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“I was a victim of my instincts,” the Force Majeure director told BuzzFeed News. “I wanted to win, and my emotions took over.”

Of the many surprising developments in Thursday's announcement of the 87th Academy Award nominations, one that was a bit lost in the shuffle was the absence of the Swedish film Force Majeure from the Best Foreign Language Film category.

The film is a darkly comic character study that follows a family at a ski resort after an avalanche almost overtakes them, and the father figure (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) flees instead of helping to protect his wife and children.

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It's among the most acclaimed foreign films of the year, it was on the nine-film Oscars short list for Best Foreign Language Film, and it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes.

It's among the most acclaimed foreign films of the year, it was on the nine-film Oscars short list for Best Foreign Language Film, and it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes.