Gyan Correa's Gujarati film The Good Road is out of the best foreign film Oscar race after it failed to qualify in the Academy's latest shortlist. Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the category for the 86th Academy Awards out of 76 films that had qualified in the category.
The movie's selection to represent India at the Oscars had created a lot of controversy as it was chosen over popular titles like The Lunchbox, Ship of Theseus and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, who were the producers behind The Lunchbox and the film's director Ritesh Batra had openly slammed the Oscar committee in India for passing over their film for The Good Road.
The films that have made it to the Oscar shortlist in the category include An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, a Bosnian and Herzegovinan film by No Man's Land director Danis Tanovic, who has shot a film in India with Emraan Hashmi.
Cambodia's The Missing Picture by Rithy Panh has made it to the list so has Germany's Two Lives by Georg Maas. Masterdirector Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, a historical martialarts movie about Bruce Lee's teacher Ip Man is in the list.
Hungary's The Notebook by Janos Szasz and Italy's The Great Beauty, another festival favourite, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is in the list while from Palestine, the Academy has selected Omar by Hany Abu-Assad.
The most surprising snub was the exclusion of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's The Past as it was being considered as a front-runner after a very positive festival run. Farahadi's 2012 film A Separation had won Iran its first Oscar.
The shortlist will be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles on January 10 and 12.
The films that have made it to the Oscar shortlist in the category include An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, a Bosnian and Herzegovinan film by No Man's Land director Danis Tanovic, who has shot a film in India with Emraan Hashmi.
Cambodia's The Missing Picture by Rithy Panh has made it to the list so has Germany's Two Lives by Georg Maas. Masterdirector Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, a historical martialarts movie about Bruce Lee's teacher Ip Man is in the list.
Hungary's The Notebook by Janos Szasz and Italy's The Great Beauty, another festival favourite, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is in the list while from Palestine, the Academy has selected Omar by Hany Abu-Assad.
The most surprising snub was the exclusion of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's The Past as it was being considered as a front-runner after a very positive festival run. Farahadi's 2012 film A Separation had won Iran its first Oscar.
The shortlist will be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles on January 10 and 12.
Source : Mumbai Mirror
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