Oscar Stalingrad

The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has provided a list of nine films, the remaining contenders for the "Oscar" in the category "Best Foreign Film". Specific film award nominees will be announced on January 16.

The short-list of applicants for "Oscar" for best foreign film includes:

"The Great Beauty" (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)
"Grand Master" (Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong)
"Two Lives" (George Maas, Germany)
"Disappeared image" (Reethi PANH, Cambodia)
"Omar" (Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine)
"Hunting" (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
"Open Circle" (Felix Van Groenginen, Belgium)
"Thick Notebook" (Janos Szasz, Hungary)
"The episode in the life of the collector of iron" (Danis Tanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Thus, the film Fyodor Bondarchuk's "Stalingrad" was eliminated from the race for the "Oscar».