Canada nominees for
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| Monsieur Lazhar | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Incendies | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Water | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Barbarian Invasions* | 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jesus of Montréal | 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Decline of the American Empire | 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Xavier Dolan has now made 6 films and 3 of them have been the Oscars nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
Dolan's latest It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) is Canada's entry in the Oscars category for 2017.
The filmmaker also was nominated for I Killed My Mother (2009) and Mommy (2014).
It's Only the End of the World features French actors Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Lea Seydoux, Gaspard Ulliel, and Vincent Cassel. Baye also starred in Laurence Anyways.
Our curiosity is heightened as to whether this film continues to fit the recent pattern. Purely French-Canadian films haven't made the cut while those films with an outside story do make the cut.
Felix and Meira, Mommy, and Gabrielle were the last 3 nominees but none made the cut to the top 9 much less the top 5. Rebelle, Monsieur Lazhar, and Incendies each made the top 5 cut. This will be especially poignant since Dolan's last film Mommy didn't come close.
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It's Only the End of the World finished second at Cannes. Mommy tied for third at Cannes and won the Cesar for Best Foreign Film.
Dolan's film nomination will shines extra light on the young director. Let's hope more people start discovering his work, all of his work.
The 89th Academy Awards will be on February 26, 2017
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