re: 2024 Oscars Ceremony 6pm CDT

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Apparently the French selection was something other than Anatomy of a Fall

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The Taste of Things

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Cook Eugenie and her boss Dodin grow fond of one another over 20 years, and their romance gives rise to dishes that impress even the world's most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie's reluctance to commit, he begins to cook for her.

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I saw the trailer for it before The Zone of Interest and it looked quite dull. Like a standard romance, but in French. I enjoyed Anatomy so I can only imagine that had hoped to shine the light on two French films or they were offended that half of Anatomy was in English.

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Japan chose another movie as their selection for the Oscars and it was nominated.

Apparently the French selection was something other than Anatomy of a Fall (which was nominated for Best Picture). So those can’t be included as snubs since the voters didn’t even have the choice to pick those films for the respective categories.

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I've been a huge Oscar follower and was super plugged-in for most of my life--it's only been in my 40s that I haven't really watched. Probably a combo of just life priorities and the over politicalization of Awards Seasons the past 5+ years. But that's not the point I'm trying make.

In the 30+ years I have been following the Oscars, I somehow never learned that a country could only submit 1 film for Best Foreign Language Feature until about 15 minutes ago. Has it always been this way? I mean, I get that the voters have to watch a ton of American films already and not capping it would make it impossible to watch all the submissions.

But still, some countries make way better films than others, and limiting them to just 1 seems kinda bullshite. And invites more politics into an already over political process. And it prevents people from being introduced to worthy foreign films that had they not been nominated, they otherwise wouldn't know existed. Oh well.