The film "12" entered in the short list of "Oscar"
It was reported today in the press service of the Academy Award.
Just a list of nine paintings, of which 22 January at a ceremony to declare the nominees will be announced only five. Of these five members of the Academy will choose one winner.
The names of the holders of the Oscar for 2007 will be announced Feb. 24 at the Jubilee - 80 th in a row - the ceremony "Oscars" in theater "Kodak" in the entertainment complex "Hollywood And Highland on Hollywood Boulevard.
The short-list of foreign films also included the film "Beaufort" by Joseph Sedar from Israel, "Yea, when my parents went to rest," Brazilian director Cao Hamburger, "Days of Darkness" by Denis Arcand from Canada, the Polish film "Katyn" by Andrzej Wajda's work, "Trap" Srzhana Holubovych from Serbia, "Unknown" Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and "The Counterfeiters" Austrian director Stefan Ruzovitski.
Nominees for the golden statuette for Best Foreign Language Film "is defined in two stages. First, a special jury of several hundred members of the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, viewed by 63 foreign film production in 2007, nominated for an Oscar, and selected 9 of them.
Now, from Friday to Sunday, a special committee at the Academy Awards special display in Los Angeles and New York from nine paintings will select five nominees. Previously, they were chosen directly from among all submitted for the award of foreign films. Drawing up short-list was first implemented in 2007, reports look.
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