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“Vitalina Varela is the new Portuguese film nominated for an Oscar By TPN/Lusa, in News · 23-12-2020 14:00:00 · 0 Comments
The work Vitalina Varela , by director Pedro Costa, is the new Portuguese candidate for the Oscar for Best International Film, announced the Portuguese Academy of Cinema (APC). After the exclusion of Listen , a second vote was held among the members of the Portuguese Academy of Cinema, in order to ensure a new voting opportunity to all who had selected the film in the first vote, ensuring the greatest possible representation in the choice of the candidate of Portugal , said APC, in a statement.
The American Film Academy has excluded the Portuguese film
Listen, directed by Ana Rocha de Sousa, from the nomination for Best Foreign Film at the 2021 Oscars.
After analyzing the Portuguese submission, the American Film Academy informed that “The International Feature Film Executive Committee decided the candidacy was ineligible and requested that a new film candidacy be submitted as urgently as possible,” the Portuguese Academy of Cinema (APC) announced.
The American Film Academy has concluded that the film is mostly spoken in the English language, and, therefore, does not comply with the competition rules.
According to the APC source, “the exclusion is linked to one of the eligibility criteria that requires at least 50 percent of the participant film must be spoken in a non-English language.”
“Listen” rejected as Oscars candidate By TPN/Lusa, in News · 19-12-2020 12:00:00 · 0 Comments
The United States Academy of Cinema has rejected the Portuguese application of the film “Listen”, by Ana Rocha de Sousa, for the nomination of Best International Film. “After analysing the film Listen by Ana Rocha de Sousa, the International Feature Film Executive Committee considered the candidacy ineligible and requests that a new candidate be sent as urgently as possible”, said the Portuguese Academy of Cinema (APC), who has now opened a new selection process.
APC stresses that the exclusion is linked to one of the eligibility criteria that requires at least 50 percent of the candidate film to be spoken in a non-English language .