There is a paragraph that says: The finalist rules for Oscar’s best foreign language film are effective measures to screen out good movies.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “PingWest product play” (ID: Wepingwest), author Li Hezi.
On October 17, the 2020 Oscar Awards officially announced the “Best Animated Feature Films” primaries. There are 32 registrations in this primaries, and two domestic animated cartoons, “The Magical Boys of the World” “White Snake: Origin” was selected.
In early October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences published an article on the Oscars official website, and announced 93 entries for the 92nd Oscar for Best International Film Awards (formerly “Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Award”). List. In 93 films, “Where the Devil’s Angels Come into the World” (hereinafter referred to as “Where”) has been determined to “represent the Chinese mainland to compete for the award.”
The announcement of the Olympiad film almost every year can always cause a lot of discussion in the country, and this year is no exception. In addition to expressing support for the audience, this discussion about “Where” is mainly divided into two parts: First, whether or not the other equally outstanding films have lost the opportunity to appear on the international stage because of the choice of “Where”; the second is Oscar’s Can the judges accept the film.
In fact, these questions are essentially directed to the Oscar-winning selection system.
On the one hand, the Oscar for Best International Film Awards only allows one film to be selected in each country. In many cases, the candidate film department is also very difficult; on the other hand, because the primary selection of this award (the selection of the shortlist) is A small number of judges decided, combined with the existence of cultural differences, the possibility that this small jury would favor a Chinese film is really small.
If you look further into the rules of Oscar, you will understand why it is really not important to say “Which can you win the prize?” Of course, if you have to pick the thorns of the Olympics, it is another matter.
Selecting “Where” is justified
According to the convention, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the “College”) invites each country to select a film to participate in the competition for the best foreign language film. In China, it is the National Film Bureau that undertakes the task of selecting films.
This also determines the appearance of Chinese films that compete in the Oscar for best foreign language films each year. In general, the process and rules of the film selection are completely confidential, and this practice is not uncommon in other countries. Looking back at the 19 films selected by China since the new millennium, they will find that they mainly present several characteristics in their subject matter:
1. Themes of costumes with obvious Chinese traditional cultural elements, such as “Hero” and “The Promise”;
2. Representing the history of China