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In the past two years, 2006's "Dreamgirls" and 2007's
"Enchanted," dominated the song race with three nominations
each -- although neither film took home the statuette. A new
rule stipulates that only two tunes per movie may be nominated
for original song.
In the foreign-language race this year, such critically
applauded features as Romania's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"
and France's "Persepolis" failed to score a nomination. In
future, an executive committee will be able to rectify any
glaring omissions by adding three films to a shortlist of six.
As it has done in the past two years, another committee will
then winnow the enlarged shortlist to five nominees.
"While I was very proud of our five nominees, I was just
more concerned about what we excluded than what we said Mark
Johnson, chairman of the Academy's foreign-language committee.
Nominations for next year's Oscars will be announced
January 22, and the awards will be presented on February 22.
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A couple of new rules
governing the Academy Awards could result in the
foreign-language film category becoming more inclusive and the
original song category becoming more competitive. 
