Recently, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the voting rules for the 92nd Oscar "Best International Film" award will be revised. All members of the Academy can vote for the last 5 nominated films for the award.
On April 24, 2019, the Academy, the organizer of the Oscars, stated that it has revised the rules of the Oscars, renamed the category "Foreign Language Films" to "International Feature Films, and "Best Foreign Language Film Awards" to "Best International Film Awards" , The shortlist of shortlist was changed from the original 9 to 10, and all members of the academy can vote. The award for "Best Foreign Language Film" was established in 1947. At the beginning, it was awarded in the form of an Oscar Honor Award until 1956. The "Best Foreign Language Film Award" has become a campaign unit and has a formal review and evaluation method. This award is awarded to the best non-English film of the year in the Oscars. It is only awarded to the director of the film, but is considered to be for the country where the film is produced. Reward. There is only one "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee in China that has won the award.
The past "Best Foreign Language Film Award" was selected by a small number of judges, and then participated in foreign languages. The members of the film screening event selected the award-winning films, because the previous judges needed to gather together for about a week to watch the film. This selection method has received great controversy.
Now Oscar has its own streaming media On the platform Academy Screening Room, college members from all over the world can watch the shortlisted films at home, which is very efficient.
It is reported that 93 countries and regions selected films to run for the Best International Film Awards this year. According to the rules, the members of the academy select 7 films and execute them. The committee selected 3 films and formed a short list of 10 films, and then nominated 5 films out of these ten films, and finally one out of the five nominated films was selected to win the "Best International Film Award." This year, three films in China participated in the election. The parts are "Nezha's Devil Child Comes to the World" selected by Mainland China, "Sweeping Drugs 2: Battle Between Heaven and Earth" selected by Hong Kong, and "Who fell in love with him first" from Taiwan.
December 16 this year 10 shortlists will be announced, the 5 nominated works will be announced on January 13 next year, and the award will be officially awarded on February 9.
