Already a Golden Globe nominee, Thomas Vinterberg's "The Hunt" is now on the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, as announced Friday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor award in Cannes 2012 for his performance as a mild-mannered kindergarten teacher whose life falls apart when a young girl in his care makes false accusations against him. "The Hunt" is produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Morten Kaufmann for Zentropa and has received support from the Danish Film Institute.
"The Hunt" is shortlisted together with "The Great Beauty" (Italy), "The Broken Circle Breakdown" (Belgium), "The Grandmaster" (Hong Kong), "The Missing Picture" (Cambodia), "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker" (Bosnia and Herzegovina), "Two Lives" (Germany), "The Notebook" (Hungary) and "Omar" (Palestine).
The final five nominations will be announced on 16 January. Oscar night is on 2 March.
Fourth Danish film on Oscar shortlist
Already shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination are Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing (Documentary Feature), produced by Final Cut for Real, Anders Walter's Helium (Live Action Short), produced by Kim Magnusson for M&M Productions, and Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot's Hollow Land (Animated Short), produced by Marie Bro for Dansk Tegnefilm. Read more
The Hunt
The 40-year-old divorced father, Lucas, is just about to be reunited with his son when he is accused of a crime he did not commit; and now a witch hunt starts in a small surburban town in Denmark. How long will he be able to endure it when his friends and his girlfriend also begins to doubt his innocence..