hollywood-elsewhere.com - 1/14/2009
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The Academy's Foreign Language Committee has done it again! Last year they failed to include the brilliant 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days on the short list, and this year they've blown off Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, which has been honored left and right by critics' groups and last month won the ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/14/2009
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Last year, the Academy's foreign language "phase 1
committee" -- which consists of several hundred Los Angeles-based
members who divide up and screen the foreign entries, with minimal attendance requirements and a bizarre vote-tabulation process -- ...
AGAIN?! Academy's foreign language committee releases ...
carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/13/2009
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On Jan. 22, along with the other nominees,
the final five finalists will be announced along with
the rest of the nominees.
The Foreign-Language Race Narrows
okcupid.com - 1/10/2009
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Oscar Fallout Begins Over Foreign-Language Snubs [Oscars]
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... left off the shortlist of potential nominees. Gommora 's snub stings in particular after the mob epic aced the international fest rounds last year, finding an American buyer at Cannes and securing Martin Scorsese's imprimatur for its release this spring; distributor IFC Films had hoped the indignities of 2007 when its Cannes-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days received similarly shocking treatment would correct themselves within the Academy. Alas. "What happened, bro?" came the cry to Mark Johnson, the beleaguered nominating committee chair who vowed last year to ...
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