Sixty years after a small group of foreign journalists screened selected movies they found interesting the preceding year to movie stars and industry insiders at Fox Studios it has now grown to awards show annually televised in January. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association a non-profit organization with 90 member international journalists based in Los Angeles announced this years nominees country of origins are Russia, France, Denmark, Italy and shared movie from Mexico and Spain.
The nominees are Biutiful in Spanish with shared countries of origin of Spain and Mexico; The Concert, French movie; The Edge, Russian movie; I Am Love, Italian movie and In A Better World, Denish movie. As a voice over agency based in Los Angeles with 1200 foreign voice over artists found these nominated movies worthy of recogintion in conversation amongst in house voice over language directors. JBI Studios provides accent free native French voice over, Russian voice over, Italian voice over, Danish voice over, Spanish voice over and Spanish for Latin America for worldwide clients including Disney, ABC, EA Games and Warner Brothers.
Most of these movies might not be widely available for screening in theatres across America, lookup your local independent movie theatre for listings. If you are in the Los Angeles area, you are in luck the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood will be showing four of the nominees January 10 – 15, 2010.
THE EDGE (KRAY), 2010, 124 min. Dir. Aleksei Uchitel. In the post-WWII Siberian wilderness, Russian veteran and train aficionado Ignat (Vladimir Mashkov) is stationed at labor camp Kray among Russians sentenced as traitors under Stalin’s rule for conspiring with Germans in battle. The Country of Russia, (Kpaй) Channel One Russia; Samuel Goldwyn (Russia). The Country of Russia, (Kpaй) Channel One Russia; Samuel Goldwyn (Russia).
THE CONCERT (LE CONCERT), 2009, 119 min. Andrei Filipov (Aleksei Guskov), once the famed conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was humiliatingly fired under Brezhnev’s rule for keeping Jewish musicians in the company. The Country of France, an Oï Oï Oï Productions, Les Productions Du Tresor, France 3 Cinema, Europacorp, Castel Films, Panache Productions, RTBF (Belgian Television), BIM Distrubuzione Co., Canal +, Cinecinema and France 3; The Weinstein Company.
IN A BETTER WORLD The Country of Denmark, (Hævnen) Zentropa Entertainment; Sony Pictures Classics.
I AM LOVE (IO SONO L'AMORE), 2009, 120 min. "When I moved to Milan, I stopped being Russian," says Emma (Tilda Swinton), an immigrant who’s lost one identity but never fully formed another after marrying into the wealthy Recchi family. The Country of Italy, (IO SONO L’AMORE) First Sun; Magnolia Pictures.
BIUTIFUL, 2010, 147 min. From director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (AMORES PERROS, 21 GRAMS) comes this stylized, surreal portrait of single father Uxbal (Javier Bardem), scraping by in the present-day Barcelona slums working as a liaison between illegal immigrants from Senegal and China and those who exploit them for work.
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Sixty years after a small group of foreign journalists screened selected movies they found interesting the preceding year to movie stars and industry insiders at Fox Studios it has now grown to awards show annually televised in January. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association a non-profit organization with 90 member international journalists based in Los Angeles announced this years nominees country of origins are Russia, France, Denmark, Italy and shared movie from Mexico and Spain.
