The Best Foreign Language Film category is one that the Golden Globes and the Oscars always seem to have trouble getting right, and this year was no exception. Though Paolo Sorrentino's regal drama The Great Beauty is certainly a fine nominee, it's not a particularly deserving winner when it's sharing the field with Palme D'or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour, widely acclaimed Oscar frontrunner The Hunt, The Past, and Hayao Miyazaki's "final" Studio Ghibli film, The Wind Rises. It's a genuine surprise that the Globes didn't take the opportunity to give the award to Blue is the Warmest Colour, given that it wasn't eligible for the equivalent award at the Oscars, as it would have been a striking jab at the Academy's often silly qualification guidelines (that the film must be released in its native country by the end of September).
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