A Excêntrica Família de Antonia

The film winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was somewhat serendipitous. The film's reception in its native Netherlands had been somewhat lukewarm, and most of the attention had gone to Minha Amada Irmã (1995) (which had also beaten A Excêntrica Família de Antonia (1995) as Best Picture at the Dutch Film Festival that year). However, since Minha Amada Irmã (1995) had not been officially released in theaters at the time, it couldn't qualify as the Dutch submission for the Oscars. Fortunately, A Excêntrica Família de Antonia (1995) enjoyed much more critical success abroad, and especially the positive reception in the USA was felt to have contributed to the film winning the Oscar.

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