Canada is pinning Oscar hopes on Xavier Dolan's latest film, It's Only the End of the World. Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel play a married couple in Xavier Dolan's It's Only The End of the World. Canada's tradition of Francophone picksOscar organizers limit the foreign-language film category to non-American productions that primarily feature dialogue in languages other than English. Canadian directors whose movies have been Canada's official picks for Oscar best foreign-language film consideration include, from left, Denis Villeneuve, Xavier Dolan, Deepa Mehta, Zacharias Kunuk and Kim Nguyen. Over the years, Canada has made the foreign-language film Oscar short list seven times, most recently in 2013 for Nguyen's War Witch.

Source: CBC News September 23, 2016 17:49 UTC