Aug 1, 2013–Romania selected the Berlin Fest winner “Child’s Pose” as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Picture Oscar.
Notebook, The (2013): Hungary’s Oscar Entry
August 7, 2013 by
“Le Grand Cahier” (The Notebook) has been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the Academy Awards‘ foreign-language film category.
Oscar Politics: Pakistan to Submit Entry after 50 Years
August 4, 2013 by
August 3, 2013–Pakistan will submit an entry to Oscar’s foreign-language category after an absence of 50 years, though the committee has not yet chosen the film.
Oscar Movies: Accused, The (1988)
August 3, 2013 by
In her first Oscar-winning role, Jonathan Kaplan’s The Accused, Jodie Foster plays Sarah Tobias, a fast-food waitress (traditional female profession), who is gang-raped in a roadside bar (also conventional stereotype). However, in the course of the film, she transforms from a good-time, hard-drinking girl to a woman fighting (with the assistance of a female attorney, played by Kelly McGillis) for the decency and self-esteem she never had.
Oscar 2013: Cheryl Boone Isaacs Academy’s New President
August 2, 2013 by
On August 1, 2013, Cheryl Boone Isaacs became the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
