The movie, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D'Cruz, was highly appreciated in India and overseas and made a business of 100 crores.
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India's Barfi, directed byAnurag Basu, is amongst the 71 films named for the 2012Foreign Language Oscar category, the Academy announced.The movie, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra andIleana D'Cruz, was highly appreciated in India and overseasand made a business of 100 crores.
Other foreign-language entries include the French hitThe Intouchables, from directors Olivier Nakache and EricToledano, The Patience Stone from Afghan filmmaker AtiqRahimi and Austria's Amour from director Michael Haneke.Amour had previously won the top prize at last May'sCannes Film Festival.
The film stars Emmanuelle Riva andJean-Louis Trintignant as an elderly couple coping with thewife's worsening health.
Nakache's The Intouchables starring Francois Cluzet andOmar Sy is the second-highest-grossing film of all time andhas earned USD 355 million internationally.
It follows the story of an unlikely friendship betweenPhilippe, a wealthy quadriplegic, and Driss, a young and poorman from the ghettos, who is hired as his live-in carerfollowing a horrific road crash.
However, missing this time from the Oscar race is Iran,last year's Oscar-winner for best foreign film.The nationopted out of Academy Awards as a statement of protest againstthe YouTube video Innocence of Muslims.
The submissions also feature Sweden's The Hypnotist,from Lasse Hallstrom, Norway's Kon-Tiki from directorsJoachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, Armenian director NataliaBelyauskene's If Only Everyone and War Witch from Canada'sKim Nguyen.
The list also includes first-time entrant Kenya withmovies - Ould-Khelifa's Zabana representing Algeria, andDavid Tosh Gitonga's Nairobi Half Life.
The Academy will announce the final list of 5 nominatedfilms on January 10, 2013 and the official ceremony will takeplace on February 24, 2013.
Other foreign-language entries include the French hitThe Intouchables, from directors Olivier Nakache and EricToledano, The Patience Stone from Afghan filmmaker AtiqRahimi and Austria's Amour from director Michael Haneke.Amour had previously won the top prize at last May'sCannes Film Festival.
The film stars Emmanuelle Riva andJean-Louis Trintignant as an elderly couple coping with thewife's worsening health.
Nakache's The Intouchables starring Francois Cluzet andOmar Sy is the second-highest-grossing film of all time andhas earned USD 355 million internationally.
It follows the story of an unlikely friendship betweenPhilippe, a wealthy quadriplegic, and Driss, a young and poorman from the ghettos, who is hired as his live-in carerfollowing a horrific road crash.
However, missing this time from the Oscar race is Iran,last year's Oscar-winner for best foreign film.The nationopted out of Academy Awards as a statement of protest againstthe YouTube video Innocence of Muslims.
The submissions also feature Sweden's The Hypnotist,from Lasse Hallstrom, Norway's Kon-Tiki from directorsJoachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, Armenian director NataliaBelyauskene's If Only Everyone and War Witch from Canada'sKim Nguyen.
The list also includes first-time entrant Kenya withmovies - Ould-Khelifa's Zabana representing Algeria, andDavid Tosh Gitonga's Nairobi Half Life.
The Academy will announce the final list of 5 nominatedfilms on January 10, 2013 and the official ceremony will takeplace on February 24, 2013.
