Anatomy of a Fail: Inside France’s Dysfunctional Oscar Committee
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent By now, even the most hardcore fans of French cuisine and “Chocolat” star Juliette Binoche can agree that Justine Triet‘s “Anatomy of a Fall” – rather than Tran Anh Hung’s “The Taste of Things” — was the one movie that could have given France its first Oscar win for best international feature in over 30 years, since Régis Wargnier’s “Indochine.” Over the last three decades, a number of French movies have earned Oscar recognition, but none have been the official French Oscar submission.
Michael Haneke’s “Amour” earned five Oscar noms in 2013 and even won the best foreign-language Oscar but it represented Austria.
A year before, “The Artist,” a French-directed and produced silent movie, won five Oscars out of 10 nominations, including best picture.
But the movie had come out in theaters in October, past the former Sept. 30 deadline (which has since then been extended in France) to submit films for the foreign-language race so it wasn’t eligible. “Anatomy of a Fall,” on the other hand, was snubbed by France’s Oscar committee, even though it was eligible for that category.
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