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Live Poll: Oscars 2020 — Best International Feature Film

Which of The Oscars (2020) nominees for the 'Best International Feature Film'* Academy Award do you think should win?* Academy rules require that 51%+ of the movie's dialogue must be in a language other than English, it be produced by a non-American production company, and each country is limited to a single film submission. This category was previously known as 'Best Foreign Language Feature Film'. See the list of the 2020 nominees for the international feature film Oscar here: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls033848461/ Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/U5qCV8nNXng/

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Ten films made the Oscar shortlist in the International Feature Film category for the 92nd Academy Awards from ninety-one films that were deemed eligible.Czech Republic, “The Painted Bird”Estonia, “Truth and Justice”France, “Les Misérables”Hungary, “Those Who Remained”North Macedonia, “Honeyland”Poland, “Corpus Christi”Russia, “Beanpole”Senegal, “Atlantics”South Korea, “Parasite”Spain, “Pain and Glory”

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International Feature Films vs. Foreign Language Films vs. Films Not in the English LanguageDespite, now being known as the International Feature Film category. The Oscars category name change does not come with any alterations to existing category rules, submission process, or eligibility requirements. Although, the rules for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film differ from both the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.International Feature Oscar Chiefs On Category Title Change & More: “Filmmakers Are Not Foreigners”'The Farewell' Deserves to Be Seen as an American DramaLulu Wang's film is nominated in the Foreign Language category at this year's Golden Globes. That choice undermines the diversity of the American audience.Unraveling the Oscars’ Foreign-Language-Film DebateThe newly rebranded Best International Film award calls attention to how unfair the Academy’s rules are for filmmakers outside the U.S. and Europe.The 2020 Oscars International-Film Controversy, ExplainedThe 2020 Oscars Get Their First Self-inflicted ControversyInside the Oscars’ Self-Inflicted Best Foreign-Language Film HeadacheTake The Farewell for instance. The acclaimed indie drama follows an American-raised woman (Awkwafina) who travels to China in order to say goodbye to her terminally ill grandmother. Based on the real-life experiences of writer-director Lulu Wang, who is Chinese-American, The Farewell is told primarily in Mandarin with English subtitles, though its protagonist also speaks English. Though ineligible for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars because it's an American production, the title's also barred from competing for Best Musical/Comedy at the Golden Globes. Their rationale? It's a foreign-language film.Golden Globes: Why 'Parasite,' 'The Farewell' and 'Pain & Glory' Weren't Nominated for Best PictureThe HFPA's rules stipulate that contenders in the best drama or comedy/musical categories must feature at least 50 percent of English dialogue.

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The Oscars (2020) nominees for the 'Best International Feature Film' Corpus Christi 2019 | Movie Polish Title: 'Boze Cialo' (Poland)Language: Polish Honeyland 2019 | Movie International Title: 'Honeyland' (North Macedonia)Languages: Turkish | Macedonian | Serbo-Croatian Les Misérables 2019 | Movie French Title: 'Les misérables' (France)Language: French Pain and Glory 2019 | Movie Spanish Title: 'Dolor y gloria' (Spain)Language: Spanish Parasite 2019 | Movie Korean Title: 기생충 aka 'Gisaengchung' (South Korea)Languages: Korean | English

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Seen two out of the five: Parasite and Pain and Glory. Honeyland (2019) is on Amazon Prime already ... so I'll grab watch that pretty soon. Les Misérables (2019) has begun its limited run this previous weekend at the Angelika. I will try and figure out how to see it in the up and coming two weeks.I doubt any of these will top my favorite 2019 film, Parasite.

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Nigeria’s Oscar Hopes Are Dashed Over English Dialogue in ‘Lionheart’

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Live Poll https://www.imdb.com/poll/U5qCV8nNXng/

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Missed this one:Congratulations urbanemovies. This is the 32nd time your poll has been featured at IMDb Home Page (http://www.imdb.com) since July 28, 2015.21 January 2019: Oscars 2020 — Best International Feature FilmList of Home Page Polls FAQ: Polls Featured at IMDb Home Page Poll Author - Number of Polls Featured at IMDb Home Page (Since July 28, 2015) Dibyayan_Chakravorty - 97pere-25366 - 34urbanemovies - 32ElMaruecan82 - 22Rafael_M - 15Hoekkie - 15KhaledKalache - 13Simba63 - 13IMDb-Editors - 13Paok-Kilkis - 12Kirk-Picard - 10leavey-2 - 10The-Social-Introvert - 9yrnej - 9sir-mauri - 9dan_dassow - 8rubyfruit76 - 8pbn - 8peaspot - 6NDbportmanfan - 6masandaglinus123 - 6simeon-83777 - 6Eagles90 - 6 Teriek-Williams - 5penchofifteenpolls - 5TsarStepan - 5Manya086 - 4Mega_wizard - 4DoctorBuster - 4borimor - 4 Phoenix_R_3 - 4iakhtar-33380 - 4jalapenoman - 3Silitonga - 3NoPantsBatman - 3fancinderella - 3edindenco-154-269285 / Ed_Jones_XLIX - 3TheMovieSmith - 2jamesh5 - 2KyBelle86 - 2RbDeraj - 2moatazaboalghuit - 2lnvicta - 2Debjit_Hazra - 2SkyDeshpande - 2guillenpascal - 2dgranger - 2ahmad_alaghbar - 1 mattyankster10 - 1 bluehunter16 - 1 Pictoris - 1 JoelRH - 1 BigBadDolemite - 1 alioth4 - 1 vamken46 1 Djesika - 1 alex_1-801-348552 - 1 rose-taylor - 1 FisnikFizz - 1 Drevnibor - 1 Garfield_the_Avenger - 1 vibhorpanda29 - 1 buddhalou - 1 waspinatorbj - 1 muzzle - 1 Jediknight29 - 1 Lucilfer - 1 Wonder_Gal - 1Hyker - 1jamariana - 1daniellejeffrey - 1DeadMan66 - 1jamesgandrew - 1Chihir0 - 1chandrabhanusolanki - 1joesiegel - 1Philip_Marlowe_ - 1BonaFideBOSS - 1(Click image for larger image.)

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Congratulations urbanemovies on your 400th live poll! As of 7-Apr-2020 7:38 AM Pacific your polls have 517,374 or more votes, for an average of 1,293 votes per poll.Oscars 2020 — Best International Feature Film8578th Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/U5qCV8nNXng/ Seen: http://www.imdb.com/seen/ls033848461/This is the 3,951st Title poll. Such polls have a total of 9,224,636 votes for an average of 2,335 votes per poll.Total Number of Votes 18,803,291 Projected Date of 20 Million Votes 20-Jan-2021 Days Until 20 Million Votes 278 This is the list of urbanemovies' polls as of 7-Apr-2020:Sorted Alphabetically http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2014/05/imdb-polls-alphabetical-by-author.html#urbanemoviesIn Decreasing Order of Votes http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2015/03/imdb-polls-descending-order-of-votes-by.html#urbanemoviesAlphabetical List of Polls http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2014/03/imdb-polls-alphabetical.htmlTop IMDb Polls http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2015/07/top-imdb-polls.htmlIMDb Polls - Descending Order of Votes http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2013/12/imdb-polls-descending-order-of-votes.htmlSummary Statistics http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2016/05/summary-statistics.htmlKey Threads - IMDb Poll FAQs Index https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/faq-key-threads-imdb-poll-faqs-indexHow to Improve the Chance of Having your Poll on the Home Page https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/faq-how-to-improve-the-chance-of-having-your-poll-on-the-hom...