The country chooses 'Bread' for Academy awards

"Black Bread (Pa Negre)"BARCELONA -- Agusti Villaronga's rural coming-of-age tale "Black Bread" continues to be selected as Spain's foreign-language Oscar candidate. "Bread" outperform Pedro Almodovar's "Your Skin My Home IsInch and Benito Zambrano's Civil War meller, "The Sleeping Voice," that also designed a three-pic candidate introduced Sept. 14 by Spain's Academy of movement Picture Arts and Sciences The pic, that is occur 1944, required nine kudos at February's Goya Honours, including film, director and actress for Nora Navas. "Bread" would be the first Catalan-language movie selected as Spain's Oscar entry. An old left-of-area helmer who moved mainstream for "Bread," Villaronga won the 2010 The spanish language National Cinema Prize, presented through the ICAA The spanish language Film Institute. With "Bread's" selection, the The spanish language Academy has once again cold-shouldered Almodovar. Just one of his last five features, and also the one most clearly centered on The country, "Volver," continues to be selected through the The spanish language Academy as Spain's foreign-language Oscar candidate. Another, "Speak with Her," though not submit through the The spanish language Academy, won an Academy Award for original script. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com