Óscares | Os filmes estrangeiros

Uma análise sobre os candidatos ao Óscar para melhor filme estrangeiro.

Five Oscar Nominees: Foreign, Not Alien
By CARYN JAMES
Published: February 17, 2006

NOW that Michael Moore and penguins have given documentaries some cachet, the title of Most Boring Category You're Supposed to Care About at the Oscars probably goes to best foreign-language film. (Awards to humanitarians and techno-geeks don't count.) But the current surprisingly topical crop of nominees reveals the silliness of that idea. In this year of politically themed best-picture contenders like "Munich" and "Good Night, and Good Luck," the foreign films have a similar urgency.