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Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of...
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Astrid Henning-Jensen
Astrid Henning-Jensen (December 10, 1914 - January 5, 2002; one source indicates January 7, 2002) was a Danish film director and screenwriter. Her film Paw was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1959.
Born as Astrid...
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Sven Nykvist
Sven Vilhem Nykvist (3 December 1922 – 20 September 2006) was a two-time Academy Award winning Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his...
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Nils Gaup
Nils Gaup (born April 12, 1955) is a Sámi film director from Norway.
Gaup was born in Kautokeino, Finnmark County in Northern Norway. He first intended to become an athlete but from 1974 to 1978 he went to drama school and studied at the Beaivváš...
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Jean-Marc Vallée
Jean-Marc Vallée (born 1963) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.
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Uli Edel
Uli Edel (born April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany) is an Academy Award-nominated German film director.
After studying theatre science in Munich, he was accepted into Munich Film School alongside Bernd Eichinger. Uli befriended him and...
Yojiro Takita
Yōjirō Takita (滝田 洋二郎 Takita Yōjirō, born December 4, 1955 in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan), is an Academy Award-winning Japanese filmmaker.
Yōjirō Takita entered the film industry through Mukai Productions, where he served as an assistant director....
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Götz Spielmann
Götz Spielmann (born January 11, 1961 in Wels, Austria) is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.
Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script...
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Laurent Cantet
Laurent Cantet is a French director, born on June 15, 1961 at Melle (Deux-Sèvres). His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.
On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs.
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Ari Folman
Ari Folman (Hebrew: ארי פולמן) (born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.
He witnessed the aftermath of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre as a 19 year old Israeli soldier. This would serve as the...
