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The New York Times has a nice article up on how Kazakhstan feels about Mongol‘s nomination. There’s a little confusion here–the NYT doesn’t seem to realize that Sergei Bodrov, the director and co-writer, is Russian. Nonetheless there’s great content here about Kazkahstan’s film industry and national pride. And of course we all have our fingers crossed as Oscar Night starts in about 24 hours!

EDIT: Unfortunately, Mongol lost to The Counterfeiters, an Austrian movie about a group of prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp who are used as part of a plot to counterfeit US and UK currency in order to flood the Allied markets and cause financial collapse. It was Austria’s first Oscar win.