Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films


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The list was promoted by User:The Rambling Man 11:03, 23 July 2008.

List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
Linked to it in my last couple Academy Awards lists, so I might as well bring this up to par too :p Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 09:10, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

But otherwise excellent work as usual. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:14, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * "outside of the Best Foreign Language Film category" - may be just me but I found the opening sentence a little confusing! Especially as the title implies all Oscar winning foreign films would be in this list.
 * Um, yeah, that's the point of the list. This list is every foreign language film that has ever won an Oscar outside of the Best Foreign Language Film category. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm. So, the list implies it's all Oscar winning foreign language films but it actually doesn't.  Do you get where I'm coming from? The Rambling Man (talk) 19:05, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh. Dammit, didn't think of that. Hmm...I can't think of a good title for the current scope, and if we keep the current one, I probably would need to add a section for the Best Foreign Language Film winners (which would just be a lot of copy/pasting from List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film but still) and change the current list section to "Other categories". Thoughts? I think this is necessary unless we can think of a new title. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:35, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, hmm. I need to think about it.  At least we agree there's an issue.  Do you have a reasonable, snappy identification of this list if you added something like "non-Best Foreign Language Film winners"?  I dunno right now... The Rambling Man (talk) 19:45, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Um..."List of non-Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners"? Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:48, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Never mind, that implies that every film that ever won an Academy Award outside the Best Foreign Language Film category would be on the list. I'll just expand the scope. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:50, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You're happy to do that within the scope of this FLC or would you rather withdraw and reinstate later? The Rambling Man (talk) 19:52, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, I can do it within the scope of the nomination. Again, it's just a lot of copy/pasting from List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, formatting tweaks, and rewriting the lead a bit. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool. Go for it.  The Rambling Man (talk) 20:09, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, expanded. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 20:45, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * "pass this criteria" - picky, but I would say "meet these criteria".
 * Fixed. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Second sentence in opening paragraph of lead is heeeuuuge. Consider splitting it?
 * Fixed. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse )
 * twenty-four -> 24
 * Fixed. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Think that's it, and thanks for the praise =) Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment Isn't it a bit redundant to copy/paste all the info from that list to this one? Why not just create a section Best Foreign Language Film category and add main template with the link to the winners page, then add a new section "other categories" and leave this table there. I just don't like the idea of having the same info in two separate pages.-- Crzycheetah 20:30, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Probably a better idea. I cut the table out in that section. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 21:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks better.-- Crzycheetah 21:35, 13 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment - organizationally, it would seem to make more sense to have each award be its own row, with merged cells for common films and common award ceremonies. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Doing that screws up the sorting of the list though. That and it detracts from the main item of the list, which is supposed to be the films themselves and whatever awards they won. The type of organization that you're suggesting is possible now via sorting in any case. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 05:41, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * On what other basis would the article be sorted? Most of the columns have lost fully-functional sortability on the basis of multiple entries within the columns (country, for example). Combining winners across multiple categories into a single cell is uglier formatting than losing a sort function of dubious utility, IMHO. Also, why is The Motorcycle Diaries simply listed as an "international coproduction"? Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 04:04, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Via the year/award ceremony, which is the format already being used. I still don't see the advantage of doing it via awards (and I can't see how it's plausible in a technical sense either unless you repeat films for each award), and again, the primary items in the list are the films, not the awards that they received. As for "international co-production", I dunno, it was the entry when I started working on the page. I guess it's to avoid having to list the seven (?) or so countries involved in its production, but I'll list all of them if you want. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 04:24, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * "Foreign film" is difficult to define. The article relies on http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org to identify who the candidates are - who is behind the website? Spirited Away and Fellini's Casanova are domestic films? maclean 19:37, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The website is maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, so it's as official as it gets. I know Spirited Away doesn't count because the English-dubbed version was what the Academy reviewed for the Best Animated Film, but I'm not sure why Casanova isn't included. I went by what was included in the list, which is the official version (verifiability, not truth right?). Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 20:46, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That's what I suspected. As long as we are clear this list based on a list provided by the Academy it should be consistent with WP guidelines. --maclean 02:58, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Comments


 * Remove period from "A theatrical poster for Japan's Gate of Hell, a recipient of the Academy Award for Costume Design as well as an Academy Honorary Award." as it's a sentence fragment
 * Both footnotes should not have periods as they are both sentence fragments
 * Right off the bat, I don't like "Foreign language films have been recipients of Academy Awards since 1945." because it's in the passive voice. Could it be changed to the active voice? Something like "The Academy Awards have awarded Oscars to foreign language films since 1945." but better, because this example is full of redundancies and perhaps inaccuracies.
 * "ten nominations for various Academy Awards" – more succinct: "ten Academy Award nominations"

Gary King ( talk ) 07:17, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 07:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Lookin' good Gary King ( talk ) 08:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
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