I actually agree with 1SO that stuff like Pawel Pawlikowski or Isabelle Huppert getting oscar nominations is strange, and kind of arrogant really. The Oscars are an industry award, and that industry is Hollywood, not "world cinema". By randomly including some foreign films every year, they make it seem as if they are the awards for the whole of world cinema, which they most definitely are not. The Foreign category is fine because it's essentially an annex, kind of separate from the rest, an acknowledgment.