{"id":31766,"date":"2013-12-21T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=31766"},"modified":"2018-12-05T20:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:32:50","slug":"nine-films-make-up-2014-oscar-foreign-language-film-short-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/21\/nine-films-make-up-2014-oscar-foreign-language-film-short-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Films Make Up 2014 Oscar Foreign Language Film Short List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nine films from around the world have made it through to the short list for potential nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s upcoming Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

As usual, there are some films whose presence on the list comes as no surprise as much as other films’ absence from the list such as Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster<\/strong>. But as happens, there are a few notable omissions including Asghar Farhadi’s The Past<\/strong> (Iran), Yuval Adler’s Bethlehem<\/strong> (Israel) and Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Wadjda<\/strong> (Saudi Arabia). One of the fall’s most buzzed about films, France’s Blue Is The Warmest Color was ineligible for the category because its distributor did not release it in its home country by the rules’ October 1st deadline, although it is eligible to compete in other categories. It would be eligible for nomination next year in the Foreign Language category.<\/p>\n

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:<\/p>\n