OSCAR'S BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE MOTION PICTURE NOMINEES

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE MOTION PICTURE

“The Broken Circle Breakdown”

Belgium (2012) 
Director:  Felix Van Groeningen
 

"The Great Beauty,” Italy (2013)

 - - original title = La grande bellezza

Director:  Paolo Sorrentino

 

  "The Hunt," Denmark (2012)

 - - original title = Jagten

Director: Thomas Vinterberg

 

“The Missing Picture,” Cambodia (2013) 
- - original title = L'image manquante 
Director: Rithy Panh
 

 "Omar," Palestine (2013)

Director:  Hany Abu-Assad

PROCEDURES OF SELECTION

Academy members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc.  In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees.  All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

Official screenings of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for members on Saturday, January 25, at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.  Screenings also will be held at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all categories.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar® Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network.  The Oscars, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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OSCAR NOMINEES FOR BEST FEATURE MOTION PICTURE 2013

NINE NOMINATIONS FOR BEST FEATURE MOTION PICTURE

10 Nominations - - American Hustle

• Actor in a Leading Role
• Actor in a Supporting Role
• Actress in a Leading Role
• Actress in a Supporting Role
• Best Picture
• Costume Design
• Directing
• Film Editing
• Production Design
• Writing (Original Screenplay

10 Nominations - - Gravity

• Actress in a Leading Role
• Best Picture
• Cinematography
• Directing
• Film Editing
• Music (Original Score)
• Production Design
• Sound Editing
• Sound Mixing
• Visual Effects

9 Nominations - - 12 Years a Slave

• Actor in a Leading Role
• Actor in a Supporting Role
• Actress in a Supporting Role
• Best Picture
• Costume Design
• Directing
• Film Editing
• Production Design

6 Nominations - - Captain Phillips

• Actor in a Supporting Role
• Best Picture>
• Film Editing
• Sound Editing
• Sound Mixing
• Writing (Adapted Screenplay

SHOCKER - - NO LEAD ACTOR NOM FOR TOM HANKS!

6 Nominations - - Dallas Buyers Club

• Actor in a Leading Role
• Actor in a Supporting Role
• Best Picture
• Film Editing
• Makeup and Hairstyling
• Writing (Original Screenplay)

6 Nominations - - Nebraska

• Actor in a Leading Role
• Actress in a Supporting Role
• Best Picture
• Cinematography
• Directing
• Writing (Original Screenplay)

QUESTION - Will this be Bruce Dern's year?

 

 5 Nominations - - Her 

• Best Picture
• Music (Original Score)
• Music (Original Song)
• Production Design
• Writing (Original Screenplay

 4 Nominations - - Philomena

• Actress in a Leading Role
• Best Picture
• Music (Original Score
• Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Wolf of Wall Street - - 5 Nominations

• Actor in a Leading Role
• Actor in a Supporting Role
• Best Picture
• Directing
• Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

 PRINT THE ENTIRE OFFICIAL NOMINEE LIST (PDF)

http://cdn.media.oscar.abc.com/media/2014/pdf/2014/nominees.pdf?v2

 CRUCIAL GUILD NOMINATONS FOR NOMINATED BEST MOTION PICTURE TO WIN::::

CINEMATOGRAPHERS NOMINATED: GRAVITY - - Emmanuel Lubezki | NEBRASKA - - Phedon Pamicha.

DIRECTORS NOMINATED: AMERICAN HUSTLE - - David O. Russell | GRAVITY - - Alfonso Cuarón | NEBRASKA - - Alexander Payne.

EDITORS NOMINATED: AMERICAN HUSTLE - - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten | CAPTAIN PHILLIPS - - Christopher Rouse | DALLAS BUYERS CLUB - - John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa |

GRAVITY - - Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger | 12 YEARS A SLAVE - - Joe Walker.

SCREENPLAY ADAPTED NOMINATED: CAPTAIN PHILLIPS  - -  Screenplay by Billy Ray | PHILOMENA  - -  Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope | 12 YEARS A SLAVE  - -  Screenplay by John Ridley | WOLF OF WALL STREET  - - Screenplay by Terence Winter.

SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL NOMINATED: AMERICAN HUSTLE  - -  Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell  | DALLAS BUYERS CLUB  - -  Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack | HER  - -  Written by Spike Jonze | NEBRASKA  - -  Written by Bob Nelson.

NOMINATED LEAD ACTOR: Christian Bale - - AMERICAN HUSTLE | Bruce Dern - - NEBRASKA | Leonardo DiCaprio - - THE WOLF OF WALL STREET | Chiwetel Ejiofor - - 12 YEARS A Slave | Matthew McConaughey - - DALLAS BUYERS CLUB.

NOMINATED LEAD ACTRESS: Amy Adams - - AMERICAN HUSTLE | Sandra Bullock - - GRAVITY | Judi Dench - - PHILOMENA | Meryl Streep - - AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Julia Roberts nominated for best supporting actress).

LIST OF GOLDEN GLOBES' WINNERS 2014

And the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe winners are:

http://www.hfpa.org/2014/01/winners-and-nominations-2014/

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Spanish Film Academy Announces Goya Award Nominations

 San Sebastián 2013 Awards Night 

The Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its nominations for the 28th edition of the Goya Awards, to be presented on February 9. The hosts were Quim Gutierrez and Clara Lago.

Six titles presented at the last 62nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival (SSFF), occupy a large part of the nominations and are now featured among the favorites of the year. The Goya of Honor will be presented to filmmaker Jaime de Armiñan this year.

"Witching and Bitching" (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi), directed by Álex de la Iglesia and screened out of competition in the Official Selection at  this year's 62nd SSFF, on the occasion of the Donostia Award presentation to Carmen Maura, leads with 10 nominations: best supporting actress (Terele Pávez), best music, best production supervision, best editing, best costume design, best sound, best cinematography, best art direction, best makeup and hairstyles, and best special effects.

Following its world premiere at the Toronto Festival in the Official Selection, where it received the Youth Award for Best Cinematography, Camibal (Cannibal), is nominated in eight categories: best film, best director (Manuel Martín Cuenca), best actor (Antonio de la Torre), best new actress (Olimpia Melinte), best adapted screenplay, best sound, best cinematography and best art direction.

Having won the Special Jury Prize for Best Film and Silver Shell for Best Actress at the SSFF, La herida (Wounded) bags six Goya nominations: best film, best new director (writer Fernando Franco), best actress (Marian Álvarez), best original screenplay, best editing and best sound.

The third Spanish film to compete in the SSFF, La herida (Wounded), Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados (Living is Easy with Eyes Closed), also competes for seven awards: 
Best film and best director, David Trueba,
Best actor, Javier Cámara,
Best new actress, Natalia de Molina, and
Best original screenplay, best music, best costume design.

Zipi y Zape y el club de la canica (Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang), presented on the Velodrome screen after its showing at the Toronto Festival, lands four nominations: best adapted screenplay, best production supervision, best art direction and best special effects.

The Spain-Argentina co-production Futbolín (Foosball), opening movie of the SSFF's previous edition - 61st, competes for the Goya in the best animated film category.

Another three titles programmed at the SSFF compete for the Goya for the best foreign film in the Spanish language: Gloria (from Chile), directed by Sebastián Lelio, was presented in the Pearls section and was a winner at the 60th SSFF edition of the Films in Progress Industry Award.

Alongside of it are, La jaula de oro (The Golden Dream) South Korea, directed by Diego Quemada-Díez, and El médico alemán, Wakolda (The German Doctor), Argentina, directed  by Lucía Puenzo. Both competed in the SSFF's Horizontes Latinos section, following their presentation in the "Un certain regard" section at the Cannes Festival last May.

28th Goya Awards Date February 9, 2014 Venue Centro de Convenciones y Congresos Príncipe Felipe, Madrid Host Manel Fuentes Network TVE 28th Goya Nominees: http://premiosgoya.academiadecine.com/nominados/?&idioma=EN Opt for Spanish or English version of page for finalists - link top of page.

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The 86th Oscars Nominations Announcement will be Thursday, January 16, 2014, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Wilshire Boulevard, 5:30 a.m. PT. 

Academy Awards® for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network.  The presentation, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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