Good lord, that's crazy. It did get nominated for a Golden Globe and two BAFTAs so I looked into it and according to IMDB, ‘Lust, Caution’ was submitted as Taiwan's entry to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008), but it was rejected on 17 October 2007 by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences because many of the film's personnel were not Taiwanese. Taiwan substituted ‘Lust, Caution’ with Huai-en Chen's Lian xi qu (2006).
That just strikes me as extremely pointless red-tape, as you said. God, how irritating!
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Date: 2008-01-23 01:32 pm (UTC)That just strikes me as extremely pointless red-tape, as you said. God, how irritating!