Paolo Sorrentino's 'E Stata La Mano
di Dio' (It Was The Hand Of God) was put up by Italy Tuesday for
the best foreign film Oscar.
The nominees will be announced by the Academy on February 8 and
the Oscar ceremony will take place on March 27.
Sorrentino has already won the best foreign language film Oscar
for 'La Grande Bellezza' (The Great Beauty), in 2014.
'E Stata La Mano Di Dio', a coming of age tale inspired by
Sorrentino's youth in Naples and his adulation for late
Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona (hence the title), It
competed for the Golden Lion at the 78th Venice International
Film Festival where it won the second prize, the Grand Jury
Prize and where Filippo Scotti received the Marcello Mastroianni
Award for best actor.
The film also features Sorrentino stalwart Toni Servillo.
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