39 ENTRIES FOR FOREIGN-FILM ACADEMY AWARD.Byline: Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter Thirty-nine countries have submitted entries to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. That's two fewer submissions than last year's competition. The foreign-language film award committee - chaired by Fay Kanin Fay Mitchell Kanin (born May 9 1917) is an American screenwriter who was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983. Born in New York City and raised in Elmira, New York, she graduated from University of Southern California with a with Nina Foch as vice chair - will screen all entries beginning Dec. 4 before voting to nominate five achievements. This year's submissions by country are: Albania, ``Colonel Bunker,'' director Kujtim Cashku; Algeria, ``Hey Cousin!'' director Merzak Allouache; Argentina, ``Eva Peron,'' director Juan Carlos Juan Car·los Born 1938. King of Spain (since 1975) who acceded to the throne on the death of Francisco Franco and helped restore parliamentary democracy. Noun 1. Desanzo; Australia, ``Floating Life,'' director Clara Law; Austria, ``Hannah,'' director Reinhard Schwabenitzky; Belarus, ``From Hell to Hell,'' director Dmitri Astrachan as·tra·chan n. Variant of astrakhan. ; Belgium, ``The Eighth Day,'' director Jaco Van Dormael. Brazil, ``Tieta of Agreste,'' director Carlos Diegues; Canada, ``Not Me!'' director Pierre Gang; Colombia, ``Oedipus Mayor,'' director Jorge Ali Triana; Croatia, ``Nausikaya,'' director Vicko Ruic; Cuba, ``Think of Me,'' director Arturo Sotto; Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. , ``Kolya,'' director Jan Sverak. Denmark, ``Hamsun,'' director Jan Troell; Finland, ``Drifting Clouds,'' director Aki Kaurismaki; France, ``Ridicule,'' Patrice Leconte; Georgia, ``The Cook in Love,'' director Nana Djordjadze; Germany, ``The Deathmaker,'' director Romuald Karmakar; Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , ``Hu-Du-Men,'' director Shu Kei; Hungary, ``Vaska Easoff, director Peter Gothar; Iceland, ``Devil's Island,'' director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. India, ``Indian,'' director S. Shankar; Israel, ``Saint Clara,'' directors Ari Folman & Ori Silvan, Italy ``My Generation,'' director Wilma Labate; Japan, ``A Class to Remember 2,'' director Yoji Yamada; Mexico, ``Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman,'' directors Sabina Berman & Isabelle Tardan. The Netherlands, ``Long Live the Queen,'' director Esme Lammers; Norway, ``The Other Side of Sunday,'' director Berit Otto Nesheim; the Philippines, ``Dead Sure,'' director Tikoy Aguiluz; Poland, ``In Full Gallop,'' Krzysztof Zanussi; Romania, ``State of Things,'' director Stere STERE. A French measure of solidity used in measuring wood. It is a cubic metre. Vide Measure. Gulea; Russia, ``Prisoner of the Mountains Prisoner of the Mountains (Russian: Кавказский пленник, Kavkazskiy plennik, Prisoner of the Caucasus (U.K. ,'' director Serguei Bodrov; Slovenia, ``Felix,'' director Bozo Sprajc; Spain, ``Bwana,'' director Imanol Uribe; Sweden, ``Jerusalem,'' director Bille August; Switzerland, ``Les Agneaux, director Marcel Schupbach; Taiwan, ``Tonight Nobody Goes Home,'' director Sylvia Chang; Vietnam, ``Gone, Gone, Forever Gone,'' director Ho Quang Minh; Yugoslavia, ``Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbian: Лепа села лепо горе ,'' director Srdjan Dragojevic. |
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