Apparently concerned about the fact that some foreign films that received honors at leading film festivals and were praised by critics never received nominations for foreign-language Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revised its method of selecting nominees. In the future, an "executive committee" will be able to add three films to those selected by academy voters, and a second committee will then select the five nominees from the expanded list. The academy also voted to limit the number of songs from a single movie competing in the original song category to two, hoping to avoid a repeat of past situations where three nominated songs from a movie competed against one another, thereby dividing the votes so that none won.
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