Not many titles nominated as best foreign language film ever break out into general categories, the rare examples have included Life is Beautiful (1998) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

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But for Jeff Rosen, the dream life is being a small-town entrepreneur--and doing it in beautiful Ojai, far from the madding L.A. crowd.

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He also admitted his regret at missing out on the best actor Oscar in 1999 for Gods and Monsters to Roberto Benigni's performance in Life is Beautiful.

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"Pitt is a handsome guy, but if you saw him in real-life or HDTV, which is roughly the same thing, you wouldn't think he was so beautiful, " Swann says.

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And he had shown me an Aztec poem, and Aztec poetry is all about this conflict that the heart goes through because of loving life and finding life so beautiful and yet knowing that we are - that we are not immortal.

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Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.

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