Best Foreign Film Oscar Shortlist Highlights 'Ida,' 'Force Majeure,' Snubs 'Mommy' And 'Winter Sleep'

The shortlist for potential Best Foreign Film Oscar nominees is out. As usual, the list is going to generate as much talk about what didn't make the cut as it does about what ended up on the list. Many of the year's most significant films were left off: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep, which was this year's Palme d'Or winner at Cannes, didn't make the cut. Nor did Mommy by Xavier Dolan, also a Cannes prize winner, taking the Jury Prize; or Kornel Mundruczo's White God; or the Dardenne brothers' Two Days One Night.

But the Best Foreign Film shortlist for 2015 does feature some great films, including Ida, from Pawel Pawlikowski and Force Majeure (above), from director Ruben Östlund. The full list is below.

Here's the shortlist, via Deadline, for the Best Foreign Film Oscar nominations.

Argentina, Wild Tales, dir: Damián Szifrón

Estonia, Tangerines, dir: Zaza Urushadze

Georgia, Corn Island, dir: George Ovashvili

Mauritania, Timbuktu, dir: Abderrahmane Sissako

Netherlands, Accused, dir: Paula van der Oest

Poland, Ida Pawel Pawlikowski

Russia, Leviathan, dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev

Sweden, Force Majeure, dir: Ruben Östlund

Venezuela, The Liberator, dir: Alberto Arvelo

That list probably gives a lot of people in the US a few new films to track down, as movies like Corn Island haven't received much press in the States so far.

The Oscar nominations will be announced on January 15, 2015, with the awards taking place on February 22.