BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say the country has made a last-minute change to its submission for next year’s Oscars because its Sino-French hopeful “Wolf Totem” failed to have enough Chinese among its creative staff to be eligible.
China Film News said late Saturday that the state Film Bureau had received a notification on Oct. 5 from organizers of the Oscars saying the movie didn’t meet the best foreign language film category requirements.
A requirement for eligibility states that the submitting country must certify “that creative control of the motion picture was largely in the hands of citizens or residents of that country.”
While the main actors were Chinese, and the language was predominantly Mandarin with some Mongolian, the production team was largely foreign.
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