Indian filmmaker Geetu Mohandas’s “Liar’s Dice”, which was India’s official entry for the foreign language film category at the Academy Awards, has not made it to the first phase of the nomination shortlist.
“Liar’s Dice”, which tells the story of a young mother who takes her daughter in search for her missing husband, was chosen by the Film Federation of India (FFI) out of among 30 shortlisted movies, to represent the country at prestigious Oscars in the foreign language film category.
“Liar’s Dice” was a part of the 83 films that had originally been considered in the category. But now, it has failed to make its way into a list of nine feature movies, which will advance to the next round of voting by the jury for the 87th Academy Awards, according to an update on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences website.
The nine shortlisted films are: Damián Szifrón’s “Wild Tales” (Argentina), Zaza Urushadze’s “Tangerines” (Estonia), George Ovashvili’s “Corn Island” (Georgia), Abderrahmane Sissako’s “Timbuktu” (Mauritania), Paula van der Oest’s “Accused” (Netherlands), Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida” (Poland), Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Leviathan” (Russia), Ruben Östlund’s “Force Majeure” (Sweden) and Alberto Arvelo’s “The Liberator” (Venezuela).
The foreign language film nominations for 2014 are being determined in two phases. The phase-1 committee, consisting of several hundred local Academy members, screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and Dec 15.
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 category’s five nominees by specially invited committees here and in New York and, for the first time, London. They will spend Jan 9-11, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.
The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live Jan 15, 2015 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn theater.
The Oscars will be held Feb 22, 2015 at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood. The presentation ceremony will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
Always wrong entry sent from India.and we stil wonder y we didn’t win. Last few years we are sending movies we never seen or heard off.thanks
pk should have gone to oscar instead.
hope next year raees or fan gets nominated
Last year’s THE LUNCHBOX had a 100% chance of being Nominated and probably Top 2 chances of bringing home the Academy Award for 2014 Best Foreign Film.
India as usual ****ed it all up.
This year is no surprise as well. Too much politics, nepotism goes into India’s Oscar selection.
Its really unfair that 1.25 Billion Indians and 1.35 Billion Chinese have to compete with 75 Million Iranians with only 1 film.
Some countries need to be given a leverage of sending more than 1 film to Oscars based on Population size.
These Oscar people are so biased
Why didn’t they send Queen? :/
next year hope baby gets sent
Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam should have been shortlisted for last year’s Oscar Indian film . I am expecting Uthama Villain to be sent by the India for next year’s Oscars . Kamal Haasan is the only Indian film actor to represent most for India at Academy Awards or Oscars as an artist and I hope Ulaganayagan will do it next year again in 2015 . A Die hard Kamal Haasan fan . And I think instead of Liar’s Dice , Ek Villain should’ve been shortlisted as an Indian film to the Oscars (in my own personal opinion) . :)
WHY worry…no need to please Hollywood OSCAR committee or Western standards…..Bollywood films are meant for the people who appreciate Indian culture or a blend of the East and the West.;
Forget having to please those who do not understand the culture of the Bollywood films or indeed that of other none-western films. DO NOT IMITATE THEIRS.;
Hollywood cannot judge our films as we cannot judge theirs.;
We act as though we are still under colonial rule and are still trying to please AND IMITATE the West.
Grow up and be proud of the achievements of the film industry which is enjoyed by the despora and others throughout the world.;