France’s Oscar Committee Increases Size and Term Length After Last Year’s ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Snub
variety.comEllise Shafer France‘s Oscar committee, which selects the country’s submission for the best international film category, has introduced key changes affecting the size of the group and term length of its members.
In an announcement on Friday, the CNC — France’s National Film Board — revealed that the committee will now be made up of 11 members and five alternates, a significant increase from its seven current members.
The committee will also now serve a two-year term, instead of the previous one-year mandate, and the chairman of the CNC will no longer attend meetings as an observer.
A press release states that these changes have been made to “promote the collegiality of the debates, the diversity of points of view and the secret nature of the vote of each member.” The news comes after France’s Oscar committee faced a fair amount of backlash last year over its submission of Tran Anh Hung’s “The Taste of Things” instead of Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.
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