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China’s Oscar Submission Ruled Ineligible, Leaving Country Out Of International Feature Race
China's submission for the Oscars' International Feature Film race, the World War II doc The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, has been ruled ineligible.
Because it was discovered that threshold wasn’t met after the Academy’s October 2 deadline for submissions in the category, China can’t re-submit another film for consideration. The documentary opened the Shanghai International Film Festival in June and was released in China in early September. China had previously been nominated twice in the International Feature category, for Zhang Yimou’s Ju Dou in 1990 and Hero in 2002.
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