Featuring the chaotic transition period of Vietnam’s feudal Le and Ly Dynasties in the 9th century, “Thang Long Aspiration” won a silver award for Best Film and two golden awards for Best Director and Best Supporting Actor at Vietnam’s Oscar-equivalent Golden Kite Award last year.

It is a surprise when the list does not have the name of China’s “Flowers of War”, by famous director Zhang Yimou, “Le Havre”, a Finland’s film which won the FIPRESCI award at the Cannes Film Festival or “Where Do We Go Now?” of Lebanon, which took the Audience’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival.

Other notable movies which are not in the list include: “The Turin Horse” of Hungary, “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” of Turkey, “Miss Bala” of Mexico and “Declaration of War” of France.

The only one Asian movie in the list is “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale” of Taiwan.

The films in this list comprises: “A Separation” of Iran, which won the Golden Globe Award, Poland’s “In Darkness”, Germany’s “Pina”, Canada’s “Monsieur Lazhar”, Denmark’s “SuperClasico”, Morocco’s “Omar Killed Me” and Belgium’s “Bullhead”.

“A Separation” is considered the number-one nominee at Oscar because it is highly appreciated by critics and won 39 awards.

The 84th annual Academy awards will take place at the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles on February 26, 2012.