02/10/2006

Emanuele Crialese’s Golden Door [+see also:
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film profile], a Silver Lion winner at this year’s Venice Film Festival, is the Italian entry for the Oscar shortlist of five nominees in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

The commission – made up of eight producers, a representative of the Ministry of Culture, two critics, four artists (including director Ferzan Ozpetek and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro) – convened for the first time last Thursday, to meet with representatives of the nominated films, of which there were initially eight, then seven, after Gianni Amelio pulled his film The Missing Star [+see also:
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This morning the commission decided on the most suitable film to submit to the Academy: that of a Sicilian immigrant family’s emotional journey at the turn of the 20th century to Ellis Island, the obligatory stopping point for gaining entry into the United States.

The other nominees were: Crime Novel [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)