At 01:45 PM 2/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I believe they must have been publicly screened in L.A. to be eligible.


Not according to the Academy rules which state that the film has to have
been publicly shown only in the country of origin.  The rules explicitly
say films unreleased in the US are eligible.
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