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Yet More Doc News

Posted by Susan Thea Posnock On July - 3 - 2008

Karina at Spoutblog has been busy keeping on eye on a movie for our consideration and did some checking to make sure it doesn’t get the old heave ho come Oscar time:

Frequent readers of SpoutBlog know that I am head-over-heels in love Carlos Reygadas’ Silent Light, a drama set in a Mexican Mennonite community and shot entirely in the almost-lost German dialect, Plautdeitsch. So of course, I was overjoyed to get a press release last night saying that the film had been deemed eligible as Mexico’s submission for the Foreign Language Oscar.

But then I remembered a scandal a couple of years back, involving an Italian film called Private. At the time, the Academy deemed Private ineligible for the Foreign Language category, because the film was shot in a language (Arabic) other than the primary language of its submitting country, and even after Italy protested, AMPAS said they had no intention of changing the rule. “At this point, we don’t foresee any discussions about this issue,” an Academy spokeswoman told Anthony Kaufmann for indieWIRE. “We like to see the countries represented in the films.”

Funnily enough, according to a press release I dug up on Oscars.org, the Academy went on to change that rule the very next year.

So thank god for that.

Meanwhile, Mr. Schnack is hopping mad at David Ansen’s declaring the documentary film market washed up:

Bottom line – We’re likely to end the year with 4-7 nonfictions grossing more than $4 million.  The record?  4 films did it in 2005.  It’s hard to argue that equaling or surpassing that success denotes a industry-wide downturn for docs, yet it’s apparent that even our favorite film writers might not yet have received the memo.

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    1. glimmer July 3rd, 2008 at 7:42 pm 1

      so…is there a connection bewteen this being a presidential election year in the states and getting 4,000 docs in 2007/2008 ?????

    2. Alan of Montreal July 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm 2

      Water managed to garner a nomination for Canada, and it was in Hindi, so I think it`s possible for this film to get nominated too. By the way, why does the title say “more doc news” when it`s about a foreign film?

    3. Alan of Montreal July 3rd, 2008 at 7:44 pm 3

      oh wait, my bad, I didn`t read all the way to the bottom.

    4. John July 4th, 2008 at 7:28 am 4

      I do not get the connection between silent Light and documentaries since it is a work of fiction. But I agree with Karen, Silent Light is the most beautiful movie ever made and one that might never be released in the US in spite of its multiple awards. Just in the last month this movie won awards at Sidney and Munich.

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      An Education
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      Star Trek
      District 9
      Bright Star
      Where the Wild Things Are
      A Single Man

      Best Actor
      Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
      Colin Firth, A Single Man
      George Clooney, Up in the Air
      Matt Damon, The Informant!
      Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
      Viggo Mortensen, The Road
      Ben Foster, The Messenger
      Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
      Michael Sheen, The Damned United

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      Carey Mulligan, An Education
      Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
      Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
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      Michelle Monaghan, Trucker

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      Alfred Molina, An Education
      Stanley Tucci, Julie & Julia
      Peter Sarsgaard, An Education
      Robert Duvall, Crazy Heart
      Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
      Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover
      Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker
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      Julianne Moore, A Single Man
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      Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
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      Emma Thompson, An Education
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      Lee Daniels, Precious
      Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
      Lone Scherfig, An Education
      Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
      Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
      Neill Blomkamp, District 9
      Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are
      Tom Ford, A Single Man
      Jane Campion, Bright Star

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      Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
      Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
      Jane Campion, Bright Star
      Quentin Tarantino,Inglourious Basterds
      Michael Haneke,White Ribbon
      Bob Peterson, Pete Docter,Up
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      Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
      Nick Hornby, An Education
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      Peter Morgan, The Damned United
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      Scott Burns, The Informant!
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      Sally Menke, Inglourious Basterds
      Dana E. Glauberman,, Up in the Air
      Joel and Ethan Coen,, A Serious Man

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      Robert Richardson,Inglourious Basterds
      Roger Deakins, A Serious Man
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      District 9
      A Serious Man

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      Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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      The Hurt Locker
      Star Trek

      Best Sound Editing

      District 9
      Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
      Star Trek
      Up

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      Jany Temime,Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
      Anna B. Sheppard,Inglourious Basterds
      Mary Zophre, A Serious Man
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      Alexandre Desplat, Cheri
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      Letters from Father Jacob, Finland
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      A Prophet, France
      Dawson, Isla 10, Chile
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      Prince of Tears, Hong Kong
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      Mother, Korea
      The White Ribbon, Germany
      Silent Army, The Netherlands


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      Facing Ali
      Food, Inc.
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      Living in Emergency
      The Most Dangerous Man in America
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      Sergio
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      Which Way Home


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      A Christmas Carol
      Mary and Max
      Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
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      A Christmas Carol
      Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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      District 9

      Best Song

      Best Live Action Short

      Best Animated Short

      Best Documentary Short

      China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
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      Music by Prudence
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      Executives-436
      Sound-411
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