Sentence examples for french submissions from inspiring English sources

Departures was not expected to win, owing to strong competition from the Israeli and French submissions (Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir and Laurent Cantet's The Class, respectively), but was ultimately the victor at the February 2009 ceremony.

Were you surprised to be chosen as the French submission for the Oscar?

If there was a surprise in the foreign-language nominations, it was the absence of "The Intouchables," the French submission.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie (Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain) has been named by the National Cinema Center CNCC) as the French submission for next year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

"The Past," which theoretically could have been a French submission, was one of a dozen movies on the short list considered by Iran's cinema selection committee in deliberations that ended on Sunday.

Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, distributor of "Blue," acknowledged that he felt "vindicated" by the Globes nomination after the film's release date in France made it ineligible to be this year's official French submission to the Oscars.

Years ago the French complained about the submission procedures, but soon dropped the matter.

In 1838, he watched a squadron of French frigates bomb into submission the citadel of San Juan de Ulúa at Veracruz, Mexico, ushering in a new era in naval tactics.

Hammou had been promised peace talks and had just lost control over five tribes who began negotiations for submission to French rule.

So did many others of the 65 films offered for consideration by film academies around the globe, including the French, German, Dutch and Bulgarian submissions.

For the second year running, China has nominated a film by a French director as its official submission for the best foreign language film Academy award.