The film was deemed ineligible because more than 50 of the film’s dialogue is in English.
Zornitsa Sophia’s Mother, the Bulgarian entry for the Oscars’ best international feature film award, has been rejected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The film was deemed ineligible because more than 50 of the film’s dialogue is in English, according to the Academy, in violation of its entry requirements for the category.
The Academy wrote in a letter to Maria Bakalova, the breakout star of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and president of the selection committee for the Bulgarian National Film Centre...
Zornitsa Sophia’s Mother, the Bulgarian entry for the Oscars’ best international feature film award, has been rejected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The film was deemed ineligible because more than 50 of the film’s dialogue is in English, according to the Academy, in violation of its entry requirements for the category.
The Academy wrote in a letter to Maria Bakalova, the breakout star of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and president of the selection committee for the Bulgarian National Film Centre...
- 9/23/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Mother, the Bulgarian submission for this year’s International Feature Film Oscar race, has been deemed ineligible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The film’s director, Zornitsa Sophia, announced the decision on social media this week.
Academy sources confirmed to Deadline that Mother has been rejected due to more than 50 of the spoken dialogue track being in the English language.
In her post, Zornitsa Sophia, whose 2004 film Mila From Mars was Bulgaria’s Oscar entry that year, explained that Mother‘s producing team had reached out to the Academy asking for clarification of the eligibility rule, which stipulates that “the recording of the original dialogue track as well as the completed picture must be predominantly (more than 50) in a language or languages other than English.”
She said that the Academy’s response was that eligibility is determined by timing the duration of the English and non-English dialogue,...
Academy sources confirmed to Deadline that Mother has been rejected due to more than 50 of the spoken dialogue track being in the English language.
In her post, Zornitsa Sophia, whose 2004 film Mila From Mars was Bulgaria’s Oscar entry that year, explained that Mother‘s producing team had reached out to the Academy asking for clarification of the eligibility rule, which stipulates that “the recording of the original dialogue track as well as the completed picture must be predominantly (more than 50) in a language or languages other than English.”
She said that the Academy’s response was that eligibility is determined by timing the duration of the English and non-English dialogue,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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