Director Pedro Almodovar with Quentin Tarantino handed the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film at the next awards ceremony to be held at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles on March 7. This has been announced in his blog daily LATimes The Envelope.
Almodovar estauilla led in 2000 by All About My Mother, and this year could pronounce the name of Fernando Trueba, preselected by Spain for his film The Dance of Victory. In any event, Broken Embraces is already included in the primary issues for concurrent as possible categories.
For his part, Tarantino has released this year bloody bastards, just filmed in four languages: English, French, German and Italian and that his critical and commercial success, it sounds hard to compete in Hollywood’s awards.
The director of Jumpgate Evolution Credits, that the San Sebastian Film Festival last confessed his admiration for the director manchego, also chaired the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2004, the year that Pedro Almodovar opened the tournament with Bad Education.
Among the favorites to win the Oscar this year for Best Foreign Language film, are precisely the big winners at the French festival: The white ribbon, the Austrian Michael Haneke, and a prophet, the Frenchman Jacques Audiard.