The historical epic film “Heneral Luna,” by Jerrold Tarog failed to make it to the shortlist of movies vying for the 88th Academy Awards or Oscars’ Best Foreign Language film despite its critical and box office success in the Philippines.
The internationally-recognized award-winning body, Academy Awards posted on its website a list of the films that are being considered for the award, which continues to elude Filipino movies.
Here’s the List of Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Films;
Belgium’s “The Brand New Testament”;
Colombia’s “Embrace of the Serpent”;
Denmark’s “A War”;
Finland’s “The Fencer”;
France’s “Mustang”;
Germany’s “Labyrinth of Lies”;
Hungary’s “Son of Saul”;
Ireland’s “Viva”;
Jordan’s “Theeb.”
The nine films mentioned above will be narrowed down to the final five nominees by the committees from New York, Los Angeles and London while the final list of nominees will be announced on January 14, 2016 (US Time).
The film, which stars John Arcilla as the tough war general, was initially pulled out of cinemas before it became a cult hit and ended as the “highest-grossing Filipino historical film of all time.”
