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Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Sixty-five films had originally qualified in the category.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

Foreign Language Film nominations for 2009 are again being determined in two phases.

The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based members, screened the 65 eligible films between mid-October and January 16. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.

The shortlist will be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles. They will spend Friday, January 29, through Sunday, January 31, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in competition in the Makeup category for the 82nd Academy Awards®.

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

“District 9”
“Il Divo”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian”
“The Road”
“Star Trek”
“The Young Victoria”

On Saturday, January 23, all members of the Academy’s Makeup Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar consideration.

Sixty-three songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are contending for nominations in the Original Song category for the 82nd Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by song title:

•“All Is Love” from “Where the Wild Things Are”
•“Almost Over You” from “My One and Only”
•“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog”
•“AyAyAyAy” from “The Maid”
•“Back to Tennessee” from “Hannah Montana The Movie”
•“Being Bad” from “Duplicity”
•“Blanco” from “Fast & Furious”
•“Brothers in Arms” from “Brothers at War”
•“Butterfly Fly Away” from “Hannah Montana The Movie”
•“Cinema Italiano” from “Nine”
•“Colorblind” from “Invictus”
•“Depression Era” from “That Evening Sun”
•“Don’t Walk Away” from “Hannah Montana The Movie”
•“Dove of Peace” from “Bruno”
•“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog”
•“Fly Farm Blues” from “It Might Get Loud”
•“Forget Me” from “I Love You, Beth Cooper”
•“God Bless Us Everyone” from “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
•“Here” from “Shrink”
•“Hideaway” from “Where the Wild Things Are”
•“Hoedown Throwdown” from “Hannah Montana The Movie”
•“I Bring What I Love” from “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love”
•“I See You” from “Avatar”
•“(I Want to) Come Home” from “Everybody’s Fine”
•“If You’re Wondering” from “The Lightkeepers”
•“Impossible Fantasy” from “Adventures of Power”
•“Innocent Child” from “Skin”
•“Invictus 9,000 Days” from “Invictus”
•“Legendary” from “Tyson”
•“Let Freedom Reign” from “Skin”
•“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36”
•“Ma Belle Evangeline” from “The Princess and the Frog”
•“My One and Only” from “My One and Only”
•“Na Na” from “Couples Retreat”
•“Never Knew I Needed” from “The Princess and the Frog”
•“New Divide” from “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
•“New Jersey Nights” from “Adventures of Power”
•“New York Is Where I Live” from “Did You Hear about the Morgans?”
•“No Time for Love” from “Simon & Malou”
•“One Day” from “Post Grad”
•“Only You” from “The Young Victoria”
•“Other Father Song” from “Coraline”
•“Petey’s Song” from “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
•“Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea” from “Ponyo”“
•Possibility” from “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
•“Raining Sunshine” from “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”
•“Running Out of Empty (Make Ourselves at Home)” from “Lymelife”
•“Smoke without Fire” from “An Education”
•“Somebody Else” from “Crazy Heart”
•“Stu’s Song” from “The Hangover”
•“Take It All” from “Nine”
•“Through the Trees” from “Jennifer’s Body”
•“Trust Me” from “The Informant!”
•“Un Bouquet des Violettes” from “New York, I Love You”
•“We Are the Children of the World” from “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
•“We Love Violence” from “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
•“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart”
•“When You Find Me” from “Adam”
•“Winter” from “Brothers”
•“The Word Is Love” from “Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!”
•“You Got Me Wrapped around Your Little Finger” from “An Education”
•“You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home” from “Hannah Montana The Movie”
•“You’ve Been a Friend to Me” from “Old Dogs”

On Tuesday, January 12, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for voting members of the Music Branch in Los Angeles. Following the screenings, members will determine the nominees by an averaged point system vote. If no song receives an average score of 8.25 or more, there will be no nominees in the category. If only one song achieves that score, it and the song receiving the next highest score shall be the two nominees. If two or more songs (up to five) achieve that score, they shall be the nominees.