The nominees for the 87th annual Academy Awards will be announced on January 15. Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev was named among the films shortlisted in Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film category. Russian Academy Award winners and nominees - in photo gallery by TASS
Russian Academy Award winners and nominees
Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev was named among the films shortlisted in Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film category
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War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk was the first Soviet film to win the Academy Award. It received Oscar for best foreign film in 1969. Photo: Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Prince Andrey Bolkonskiy in War and Peace
© Fotokhronika TASS Director Sergey Bondarchuk during shooting of War and Peace film by Leo Tolstoy novel at the Mosfilm studio
© Fotokhronika TASS/Alexandr Konkov The Brothers Karamazov based on novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky was nominated for Oscar in 1969. Photo: Actors Andrey Myagkov as Alexey Karamazov and Lionella Skirda as Grushenka starring in The Brothers Karamazov
© TASS/Valentin Mastyukov The Dawns Here Are Quiet was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 1973 but lost to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Luis Bunuel
© Fotokhronika TASS Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears directed by Vladimir Menshov won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980
© Fotokhronika TASS Burnt by the Sun by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov received the Academy Award in 1994. Photo: Nikita Mikholkov and his daughter Nadia with the Oscar at the 67th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, 1995
© AP Photo/Lois Bernstein The Old Man and the Sea paint-on-glass-animated short film by Aleksandr Petrov won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2000
© ITAR-TASS/Mosfilm 12 by Nikita Mikhalkov was nominated for Oscar in 2008. It is a remake of Sidney Lumet's film 12 Angry Men. Photo: The scene from the film, where jurors ponder a verdict for a Chechen boy accused of murdering his stepfather
© AP Photo/ Tri-T, HO The 87th Academy Award nominated Russia’s Leviathan by director Andrey Zvyagintsev for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Leviathan, named after Thomas Hobbes's great work, is the filmmaker’s interpretation of the Bible story of Job based on the modern Russian reality. Photo: Scene from Leviathan
© AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, Anna Matveeva The movie premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, actor Vladimir Vdovichenkov, actress Elena Lyadova, actors Aleksei Serebryakov and Roman Madianov
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