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They also gave what happened to Cache as an example.

Also:



While they're there anyway, they might as well increased nominees for makeup and visual effects.

I approve of the changes and agree with Christian.

Great changes. I like.

And also agree with Christian.

So, same thing Lecter said, heh.

PEACE, Mike.

Good changes. In the recent past Maria Full of Grace and perhaps even Motorcycle Diaries got hit hard because of the language/country match-up. I'm not sure about the procedural changes. It doesn't seem the New York based group has the authority to select a movie outside of the country's single nominees (i.e. When there are two good films from one country in the same year, one does not even get consideration). So I'm not sure how that new selection process helps or hinders the old one.

I think with those movies, the problem were a bit different....

Diaries? Perhaps. But the fault in Maria (if I remember correctly) was that it was an American movie, but in Spanish-language. That is the same problem as an Italian movie primarily in, say, Arabic.

Almost right, but not exactly. The problem was that Colombia wanted to submit it, whereas it was an American movie in Spanish language. Now if America would submit it now...

Well, I think America couldn't, since technically English is our "official language." Under the new guidelines, they could. So I'm pretty psyched. That opens up a massive amount of foreign language independant movies that get made here. Plus it allows for flexibility in other countries, where immigration and non-official languages have made the idea of assigning one language to one geographic region kind of preposterous. Its nice to see the Academy being more progressive than, say, participants in every recent international ethnic clash.

Indeed, but the problem with Maria was that Colombia wanted to submit it and that would not even work with new rules.

Another rule change that was glossed over is that there's no more bakeoff for Sound Editing (no more finalists - straight up nominating just like most categories).

COME ON MAKEUP AND VISUAL EFFECTS... follow suit!

Ooh, cool, that's nice, so we don't know until the nomination day! Creates more suspense, because sometimes surprising movies can be cut out/slip in.

PEACE, Mike.

No, Lecter is correct. The new guidelines (as I read them) doesn't effect the issue of production only language. It basically eliminates the need for the film to be of "cultural value" to the country of origin. Maria had American money, thus is not considered a foreign film because America cannot submit a foreign film into the competition.

Since America is disqualified then: 3. The submitting country must certify that creative talent of that country exercised artistic control of the film.

But American Spanish/etc. Language films are completely valid contendors in all of the other categories as Maria also showed.


True. It does help this a little. This was the previous definition: Films involving subcultures that speak a non-English, non-official language may qualify if their subject matter concerns life in the submitting country. So it didn't eliminate films produced by minorities in countries from being accepted, but it definately eliminates any lingering questions about what a film should represent. It mostly helps the rare film that may be shot in Uganda by Swedes, something a little out of the ordinary.

I'm confused. I assumed it meant Ugandans living in Sweden, that are Swedish citizens and work with local Ugandan-Swedes under Swedish financial support and on Swedish soil, could still direct a movie in their homeland tongue, and the movie didn't have to be about Sweden (it could be a fantasy movie about twins growing up in a forest who sucked the teets of a wolf to stay alive) and it could still qualify as Sweden's official entry for the year.

Yes, it could, now. Previously, the film would have had to (theoretically, the way I read it) be about a Swedish topic or the Ugandain experience in Sweden in order to qualify as a "Swedish" film and be in Swahili. But a Swede film, filmed in the Swedish language could potentially be about rainbows and unicorns, as long as they were swedish unicorns.

The way I read it is, now if your film is basically, in most ways Swedish artistically controlled, it doesn't matter what the subject matter is about or whatever language it is produced in.

It's all rather complicated in my opinion.