Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 12:34 Foreign film Oscar shortlist announced: Greece's scandal in, France's gem out
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seems to be ready to go to great lengths to raise the profile of the ever-tricky and unpredictable Foreign Film category.
Two years ago it set up the so-called Foreign Language Executive Committee as a result of general outrage triggered by the exclusion of Romania's 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, which many considered the best film of the year, foreign or not. The task of the Executive Committee is to pick three extra films after the first voting round to avoid embarrassing oversights.
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