16/12/2016 - Toni Erdmann, Land of Mine, A Man Called Ove advance to next round of voting

Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade

Nine features out of 85 eligible in the category have advanced to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 89th Academy Awards. Europe dominates the list that includes Martin Zandvliet’s Land of Mine [+see also:
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interview: Louis Hofmann
interview: Martin Zandvliet
film profile] (Denmark), Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann [+see also:
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Q&A: Maren Ade
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interview: Erik Poppe
film profile] (Norway), Hannes Holm’s A Man Called Ove [+see also:
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film profile] (Sweden), Claude Barras’ My Life as a Courgette [+see also:
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interview: Claude Barras
film profile] (Switzerland) and Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise [+see also:
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film profile] (Russia). The rest of the selected films are French co-productions It’s Only the End of the World [+see also:
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film profile] by Xavier Dolan (Canada) and The Salesman [+see also:
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film profile] by Asghar Farhadi (Iran), and Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler (Australia).

The Foreign Language Film nominations for 2017 are determined in two phases. The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based Academy members, screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and 12 December. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist. Specially invited committees in New York, Los Angeles and London will narrow the shortlist down to the category’s five nominees. They will spend Friday, 13 January, through Sunday, 15 January, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots. 

Nominations for the 89th Oscars will be announced on 24 January, 2017. The Oscars will be held on 26 February, 2017.