The other problem is that over the past two or three decades we have corrupted our film language in many ways by indulging in over-emphasis, sentimentality, repetition, over-simplification, triteness and being utterly conformist.
In other words, every foreign language film nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film lost the first award but won the second.
Four of the eight previous foreign language Best Picture nominees were also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, and all four of those won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
And interestingly, in the category which is usually filled with foreign names, the foreign film category, foreign language film category, there's a very familiar American name.
The film has been nominated for best foreign-language film at this year's Oscars.
And since the category Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1957, only five foreign language films have received nods for Best Picture.
Amour's nominations include one for film of the year, another for best foreign language film and dual awards for Michael Haneke in the director and screenwriter categories.
The word is also the title of a South African film that is among the five Oscar nominees for best foreign language film.
It has been picking up awards since winning the Golden Bear at its world premiere at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and is one of the front-runners for best foreign language film at the upcoming Academy Awards.
With the might of The Weinstein Company, which orchestrated The Artist's successful awards campaign, the film has been selected to represent France as a potential nominee for best foreign language film at next year's Academy Awards.
This year, the Foreign Language Film category shut out four submissions on the grounds that they weren t in the language of their submitting country.
Last year's winner was Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan - whose film Once Upon a Time in Anatolia was selected as Turkey's official submission for the best foreign language film Oscar.
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Israel's controversial "Waltz With Bashir, " an animated film about a soldier's memories of the 1982 war in Lebanon, received a nomination for best foreign-language film.
Amour and Rust and Bone are up for best non-English language film alongside Untouchable.
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Mumbai is the glittering epicentre of India's gargantuan Hindi-language film industry, and they are often looking for Western extras.
Amour was nominated for a Golden Globe for best foreign language film last week.
Three years before Hong started ImaginAsian, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon had become the most successful non-English-language film ever.
Foreign money has poured into Mumbai's flamboyant Hindi-language film industry, which churns out more than 1, 000 films each year.
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Amour is only the 9th foreign language film ever nominated for Best Picture.
The court's decision came after a dogged campaign led by fans of the late Rajkumar, a Kannada-language film star.
Iran's A Separation received the award for best foreign language film, while Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris won best screenplay.
The winner of last year's Palme d'Or was Michael Haneke's drama Amour, which won best foreign language film at the Oscars.
The Tamil language film was shot in the forests that border the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka where Veerappan lived.
Best Foreign Language film nominees are: Amour (Austria), No (Chile), War Witch (Canada), A Royal Affair ( Denmark), and Kon-Tiki ( Norway).
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The projects include a Mayan-language film called "Apocalypto" due later this year.
The winner of last year's Palme d'Or was Michael Haneke's drama Amour, which went on to win best foreign language film at the Oscars.
"This just happens to be the first Cornish feature film but many more will come, I'm making another film in the language, " said Mr Kovacs.
The first English-language film from the Hong Kong-based director Wong Kar-Wai, and the first to be set in America, makes you wonder whether the trip was worth it.
Not many titles nominated as best foreign language film ever break out into general categories, the rare examples have included Life is Beautiful (1998) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
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