After a five-week, extensively publicised campaign during which people were invited to vote for one of 10 shortlisted works, Burton’s came through convincingly with some 22 per cent of votes cast. The painting is an unusually large, lustrous watercolour from 1864 and derives from an exceptionally blood-spattered Danish ballad with echoes of the Whitney …
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Every year the Academy invites countries to submit their best film for the Oscar of Best Foreign Language Film. Each film must have been released in theaters, produced outside the United States, and contain primarily non-English dialogue. In 2012, sixty three countries submitted a film and nine were shortlisted as contenders. On January 24, the five …
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