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Israel’s ‘Get’ misses cut for Oscar shortlist
Polish movie about nun who learns she’s the daughter of Jews killed during Holocaust makes Oscar shortlist for best foreign-language film. The Israeli entry that depicts the five-year legal struggle of an Orthodox wife to obtain a religious divorce, “Gett: The Trial of Vivian Amsalem,” did not make the cut.
ANT KATZ
‘Ida’ was among nine films that made the shortlist on Friday.
Among other contenders for the foreign-language Oscar are Russia’s “Leviathan”, in which a simple worker battles a corrupt city hall, and Sweden’s “Force Majeure”, depicting a family facing down an avalanche while on a ski vacation.
‘Ida’ stars Agata Trzebuchowska, right
While such traditional cinematic powerhouses as France, Italy and Germany failed to qualify, outsiders Mauritania (“Timbuktu”), Estonia (“Tangerines”) and Georgia (“Corn Island”) made the shortlist.
Rounding out the list of nine are Argentina (“Wild Tales”), Holland (“Accused”) and Venezuela (“The Liberator”).
The nine short-listed nominees will be reduced to five finalists when the 87th Academy Award nominations are announced on January 15. The Academy Awards will be held on February 22 in Hollywood.