Jessica Kiang Eligibility controversies. Category name changes. Executive committee “saves” allowed. Executive committee “saves” disallowed.
The introduction of a nine-entry shortlist. The expansion to 10. Then to 15…and so on. There has been no Academy Award category more frequently and fitfully tinkered with than best international feature film (formerly best foreign language feature).And so to the overriding question coming out of yesterday’s shortlist of 15 titles (formerly 10; née 9): have all the tinkerings been worth it?
Have we finally — maybe even just randomly — hit on the precise combination of variables that will make the selection bulletproof?
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