After watching Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima win the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film I finally agree with the Academy of Arts and Sciences for excluding both Letters and Apocalypto from contention for the Oscar Foreign Language category. It just doesn’t seem right. That said, the Association has announced the nine films in contention for the five Oscar nominations, here is the list:
- Days of Glory Algeria
- Water Canada
- After the Wedding Denmark
- Avenue Montaigne France
- The Lives of Others Germany
- Pan’s Labyrinth Mexico
- Volver Spain
- Vitus Switzerland
Foreign Language Film nominations for 2006 are being determined in two phases.
The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based members, screened the 61 eligible films and their ballots determined the shortlist.
A Phase II committee, made up of ten randomly selected members from the Phase I group, joined by additional ten-member contingents in New York and Los Angeles, will view the shortlisted films and select the five 2006 nominees for the category.
Phase II screenings will take place from Friday, January 19, through Sunday, January 21, in both Hollywood and New York City.
Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, at 5:30 a.m. PST in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST), beginning with a half-hour arrivals segment, “The Road to the Oscars®.â€
