OK.. I'll ready a spreadsheet to keep everything straight. In the meantime, I guess I am up?
Hummm.... This is a tough one. Conventional wisdom says pick one of the less sexy categories that have fewer viable picks.... Yeah... That is what I will do.
In the
Best Fgn Language Film category, I'll select:
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (Germany)
A somewhat shocking winner in 2006, as most pundits had Pan's Labyrinth taking the oscar in a cakewalk. However this slow-burning exploration of surveillance, voyeurism, human relationships under immense pressure, and the problematic issues identity and sense of history for those who lived in and after the GDR. A great, great film.