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Quebec film makes Oscars’ foreign short list
Wednesday January 14th 2009LOS ANGELES — Quebec filmmaker Benoit Pilon is one step closer to a foreign-language prize at this year’s Academy Awards.
Pilon’s The Necessities of Life is part of a short list of nine films that have advanced from an initial field of 65 eligible titles.
The movie follows the journey of an Inuit hunter in the early 1950s who is flown to a sanatorium in Quebec City to be treated for tuberculosis but does not understand the language.
The film, in French and Inuktitut, won the audience-choice award and the grand jury prize at last year’s Montreal World Film Festival.
Pilon said he was thrilled and honoured to get on Oscar’s short list.
“To be on the list with such quality films is a great opportunity and I thank (producer) Bernadette Payeur and (scriptwriter) Bernard Emond for giving me this wonderful script,” Pilon said Tuesday.
Other films to make the short list include French director Laurent Cantet’s The Class and Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir.
The Class is the Golden Palm winner at last May’s Cannes festival, while Waltz With Bashir is the foreign-language recipient at last weekend’s Globes.
Rounding out the list are Austria’s Revanche, Germany’s The Baader Meinhof Complex, Japan’s Departures, Mexico’s Tear This Heart Out, Sweden’s Everlasting Moments and Turkey’s 3 Monkeys.
Academy committees will narrow the field to five finalists when nominations come out Jan. 22.
Last year, Canada’s Oscar hopeful was Denys Arcand’s Days of Darkness.
Source: The Associated Press
Headline, Industry News
Quebec film makes Oscars’ foreign short list
Wednesday January 14th 2009LOS ANGELES — Quebec filmmaker Benoit Pilon is one step closer to a foreign-language prize at this year’s Academy Awards.
Pilon’s The Necessities of Life is part of a short list of nine films that have advanced from an initial field of 65 eligible titles.
The movie follows the journey of an Inuit hunter in the early 1950s who is flown to a sanatorium in Quebec City to be treated for tuberculosis but does not understand the language.
The film, in French and Inuktitut, won the audience-choice award and the grand jury prize at last year’s Montreal World Film Festival.
Pilon said he was thrilled and honoured to get on Oscar’s short list.
“To be on the list with such quality films is a great opportunity and I thank (producer) Bernadette Payeur and (scriptwriter) Bernard Emond for giving me this wonderful script,” Pilon said Tuesday.
Other films to make the short list include French director Laurent Cantet’s The Class and Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir.
The Class is the Golden Palm winner at last May’s Cannes festival, while Waltz With Bashir is the foreign-language recipient at last weekend’s Globes.
Rounding out the list are Austria’s Revanche, Germany’s The Baader Meinhof Complex, Japan’s Departures, Mexico’s Tear This Heart Out, Sweden’s Everlasting Moments and Turkey’s 3 Monkeys.
Academy committees will narrow the field to five finalists when nominations come out Jan. 22.
Last year, Canada’s Oscar hopeful was Denys Arcand’s Days of Darkness.
Source: The Associated Press
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Headline, Industry News
Quebec film makes Oscars’ foreign short list
Wednesday January 14th 2009LOS ANGELES — Quebec filmmaker Benoit Pilon is one step closer to a foreign-language prize at this year’s Academy Awards.
Pilon’s The Necessities of Life is part of a short list of nine films that have advanced from an initial field of 65 eligible titles.
The movie follows the journey of an Inuit hunter in the early 1950s who is flown to a sanatorium in Quebec City to be treated for tuberculosis but does not understand the language.
The film, in French and Inuktitut, won the audience-choice award and the grand jury prize at last year’s Montreal World Film Festival.
Pilon said he was thrilled and honoured to get on Oscar’s short list.
“To be on the list with such quality films is a great opportunity and I thank (producer) Bernadette Payeur and (scriptwriter) Bernard Emond for giving me this wonderful script,” Pilon said Tuesday.
Other films to make the short list include French director Laurent Cantet’s The Class and Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir.
The Class is the Golden Palm winner at last May’s Cannes festival, while Waltz With Bashir is the foreign-language recipient at last weekend’s Globes.
Rounding out the list are Austria’s Revanche, Germany’s The Baader Meinhof Complex, Japan’s Departures, Mexico’s Tear This Heart Out, Sweden’s Everlasting Moments and Turkey’s 3 Monkeys.
Academy committees will narrow the field to five finalists when nominations come out Jan. 22.
Last year, Canada’s Oscar hopeful was Denys Arcand’s Days of Darkness.
Source: The Associated Press
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