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Three Dumb Oscar Rules That Need to Change By Mark Harris on October 17, 2011 1:15 PM ET Unlike any other Academy Award, the foreign-film system outsources Oscar judgment to other countries — and the one-submission-per-nation rule makes for a Petri dish of infighting, political resentments, and under-the-table deals. Who are each country’s selectors, how are they chosen, and what guards against favoritism? Who the hell knows? Why is it that Pedro Almodóvar, possibly the most beloved living European director among U.S. moviegoers, can’t compete for best foreign-language film with his elegantly nightmarish new movie The Skin I Live In — just as his last film, Broken Embraces, was ineligible? Because Spain didn’t pick him, that’s why. Read the full article: grantland/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/35605/three-dumb-oscar-rules-that-need-to-change
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:06:15 +0000

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