Posted on 01/26/2019 12:07:35 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
“Roma” was just one of many foreign-language films to figure prominently in the academy’s main categories this year, a trend that may just as well stem from its recent and ongoing push to diversify its ranks.
While Cuaron received a director nomination as expected, for example, he was joined by Pawel Pawlikowski for another black-and-white picture, the moody Polish romance “Cold War.” (Pawlikowski previously directed “Ida,” which won the Oscar for foreign-language film in 2015.)
2019 the first time two entirely non-English-language films have earned directing nominations since 1976, when Ingmar Bergman (“Face to Face”) and Lina Wertmüller (“Seven Beauties”) made the cut.
And 2019 marks the first time that three of the five cinematography nominations have gone to non-English-language pictures: “Roma” (shot by Cuaron) and “Cold War” (shot by Lukasz Zal) were both recognized for their distinct monochrome palettes, while veteran American cinematographer Caleb Deschanel earned his sixth nomination for his ravishing color photography on “Never Look Away,” an absorbing historical drama from Germany’s Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (“The Lives of Others”).
Not to be forgotten in the animated feature category was “Mirai,” a gorgeously intimate tale of family ties from Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda that will face off with big-studio releases like “Incredibles 2” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
Meanwhile, Ali Abbasi’s troll tale “Border,” an uncategorizable Swedish crowd-pleaser that probably narrowly missed the academy’s foreign-language shortlist, nonetheless eked out a makeup and hairstyling nomination for its remarkable prosthetic work.
And “Roma,” “Cold War” and “Never Look Away” all drew more traditional nominations for foreign-language film, a category rounded out by Hirokazu Koreeda’s marvelous Palme d’Or winner, “Shoplifters” (Japan), and Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum” (Lebanon), an emotionally raw, formally unruly tale of child poverty on the streets of Beirut.
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I’d rather watch a foreign film than see the two guys kissing in the Coke commercial I saw last night.
Did they find a pure host yet, pure enough to have never told a homosexual joke??? Pure enough to pass muster with the liberals who run the Academy? Pure enough to pass muster with assorted Hollywood idiots who will dig into his/her background to search for disqualifying actions of the past????
White heterosexuals need not apply!
And this information is important enough to take up bandwidth on FR? If an incoming ICBM hit the Pantages Theater during “the Oscars,” I’d thank the country that launched it!
“Cold War” is excellent. Good music, too.
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
Dwa Serduszka Cztery Oczy (Two Hearts, Four Eyes) From “Cold War”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ9i8xhDaZQ
Roma is good.
It is a more intimate sort of “Upstairs, Downstairs”, but in a very different culture.
It is also entirely accurate in its depiction. I grew up in exactly this situation (other than the infidelity, etc., unlike this movie, we had a very happy childhood), but in the Philippines, not Latin America. But still, it all applies.
It is how it is, we had our Cleo, indeed, she still serves my mother as her housekeeper. And everyone I knew had his or her Cleo.
An unusual, rare take on a very common situation, the world over.
And there isnt a hint of the snowflake or the neurotic in this thing.
Piss on All Oscar nominations. Nothing but Filthy Heathen Liberals patting themselves on the back.
Yes but why? Why did they keep on trying to park that Galaxy in that garage?
All in all, it was a good movie.
I really liked Roma. Where did you find Cold War?Theater, dvd, streaming?
ping
The Oscars have a live thread here every year.
“The Oscars have a live thread here every year.”
Why would anyone want to waste the bandwidth on that crap here? I just can’t fathom any decent FReeper having any interest whatsoever in the $hit that goes on in Hollywierd. Those people should be your arch enemies.
The only movie I care about is Bohemian Rhapsody, NOT from Hollyweird.
Roma was on Netflix so I watched it. It’s about an ethnic maid that gets pregnant and dumped by her ethnic boyfriend while she remains working for the ethnic family she works for who treat her like family and get her prenatal care - except the husband leaves at the beginning of the film, leading to the end scene of ‘time to tell the kids’. It drags, it has very little plot, it’s boring and the ending is as anticlimactic and emotionally forced as the rest of the film. Why it was even nominated is a mystery.
I can't believe Sledge and Snafu became members of Queen. ;)
I suspect Netflix bought the nomination.
It’s playing in a few theaters.
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