No Great Foreign Film will Be Left Behind: Oscars change up Nomination Process

It’s unfortunate that it took a black eye incident to get things moving, but this is how the cookie crumbles for slow moving Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

After last year’s omission of foreign language films such as Persepolis and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days from the nominee list, the Academy have rectified matters. Variety reports that the two phase voting system has changed and “now, the phase one committee will vote to determine only six of the nine films that will ultimately go to the phase two committee. The other three titles will be determined by members of the 20-person foreign-language film award executive committee. The executive committee’s selections will be made after the phase-one voting has been tallied.”

While they are at it they could do the very same for the non-fiction selections as well…but then again, we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves.