{"id":20842,"date":"2014-12-21T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=20842"},"modified":"2014-12-21T22:01:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:01:40","slug":"ida-makes-oscars-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/ida-makes-oscars-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ida&#8217; makes Oscars shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 A Polish movie about a Catholic nun who learns she is the daughter of Jews killed during the Holocaust made the Oscar Award shortlist for best foreign-language film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIda&#8221; was among nine films that made the shortlist on Friday. \u201cGett: The Trial of Vivian Amsalem,\u201d the Israeli entry that depicts the five-year legal struggle of an Orthodox wife to obtain a religious divorce, did not make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>Among other contenders for the foreign-language Oscar are Russia\u2019s \u201cLeviathan,\u201d in which a simple worker battles a corrupt city hall, and Sweden\u2019s \u201cForce Majeure,\u201d depicting a family facing down an avalanche while on a ski vacation.<\/p>\n<p>While such traditional cinematic powerhouses as France, Italy and Germany failed to qualify, outsiders Mauritania (\u201cTimbuktu), Estonia (\u201cTangerines\u201d) and Georgia (\u201cCorn Island\u201d) made the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the list of nine are Argentina (\u201cWild Tales\u201d), Holland (\u201cAccused\u201d) and Venezuela (\u201cThe Liberator\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The slate of nine nominees will be winnowed down to five finalists when the 87th Academy Award nominations are announced on Jan. 15. The Oscars will be held Feb. 22 in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%27Ida%27%20makes%20Oscars%20shortlist\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6545,8790,8795,8788,413],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20843,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842\/revisions\/20843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}