“Not Taiwanese enough” is how Anne Thompson over at Variety described Ang Lee’s latest movie Lust, Caution, after it was denied a nomination for the upcoming Academy Awards. Apparently, in order to qualify as a foreign movie, your entire crew must be from the same country.

Check out Variety Asia for a more diplomatic explanation.

So there were a few crew members on Lust, Caution that weren’t from Taiwan. It doesn’t even say which crew members. For all we know it could be the caterer or one of the drivers. How sad would it be if the Academy denied an Oscar nomination to your movie because your fucking caterer wasn’t the same nationality as you???

Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Enrique
Filed under: Foreign Movies, Oscars, Politics