How can Parasite win Oscars in two FILM categories?

How can Parasite win Oscars in two FILM categories? Feb 10, 2020 19:50:31 GMT

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Post by cynthiagreen on Feb 10, 2020 19:50:31 GMT

Feb 10, 2020 17:39:54 GMT kijii said:

Feb 10, 2020 7:50:14 GMT cynthiagreen said:

Because it was eligible in both categories. No controversy chez Cynthia. The only way to avoid this would be to introduce rule that it could only get nominated in 1 category and make a call at ballot counting stage which category that was - one it got most votes in/one it was highest placed in ranking/ maybe even give nominee the choice - and backfill from the number 6 choice in the category the double nominee film did not end up in. Either that or ban foreign language films from being eligible for best picture - which of course is ridiculous as well as being xenophobic.

I have NO PROBLEM with a movie (or a performer) winning in DIFFERENT categories in the same year. (This happens all the time.) The problem here is that a movie is a movie and they seemed to have changed the rules, midstream, by allowing the best foreign language movie to be treated a as Best Picture.

Is there a rule about giving a performer a choice about being considered a leading performer vs a supporting performer?

Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for both leading and supporting categories for the same role GOING MY WAY from 1945. The prize of a Vera Hruba Ralson Special Edition Box Set to the poster who can unpick that one.

I think producers have a say in the category, I think now they try to avoid having more than one name from same film in leading category in case they cancel each other out in the voting, as happened with FROM HERE TO ETERNITY