The Afghan film “Utopia” has been disqualified from the Oscar foreign-language race for containing too much English dialogue, the Academy confirmed to TheWrap on Sunday. The disqualification reduces the number of films in the race from 81 to 80. “Utopia” was directed by Hassan Nazer, and stars Hannah Spearritt as a woman who wants a child but whose husband has been incapacitated by the fighting in Afghanistan. She travels to the UK, where a sperm-bank employee switches the anonymous sample with his own. It was Afghanistan’s 10th submission in the category since it first entered the Oscar race in 2002. The country.
- 11/15/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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