“The Zone of Interest” made Oscar history on Sunday as the first film from the United Kingdom to win the award for Best International Feature. The prize is awarded to the nation of submission, though it was accepted by director Jonathan Glazer (who gets to take home a statuette).
Glazer’s stark, acclaimed Holocaust drama, starring Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel, is set in Nazi-occupied Poland and features dialogue in German and Polish. So how did it win the Oscar for the U.K. and not Germany or Poland?
That’s because eligibility for the category is determined, among other factors, by the country that produces the movie.
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