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AGAIN?! Academy's foreign language committee releases shortlist, makes major snubs ('Gomorra,' 'Captain Abu Raed'), industry outraged

Awards Daily found this 1/14/2009 on latimesblogs.latimes.com

Last year, the Academy's foreign language "phase 1 committee" -- which consists of several hundred Los Angeles-based members who divide up and screen the foreign entries, with minimal attendance requirements and a bizarre vote-tabulation process -- created an uproar by...