Responding to industry pressure as well as the film industry’s growing internationalism, the organizers of the Golden Globes are changing their rules to allow foreign-language U.S. productions in the two best picture categories, says this report on the Reuters website.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s rules won’t take effect until next year, meaning that as many as three awards contenders this year - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Kite Runner and Lust, Caution - won’t be eligible for best picture and will instead go into the foreign-language category.

As of the 2009 Globes, movies for which the “country of origin is the United States” will qualify for best picture, drama, and best picture, comedy or musical, even if the majority of a film’s dialogue isn’t in English. Those pictures won’t, in turn, be eligible for foreign-language film.

Find out more on the Reuters website.

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