LONDON — Five movies about individuals and families confronting social and historical tumult are competing in the Academy Awards’ race for best foreign-language film. Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron’s autobiographical masterpiece “Roma” and Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski’s 20th-century romance “Cold War” were among contenders announced Tuesday. The film, inspired by the director’s parents, was also nominated for Oscars in cinematography and directing. “Cold War” cinematographer Lukasz Zal said he was “very touched, very happy” by the nomination, and “terribly happy that I could take part in this great adventure.”Pawlikowski’s last film, “Ida,” won the foreign-language Oscar in 2015. Von Donnersmarck, who won the foreign-language Oscar in 2007 for Cold War surveillance drama “The Lives of Others,” is nominated for “Never Look Away,” which follows an artist’s evolution in a traumatized post-World War II Germany.

Source: National Post January 22, 2019 14:21 UTC