Oscars Tweak Nominations

Rules change in foreign language film, original song categories
By Lev Weinstein,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 20, 2008 1:09 PM CDT
Oscars Tweak Nominations
A song from Enchanted, which garnered three nomination in the original song category, is performed at the 80th Annual Academy Awards Show.   (Getty Images)

After perceived snubs in the foreign language film nominations and complaints about the way Enchanted dominated this year's original song race, both categories will undergo "formidable" overhauls, an Academy honcho tells the Hollywood Reporter. "It will ensure that that the oversight that we had this past year would not have happened," said the foreign language committee chair. (More Academy Awards stories.)

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