Tsotsi Wins, Foreign Film Loses at the Oscars

The South African gangster drama Tsotsi won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film at the 78th Academy Awards tonight. The award is well-deserved, but we're disappointed with the Academy for seriously shortchanging the category.

The nominated world films--Paradise Now, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, Joyeux Noel, Don't Tell, in addition to the winner--were listed with a notable lack of enthusiasm by Will Smith without so much as a clip of the films while their posters scrolled by in the background. Even animated shorts and sound editing got a montage--and Sophie Scholl's Julia Jentsch flew in from Berlin without getting shown in the broadcast once.