9 Academy Award Nominations were granted to one of the most fortunate movies screened in the Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari in occasion of Bif&st 2014 - held April 5^th to 12^th last year. The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson has been nominated to the most prestigious cinema awards in the world for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Production Design, Best Editing, Best Makeup, and… dulcis in fundo, for Best Costume Design, realized by legendary Italian costume designer Milena Canonero, whom – after winning Three Academy Awards, the first of which in 1976 for Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick – is currently at her 9^th nomination. Over the last days, Hollywood had already awarded The Grand Budapest Hotel with the Foreign Press Golden Globe for Best Comedy.

But, for the movies of Bif&st 2014, there is more: among the five shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film, there is also the winner of the sole Award for Best Director of the International Panorama section – assigned in Bari to the Georgian director Zaza Urushadze’s Tangerines, by the audience Jury chaired by director Francesco Bruni.