Europe prominent among Foreign-Language Film nominees
Europe figures prominently across the board among the freshly announced nominees for this year’s Academy Awards – thanks in large part to British director Tom Hooper’s worldwide hit The King's Speech [+see also:
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The Best Foreign-Language Film category is no less continental and, as expected, includes In a Better World [+see also:
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The Danish picture is up against French filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law [+see also:
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The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony will be held on February 27 in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.
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