Audiard, Delbonnel, Desplat, Leterrier and two shorts nominated
The French film industry has a rich crop of nominations, with seven Oscar hopefuls lined up for March 7.
Leading the pack is Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet [+see also:
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A Prophet, which garnered 1.25m admissions in France (UGC Distribution), was released on January 22 in the UK (Optimum Releasing). It will be launched tomorrow in the Netherlands (ABC/Cinemien), on February 26 in Italy (Bim Distribuzione) and Spain (Altafilms), and in March in Germany.
DoP Bruno Delbonnel, who is competing with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [+see also:
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Composer Alexandre Desplat, nominated for Fantastic Mr. Fox, is also hoping to be third time lucky after nominations in 2009 (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and 2007 (The Queen [+see also:
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interview: Stephen Frears
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Meanwhile, costume designer Catherine Leterrier is a first-time Oscar nominee with Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel [+see also:
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The future of French animation is looking very promising with two nominees out of five contenders for the statuette for Best Animated Short Film: French Roast by Fabrice Joubert and Logorama by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain.
Other nominees are the song Loin de Paname, composed by Reinhardt Wagner to lyrics by Frank Thomas for Christophe Barratier’s film Paris 36 [+see also:
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interview: Tomm Moore
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(Translated from French)
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