Oscars: Palestine, Hany Abu-Assad Earn Second Foreign-Language Nominations

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday December 20, 2013 @ 9:55am PST

The Academy has just released its list of the nine films that made the Foreign Language Oscar shortlist. Here are the titles that advance to the next stage:

Belgium, “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” Felix van Groeningen, director;
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker,” Danis Tanovic, director;
Cambodia, “The Missing Picture,” Rithy Panh, director;
Denmark, “The Hunt,” Thomas Vinterberg, director;
Palestine, “Omar,” Hany Abu-Assad, director;
Germany, “Two Lives,” Georg Maas, director;