Angelina Jolie's Film for Foreign-Language Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards

Angelina Jolie's Film for Foreign-Language Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards

Hollywood diva, Angelina Jolie is Representing Cambodia for the Foreign-Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.

Jolie's biopic thriller, First They Killed My Father is in competition for the final nominations in the Foreign-Language Film category at the 90th Academy Awards.
She is representing Cambodia, because she has dual U.S./Cambodian citizenship.
She filmed "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in Cambodia in 2001, where she adopted her first child Maddox Chivan from an orphanage in Battambang in 2002.

The highly esteemed Deadline previewed nine of the films contesting for the Oscars shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film to be announced later this week.

"First They Killed My Father" is a 2017 film directed by Angelina Jolie and cowritten by Jolie and Loung Ung, based on Ung's memoir of the same name. Set in 1975, the film depicts 7-year-old Ung who is forced to be trained as a child soldier while her siblings are sent to labour camps during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Jolie has already won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Girl, Interrupted " (1999).

"First They Killed My Father" made the nominations for the Golden Globes Foreign Language category announced on Monday.

"This is their history, and their language. I’m thrilled the film has been able to reach audiences around the world but it was made first and foremost for and with people in Cambodia," Jolie said.
“We were shooting in some cases on the very land where people had been killed, with a cast and crew made up of survivors and children of survivors. Taking the time to discuss scenes, to prepare people for what was going to happen and to hear their views, and making time and space for people to pray together, was so important. These discussions shaped our days on set and made the experience moving and meaningful.”

The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will honor the best films of 2017 and will take place on March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, at 5:00 p.m. PST.

See the other contenders for the Oscars: Foreign-Language Film Shortlist Preview by
Deadline.