Australian writer-director Kim Mordaunt's hopes of an Oscar nomination have been dashed. Source: AAP
AUSTRALIAN writer-director Kim Mordaunt's hopes of an Oscar nomination have been dashed.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its short-list of nine films for the foreign language category on Friday and Mordaunt's film The Rocket, set in Laos, failed to make the cut.
The Rocket was one of 76 films considered.
Its hopes were boosted after winning awards at the American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles, the Berlin Film Festival and New York's Tribeca Film Festival.
New Zealand's hope, White Lies, filmed in Maori, also missed out.
A committee of several hundred Los Angeles-based academy members screened the films between mid-October and December 16 and came up with six choices. Another three selections were voted by the academy's foreign language film award executive committee.
The short-list will be winnowed down to five nominees by invited committees in New York and Los Angeles.
The five will compete for the Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards on March 2 in Hollywood.
The nine short-listed films are Belgium's The Broken Circle Breakdown, Bosnia and Herzegovina's An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Cambodia's The Missing Picture, Denmark's The Hunt, Germany's Two Lives, Hong Kong's The Grandmaster, Hungary's The Notebook, Italy's The Great Beauty and Palestine's Omar.
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