Jonah Hill - "Moneyball”
Kenneth Bran - "7 Days and Nights with Marilyn"
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Ides of March"
Actress
Carey Mulligan - "Drive"
Jessica Chastain - "The Help"
Judi Dench - "7 Days and Nights with Marilyn"
Melissa McCarthy - "Bridesmaids"
Octavia Spencer - "The Help"
Composer
"Artist"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
"Hugo"
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
"War Horse"
Operator
Guillaume Schiffman - "Artist"
Jeff Kronenvet - "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Robert Richardson - "Hugo"
Hoyte Van Hoytema - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Janusz Kaminski - "War Horse"
Installation
"Artist"
"Drive"
"Hugo"
"Senna"
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Artist
Lawrence Bennett, Robert Gould - "Artist"
Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II”
Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo - "Hugo”
Maria Dzhurkovich, Tatiana MacDonald - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Rick Carter, Lee Sandales - "War Horse"
Dresser
Mark Bridges - "Artist"
Sandy Powell - "Hugo”
Michael O'Connor - "Jane Eyre"
Jill Taylor - "7 Days and Nights with Marilyn"
Jacqueline Durrant - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
"Artist"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II»
"Hugo”
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
"War Horse"
Visual Effects
"The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II»
"Hugo"
"Rise of Planet of the Apes"
"War Horse"
Make-up and hairstyles
"Artist"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II»,
"Hugo"
"Iron Lady"
"7 days and nights with Marilyn"
Short film
"Mel"
"Mwansa the Great"
"Pitch Black Heist"
"Two and Two"
"Only Sound Remains"
Animated short film
Abuelas
A Morning Stroll
Bobby Yeah
Award to the best young acting talent - The Orange Star Rising Award
Adam Deacon
Chris Hemsworth
Tom Hiddleston
Kric O'Dowd
Eddie Redmeyn
Shortlist of foreign movies from Academy Awards
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Year after year, repeated the same thing: among the candidates for the winners "Oscar" in nomination "Best foreign film" is bound to be missing some decent pictures. This year, the Finnish cheated "Le Havre" and Hungarian "Turin Horse," but included the Iranian "Divorce Nader and Simin," and the German documentary "Pina". In total, the short list includes nine paintings.
Long-list consisted of 63 films. They are all members of the Academy Awards show up in mid-October to 13 January. Chose six pictures, then a special committee, elected recently added three more films.
The shortlist is as follows:
"Rundskop" - Belgium, directed by Michael R. Roskam;
"Mr. Lazar" - Canada, directed by Philip Falardo;
"Omar killed me" - Morocco, directed by Roshdy Zem;
"Pina" - Germany, directed by Wim Wenders;
"Note" - Israel, directed by Joseph Cedar;
"Divorce of Nader and Simin" - Iran, Asghar Farhadi, director;
"SuperClasico" - Denmark, directed by Ole Christian Madsen;
"The tragedy of Sediq" - Taiwan, Wei Te-director Shen;
"Shelter" - Poland, directed by Agnieszka Holland.
The shortlist will be reduced to five candidates, which will be nominated for "Oscar".
Four years ago the Film Academy changed the rules of selection of foreign films in the "Oscar". Criticism intensified Americans every year: more and more cinema academics missed the pictures, marked by big European prizes and include unknown claimants.
The system have been tried to upgrade a few years, but eventually the issues still cannot avoid. Memorable event in 2007, when the Romanian film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" flew past nine, formed by a committee of 30 cinema academics. One would think that 30 is easier to reach an agreement, rather than hundreds, of which not all watching foreign movies, and vote for the only known picture.
As a result, now we have a system, adopted in 2008.
Still, "foreign" "Oscar" this year will raise questions. How at the list came almost five-hour tape from Taiwan "Tragedy Sediq" extremely cool accepted in Venice, where it was displayed in the competition? Why ignored "Flowers War" Zhang Yimou? Where did "The Turin Horse," deserved the Grand Prix at Berlinale 2011? Why can not the Turkish drama "Once in Anatolia", received in the past year, the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes?
As always, there are no answers to these questions. Already we can assume that the "Oscar" will get an Iranian drama "Nader and Simin Divorce", which received the "Golden Bear" at Berlin Film Festival. However, a complete list of nominees will be known at ceremony on February 26.