Hang Tuah Terbang ke Oscar Academy

Hang Tuah Terbang, originally uploaded by miezaris.

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Akhirnya....rasmi sudah pada 22hb Oktober yang lepas filem Puteri Gunung Ledang telah diterima bersaing bersama 49 lagi filem dari negara-negara selain AS untuk dikategorikan sebagai Filem Asing terbaik di Academy Awards Februari tahun depan.

Setelah lebih 50 tahun filem-filem Melayu berjuang di pentas sendiri, kini filem PGL ini yang padat dan sarat dengan ketulenan adat resam orang Melayu sudah pastilah akan dapat disaksikan pula di pentas dunia. Syabas untuk Enfiniti Productions yang ditunjangi oleh heroin PGL sendiri, Tiara Jacqueline.

PGL yang diterjemahkan sebagai "A Legendary Love" pastinya akan membuka lebih banyak pintu kepada anak-anak seni tanahair untuk mengintai peluang dan nasib di luar negara. Berita ini juga pastinya akan disambut dengan rasa ceria kerana pencalonan pertama dari Malaysia memaparkan suatu kisah lagenda lebih 500 tahun yang diriwayatkan dalam buku "Sejarah Melayu". Meskipun ada tokok-tambah (sudah pasti perlu untuk mendramatikan penggarapan sebuah filem), setidak-tidaknya orang sudah akan kenal Hang Tuah itu hero tulen Melayu. Tepat benarlah M.Nasir dipilih melakonkan watak tersebut kerana M.Nasir juga ialah seorang Jaguh dalam persada seni Melayu di tanahair.

Pemilihan PGL juga mendapat komentar yang positif dari media di AS dan nampak gayanya FINAS kenalah memberi lebih banyak tumpuan untuk memimpin pengusaha-pengusaha filem kita agar dapat menghasilkan filem-filem yang benar-benar berkualiti. Memang benarlah Filem Kita Wajah Kita!

Malaysia joins battle for best foreign film Oscar

Malaysian movie A Legendary Love is among entries from 49 nations picked to compete for next year's best foreign language film Oscar, marking the country's first Academy Award bid.

Organisers of cinema's top awards have announced that director Saw Teong Hin's tragic romance, the most expensive film ever made in the South-East Asian nation, had been accepted to compete for a nomination.

The five nominees in the coveted category will be announced in Beverly Hills on January 25, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said.

Among the 49 countries battling it out are Afghanistan, Brazil, last year's winner Canada, China, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Palestine, the Philippines, South Korea Taiwan, Thailand and Venezuela.

The official entries for the 77th Academy Awards were picked from among submissions from 89 nations that were asked to put in films for consideration as best foreign language film.

Malaysia is the only country on this year's list of entrants never to have vied for the famed golden Oscar statuette, which will be handed out in Hollywood on February 27.

The film A Legendary Love is the tragic love story of a princess and a Malay warrior and was well received at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year.

Six movies in the past have won both the best foreign language film Oscar and another Academy Award, including the 2000 Chinese-language film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won four Oscars.

Italy's Life Is Beautiful, also won the best actor Oscar for its star Roberto Benigni and the Oscar for best original score, in 1998.