Nine films on Foreign Oscar longlist
Baseball club films have gone fore to the next daily round of balloting in the Best Foreign Speech Film category for the Oscars.
Sixty-three films, including the Irish-language film 'Kings', had earlier qualified in this class.
The nine-spot films in contention ar: 'The Counterfeiters' (Republic of Austria), 'The Class My Parents Went on Vacation' (Federative Republic of Brazil), 'Days of Darkness' (Canada), 'Beaufort' (Israel), 'The Unknown quantity Woman' (Italian Republic), 'Mongol' (Kazak), 'Katyn' (Republic of Poland), '12' (Russia) and 'The Trap' (Serbia).
The Academy Award nominations testament be announced on Tues 22 Jan with the awards ceremony pickings place on Sun 24 February.
