Root For Canada At This Year's Academy Awards

Quebec director Denis Villeneuve has been nominated for an Oscar for the family drama Incendies in the Best Foreign-Language Film category. He adapted Incendies from Wajdi Mouawad's play, which Villeneuve saw in Montreal in 2004. The movie faces competition from Greece, Denmark, Algeria and Mexico.

Canada was last nominated for a foreign-language film Oscar in 2007 for Deepa Mehta's Water. In 2004 Denys Arcand won in the category with The Barbarian Invasions.

The film was partially financed by TeleFilm Canada through its Canada Feature Film Fund.

The Oscars air February 27th on ABC.