The Vanishing - The Best Foreign Language Oscar Winner That Wasn't
It's one of European cinema's finest thrillers. So what was the quirk that prevented George Sluizer's picture from winning big at the Academy Awards?
Stanley Kubrick wasn't a big one for getting on the phone. The notoriously reclusive director was far happier munching his M&S sandwiches and minding his own business than having anything to do with the outside world. This being so, one can imagine film-maker George Sluizer's surprise when his secretary put through a call from the movie world's equivale…
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