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Foreign Language Films and the Oscar - The Nominees and Winners, 1948-2017 (Paperback)
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Foreign Language Films and the Oscar - The Nominees and Winners, 1948-2017 (Paperback)
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Volumes have been written about the Academy Awards-that yearly
Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour, glitter and Oscar
gold of the international film industry-but few books have dealt
directly with specific categories beyond Best Picture. Foreign
Language Films and the Oscar does just that, and it's an eye-opener
for true cinephiles. Of course there's Italy's 8 1/2, Sweden's
Through a Glass Darkly and Mexico's Pan's Labyrinth, but also
Denmark's Harry and the Butler, Yugoslavia's I Even Met Happy
Gypsies and Nicaragua's Alsino and the Condor. Over the past seven
decades, two-thirds of the world's governments have submitted some
2,000 feature-length films for Oscar consideration, and 312 of them
received nominations to compete for the title of Best Foreign Film.
In this compendium, each of the nominees is catalogued
chronologically, replete with a brief and descriptive synopsis,
basic facts about its personnel and production qualities, and a
ranking among its annual opponents that does not always jibe with
that of the Academy. Michael S. Barrett has compiled an
entertaining, easy-to-read, and somewhat provocative guide, listing
the films from the first-honored Best Foreign-language Film in
1948, Shoeshine, through Iran's second Oscar winner in 2017, The
Salesman.
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