Tuesday, February 24, 2009

slumdog questionnaire

Kirmizi haliya ve bunca ihtisama bu fenomen nereden peydahlandi? Nasil en iyi film dalinda aday oldu? Yeryuzunde kameraya cekilip makaraya sarilmis herhangi bir film aday olabiliyor mu? O vakit neden “en iyi yabanci film” diye bir dal var? Bu film cogunlukla Ingilizce oldugu icin mi aday oluyor? Bu durumda Yeni Zelanda yapimi Ingilizce bir film de aday olabilir mi? Peki Slumdog Millionaire hint yapimi mi, yoksa anglo-saxon bir ulke uretimi mi? Batiya acilan bir Hint filmi mi, yoksa Hint menseili western bir yapit mi? Yapimci sirketler Celador Films, Film4 ve Pathé Pictures icinden Hintli olan var mi? Peki bir filmin ulusu finanse edildigi (doydugu) yer mi yoksa gectigi (dogdugu) yer midir? Sanatin milliyeti olmaz, olmaz da, Akademi’nin de mi yok? Bu kadar mi uluslararasi ve hakkaniyetli? Yonetmenin uyrugu konuyla alakali olabilir mi? Iki yonetmenden biri Hintli (Loveleen Tandan) oldugu icin olabilir mesela? Peki Danny Boyle olmasa degil en iyi filmi almak, en iyi yabanci filmde dahi aday gosterilir miydi? Mehmet Barlas dun aksam yorumun farkini belleyip “Bollywood’un Hollywood’a zaferi” diye mest olurken, kimi kime galip getirdiginin farkinda miydi? Hollywood kendini maglup etmesi biraz tuhaf degil mi? Belki avans vermistir (8 avans, 10’da biter). Kalabalik Hindistan yeni pazar mi? Bu film “Bollywood” kriterlerini –birkac klise disinda- ne denli karsiliyor? Oscar’i elestirme klisesine imza atmak istemem ancak gariban/kenar mahalle iti/sade vatandas sorularini soruyorum cunku cidden kafam basmiyor. Ya da bir seyler hakikaten carpik. Belki gerekli bilgiye sahip degilim. Oscar’i ciddiye alanin oscar kadar akli yoktur demisler. Hepsi yalan, kirmizi hali gercek. Fidanlar, ceylanlar, filintalar... Ve melankoli :S













Film guzel mi? Danny Boyle bu yahu, hic kotu olur mu? Olursa da caktirmam, benden cikmaz oyle bir soz. Mumbai’deki insanlik draminin, yoksullugun, carpikligin ve kokusmuslugun net bir resmi. Sosyo-politik kadrajin disinda kalan “Bollywood” kismi beni pek ilgilendirmiyor. Benim icin Boyle halen enine boyuna nesterlenen “arkadaslik” kavraminin, toplumsal gerilimin, beseri iliski yollari iltihabinin, batinin ve modernin, dejenerasyonun ve distopyanin, issizin ve uzayin “batili” yonetmenidir. Ancak bu oryantal ekspres yolculugu da cok anlamli ve basarili bir cesit olarak kendi potansiyeline iddiali bir meydan okuma ve kabuk degisikligi [kariyerde Micheal Winterbottom - The Road to Guantanamo gibi kiskirtici bir cesit, ya da Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill gibi ulke/ekol sinemasi cesidi gibi]... Hic heveslenmeyin, kapanisa klise sokusturmak kuruyasica huyum olabilir, ancak bu kez Boyle olmayacak :S.

1 comment:

dolphinished monkey business said...

sagolsun bir arkadasimiz en iyi film ve en iyi yabanci film adayi olabilme sartlarini bize ulastirdi. zor bisey yok sadece biraz calismak gerek :S

Eligibility for foreign movie

Unlike other Academy Awards, the Foreign Language Film Award does not require films to be released in the United States in order to be eligible for competition. Films competing in the Foreign Language Film category must have been first released in the country submitting them during the eligibility period defined by the rules of the Academy, and must have been exhibited for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial movie theater.[1] The eligibility period for the Foreign Language Film category differs from that required for most other categories: the awards year defined for the Foreign Language Film category usually begins and ends before the ordinary awards year, which corresponds to an exact calendar year. For the 80th Academy Awards, for instance, the release deadline for the Foreign Language Film category has been set on September 30, 2007, whereas the qualifying run for most other categories extends till December 31, 2007.[4]

Although the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is commonly referred to simply as the Foreign Film Oscar in newspaper articles and on the Internet,[5] such a designation is misleading, since a film's nationality matters much less than its language. Although a film has to be "foreign" (i.e. non-American) in order to be nominated for the Award, it also has to be in a language other than English. Foreign films where the majority of the dialogue is in English cannot qualify for the Foreign Language Film Award, and the Academy has usually applied this requirement very seriously by disqualifying films containing too much English dialogue, the most recent case being that of the Israeli film The Band's Visit (2007).[6] Despite the basic importance of the "foreign language" requirement, a completely dialogueless film such as Le Bal (1983) was still able to get nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.[7]

Another disqualifying factor is a film's television or Internet transmission prior to its theatrical release, hence the Academy's rejection of the Dutch film Bluebird (2004).[8] A film may also be refused if its submitting country has exercised insufficient artistic control over it. Several films have been declared ineligible by the Academy for the latter reason, the most recent of which is Lust, Caution (2007), Taiwan's entry for the 80th Academy Awards.[9] The disqualifications, however, generally take place in the pre-nomination stage, with the exception of A Place in the World (1992), Uruguay's entry for the 65th Academy Awards, which was disqualified because of insufficient Uruguayan artistic control after having secured a nomination. It is the only film so far to have been declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot after having been nominated for the Foreign Language Film Award.

Since the 2006 (79th) Academy Awards, submitted films no longer have to be in an official language of the submitting country.[10] This requirement had previously prevented countries from submitting films where the majority of the dialogue was spoken in a language that was non-native to the submitting country, and the Academy's executive director explicitly cited as a reason for the rule change the case of the Italian film Private (2004), which was disqualified simply because its main spoken languages were Arabic and Hebrew, neither of which are indigenous languages of Italy.[11] This rule change enabled a country like Canada to receive a nomination for a Hindi-language film, Water. Previously, Canada had been nominated for French-language films only, since films shot in Canada's other official language (English) were ineligible for consideration for the Foreign Language Film category. The rule change, however, did not affect the eligibility of non-English speaking American films, which are still disqualified from the Foreign Language Film category due to their nationality. Because of this, a Japanese-language film like Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) or a Mayan-language film like Apocalypto (2006) were unable to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, even though they were both nominated for (and, in the case of Letters from Iwo Jima, won) the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which does not have similar nationality restrictions.[12]

Although all films produced inside the United States are ineligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film regardless of the language of their dialogue track, those produced in U.S. overseas possessions are not. Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is therefore able to submit films to the Academy, and even received a nomination for Santiago, the Story of his New Life (1989). Since Puerto Ricans have had American citizenship since 1917, the overwhelming majority of the latter film’s cast and crew were thus American citizens. This resulted in a rather uncommon situation, whereby a film was nominated for the Foreign Language Film Award despite most of the people involved in its production being American.

Dip not: Slumdog İngilizce olduğu için (ancak yeni kurala göre bu o kadar da gerekli değil) ve de artistic kontrol İngilizlerde olduğu için foreign movie kategorisine girmiyor.

Rule Two: Eligibility for best movie

Eligibility for Academy Awards consideration is subject to Rules Two and Three, and to those special rules approved by the Board of Governors that follow.
All eligible motion pictures, unless otherwise noted (see Paragraph 9, below), must be:
feature length (defined as over 40 minutes),
publicly exhibited by means of 35mm or 70mm film, or in a 24- or 48-frame progressive scan Digital Cinema format with a minimum projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels, source image format conforming to SMPTE 428-1-2006 D-Cinema – Image Characteristics; image compression (if used) conforming to ISO/IEC 15444-1 (JPEG 2000), and image and sound file formats suitable for exhibition in commercial Digital Cinema sites,
for paid admission in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County,
for a run of at least seven consecutive days,
advertised and exploited during their Los Angeles run in a manner considered normal and customary to the industry, and
within the Awards year deadlines specified in Rule Three.
Films that, in any version, receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release will not be eligible for Academy Awards in any category. (This includes broadcast and cable television as well as home video marketing and Internet transmission.) However, ten minutes or ten percent of the running time of a film, whichever is shorter, is allowed to be shown in a nontheatrical medium prior to the film's theatrical release.
Eligibility is contingent on the receipt by the Academy of the following information on Official Screen Credits forms obtained from the Academy, to be signed by the film's producer or distributor (unless waived by the Academy), which shall include:
full, complete and authentic credits,
the name of the Los Angeles County theater where the film has played, and
the dates of the Los Angeles run.
Eligibility for all awards shall first be determined by credits as they appear on the screen and/or as certified to the Academy by the producing companies, but final determination in any event shall be made by the Academy. The Academy shall not be bound by any contract or agreement relating to the sharing or giving of credit and reserves the right to make its own determination of credit for purposes of Awards consideration.
In the event of any dispute concerning credits, the Academy reserves the right to declare any achievement ineligible or, alternatively, to reject all claims to credit, list credits as being in controversy and withhold any award until the dispute is resolved.
The alteration of an achievement by changing a picture from the version shown in Los Angeles County, upon which eligibility is based, shall subject such achievement to the risk of being declared ineligible by the Board of Governors.
Motion pictures from all countries shall be eligible for the annual awards listed in Rule One Paragraph 3, as long as they satisfy the requirements of the other applicable rules, and contain English-language subtitles if released in a foreign language.
Exceptions to the eligibility requirements and methods of qualifying listed in Rules Two and Three appear in the Special Rules for the Animated Feature Film award (see Rule Seven), the Documentary awards (see Rule Twelve, the Foreign Language Film award (see Rule Fourteen), the Music awards (see Rule Sixteen), and the Short Films awards (see Rule Nineteen).