{"id":277479,"date":"2016-12-17T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T09:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277479"},"modified":"2016-12-17T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T09:54:23","slug":"oscars-2017-germany-and-iran-among-foreign-film-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=277479","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2017: Germany and Iran among foreign film contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Nine movies have been put forward for the next stage of the contest for best foreign-language film at the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>They include the Golden Globe-nominated Toni Erdmann from Germany and The Salesman from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no place for French thriller Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert, who has herself been tipped for a best actress Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The nine films will be whittled down to five when the Academy Award nominations are announced on 24 January.<\/p>\n<p>Other films in the running include Australia&#8217;s Tanna, which is set in the South Pacific and filmed in the Navhal and Nafe languages. It won the audience award at the Venice International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Dolan&#8217;s Canadian drama It&#8217;s Only the End of the World, which won the Cannes Grand Prix prize, has also made the list.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable omissions include Chile&#8217;s Neruda, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, and Julieta, by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of movies in contention for best foreign language film:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A Man Called Ove &#8211; Sweden<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">It&#8217;s Only the End of the World &#8211; Canada<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Land of Mine &#8211; Denmark<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">My Life as a Zucchini &#8211; Switzerland<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Paradise &#8211; Russia<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Tanna &#8211; Australia<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The King&#8217;s Choice &#8211; Norway<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The Salesman &#8211; Iran<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Toni Erdmann &#8211; Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Academy Awards takes place on 26 February at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel as host.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine movies have been put forward for the next stage of the contest for best foreign-language film at the Oscars. They include the Golden Globe-nominated Toni Erdmann from Germany and The Salesman from Iran. But there is no place for French thriller Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert, who has herself been tipped for a best actress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":277483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}