Discussie: Nederlanse film De Tweeling krijgt Oscarnominatie

Nederlanse film De Tweeling krijgt Oscarnominatie



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Zwaar verdiend vind ik, echt magnifieke film. Vrees er alleen voor de de (ook goeie film daar niet van) populairdere Dirty Pretty Things met de prijs zal gaan lopen.

Het staat in het persbericht een beetje cryptisch omschreven maar Dirty Pretty Things en Whale Rider zijn niet in categorie 'foreign language film' genomineerd maar in andere categorieen. De totale lijst met nominaties in FLF ziet er als volgt uit:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
EVIL
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI
TWIN SISTERS
ŽELARY

Ik denk dat De Tweeling een redelijke kans heeft: van die andere films heb ik weinig opvallends gehoord.

Oorspronkelijk gepost door JvdM

BTW offtopic, waarom is Scarlett Johansson niet genomineerd voor zowel Lost in Translation en The girl with a pearl earring. Ik vond haar echt goed in beide en zeker de laatste.

Ik heb geen van beide films nog gezien maar op het forum van IMDB las ik wel het volgende stukje:

IMPORTANT MEMO! To Scarlett. From Sofia.

Scarlett,

Thanks so very much for agreeing to be in "Lost In Translation". Below you'll find your lines plus your stage directions.

(Smile timidly on elevator.)
"Hi." (Smile flirtatiously.)
"What brings you here?" (Smile shyly.)
"I'm going out tonight. Want to come?" (Smile girlishly.)
"Does it get any easier?" (Smile demurely.)
(Sing karaoke. While singing, smile seductively.)
"Goodbye." (Smile sadly.)

Also, feel free to smile coyly, timidly, brazenly and bashfully.

Your check for 1.5 million dollars is in the mail.

Fondly,
Sofia

Ik vond hem errrug gevat.

Hier trouwens nog een artikel van Yahoo over de genomineerden van 'foreign language films' waarin Ben Sombogaart nog ff wordt uitgescholden voor 'Deen':

Foreign-Language Choices Defy Conventional Wisdom

By Ian Mohr

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "Flabbergast" is not a foreign word -- its etymology is unknown -- but it certainly can be used to describe some of the likely reactions to choices -- and omissions -- the Academy made this year in the foreign-language film category.

Canadian director Denys Ardand's "The Barbarian Invasions" (Miramax Films) and Ondrej Trojan's "Zelary" (Sony Pictures Classics) from the Czech Republic made the cut Tuesday, as had been widely expected.

Wolfgang Becker's German feature, "Good bye, Lenin!" was also expected to find a place in the class photo too, but it was nowhere to be found when the nominations were unveiled.

In fact, a whole host of titles that have begun developing a following were among the missing. Among them, Bent Hamer and IFC Films' "Kitchen Stories" (Norway); Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni and ThinkFilm's "The Story of the Weeping Camel" (Mongolia) and Kim Ki-duk's and Sony Classics' "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring" (Korea).

United Artists' "Osama" from Afghanistan -- Siddiq Barmak's story of a young girl who assumes the identity of a man to find a job and is unexpectedly swept up in the fanatical Taliban regime -- scored a Golden Globe win Sunday evening. But the film failed to duplicate that success with an Oscar nomination. Billed as the first film shot entirely on Afghan soil since the rise and fall of the Taliban, it opens this weekend.

Other films that seemed to have good shots with the Academy were "The Return" by Russian helmer Andrei Zvyagintsev and "Valentine" from Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Agresti.

Joining "Invasions" and "Zelary" this year on Oscar night will be another Miramax acquisition, the crowd-pleasing "Twin Sisters" by Danish helmer Ben Sombogaart. However, the remaining two entries are considered left-field choices -- Sweden's "Evil" and Japan's "The Twilight Samurai," both of which do not have distribution.

Said "Evil's" producer Hans Lonnerheden: "I have been fighting for this film for eight years. I had to mortgage my house to finance it. There was opposition from people every step of the way. To get an Oscar nomination is incredibly satisfying. It really crowns the whole effort. I'm booking my flight to L.A. right away."

The "Evil" team is now hoping their nomination will lead to a U.S. run.

To the foreign film cognoscenti, "Evil" and "Twilight Samurai" remain relatively unknown factors in the developing contest, since they have not developed profiles on the festival circuit.

By contrast, Miramax scooped up "Invasions" in a high-profile deal at Cannes in May and then sent the movie, which stars the cast of Arcand's earlier hit, "The Decline of the American Empire," to the Toronto International Film Festival as its opener.

And Sony Classics had the good timing to pick up "Zelary" -- a wartime drama -- just last week during the Sundance Film Festival. The company has not yet decided on a release date.