The Norwegian Oscar committee has selected Max Manus (Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning ) as the Norwegian candidate for the Academy Award nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature. Nominations will be announced on 2 February, 2010; the 82nd awards ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on 7 March, 2010.

Producer Mariela Besuievsky of Tornasol Films said that the Argentina Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Academia de Cine de la Argentina) had nominated “The Secret in Their Eyes" (El secreto de sus ojos),” directed by Juan Jose Campanella, as their submission to the 82nd Oscar Awards to represent Argentina in the Best Foreign Language Picture category.