At 08:37 AM 2/19/99 -0500, you wrote: >I am mostly wondering how/why "Life Is Beautiful" can be considered a >domestic (USA) film. I'm sure there's a simple answer - I just won't like it. It's not considered a domestic film. The eligibility requirement for Best Picture is that the film play commercially for one week in LA; it's just that films not in English are rarely nominated. After all this year had one other foreign film nominated for Best Picture: Elizabeth. (Or one and a half if you count Shakespeare in Love's co-production status.) English-language foreign films are often nominated (The Full Monty, Secrets & Lies, Babe, The Piano, Shine) and sometimes win (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire, Tom Jones). ---------------------------------------------- Lang Thompson http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 World Cinema Review http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4/wcr.htm ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite