France’s Cannes Winner BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Won’t Be Headed For Oscar?

Posted by Dan Stasiewski on Jul 1, 2013 in Awards | 0 comments

Oh, AMPAS. The stupidity of your Foreign Language Film Oscar rules knows no end. Now it looks like this year’s Palme D’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Color won’t be France’s official entry in the Foreign Language Film race due to a technicality. According to Nancy Tartaglione over at Deadline, the film’s distributor plans a French national release in October, but any film contending for Oscar must be released in its home country before September 30. Really? Really?! It’s times like these that I wish we could fall back on simple accusations of homophobia in the Academy for Blue is the Warmest Color missing its chance at the Foreign Language Film Oscar. I’m used to that kind of stupid. But missing a rather arbitrary deadline? Hopefully the film’s French distributor changes the date to appease the Academy. Or instead, releases the...