Last month, the official selections were announced for the Foreign Language Film category at the 83rd Academy Awards.
On January 25, 2011, this list will be whittled down to five finalists when the official nominees are announced.
This year there were sixty-five films submitted including two countries making their first ever entries - Ethiopia and Greenland.
Here is the list:
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Gjergj Xhuvani
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Ilgar Safat
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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki *
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Danis Tanovic *
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Fabio Barreto *
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Hilda Hidalgo
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Goran Devic and Zvonimir Juric *
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Jan Hrebejk*
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Daoud Abdel Sayed*
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Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew
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Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen *
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Levan Koguashvili
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Otto Rosing and Torben Bech
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Mehdi Naderi
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Mohamed Al-Daradji
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Aktan Arym Kubat
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Maris Martinsons
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Milcho Manchevski
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Rafael Mercado
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Jaroslav Vojtek
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Oliver Schmitz
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Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond
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Federico Veiroj
Shortlist
Nominee
Winner
Quite a long list, but I endeavor to watch and blog about as many of these that I can locate in the next little while. 42/65
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