I believe they must have been publicly screened in L.A. to be eligible. Scott =============================================================================== Scott Andrew Hutchins http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi Oz, Monsters, Kamillions, and More! "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."--Noam Chomsky 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. > ---------------------------------------------- > Lang Thompson > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 > > Coming Soon: World Cinema Review > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.