I believe they must have been publicly screened in L.A. to be eligible.

Scott

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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Lang Thompson wrote:

> >career/reputation of a filmmaker.  Does it seem like only particular
> >kinds of films are eligible for such a nomination? If you have any
> >comments, I'd love to hear them.
>
> You may already know this but the foreign language film award doesn't work
> like the other awards.  Each country chooses one film to be considered by
> the Academy; there must be available an English-subtitled print for viewing
> by members though I'm not sure if that status of release in the US makes a
> difference (probably not since many haven't been).  From this "short list"
> the Academy then determines the actual nominations, so that the foreign
> language nominations have actually been filtered twice: once by the country
> and then once by the Academy.  It's no surprise that the best work
> (Kiarostami? Hou Hsiao-Hsien?) is ignored as is anything politically or
> formally innovative.  The complete list of country submissions for this
> year was printed in "Variety"; if you need the info I can get the issue
> date fairly easily.
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