Globes have spoken: Best pic field widens

November 01, 2007 Responding to industry pressure as well as the film biz's growing internationalism, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. is changing its rules to allow foreign-language U.S. productions in the Golden Globes' two best picture categories. Miramax's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Par Vantage's "The Kite Runner" and Focus Features' "Lust, Caution" -- won't be eligible for best picture and will instead go into the foreign-language category. The move is a significant shift step for the HFPA, which has long maintained an English-only policy for best picture nominees, presumably as a way of generating more glitz in its banner categories.

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