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Originally posted by: AlbertSY
The Oscar nominees are chosen by the AMPAS (Oscars organisation) memberships - artists, directors and so on, and most of them are westerners.
Few Bollywood films are known or appreciated by westerners.
Even if a bollywoord film is nominated, voters are still westerners.
In short, Bollywood is not Hollywood.
Films eligible for Best International Feature are selected by their own countries. There are a lot of politics in that selection before it even reaches an Oscar body. Then a select Oscar panel watches all of the national selections and selects a 15 film short list which is then voted on and narrowed down to 5 nominees. An India film last year - Last Film Show - made the short list.
Anupamaa
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