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Kon-Tiki short-listed to Oscar-nomination


Kon-Tiki eyes the Oscar

Kon-Tiki

Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure shortlisted for the Academy Award Best Foreign-Language Feature.

This year’s local blockbuster, taking almost 900,000 admissions, and already nominated for a Golden Globe, Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s Kon-Tiki was today (21 December) shortlisted for the 2013 Oscar as Best Foreign-Language Feature

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“It feels like half a victory already – it means a lot to the film when it will be released in the US and the rest of the world,” said Norwegian producer Aage Aaberge, Nordisk Film Production Norway, who produced the film based on a screenplay by Petter Skavlan with UK producer Jeremy Thomas, of the Recorded Picture Company

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The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it would find the five nominees among nine titles from the 71 submissions, including Kon-Tiki, Icelandic director Baltasar Korm�kur’s The Deep (co-produced by Norway’s Filmhuset), Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair, Amour (Michael Haneke/Austria), War Witch (Kim Nguyen/Canada), No (Pablo Larrain/Chile), The Intouchables (Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano/France), Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu/Romania) and Sister (Ursula Meier/Switzerland).

Kon-Tiki filmen er nominert til Golden Globe.

Norwegian anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s own documentary of his voyage on the Kon-Tiki from South America to the Polynesian Islands was awarded the 1951 Oscar for Best Documentary.

The feature version Kon-Tiki which will be released in the US, Canada, UK and Italy by The Weinstein Company has been selected for the Palm Springs Film Festival (3-4 January), where the two directors are among Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch
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The Academy will publish its final decision of the five nominations on 10 January; the 85th awards ceremony takes place on 24 February.

 

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