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Thursday, 26 February 2004
76th Annual Academy Awards, 2004 - - D
Now Playing: Brazilian
Film Receives Four Nominations
CITY OF GOD (Cidade de Deus), (Brazil), is nominated
for four Oscars: Best Cinematography (Fernando Meirelles), Directing (Cesar Charlone and Kátia Lund), Film
Editing (Daniel Rezende), and Writing (Adapted Screenplay), (Braulio Mantovani).
The film, in Portuguese, is set in Rio's violent, lawless
City of God slum, and focuses on two men and their intersecting personal histories. Rocket is a young man who spent
his early years on the streets, where a stolen camera provided him with an escape, while Li'l Zé is a ruthless
gangland boss whose string of murders stretches back to his childhood.
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Wednesday, 25 February 2004
76th Annual Academy Awards, 2004 - - C
Now Playing: The
Documentary Feature Film Award - - Mimi's selections.
The nominees are:
BALSEROS
(Rafters/Cuban Rafters) (Spanish) - - Directed by Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech, and written by Carlos
Bosch and David Trueba. Both David and his brother Fernando are directors in Spain [See].
When Fidel Castro announced in 1994 that his government
would make no effort to stop boats carrying refugees from leaving Cuba, tens of thousands of Cubans set sail in
small, often unseaworthy crafts. The film follows the fortunes of seven individuals from their departure through
their internment at Guantánamo Bay to their subsequent lives in the U.S. [More Synop]
THE FOG OF WAR - - Directed
by Errol Morris and Michael Williams.
Controversial former Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara, the man sometimes referred to as the "architect of the Vietnam War," reviews his life and career
and offers an unflinching re-examination of the role he played in one of the most anguished periods in U.S. history.
Well, of course, I'm routing for BALSEROS, but I think
THE FOG OF WAR is a strong film that it also stands an excellent chance of winning. This is the first nomination
for all the directors in this category. The other nominees are:
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS
MY ARCHITECT
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
Check them out at Oscars.com.
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Monday, 23 February 2004
76th Annual Academy Awards, 2004 - - B
Now Playing: The
DGA, SAG and WGA Awards announced.
~~NOTE: Final Ballots Mailed 4 February to 5,816 voting
members of AMPAS. Completed ballots for the Academy Awards must be in the hands of PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5
p.m. TOMORROW.~~
Screen Actors Guild
10TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG) AWARDS FOR THEATRICAL
MOTION PICTURES, 22 February 2004:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
--
Johnny Depp - - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role --
Charlize Theron - - MONSTER.
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role --
Tim Robbins - - MYSTIC RIVER.
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role --
Renée Zellweger - - COLD MOUNTAIN.
Outstanding Performance by a Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture [comparable to Best Picture] -- THE LORD OF THE
RINGS: The Return of the King.
WRITERS Guild
56TH ANNUAL WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA (WGA) AWARDS FOR THEATRICAL
MOTION PICTURES, 21 February 2004:
Original Screenplay
LOST IN TRANSLATION, Written by Sofia Coppola.
Adapted Screenplay
AMERICAN SPLENDOR, Written by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, based on the comic book series and novel
by Harvey Pekar.
DIRECTORS Guild
56TH ANNUAL DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA (DGA) AWARD FOR
FEATURE MOTION PICTURE, 8 February 2004: Peter Jackson,
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King.
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Saturday, 21 February 2004
76th Annual Academy Awards, 2004 - - A
Now Playing: The
"Skinny" on the Best Foreign-Language Film and Projected Winner!
AND, THE NOMINEES ARE:
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
(Les Invasions barbares) -- Canada
-- Directed by Denys Arcand, and two prior films directed by him have been nominated by the Academy.
When history professor Rémy Girard learns that he is dying, his ex-wife
summons home their son, Sébastien, whose career as a successful stock trader has earned him his socialist
father's disdain. In an effort to ease Rémy's last days, Sébastien gathers together a group of his
father's oldest friends. [Filmography] [Academy]
FOOTNOTE: Canada has never won in this category, but they've had two nominations:
(1) JESUS OF MONTREAL (1989), and (2) THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE (1986) -- both directed by Denys Arcand.
EVIL (Ondskan) -- Sweden -- Directed by Mikael
Håfström, and no other films directed by him have received nominations from the Academy.
Erik, an abused teenager who has been expelled from his school for violent behavior,
is given a final chance at an education when his mother sends him to an exclusive private academy. He soon discovers,
however, that the school's privileged upperclassmen are permitted to engage in a cruel reign of terror over the
younger students. [Filmography] [Nordisk Films] [Academy]
FOOTNOTE: Sweden has had 12 nominations and, out of these, three winners in this
category: FANNY & ALEXANDER (1983), THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961), and THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960), all directed
by Ernest Ingmar Bergman. Enough said!
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI --
Japan -- Directed by Yoji Yamada, and no other films directed by him have received nominations from the Academy.
In nineteenth-century Japan, a widowed samurai caring for his mother and two young
daughters has little time or inclination to pursue his profession's traditional warrior life. That changes, however,
when he steps forward to defend a young woman from an attack by her drunken ex-husband. [Ymada's filmography and more on film]
[Academy]
FOOTNOTE: Japan has never won in this category, despite 10 nominations. However,
Japan received three honorary Oscars before this category was established: (1) SAMURAI, THE LEGEND OF MUSASHI (1955)
-- Directed by
Hiroshi Inagaki, and starring the late great, Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997); (2) GATE OF HELL (Jigokumon, 1954) -- Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa; and
the very first Japanese film in America, (3) RASHOMON (1951) -- Directed by late, great, Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998),
and starring Toshiro Mifune. RASHOMON is a classic among classics. If you
can find it, rent it!
TWIN SISTERS -- The
Netherlands -- Directed by Ben Sombogaart, and no other films directed by him have received nominations from the
Academy.
In Germany during the 1920s, twin sisters are separated following the death of
their parents. One sister is raised by a well-to-do aunt in Holland while the other grows up in difficult circumstances
on a German farm owned by an uncle. [Filmography] [Academy]
FOOTNOTE: The Netherlands has been nominated six times in this categories and,
from these, has won three Oscars: CHARACTER (1997), ANTONIA'S LINE (1995), and THE ASSAULT (1986), by various directors.
ŽELARY -- Czech Republic
-- Directed by Ondrej Trojan, and no other films directed by him have received nominations from the Academy.
During the Second World War, a medical student involved in the Resistance is forced
to go into hiding in an isolated mountain village under the protection of the rugged Joza. As Eliska adjusts to
her new life, she and Joza begin to form a complex bond despite their many differences.[Filmography] [Academy]
FOOTNOTE: The Czech Republic and, as it was known prior to 1993, Czechoslovakia,
has received eight nominations, including two winners. Considering only the Czech Republic, there have been two
nominations with one winner, KOLYA (1996), directed by Jan Sverák.
 MIMI'S PROJECTED WINNER IS:
 THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS -- Canada
-- Directed by Denys Arcand! Reasons? First, Arcand has had two films nominated in this category. Both films were
critically acclaimed, and did well in commercial release in the U.S. In addition Denys Arcand is nominated for
an Oscar in the Best
Original Screenplay category, his first nomination in this category.
INVASIONS is being distributed by Miramax, and having a distributor adds points.
Plus, at the Cannes Film Festival, 2003, the Best Actress Award
went to Marie-Josée Croze, and the Best Screenplay Award went to the writer/director Denys Arcand. Any major
award at Cannes spotlights a film in the eyes of the members of the Academy, and this film received two.
Second, the Academy members nominating and voting in this category are, generally, the oldest members of the Academy.
Thus, "A provocative new comedy about sex, friendship, and all other things that invade our lives," will
rate well among this group.
If INVASIONS doesn't win, then I think the film with the second best chance to win is ŽELARY -- Czech Republic. Since none of the
films nominated deal with the Holocaust, then WW II is the next best thing.
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Monday, 16 February 2004
 British Academy of Film and Television Artists
Presents Awards
Lord of the Rings
won Best Film on Sunday night at the BAFTAS, the British film industry's big night of the year (Brithish Academy
of Film and Television Artists). [Official
Site] However, Best Director went to Peter Weir, Master and Commander.
Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson scooped the top acting honors of the night for their critically acclaimed roles
together in Lost in Translation.
The American Civil War drama "Cold Mountain" led the BAFTA field with 13 nominations,
but the only major award for the film was landed by Renee Zellweger, for Best Supporting Actress as a tough-minded
mountain girl.
Best Supporting Actor went to Bill Nighy for his over-the-top
portrayal of an aging rock star in Love Actually.
The Best Film in a language other than English went to In This World, in
which Pashtu, Farsi, and English are spoken in this U.K. production.
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Saturday, 14 February 2004
Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale)
Now Playing: Winners
announced. Will they influence the Oscars?
 Well, there's been too much going
on the world scene, and Tolerance has kept me busy helping her post
on her blog, to get back to the Academy Awards. But, now that the results are in for the Berlin Film Festival, I'll try to catch up.
The Berlinale kicks off the European film contest season is ranked just behind Cannes and alongside Venice among
the world's leading film festivals.The winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film was Head-On by German-Turkish director Fatih
Akin. Head-On
(Gegen die Wand),
only the seventh German film to win best film in the 54-year history of the Berlin festival, tells the story of
Sibel, a young German of Turkish origin trying to escape her strict Muslim home by convincing an older, depressed
German-born Turk to marry her.
South-African born Charlize Theron won a Silver Bear best actress award for her role in Monster, as a homeless prostitute
serial killer. Also, the jury, headed by American actress Frances McDormand, took the unusual step of awarding
another Silver Bear best actress prize to Catalina Sandino Moreno for her role in the U.S.-Colombian film Maria Full of Grace,
a film selected by me as one to watch. [See below] Theron won a Golden Globe and is nominated for Best Actress in the Oscar
race.
The festival's Silver Bear for best actor went to Uruguay's Daniel Hendler for his role as an idle young Jewish
architect in the low-budget Argentine film Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido). The film is set against Argentina's economic crisis, and follows Hendler's
character as he tries to get a Polish passport to go to Europe to join his grandparents who have recently escaped
the Holocaust. [Festival Article] [Official Festival Site]
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Tuesday, 27 January 2004
Nominations for Academy Awards Announced
Now Playing: Are
nominations for Best Foreign-Language film political?
AMPAS announced the Oscar nominees this morning. See the full
list with lots of links. There will be more about
these tomorrow. Need more coffee before I can process. Meanwhile, here's the list for the Best Foreign-Language
Film:
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS - Canada
EVIL - Sweden
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI - Japan
TWIN SISTERS - The Netherlands
ZELARY - The Czech Republic
Well, AMPAS passed on the submissions from France, Germany and Russia. Could
there have been politics rearing its head here? Alas, not one Spanish-Language film was nominated, either, out
of a field of ten submissions to AMPAS. More about this later. It will
be a few days before full information about these films emerge.
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Monday, 26 January 2004
Results for Golden Globes
Now Playing: Impact
on Oscars diminished by this year's award schedule.
The Globes were presented tonight. Access complete list of winners, plus more.
Lord of the Rings won Best Picture, Drama; Lost in Translation Best Picture, Comedy, and I look for both to be nominated for the AMPAS'
Best Picture Oscar, the latter having only one best picture category.
In years past, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes have greatly influenced the Academy Awards,
but not this year. That's because the Oscar's Ceremony has been moved up a month this year. Before, the Globes
were awarded before the AMPAS members' ballots for the nominations had closed. Not this year. Those ballots were
closed and almost counted by the accountants at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) before the presentation envelopes
for the Globes were probably sealed.
Now, how much will the final outcome of the Globes affect the Oscars? Certainly, not as much as in previous years.
We shall see.
The winner of the Best Foreign Film was Osama, Afghanistan Siddiq Barmak,
director. Since Monsieur Ibrahim, France François Dupeyron, director, is not on the list of films submitted
to AMPAS, Osama
is definitely in the running for the Oscar. It also means that two of Osama's competitors will, in all likelyhood, be the other three films nominated
for the Globes that are on the AMPAS list: The Barbarian
Invasions, Canada in French, Denys Arcand, director; Good Bye, Lenin! Germany,
Wolfgang Becker, director; and The Return, Russia, Andrey Zvyagintsev, director. Again, we shall see.
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Sunday, 25 January 2004
Golden Globes Tonight
Now Playing: Sundance
Foreign Film Awards -- finally, an award to a Spanish-language film!
A reminder that the broadcast is tonight 8:00 p.m. EST, NBC.
Okay, to the Sundance Film Festival. The results
are in, so go there and read for yourself, please.
I want to spotlight a foreign-language film, Maria Full of Grace
(Maria, llena eres de gracia), written and directed by Joshua Marston, whose script for this film was
one of 11 scripts chosen for the January, 2002, Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
This year, the completed film made its world premiere at Sundance. Yesterday, the Sundance Audience Award for Dramatic
Films went to Maria Full of Grace, a Spanish-language film about a young Colombian woman (Catalina Sandino
Moreno) in peril after she becomes a "mule" carrying heroin to the United States. The film, with an all-Colombian cast, is set in Columbia but, due to the unstable political situation,
it was necessary to film it in Ecuador. The film is a U.S-Colombian coproduction through Santa Fe Productions,
NY.
The film has been chosen for competition in the 54th Berlin International Film Festival. The award's ceremony will
be held February 14, 2004. See previous post (#16 on list of nominees). Maria Full of Grace is my pick as a Spanish-language
film to watch in 2004, and will be spotlighted as news comes in about it.
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Saturday, 24 January 2004
Berlin International Film Festival Nominations Announced
Now Playing: Spotlighting
a Spanish-language film nomination
One of my favorite film festivals, the Berlin International Film Festival's
nominations for competition were announced yesterday. (Berlinale, February 5-15)
The Competition program of the Berlinale 2004 includes:
1. 20 : 30 : 40, Sylvia Chang, Taiwan/Hong Kong
2. 25 degrés en hiver/25 Grad im Winter/25 Degrees in Winter, Stéphane Vuillet, Belgium/France/Spain
3. Ae Fond Kiss, Ken Loach, Great Britain
4. Beautiful Country, Hans Petter Moland, Norway/USA
5. Before Sunset, Richard Linklater, USA
6. Cold Mountain/Unterwegs nach Cold Mountain, Anthony Minghella, USA (out of competition)
7. Confidences trop intimes/Intimate Strangers, Patrice Leconte, France
8. Country of my Skull, John Boorman, Great Britain
9. Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder/Nightsongs, Romuald Karmakar, Germany
10. El Abrazo Partido/Lost Embrace, Daniel Burman, Argentina
11. Feux rouges/Schlusslichter/Red Lights, Cédric Kahn, France
12. Forbrydelser/In deinen Händen/In Your Hands, Annette K. Olesen, Denmark
13. Gegen die Wand/Head-On, Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey
14. La vida que te espera/Your Next Life, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Spain
15. Lightning in a Bottle, Antoine Fuqua, USA (out of competition)
16. Maria, llena eres de gracia/Maria voll der Gnade/Maria Full of Grace, Joshua Marston, USA/Columbia
17. Monnster, Patty Jekins, USA
18. Om jag vänder mig om/Morgengrauen/Daybreak, Björn Runge, Sweden
19. Primo Amore/First Love, Matteo Garrone, Italy
20. Samaria/Samaritan Girl, Kim Ki-Duk, Korea
21. Something’s Gotta Give/Was das Herz begehrt, Nancy Meyers, USA (out of competition)
22. Svjedoci/Die Zeugen/The Witnesses, Vinko Brešan, Croatia
23. The Final Cut, Omar Naïm, USA
24. The Missing, Ron Howard, USA
25. Trilogia: To livadi pou dakrisi/Trilogie: Die Erde weint/Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow, Theo Angelopoulos, Greece/France
26. Triple Agent, Eric Rohmer, France
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Thursday, 22 January 2004
Best Foreign Language Film (Continued)
Now Playing: Golden
Globe Awards 2
Look at the list in previous post below, because I want to give you
some more information. One film, Good Bye, Lenin! was the hit of the European Film Awards
(Berlin, 6 December, the 16th annual). The German film, directed by Wolfgang Becker, won BEST European Film, Actor and Screenwriter,
plus the Peoples Choice Awards for Actor and Actress. Also as noted in that post, it is nominated for the BAFTA.
The Russian film on that list, The Return, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, received
the prestigious Fassbinder Award. I like to see who receives
that award each year, because I've seen every film Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed, and I'll never forget being
at the Filmoteca in Madrid (1982) when word came of his sudden death. He was only 37. Look him up in the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb).
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Wednesday, 21 January 2004
Best Foreign Language Film
Now Playing: Golden
Globe Awards
The nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced next
Tuesday 27th, but the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes will be presented live on NBC this Sunday,
January 25th, 8:00 p.m. EST. So, for my friends who like myself are very interested in foreign films, here begins the watch for
the Best Foreign Language Film (BF-LF) to be announced at the 76st Annual Academy Awards, presented live on ABC
Sunday February 29th, 7:30 p.m. EST.
The nominations in the BF-LF category for the
Golden Globes are:
The Barbarian Invasions From Canada in French. Denys Arcand, dir.
Good Bye, Lenin!
From Germany Wolfgang Becker, dir.
Monsieur Ibrahim
From France François Dupeyron, dir.
Osama
From Afghanistan Siddiq Barmak, dir.
The Return
From Russia Andrey Zvyagintsev, dir.
All but Monsieur
Ibrahim were submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for consideration in the BF-LF category. Fifty-six countries submitted films. See the
full list. Here are the Spanish
Language submissions:
Argentina, Valentine, Alejandro Agresti, director;
Brazil, Carandiru, Hector Babenco, director;
Colombia, The First Night, Luis Alberto Restrepo, director;
Cuba, Suite Habana, Fernando Perez, director;
Mexico, Aro Tolbukhin, Agustín Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann, Isaac P. Racine, directors;
Peru, Paper Dove,
Fabrizio Aguilar, director;
Spain, Soldados de Salamina, David Trueba, director;
Venezuela, Sangrador, Leonardo Henriquez, director, and
Phillippines, Dekada ‘70, Chito S. Rono, director, but I don't know if the language is Spanish, or not.
Meanwhile, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) will be presented 15 February, and
they nominated the following for BF-LF:
* The Barbarian
Invasions
* Belleville Rendez-vous
* tre et Avoir
* Good Bye, Lenin!
* In This World
* Spirited Away
On this list, only The
Barbarian Invasions and Good Bye Lenin! were submitted to AMPAS.
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Tuesday, 13 January 2004
Oscar Nominations in two weeks!
Now Playing: 76st
Annual Academy Awards
Academy Award nominations will be announced January 27, 2004,
5:30 a.m. PST, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Oscars will be presented live on ABC Sunday, February 29th, 7:30
p.m. EST, from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
 The race for the
Oscars started its last lap around the track the week after Labor Day, and the official campaign kicked off over
the Christmas Holidays. The timetable has been moved up by almost a month this year, with the presentations taking
place Sunday, February 29, 2004, from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The awards will be preceded, as usual, with
a half-hour arrivals program.
Click the graphic above to order your very own 76th AA's poster.
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Wednesday, 7 January 2004
MoveOn.org's Commercial Contest
The activist group, Move On, sponsored
a nationwide commercial contest, "Bush in Thirty Seconds," and the winners
were posted yesterday. You will need a QuickTime plugin to view the videos. The winner is stunning and thought
provoking. Will welcome your comments!
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Monday, 5 January 2004
An Online Video from Iraq
The Baghdad Blogger, Salam Pax, and
his friend Raed have made a video about what some Iraqi's think concerning the capture and public humiliation of
Saddam Hussein. View video at BBC online. Read
about Iraq that you will not read, see, or hear in/on American media in Iraq Directory.
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Thursday, 1 January 2004
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Taking a break. Hope everyone is having a good holiday. Back next week.
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Monday, 29 December 2003
Oscar Watch Heat Rises with Gold Globe Nominations
The nominees for the 61st Golden Globe Globe Awards were announced last week by
the Hollywood Press Association. The complete list has been posted on their Web site: Golden Globes For more information
see my Spain Page.
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Wednesday, 3 December 2003
Out the Gate for Oscar
Now Playing: National Board of Review Awards Are First
Reuters reported today that the National Board of Review, keeping with tradition,
announced the first awards in the new Academy Award season. They named "Mystic River” (Warner Bros.) best
film of 2003 and its star, Sean Penn, was named best actor, which may be a possible indicator of what to expect
in the race for an Oscar. Diane Keaton won best actress for her role in the comedy "Something's Gotta Give"
(Sony Pictures), and Alec Baldwin was named best supporting actor for "The Cooler," while Patricia Clarkson
took supporting actress honors for "Pieces of April," and "The Station Agent." Penn also won
best actor for "21 Grams” (Focus Features).
Edward Zwick received the best director award for "The Last Samurai," which Warner Brothers releases
later this week. “Barbarian Invasions” (Canada/France) was chosen best foreign film. The top 10 films named by
the board were: "Mystic River," "The Last Samurai," "The Station Agent," "21
Grams," "House of Sand and Fog," "Lost in Translation," "Cold Mountain," "In
America," "Seabiscuit," and "Master and Commander."
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Monday, 17 November 2003
Baghdad Goes Celluloid
Now Playing:
Lights, Camera, Action!
 Reuters reported that "Under Exposure" ("Ghayr Saleh"),a movie examining Baghdad
in the immediate aftermath of the U.S.-led war to overthrow Saddam Hussein, is filming in Baghdad. What's the big
deal? It's a big deal because it's not only the first film to be made in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein,
but since the sanctions were applied in 1991, hardly any films have been made. "Under Exposure" is directed
by Oday Rasheed and his friends on a shoestring budget.
The 30-year-old first-time director says he wanted to look at what it means to face death. The film, which he hopes
to finish shooting in two months, will then go to Lebanon to be developed and edited. Kodak has said it will do
the developing for free. "My aim is to have the film shown at Cannes next year. I think that is what we deserve
after all this." I'm making book that Rasheed makes it, and gets his message out. Salam Pax did it by writing
a Blog.
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Wednesday, 16 July 2003
Escape to the Movies?
With the situation in Iraq deteriorating everyday, one tends to lose interest
in the movies. Want to read what’s REALLY going on in Iraq, the things G.W. and his regime don’t want you to know?
Check out blogs and pictures from Iraq. (Iraq Directory) While you're at it, check out
the "Misleader" at: Did
G.W. tell the truth? Catch you later.
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Monday, 24 March 2003
Almodóvar Wins Oscar
At the 75th Academy Awards (diamond jubilee) presented 23 March at the Kodak Theatre
in Hollywood, Pedro Almodóvar won for Best Original Screenplay. He had received two nominations in major
categories -- Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for "Hable con ella" (Talk to Her), which won
a Golden Globe as best foreign film, but was not submitted to the Academy by Spain. [Mimi's comment: A big mistake
on their part!] Almodóvar directed "All About My Mother," which won the Best Foreign Language
Film category in 1999.
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Tuesday, 18 March 2003
Oscar for Foreign Language Film
I begin this log a few days before the 75th Annual Academy Awards (23 March).
I've just posted my prediction for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and it isn't for a Spanish film (one wasn't
nominated), not even for the entry from Mexico.
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