Oscar wears a more worldly face

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Who the heck is Shohreh Aghdashloo? What about Djimon Hounsou and Fernando
Mereilles? This coming Sunday, Oscar watchers just may find out. When
nominees for Oscars were named in January, many film fans were surprised at
so many actors, directors, writers and others from countries outside the
United States who earned nominations for the U.S. film industry's top
awards. But industry watchers said the nominations for Aghdashloo, Hounsou
and the others points to the increasingly global scale of filmmaking, and
they see the trend toward a more worldly face at the Oscars continuing into
the foreseeable future. "The Oscars always reflect what is going on in the
film business as a whole, and the film business is getting more
international," said Timothy Gray, managing editor of show business
newspaper Daily Variety.

Source:
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=28773