Newspaper Reveals How Norway Short-Changed the Oscars
It’s a good thing Terry and Oorlagh George’s The Shore won Best Short Film (Live Action) at this past Sunday’s Academy Awards rather than Norway’s Tuba Atlantic. Turns out the latter would have eventually been disqualified.
Per a report by Norwegian newspaper Afterposten (translated by newsinenglish.no), the student film–made by Hallvar Witzø while attending the Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer–broke a strict category rule when it was aired on NRK2 TV in 2010. It aired a second time on NRK, right before the Oscars:
[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences administrator Torene] Svitil said she was “astonished” that “the filmmaker said the Academy knew about the television broadcast.
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