The Best Foreign Film Oscar shortlist has been whittled down to nine titles, with three of the nominations going to Eastern European films.
Predictably, Wajda’s Katyń is still on the list, though there’s a surprise in that Cristian Mungiu’s masterly 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile) has been dropped in favour of Sergei Bodrov’s admittedly hugely entertaining but decidedly silly Genghis Khan epic Mongol. The others are Nikita Mikhalkov’s 12 and Srdan Golubović’s The Trap (Klopka).