Matteo Garrone's mafia drama Gomorra gained some consolation for its failure to make the Oscar cut when it was nominated Friday as best foreign film for the French version of the Hollywood awards, the Cesars.
At the ceremony in Paris on February 27, Gomorra will be up against Golden Globe winner Waltz with Bashir, Sean Penn's Into the Wild, There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson, James Gray's Two Lovers, the Dardennes brothers' The Silence of Lorna and Bouli Lanner's Eldorado.
Gomorra (Gomorrah), adapted from Roberto Saviano's bestseller of the same name on the Naples' Camorra syndicate, won the second prize at Cannes last year and five European Film Awards.
It is up for a British Film Academy Award (BAFTA) on February 9.
The Italian film world was dismayed on January 13 when it failed to make the list of semi-finalists for the Academy Awards.
