Nate Jones

Amelia Perez is a film that, you know, takes place in Mexico, has an international cast, but was filmed in France. So it is the French submission.

No, because you, uh, you are pretty... The modern world of cinema is so blurred in terms of international boundaries that sort of pinpointing a specific film and saying this specific film belongs to this specific country doesn't always make sense.

No, because you, uh, you are pretty... The modern world of cinema is so blurred in terms of international boundaries that sort of pinpointing a specific film and saying this specific film belongs to this specific country doesn't always make sense.

No, because you, uh, you are pretty... The modern world of cinema is so blurred in terms of international boundaries that sort of pinpointing a specific film and saying this specific film belongs to this specific country doesn't always make sense.

This is an issue that's come up in the past, I want to say, like 15 years in response to another problem that they used to have, which was that films had to take place in the language of the submitting country. You know, you can see all the ways that that would kind of run into issues.

This is an issue that's come up in the past, I want to say, like 15 years in response to another problem that they used to have, which was that films had to take place in the language of the submitting country. You know, you can see all the ways that that would kind of run into issues.

This is an issue that's come up in the past, I want to say, like 15 years in response to another problem that they used to have, which was that films had to take place in the language of the submitting country. You know, you can see all the ways that that would kind of run into issues.

You know, if you make a film about immigrants in, say, a European country and it is mostly told in the language of the country that they came from, suddenly that movie is not eligible to be nominated. They got rid of that rule in the late 2000s, which I think was a good change to make. But then now downstream of that, we have this other kind of weird situation.

You know, if you make a film about immigrants in, say, a European country and it is mostly told in the language of the country that they came from, suddenly that movie is not eligible to be nominated. They got rid of that rule in the late 2000s, which I think was a good change to make. But then now downstream of that, we have this other kind of weird situation.

You know, if you make a film about immigrants in, say, a European country and it is mostly told in the language of the country that they came from, suddenly that movie is not eligible to be nominated. They got rid of that rule in the late 2000s, which I think was a good change to make. But then now downstream of that, we have this other kind of weird situation.

Well, it's interesting. I think one of the things that we are seeing is a result of the reforms that the Academy made to their membership.

Well, it's interesting. I think one of the things that we are seeing is a result of the reforms that the Academy made to their membership.

Well, it's interesting. I think one of the things that we are seeing is a result of the reforms that the Academy made to their membership.

So if you remember, in the wake of Oscars So White, the Academy really expanded how many people it invited per year. I think it's now about half of the membership has been invited since 2016. And if you remember the headlines for them expanding the membership, it was, we are going to get a lot more women in and we're going to get a lot more people of color in.

So if you remember, in the wake of Oscars So White, the Academy really expanded how many people it invited per year. I think it's now about half of the membership has been invited since 2016. And if you remember the headlines for them expanding the membership, it was, we are going to get a lot more women in and we're going to get a lot more people of color in.

So if you remember, in the wake of Oscars So White, the Academy really expanded how many people it invited per year. I think it's now about half of the membership has been invited since 2016. And if you remember the headlines for them expanding the membership, it was, we are going to get a lot more women in and we're going to get a lot more people of color in.

And then kind of in a little asterisk below them, it was, and we will also get a lot more international voters in. But as we've seen in the results from the past decade or so, the international voters are the ones who have had the biggest, most obvious effect, where it is now sort of no longer a surprise that a foreign language film would get nominated for Best Picture.

And then kind of in a little asterisk below them, it was, and we will also get a lot more international voters in. But as we've seen in the results from the past decade or so, the international voters are the ones who have had the biggest, most obvious effect, where it is now sort of no longer a surprise that a foreign language film would get nominated for Best Picture.

And then kind of in a little asterisk below them, it was, and we will also get a lot more international voters in. But as we've seen in the results from the past decade or so, the international voters are the ones who have had the biggest, most obvious effect, where it is now sort of no longer a surprise that a foreign language film would get nominated for Best Picture.

In fact, this year we have two nominated for Best Picture for the first time ever. Just because there's so many more international voters, that has kind of increased the salience of the international film category, where it used to be that category was kind of a little sidebar to the main competition.