2016 Oscars Poll: Which Foreign Language Entries Will Make the 9-Film Shortlist?

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Top; Austria’s Goodnight Mommy, Colombia’s Embrace the Serpent. Bottom; Brazil’s The Second Mother, Taiwan’s The Assassin

 

Eighty-one countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 88th Academy Awards® and now it’s time for you to vote on what films you think will make the 9-film shortlist. Heavy hitters like Son of Saul (Hungary), The Assassin (Taiwan) and The Second Mother (Brazil) seem like safe bets but you never know with that selection committee. They could pull a Dogtooth and go outside of the box with something like Austria’s horror thriller Goodnight Mommy just as easily as pick a more high profile film.

FUN FACTS:

Number of female directors: 15. Iris Elezi (Albania); Anna Muylaert (Brazil); Kulikar Sotho (Cambodia); Laura Amelia Guzman (Dominican Republic); Ines Tanović (Bosnia-Herzegovina); Deniz Gamze Ergüven (France); Zenia Makki, Christelle Ighniades and Maria Abdel Karim (Lebanon); Alanté Kavaité (Lithuania); Ivona Juka (Montenegro) Mercedes Arias and Delfina Vidal (Panama); Arami Ullon (Paraguay) and Sonja Prosenc (Slovenia).

Number of LGBT films: 4. Dominican Republic, Greece, Lithuania and Thailand.

Number of Documentary films: 2. Switzerland and Paraguay.

Number of Animated films: 1. Palestine.

Last year, the shortlist announcement was on December 19th so expect a similar timeline for this year.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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