With Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit out of the foreign Oscar picture, IONCINEMA.com predicts a four-way race between audience faves Persepolis, The Counterfeiters, 4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Caramel. Spain's The Orphanage has the best chance at completing the 5 pack. That said everything else is just a formality. The final five picks will be announced on Jan. 22. The Oscar ceremony takes place Feb. 24.



Argentina: XXY (Lucia Puenzo)
Australia: The Home Song Stories (Tony Ayres)
Austria: The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky)
Azerbaijan: Caucasia (Farid Gumbatov)
Bangladesh: On The Wings Of Dreams (Golam Rabbany Biblob)
Belgium: Ben X (Nic Balthazar)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: It's Hard To Be Nice (Srdjan Vuletic)
Brazil: The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Cao Hamburger)
Bulgaria: Warden of the Dead (Ilian Simeonov)
Canada: The Days of Darkness (Denys Arcand)
Chile: Padre nuestro (Our Father) – (Rodrigo Sepulveda)
China: The Knot (Yun shui yao) (Yi Lin)
Colombia: Satanas: Profile of a Killer (Andres Baiz)
Croatia: Armin (Ognjen Svilicic)
Cuba: The Silly Age (Pavel Giroud)
Czech Republic: I Served the King of England (Jirí Menzel)
Denmark: The Art of Crying (Peter Schønau Fog)
Egypt: In the Heliopolis Flat (Mohamed Khan)
Estonia: The Autumn Ball (Ilmar Raag)
Finland: A Man's Job (Aleksi Salmenpera)
France: Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi)
Georgia: The Russian Triangle (Aleko Tsabadze)
Germany: The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
Greece: Eduart (Angeliki Antoniou)
Hong Kong: Exiled (Johnnie To)
Hungary: Taxidermia (György Pálfi)
Iceland: Jar City (Mýrin) (Baltasar Kormákur)



India: Eklavya: The Royal Guard (Vidhu Vinod Chopra)
Indonesia: Denias, Singing on the Cloud (John De Rantau)
Iran: M for Mother (Rasoul Mollagholipour)
Iraq: Jani Gal (Jamil Rostami)
Ireland: Kings (Tom Collins)
Israel: Beaufort (Joseph Cedar)
Italy: The Unknown (Giuseppe Tornatore)
Japan: I Just Didn't Do It (Masayuki Suo)
Kazakhstan: Mongol (Sergei Bodrov)
Korea: Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)



Lebanon: Caramel
Luxembourg: Little Secrets (Pol Cruchten)
Macedonia: Shadows (Milcho Manchevski)
Mexico: Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
The Netherlands: Duska (Jos Stelling)
Norway: Gone with the Woman (Petter Naess)
Peru: Crossing a Shadow (Augusto Tamayo)
Philippines: Donsol (Adolfo B Alix Jr.)
Poland: Katyn (Andrzej Wajda)
Portugal: Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliveira)
Puerto Rico: Love Sickness (Carlitos Ruiz, Mariem Perezs)
Romania: 4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Russia: 12 Nikita Mikhalkov
Serbia: The Trap (Srdan Golubovic)
Singapore: 881 (Royston Tan)
Slovakia: Return of the Storks (Martin Repka)
Slovenia: Kratki stiki (Short Circuits) (Janez Lapajne)
Spain: The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona)
Sweden: You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
Switzerland: Late Bloomers (Bettina Oberli)
Taiwan : Island Etude (Chen Huai-En)
Thailand: King of Fire (Chatrichalerm Yukol)
Turkey: Takva (Özer Kiziltan)
Uruguay: The Pope's Toilet (Enrique Fernandez, Cesar Charlones)
Venezuela: Postcards from Leningrad (Mariana Rondon)
Vietnam: The White Silk Dress (Luu Huynh)