rec.arts.movies.past-films

In article <5f890614-0724-498e-8454-2d440e17fb90@>, Martin Koolhoven wrote:

: A movie like FESTEN won about 24 awards, but wasn't even
: nominated for the oscars, was it? The academy like their foreign
: movies slickly photographed and elegantly cut.

Since you are at least the second person to make a comment of this sort,
I thought that I'd go to the source, namely, the Academy's web site.
The rules for the Foreign Language Film Academy Award are detailed
at /80academyawards/rules/.
The relevant paragraphs are paragraphs 1 and 2 of Rule ("Submission"):

1. Every country shall be invited to submit its best film
to the Academy. Selection of the best picture from each
country shall be made by one organization, jury or committee
that should include artists and/or craftspeople from the field
of motion pictures. A list of the selection committee members
must be submitted to the Academy no later than August 1, 2007.

2. Only one picture will be accepted from each country.

So don't blame the Academy -- blame those durn forriners who are responsible
for deciding which films get nominated. Well, maybe not. After the
countries nominate their films, a committee of the Academy picks the five
that they like best. So *if* _Festen_ was submitted but not nominated,
then I'd agree that you probably have a point.

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Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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