Sentence examples for foreign language academy from inspiring English sources

Yet, he conceded, the film may have been chosen as France's candidate for a foreign language Academy Award this year because it is something of an epic.

An excellent result and a nice little tee-up before the Oscars next weekend, when A Prophet goes head-to-head with The White Ribbon for the foreign language Academy award.

Fernando León de Aranoa's "Mondays in the Sun," which was Spain's nominee for the best foreign language Academy Award, is part of a trend in European filmmaking that examines, with pessimism and compassion, the present condition of the continent's working class.

It was a widely noted absentee last year, but it looks like Cannes favourite The Hunt is on track for a shot at Oscar glory in 2014 after it was announced that the Mads Mikkelsen-starring drama had been included on Denmark's three-film shortlist for the best foreign language Academy award nomination.

"Ward No. 6," the Russian submission for this year's foreign-language Academy Award, has a disorienting sense of time.

With a running time of 159 minutes, "12," which was nominated this year for a foreign-language Academy Award, is extravagantly lengthy.

Colbert, recalling a bit about the awarding of the foreign-language Academy Award, calls it "possibly the most racist sketch ever committed to tape".

Israel's contender for this year's foreign-language Academy Award was Joseph Cedar's "Footnote," a tragicomic tale of rival father-and-son Jewish scholars in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Yet both films have been chosen by their respective countries, France and Algeria, to represent them for the foreign-language Academy Award, which will be presented on Feb. 27. "It is a wound," said Benjamin Stora, one of France's best historians of Algeria and French colonialism.

One of Denmark's 2015 submissions for a foreign-language Academy Award, "Men & Chicken," which stars Mads Mikkelsen and involves human-animal hybridization and bestiality, was, according to its director, Anders Thomas Jensen, "much more taken as a comedy" at home than in the United States.

Though a story set in Turkey and in the Turkish language, the film was submitted by France for the foreign-language Academy Award, chosen over previous Oscar nominee Jacques Audiard's "Dheepan," a film that won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.