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...nights a year--when the Golden Globes and the Oscars are handed out--the movie world belongs to women. At this year's Globes, the top awards, and a slew of free publicity, went to The Hours and Chicago, which between them boast five star roles for women. Moreover, these films are purring at the box office, building momentum for next week's announcement of Academy Award nominations. They could hoist the banner higher for women's films, and sell more tickets, right up to Oscar night, March...
...trouble started last December, when Palestine's first-ever contender, the award-winning dramatic comedy Divine Intervention, was rejected by the Academy, reportedly because it doesn't recognize Palestine as a nation. An uproar followed, but Oscar may have gotten a bum rap. While the Academy does use membership in the U.N. as a guide for eligibility, Divine Intervention was never officially submitted...
...Producer Mark Johnson, chairman of the Academy's Foreign Language Film Award Committee, says his group does get the big picture. "We take into account the country submitting it, what percent of the creative talent comes from that country and whether the film is thematically reflective of that country," he says. "We have to be extra careful about our rules as movies become more international and it becomes harder to ascribe nationality." If anything, Johnson says, the committee has been lax this year. It accepted Afghanistan's Fire Dancer, a film set in New York and featuring an Afghan-American...
Maybe the problem is the category. With international filmmakers rivaling Hollywood for quality and quantity, is it still relevant? "For a large number of films made outside Hollywood, the Foreign Language Film Award is the only way they get publicity," says Catherine Grant, lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. "There is a level of unfairness in the criteria, but in terms of getting films out there, the Oscar is very useful." And until the Academy screens the world's work as fully as it does America's, Oscar will never see the whole picture...
...still "under investigation," and agency has not yet decided if it jurisdiction. If MCAD decides it jurisdiction and finds "probable cause" that the Fly Club is violating state law, then the agency will provide the plaintiff with legal counsel and can require a public hearing, award damages and seek an injunction...