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	Rule 14 \| 78th Academy Awards Rules \| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		A foreign language film is defined, for Academy Award purposes, as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.
		Final voting for the Foreign Language Film Award shall be restricted to active and life Academy members who have attended Academy screenings, or other exhibition, of all five films nominated for the award.
		Submitted films not selected as nominees are eligible for Academy Award consideration in other categories in the subsequent year, provided the film has its Los Angeles opening in that subsequent calendar year.
	www.oscars.org /78academyawards/rules/rule14.html (754 words)

	Foreign Film Oscar Winner Readies for Success
		By now, there is a foreign-language film director (Mike Van Diem) recovering from a night of Academy Award celebrations whose future, and that of his film, is about to change.
		Best Foreign Language Film is an odd category, since the nominated films are sometimes largely unknown and not yet released in the U.S..
		Films from each of these five countries have been nominated at least three additional times previously in the category's 42-year history (Best Foreign Language Film was established as a full-fledged category in 1956, according to Academy historian Patrick Stockstill).
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_980324_ForeignOscar.html (601 words)

	Bicycle Thieves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It stars Lamberto Maggiorani as the father and Enzo Staiola as the son, and won an honorary Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, and the BAFTA Award for Best Film from Any Source, in 1950.
		The film was heavily awarded by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, and is commonly considered a film classic.
		Early in the film, the bike is stolen, and Antonio and his son spend the remainder of the film searching for it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bicycle_Thief (505 words)

	OSCAR.com - 79th Annual Academy Awards - Video
		Foreign Language Film - The Lives of Others
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		The Official Academy Awards web site is produced by ABC.com in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.oscar.com /video (399 words)

	BBC News \| FILM \| Amelie leads record Oscars chase
		Each country can submit one film, and the 51 entrants will be whittled down to five that will be nominated for the award.
		Nominees in the foreign language section are also eligible for other awards.
		The Academy Award winners will be announced at the most prestigious ceremony of the film industry's year, in Los Angeles, on 24 March.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/film/1665966.stm (416 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: The Philippine's Submission for Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Award)
		The film depicts the struggle of the Bartolome family, which consists of a mother, Amanda (Vilma Santos) who much of the film centers on, her husband, and their five boys.
		The Best Performance award is the most coveted as it is conferred on the performer whether male or female, adult or child, individual or ensemble in leading or supporting role.
		A film sent to the Oscars has finished its commercial run in the country such that the distinction could not at all be said to make an impact on the film's profitability,” according to Lauzon.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6758 (768 words)

	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film is a yearly US award for the best non-English film released in the period October - September in the country of origin.
		The 78th Academy Awards, in general honoring the best in film for 2005, but in this category regarding release in the country of origin in the period October 2004 - September 2005, were held on 5 March 2006.
		The film was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film (6531 words)

	Nepal's Submission for Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Award), UCLA International Institute
		Muna Madan, the second Nepali film to vie for the Academy awards, is based on the tragic love story of one of the most famous pieces of classic Nepalese literature by Laxmi Prasad Devkota.
		It was among the top five foreign films nominated for the award.” However, the director of Caravan is a French documentary filmmaker, Eric Valli, whose reputation and contacts furthered the progress of the film at the Academys and helped finance the project.
		Lakshminath Sharma, another veteran director and the president of the Film Director’s Guild of Nepal, notes that when director Narayan Puri made a film on the Maoists, it was so harshly censored that he practically had to re-shoot the entire film.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6975 (942 words)

	Lutheran heroine, Sophie Scholl, subject of Academy Award nominee (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The film is based on the true story of a woman who was executed in 1943 Germany for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.
		The film was released by Zeitgeist Films and is in German with English subtitles.
		Scholl is described in several accounts of her life as a devout Lutheran who joined the Hitler Youth, but her Christian faith caused her to question policies of the Nazi Regime.
	www.elca.org /ScriptLib/CO/ELCA_News/encBlogPrnt.asp?Blog=40 (128 words)

	58 Submissions for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Language issues were the reason for the disqualification of both Brides (which stars Englishman Damian Lewis) and Caché, whose dialogue is all in French.
		The 78th Academy Award nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 5:30 a.m.
		The Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday, March 5, 2006.
	www.altfg.com /Articles/foreign_language_oscar_2005.htm (674 words)

	Buy DVDs of independent and Foreign Film. - Film Movement is the first Film Club for Award-Winning Cinema.
		Film choices are dictated to us by a smaller and smaller group of major studios, which decide to release films based mostly on their star quotient and “marketability”.
		We created Film Movement because the system of releasing independent, foreign and documentary films needed to be changed.
		We believed that the only way to change the system was to reach out to film fans directly.
	www.filmmovement.com (233 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Home premiere for Almodovar film
		The film, which finished production in October, is due to be released in Spain on 17 March and begin screening in the US on 23 June.
		Last year, the 54-year-old quit the Spanish Film Academy in a row of voting procedures and how Spain's candidate for the Oscars was chosen.
		His last film Bad Education failed to win anything at Spain's Goya Awards, while The Sea Inside - which went on to win the Oscar for best foreign language film - scooped 14 awards.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/entertainment/4797058.stm (298 words)

	Maui Film Festival - FirstLight 2004
		Nominated for a European Film Award for Best Picture, this drama is an extraordinary portrait of a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family, but who also has a secret life helping women induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies.
		Academy Award winner, and Maui Film Festival Silversword honoree, Clint Eastwood directs and co-stars alongside Academy Award winner Hillary Swank and Academy Award nominee Morgan Freeman in this tale of a retired prizefighter who reluctantly agrees to coach a determined female boxer.
		Award™, Stella Award™, Navigator Award™, Cosmic Comedy Club™, Stargazing and Salsa™, OMmmmMovies™, The Lotus™, CosmicCafeandCinema™, FirstLight™: Academy Screenings on Maui™, Kauai Film Festival™, and FirstLight™: Academy Screenings on Kauai™ are the intellectual property of Barry Rivers and are licensed for use by the Maui Film Festival, Inc.
	www.mauifilmfestival.com /firstlight/dec_28.htm (289 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: Sri Lanka's Submission for Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Award)
		Eighty-four year old Lester James Peries is internationally recognized as one of the world’s greatest film directors and considered the father of Sri Lankan cinema.
		This was attributed to the over-production of poor quality films and the restrictive policies of the NFC (National Film Corporation).
		Furthermore, the NFC’s monopoly was put to a stop with the liberalization of the film industry in January 2000.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6754 (565 words)

	MCN Press Release: Foreign Language Oscar Submissions By Country
		Beverly Hills, CA - A record-breaking 55 countries have submitted films to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Academy Award(R) consideration in the Foreign Language Film Award category, Academy President Frank Pierson announced today.
		The 76th Academy Award nominations will be announced at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Tuesday, January 27, 2004.
		Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2003 will be presented on Sunday, February 29, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland(R) and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Notepad/2003/031020a_pr.htm (295 words)

	Northern Lights: New Films from Iceland > Children of Nature
		It's a film of pauses, silences and bittersweet moments that eventually lead to pure fantasy, but it's unpretentious all the same, basing its appeal on a universal longing for comfort and nostalgia.
		The story tells of an old farmer (Gisli Halldorsson) who, realizing that his life is almost over, moves to the city to live out his last days with his daughter and her family.
		Following four documentaries, he made two TV films and then his first feature, WHITE WHALES (1987), which was awarded a prize at Locarno Festival and the Film Lens Award at Lubeck.
	www.reddiaper.com /Northern/children.htm (849 words)

	Academy Award-winning foreign-language film 'Tsotsi' is timeless North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Having won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, "Tsotsi" brings Athol Fugard's novel about the mean streets of 1950s South Africa into modern times, updating the story to offer an insightful glimpse of post-apartheid life, from its most violently severe to its most culturally vibrant.
		In "Tsotsi-Taal," the street language of Soweto used in the film, "Tsotsi" is a generic term for thug or gangster.
		All of this action is packed into the movie's opening moments, the remainder of the film slowly revealing the humanity Tsotsi has hidden from the world and even from himself.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2006/03/27/entertainment/movies/9_38_293_22_06.txt (857 words)

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		And, as it, when the film is starting out, they, he and his gang, have just swindled thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars from their unsuspecting mark.
		And, basically, this film just looks at the three characters, and the fact that Stuart's death has made them reconsider their lives, and what they want to do.
		A British film, which is at the University six, in Irvine, and at the Westside Pavilion, in West L.A. It took me a long time to get into the film.
	www.transcripts.net /transcripts/filmweek/FW030424.doc (8798 words)

	Screened Film (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The core of the film is a deeply potent performance by masterful Javier Bardem in the role of Ramon Sampedro to give the most stirring and riveting male performance of 2004.
		Belen Rueda, who plays Julia, is a television mainstay moving into films, but she shows the poise and presence of a motion picture veteran.
		As Ramon rides in a taxi away from home for the last time, the camera drinks in the richness of the landscape he looks out on: Amenabar isn’t afraid to complicate his film by showing that there is still a lot to live for.
	www.icescolombo.org /events/Films/2005/theseainside.htm (221 words)

	Maestros - Vittorio De Sica
		In 1940 he began to direct films as well as act, and his films were a radical departure from the glamorous settings, characters, and story lines that were popular before World War II.
		Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief, 1948), about a working-class man whose bicycle is stolen, won a special Academy Award for best foreign-language film (before the category was created).
		Subsequent films with Zavattini included the satirical fantasy Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan, 1951) and Umberto D. (1952), a devastating portrait of a lonely old man in postwar Rome; both films explore the plight of the poor and dispossessed.
	www.nextpix.com /v1_1/salon/desica.html (327 words)

	Fateless Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		A wrenching yet hauntingly beautiful film, Lajos Koltai's Fateless is a masterful adaptation of Imre Kertesz's 1975 autobiographical novel.
		Hungary's official submission for the 2005 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film is one of the most deeply affecting movies ever made about the Holocaust.
		It's an inspired touch that never comes across as ostentatious in a film which is all the more harrowing for its matter-of-fact treatment of wartime atrocities.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=141603&LF=HP (1740 words)

	Dialogue: Ki-duk Kim
		Ki-duk Kim: I have enjoyed foreign movies at many film festivals even though the movies were in the languages I didn't understand.
		We give up many things only because we think we are too old for those things, but I wanted to show that a human being could be beautiful until the very moment of his death through the selfish yet fiery passion of the old man towards the girl.
		I think foreign audiences like my movies more, so naturally I have a tendency to make movies for the foreign audiences and consider the films' release in my country to be a service for the fans who have been loyal to my works.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/cannes/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000919934 (1068 words)

	Istvan Szabo @ Filmbug
		Hungarian director István Szabó has won worldwide acclaim from both critics and audiences, not only for the extraordinary beauty of his impressive slate of films, but also for the historic and contemporary importance of the messages that they carry within their social and political themes.
		After graduating as a film director from Hungary's prestigious Academy of the Art of Theatre and Film he went on to direct his first feature film, aged 26, in 1964.
		Starring Ralph Fiennes, supported by a deeply gifted international cast, the film struck a cord with audiences and critics alike as it fearlessly tackled prejudice, the holocaust and revolution through the eyes of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family.
	www.filmbug.com /db/34970 (399 words)

	Asian Film Foundation - Features
		What has been said about this sweeping historical epic is all true - ambitious, lavish, shocking and masterful.
		If you've never seen a non-English language film before, find this one.
		Comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 1999-2006 by Asian Film Foundation.
	www.asianfilm.org /modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=103 (367 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Arts Tribune
		The film is on a much bigger scale than "American Desi", which was a minor success.
		This two-hour film revolving around the hilarious and humane events that beset a Punjab wedding in New Delhi and message that the idea was to make a film about a Punjabi family and show the emotion, ribaldry and love of music and dance, so essential to Punjabi culture.
		That the film could adapt so easily for TV was a tribute to the naturalness which Ashok Kumar brought to every role he played.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011214/art-trib.htm (1764 words)

	Germany Online: Information Services: Publications: The Week in Germany (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The film's main characters face a series of personal crises as they struggle to adapt to new circumstances in a foreign land.
		Link is the first German director to win the foreign film Oscar since 1980, when Völker Schlöndorff won the award for his adaptation of the Günter Grass novel The Tin Drum.
		The film describes the tragic fate of the Jewish community of Warsaw during the Holocaust and was shot in large part at the Babelsberg film studios near Berlin.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/info/publications/week/2003/030328/misc1.html (329 words)

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		The University of Wisconsin-Parkside Foreign Film Series returns for its 24th season with an exceptional calendar of award winning, critically acclaimed movies from throughout the world.
		In addition, the 2005 Academy Award-winning documentary "Born into Brothels," about the lives of children born to prostitutes in Calcutta's red light district, will be shown.
		Spanish language films include "Bad Education," director Pedro Almodovar's Alfred Hitchcock-style tale of mystery and intrigue and Argentina's "Lost Embrace," a coming-of-age film about a young man dealing with the anger he feels over being abandoned by his father.
	www.uwp.edu /news/newstemp.cfm?storyID=1019 (333 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Hong Kong's Submission for Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Award)
		The Hong Kong Film Critics Society awarded Anthony Wong Best Actor of 2002 for his role as the police force Superintendent.
		Infernal Affairs took home the top five awards at the 8th Annual Golden Bauhinia Awards and was also included by the HKFCA as one of the eleven “Films of Merit” of the year.
		But like many film industries across the globe, they too have to deal with the competition from imported Hollywood blockbusters.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6756 (730 words)

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