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- ↑ "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-21. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ↑ Goya Awards website entry Archived 2014-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
