In 1999, Spain selected “All About My Mother” as its submission for the Foreign Language Academy Award (now known as the International Film Oscar), and the Pedro Almodovar masterpiece won the coveted Oscar.
Just three years later, the same Spanish committee passed over Almodovar’s follow-up, “Talk to Her,” which was even more critically acclaimed.
Instead, they chose “Mondays in the Sun,” which ended up not getting nominated. Continue reading Spain Shocks By Selecting ‘The Good Boss’ Over Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ For International Oscar Consideration at The Playlist..
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