Shortlist appears for Foreign Films

With the February 2nd announcement of the final slate of nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards, the shortlists start popping up one after another. This time it’s the Best Foreign Language Film category, cropping up with nine that just made it into the next round of the decision making process. Check out the list below from Coming Soon.:

• El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) - Dir. by Juan Jose Campanella
• Samson & Delilah (Australia) – Dir. by Warwick Thornton
• The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner (Bulgaria) – Dir. by Stephan Komandarev
• Un Prophète (France) – Dir. by Jacques Audiard
• The White Ribbon (Germany) – Dir. by Michael Haneke
• Ajami (Israel) – Dir. by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
• Kelin (Kazakhstan) – Dir. by Ermek Tursunov
• Winter in Wartime (The Netherlands) – Dir. by Martin Koolhoven
• The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) – Dir. by Claudia Llosa

The announcement of the final list of nominees, once again, is on February 2nd at 8:30 EST with the actual awards taking place at the Kodak Theater on March 7th.