CEE Films Nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes

06-01-2015

CEE Films Nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes

By FNE Staff

Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski

Ida, Tangerines and Corn Island are among the nine foreign films shortlisted from a number of 83 originally submitted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Ida and Tangerines are also competing for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film which will be announced on 11 January in Los Angeles.

Tangerines by Zaza Urushadze From the nine films shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film only five will make to the final list which will be known on 15 January. The Oscars ceremony will take place on 22 February. The list of the shortlisted films includes Damián Szifrón's Wild Tales (Argentina), Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu (Mauritania), Paula van der Oest's Accused (Netherlands), Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan (Russia), Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure (Sweden) and Alberto Arvelo's The Liberator (Venezuela).

Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski Pawel Pawlikowksi's Ida was also submitted at the Oscars in four non-foreign categories: Best Directing, Best Script, Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Acctress. Ida is produced by Phoenix Film (DK) and Opus Film (PL) in association with Portobello Pictures (GB) and Canal Plus, with the support of Polish Film Institute.

Corn Island by George Ovashvili Zaza Urushadze's Tangerines is an Estonian/Georgian coproduction between Allfilm and Cinema 24. It's an unprecedent success for the Georgian cinema, which has another coproduction nominated at the Golden Globes, George Ovashvili's Corn Island, produced by the Georgian company Alamdary Films in coproduction with France's Arizona Productions, Germany's 42film, Axman Production from the Czech Republic and Kazakhfilm from Kazakhstan. Both films are supported by the Georgian National Film Centre.