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Both Michaël R. Roskam & Matthias Schoenaerts, director and leading actor of Oscar-nominated Bullhead, concluded deals with chief talent agencies in Hollywood. Schoenaerts got to an agreement with CAA, putting him in the pleasant company of the likes of Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz, whereas Roskam linked up with United Talent Agency, which amongst others represents Anthony Hopkins and Noomi Rapace.

Bullhead’s great reception by the American public and critics alike has given rise to a fair deal of business interest in the Bullhead Two. A talent agent, also referred to as a booking agent, is a professional that helps creative artists in finding the right projects. Teaming up with a talent agent is definitely helpful for foreign filmmakers in Hollywood to be able to participate in major productions.

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Michaël Roskam’s highly praised debut Bullhead won the Best Feature Award at the Victoria Film Festival in Canada (3-12 February). This victory will surely give cast, crew and supporters alike a boost of self-confidence in view of the upcoming Academy Awards prize ceremony this Sunday. Bullhead is nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

After 10 days of more than 150 films from all over the world, the film claimed the award for Best Feature at the Victoria Film Festival earlier this month. The award is one more decoration in what is now becoming a true victory march around movie fests all over the world, following among others the Jury and Critics Prize at Beaune and the Propeller Award for Best Film at the Motovun Festival. The film was also rated an exceptional 3.5 out of 4 points in the highly influential AP movie review.

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Michaël R Roskam's Academy Award-nominated Bullhead has added some more silverware to its collection at this year's Magritte Awards for French-speaking Belgian cinema. The film won Best Co-production, Best Screenplay and Best Editing, as well as Best Actor. Because of linguistic restrictions, Bullhead was not eligible in the Best Film or Best Director categories.

Bullhead's lead actor Matthias Schoenaerts received the Best Actor award, while Roskam and Alain Dessauvage received the Best Screenplay and Best Editing Awards respectively. The Award for Best Co-production with Flanders finally went to Bullhead producer Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Film.

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Drafthouse Films, the US distributor of  Michaël R Roskam’s Best Foreign-language Film Academy Award-nominee Bullhead, has announced that will open the film in selected theatres in New York, Los Angeles and Austin on 17 February. Other US markets will follow in the weeks following the premiere.

Roskam's feature debut was acquired by Drafthouse Films following its US premiere at Fantastic Fest, where it won Best Picture in the AMD/Dell Next Wave Competition, which highlights first-time feature filmmakers. Bullhead has won 25 awards to date.

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Michaël R Roskam’s feature film debut Bullhead, representing Belgium at the Oscars, is among the five films nominated for the Best Foreign-Language Academy Award. Bullhead is Belgium’s sixth Oscar nomination in this category. Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol’s A Cat in Paris also grabbed a nomination in the Best Animated Feature category. The winners of the 84th Academy Awards will be announced in Hollywood on 26 February.

Bullhead is an emotionally driven tale of revenge, redemption and fate set against the backdrop of the Belgian bovine growth hormone mafia. The story starts with young cattle farmer Jacky (Matthias Schoenaerts) who is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman and an unexpected confrontation with a mysterious secret from Jacky’s past set in motion a chain of events with far-reaching consequences.

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Michaël R Roskam’s debut feature Bullhead made it to the shortlist of nine features that are still in the running for a nomination in the Academy Awards' Foreign-language category. On 24 February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the five nominees. Bullhead is one of the 64 films that were submitted in this category.

It's now up to the 30-member executive committee of the Academy to screen all nine films and select the five nominees: 20 will see all films in Los Angeles while the other 10 will gather in a private screening room in New York.

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Matthias Schoenaerts has been awarded the international FIPRESCI Award for Best Actor at this year's 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival (5-16 January). Schoenaerts received the honour for his stunning interpretation of a young cattle farmer in Michaël R Roskam’s debut feature Bullhead.

In its report, the FIPRESCI jury praised the actor’s ‘superb portrayal of an innocent and sensitive man trapped in a truculent body’. Earlier at the Palm Springs Festival, Variety also celebrated director Roskam as one of the ten most promising directors of the moment. He was handed Variety’s ‘10 Directors to Watch’ Award during a special brunch and ceremony.

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Michael R Roskam's feature debut Bullhead, Belgium's official entry for this year's Best Foreign-language Academy Award, received nine nominations for Belgium's French-speaking film industry awards, Les Magritte du Cinéma. The awards show takes place on 4 February in Brussels.

Launched in 2011, Les Magritte du Cinéma are organised by the Magritte Academy which mainly consists of industry professionals from the French-speaking part of Belgium. Because of linguistic restrictions, Bullhead was not eligible in the Best Film and Best Director category. The film however received a staggering total of nine nominations in the following categories: Best Flemish Production; Best Screenplay; Best Actor (Matthias Schoenaerts); Best Female Newcomer (Jeanne Dandoy); Best Male Newcomer (David Murgia); Best Photography (Nicolas Karakatsanis); Best Sound (Benoit De Clerck, Yves De Mey, Quentin Collette, Christine Verschorren, Benoit Biral); Best Editing (Alain Dessauvage); and Best Original Score (Raf Keunen).

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Matthias Schoenaerts has been named as Best Actor for his part in Michaël R Roskam’s feature debut Bullhead at this year's 3rd European Film Festival of Les Arcs (France, 10-17 December). The Best Actress Award went to Emma Levie for her role in Christophe Van Rompaey’s Lena.

For Levie, for whom Lena is her big screen debut, the Les Arcs gong is her first award. Earlier this year, Christophe Van Rompaey’s second feature premiered internationally at the Toronto International Film Festival. Lena is a lonely adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets into a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love.

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The Palm Springs International Film Festival (5-16 January), traditionally the place-to-be for any feature with Oscar ambitions, has for the second year in a row selected five Flemish directors for its line-up. This year’s selected films are Bavo Defurne’s North Sea Texas, Geoffrey Enthoven’s Come As You Are, Nicolas Provost’s The Invader, Michaël R Roskam’s Bullhead and Christophe Van Rompaey’s Lena. John Shanks’s Last Winter, a co-production with Flanders, will also screen at Palm Springs.

Last year saw the selection of a record-breaking five Flemish features for Palm Springs. The selected films were part of a mini-focus – ‘the Flanders Five’ – that put the spotlight on the wave of Flemish talent and the diversity of films from Flanders. For its 2012 edition, Palm Springs has once again selected five Flemish directors.

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