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OSCARS 2014 Italy

The Great Beauty selected as Italian candidate for Oscar nomination

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- Paolo Sorrentino’s film will represent Italy in the selection process for best foreign film Oscar, which will be given out on 2 March 2014

The Great Beauty selected as Italian candidate for Oscar nomination

The selection commission in charge of choosing which Italian film will be in the running for the best foreign film Oscar, instituted by ANICA on the invitation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this morning declared Italy’s contender to be The Great Beauty [+see also:
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by Paolo Sorrentino.  

The commission was composed by Nicola Borrelli, Martha Capello, Liliana Cavani, Tilde Corsi, Caterina D’Amico, Piera Detassis, Andrea Occhipinti and Giulio Scarpati.

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The announcement of the final five films selected to be in the running for the best foreign language film will be made on Thursday, 16 January 2014, while the award ceremony for the 86th edition of the Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, 2 March 2014.

The last Italian film to receive an Oscar nomination was Don’t Tell [+see also:
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by Cristina Comencini in 2005, while the last Italian film to win an Oscar dates back to Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful in 1998. Before that was Gabriele Salvatores’s Mediterraneo in 1991 and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso in 1989. In 1987, The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci received nine Oscars. 

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(Translated from Italian)

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