Chaitanya Tamhane’s Marathi film Court is out of the best foreign film Oscar race after it failed to qualify in the Academy’s latest shortlist.
Chaitanya Tamhane’s Marathi film Court is out of the best foreign film Oscar race after it failed to qualify in the Academy’s latest shortlist.
Nine films out of 80 movies have advanced to the next phase of voting for the Oscar for foreign-language film to be awarded at the 88th Academy Awards.
Debutante Tamhane’s film beat Rajkumar Hirani’s PK, Neeraj Ghyaywan’s Cannes winner Masaan, Omung Kumar’s Mary Kom, Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider, M. Manikandan’s Kaaka Muttai and S.S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali in the Oscar race.
The films that have made it to the Oscar shortlist in the best foreign film category include Belgium’s The Brand New Testament, Colombia’s Embrace of the Serpent, Denmark’s A War, Finland’s The Fencer, France’s Mustang, Germany’s Labyrinth of Lies, Hungarian project Son of Saul, Ireland’s Viva, and Jordan’s Theeb.
Seven of the nine films are from Europe. There is one from the Mideast and one from South America. Asia and Africa were shut out, as were Australia (which had submitted Arrows of the Thunder Dragon) and North America (including Canada’s Felix and Meira and Mexico’s 600 Miles).
There were some high-profile films that did not make the cut.
