Thursday, January 22, 2009

‘Three Monkeys' snubbed in Oscar nominations

‘Three Monkeys' snubbed in Oscar nominations

"Üç Maymun" (Three Monkeys), Turkey's entry in this year's race for the best foreign-language film Oscar, did not make it into yesterday's nominations for this year's Academy Awards.Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Cannes best director prize-winning dark drama of family secrets was not included in the five-piece shortlist, consisting of Germany's "The Baader Meinhof Complex," France's "The Class," Japan's "Departures," "Revanche," from Austria and "Waltz with Bashir" from Israel.

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