The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled the poster for the 84th Academy Awards®

Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards®. Sixty-three films had originally qualified in the category.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

• Belgium, “Bullhead,” Michael R. Roskam, director;
• Canada, “Monsieur Lazhar,” Philippe Falardeau, director;
• Denmark, “Superclásico,” Ole Christian Madsen, director;
• Germany, “Pina,” Wim Wenders, director;
• Iran, “A Separation,” Asghar Farhadi, director;
• Israel, “Footnote,” Joseph Cedar, director;
• Morocco, “Omar Killed Me,” Roschdy Zem, director;
• Poland, “In Darkness,” Agnieszka Holland, director;
• Taiwan, “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,” Wei Te-sheng, director.

Foreign Language Film nominations for 2011 are again being determined in two phases.

The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based members, screened the 63 eligible films between mid-October and January 13. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.

The shortlist will be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles. They will spend Friday, January 20, through Sunday, January 22, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.

The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

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Jochen Alexander Freydank worked continuously in Germany, most recently he directed the episode “Heimatfront” for the classic German TV-Series “Tatort”. The East-Berlinborn director won an Academy Award in 2009 for his film “Toyland”
Let’s take a look back with this TV-feature (in German)

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Die BBC-Fernsehausstrahlung der Verfilmung des erfolgreichen Bilderbuchs verfolgten an Weihnachten 2009 zehn Millionen Zuschauer. Der halbstündige Animationsfilm war bereits Anfang 2010 für den BAFTA nominiert, wurde auf vielen internationalen Festivals gezeigt und u. a. mit dem Preis für das beste TV-Special beim Animationsfilmfestival Annecy 2010 und dem Tricks for Kids Award des Internationalen Trickfilmfestivals Stuttgart 2010 ausgezeichnet.

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If the rumors are true and Sandra Bullock’s marriage is not rock-solid, winning an Oscar really does not have a positive effect on the female winners’ private lives. Winning the golden man, was followed by lots of heartache before, remember Charlize Theron, Hilary Swank, Halle Berry and Reese Witherspoon? So shortly after last year’s winning actress Kate Winslet announced the end of her marriage, this tatooed model, trying to catch some of the limelight, went to a US magazine claiming she had an 11-month-affair with Bullock’s husband.

True or not true, understandably the Superstar has no intention of doing media interviews at the moment and so Sandra Bullock cancelled her UK “Blind Side” premiere appearance and the following press statement was issued:

“Due to unforeseen personal reasons a trip abroad to support The Blind Side has been deemed impossible at this time. I apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your continued support of the film.”

Jesse James broke the silence and even if he called the majority of the allegations untrue, he apologized in a statement provided to People magazine: “There is only one person to blame for this whole situation, and that is me.”
“It’s because of my poor judgment that I deserve everything bad that is coming my way,” he says in the statement. “This has caused my wife and kids pain and embarrassment beyond comprehension and I am extremely saddened to have brought this on them. I am truly very sorry for the grief I have caused them. I hope one day they can find it in their hearts to forgive me.”

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The day before she accepted her Razzie award. Probably the only actress to win both awards in one year. See her speech here.

At the Governor’s Ball

Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down? I would like to thank the Academy for allowing me in the last month to have the most incredible ride with rooms full of artists that I see tonight and that I’ve worked with before and I hope to work with in the future, who inspire me and blaze trails for us. Four of them that I’ve fallen deeply in love with I share this night with and I share this award with.

Gabby, I love you so much. You are exquisite. You are beyond words to me. Carey, your grace and your elegance and your beauty and your talent makes me sick. Helen, I feel like we are family through family and I don’t have the words to express just what I think of you. And Meryl, you know what I think of you and you are such a good kisser.

I have so many people to thank for my good fortune in this lifetime and this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I know. To the family that allowed me to play them, the Tuohy family, I know they’re in here and you’ll probably hear her in a minute. Maybe not. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to… the family that made this film that gave me the opportunity to do something different. John Lee Hancock, Gil Netter, Alcon, Warner Bros., the actors, everyone who’s shown me kindness when it wasn’t fashionable, I thank you. To everyone who was mean to me when it wasn’t… George Clooney threw me in a pool years ago. I’m still holding a grudge. But there’s so many people to thank.

Not enough time, so I would like to thank what this film is about for me which are the moms that take care of the babies and the children no matter where they come from. Those moms and parents never get thanked. I, in particular, failed to thank one. So… if I can take this moment to thank Helga B. for not letting me ride in cars with boys until I was 18 because she was right. I would’ve done what she said I was gonna do. For making me practice every day when I got home. Piano, ballet, whatever it is I wanted to be. She said to be an artist, you had to practice every day, and for reminding her daughters that there’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love. So, to that trailblazer, who allowed me to have that. And this. And this. I thank you so much for this opportunity that I share with these extraordinary women and my lover Meryl Streep. Thank you.

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Oscar wrapped in plastic

The preparations to the world’s largest movie award gala are in full swing on March 4, 2010. German World takes you behind the scenes to Hollywood Boulevard which has been blocked from traffic at Highland Avenue since March 1, 2010. Where hundreds of celebrities will soon stroll along to the cheers of the onlookers, all Oscar statues are still wrapped and the red carpet is covered in plastics on March 4, 2010.

Gloria Pink

After checking out the set-up area, we stopped at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce on Hollywood Boulevard for its annual open house supported by businesses of the Hollywood community. One of them is Gloria Pink, owner of “Pink’s Famous Chili Dogs”, the famous hot dog joint on La Brea Avenue that has become one of Los Angeles’ landmarks. Gloria whose parents started the business in 1939 told German World that Germany’s most famous TV show host , Thomas Gottschalk, once shot a scene for one of his productions at “Pink’s” and became one of her customers. Celebrities like Sandra Bullock, John Malkovich, and Richard Dreyfuss also belong to Pink’s regulars, standing in line just like anybody else.  Dreyfuss always comes in for a “Mild Polish Hot Dog with mustard, kraut, fries and a coke”. We tried Pink’s signature “Chilli Hot Dog” and simply loved it.

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