'The Warrior' ruled out of Oscar nomination

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have barred acclaimed UK production 'The Warrior' from competing as the UK entry for the foreign language Oscars.
The Academy voted against 'The Warrior' on the grounds that Hindi was "not a language indigenous to the UK" and the film was not about the Hindu community in the UK.
The explanation was dismissed by producer Bertrand Faivre, who argued that the film was almost all British apart from being shot in India and having a French producer.
"The writer was British. The director was British. The majority of department heads were British," Faivre said. "The post production was British. The money was British. FilmFour was British. The Department for Culture, Media & Sport gave it a certificate of British nationality."
Commenting on the film's entirely Hindi dialogue, Faivre said that more people in the UK spoke Hindi than Welsh, a reference to The Warrior's replacement as the UK foreign-language representative for the Oscars, Tim Lyn's Welsh-language coming-of-age tale 'Eldra'.
(GB)