There were several examples just last year. Michael Haneke's CACHE, which was submitted by Austria for the Foreign Film Oscar was ruled out because most of the dialogue is in French. A similar problem occurred for MARIA FULL OF GRACE because too much of the dialogue was in English, as was Singapore's BE WITH ME. There was also controversy over how the submitting entity would be designated for the Palestinian film PARADISE NOW. There is some dispute about whether the 2002 Palestinian film DIVINE INTERVENTION was disqualified on grounds of nationality. THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES also was disqualified because its production was too international. The Italian film PRIVATE was rejected by the Academy because there was no Italian dialogue. In the past, there have been other examples. Kieslowski's RED could not win Academy vetting because it was shot in Switzerland with a Polish director and French actors. That's globalism for you! (Maybe there should be at least a "European Community" category.) The Uruguayan film was (as far as I know) the only one to have been pulled after it had made the list of official nominees. Of course, none of this includes films that were never nominated by a country for various reasons (politics being just one notable example). Don Larsson ___________________________ "Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize." --Diane Arbus Donald F. Larsson Department of English Armstrong Hall 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 mailto:[log in to unmask] Office Phone: 507-389-2368 -----Original Message----- From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Miriam Ross Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 9:24 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SCREEN-L] Academy Awards for best foreign language film Apologies for cross-posting I'm looking into the controversies surrounding films that have been disqualified from the US Academy Awards for best foreign film due to uncertainty surrounding the film's nationality or the languages it uses. The example I have right now is *Un lugar en el mundo* that was entered as a Uruguayan film in 1993 but disqualified as it was thought to be from Argentina. Can anyone think of anymore notable examples and any literature or press articles surrounding them thanks Miriam ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html