Trees wrote:I see that LA film critics are considering THE TRIBE to be a 2015 film. Yet, I also read that it was under consideration as a Foreign Film Oscar nomination in 2014. Seems like this films is sort of in the grey zone, in terms of its release year, as it relates to awards? IMDB lists the film as 2014 but RT lists it as 2015, probably due to RT being a US-centered site?
Since it was released commercially in the U.S. for the first time in 2015, it will be considered a 2015 film by most American critics and awards groups. That's true of the Academy Awards too. It's actually eligible in every applicable category this year
except Best Foreign Language Film. The rules for that category are different. Each country gets to select one film to submit to the Academy for consideration, and it must have had its commercial release in the submitting country before the end of September.
The Tribe was released in Ukraine on September 11, 2014, so it would have been eligible for Best Foreign Language Film at last year's awards had Ukraine decided to submit it, which they did not. If they had submitted it and it was one of the five nominees, it wouldn't be eligible in any other categories this year. This has come in to play a few times. In 2002, Brazil submitted
City of God for Best Foreign Language Film, but it wasn't chosen as one of the five nominees. That meant that when it got a commercial release in the U.S. in 2003 it was eligible for other categories and wound up being nominated for Director, Cinematography, Editing, and Screenplay.
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