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BBC series The Cry and Tom Harper's feature Wild Rose lead this year's BAFTA Scotland nominations with three apiece. The Cry picked up nominations for actress Jenna Coleman, best scripted television show, and writer for Jacquelin Perske. Wild Rose picked up nods for best feature film, best actress for Jessie Buckley…

Argentina's film academy has submitted Sebastián Borensztein's Heroic Losers (La Odisea De Los Giles) to the 2020 International Feature Film Oscar category. The film is based on a novel by Eduardo Sacheri, who also penned the book that was adapted into Juan José Campanella's 2009 Oscar-winning Argentinian drama The Sec…

"In the last 10 years of Serbian cinema, there have been movies about war and crime – subjects that nobody likes, especially if you're trying to find escape from the cinema," See You in Montevideo director Dragan Bjelogrlic told Deadine’s Dominic Patten at last night’s Awardsline screening for Serbia’s foreign Oscar…

This season, 63 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards. The 2011 submissions are vying to be among the 9 long-listed by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences before the 5 finalists are announced with Oscar nominations on January 24…

EXCLUSIVE: (Screening schedule below) Although the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has yet to officially announce it, their official Best Foreign Language Film Award screening schedule has begun circulating and I’ve obtained a copy (see below). It contains a total of 65 movies competing, each selected as the…

Is Oscar influencing presidential politics in Brazil? Controversy recently erupted when the movie biography of that country's enormously popular President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was chosen as Brazil's official entry for the Academy Award's Best Foreign Language Film race. Problem is, the selection came just 10…