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Oscars pick 9 movies for foreign film shortlist, ‘Anatolia’ snubbed
“A Separation,” which tells the story of a couple struggling with the decision of whether to leave their country, has won a slew of awards for the year’s best foreign language film, including the Golden Globe, the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.
Films from Germany, Denmark, Canada and Morocco also made the shortlist determined by two committees of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which hands out the Oscars, the film world’s top honors, in February. The shortlist, which also included films from Taiwan, Poland, Israel and Belgium, will be winnowed down by special committees in New York and Los Angeles to five nominees for the best foreign language film Oscar.
Films on the shortlist included Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary on Pina Bausch, “Pina,” and Poland’s “In Darkness,” directed by Agnieszka Holland. Israeli film “Footnote,” directed by Joseph Cedar also made the list, along with Morocco’s “Omar Killed Me” and Taiwan’s “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale.” Belgium’s “Bullhead,” Canada’s “Monsieur Lazhar” and Denmark’s “Superclásico” rounded out the group of nine.
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,” which shared the Grand Prix with Belgium’s Dardenne brothers’ “The Kid With a Bike” at last year’s Cannes film festival, was seen by Turkish film critics as a sure bet to make it to the nine-piece shortlist.
“Anatolia” was the second film by Ceylan that has been selected to represent Turkey at the Oscars in the past four years. In 2009, his “Üç Maymun” (Three Monkeys) managed to make it to the nine-film shortlist for the foreign Oscar at the 81st Academy Awards.
Many Turkish critics said when Turkey submitted “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” that almost all of Ceylan’s films have returned from the Cannes film festival with an award, which according to them raised his chances of grabbing an Oscar statuette in 2012.
Oscar nominations will be announced on Jan. 24. The awards will be handed out in Hollywood on Feb. 26.
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