Matteo Garrone said Sunday too manymistakes had scored the chances of his migrant drama IoCapitano winning the best foreign film Oscar a week ago.
"It was possible to win at the Oscars. Unfortunately the campaign didn't go the way it was supposed to, we didn't have the right American distributor who invested what needed to be invested and then, above all, nobody told us that we could runin all categories.
"That makes all the difference because it is a race where noteveryone starts on an equal footing.
"If you run for all categories you have all ten thousand of the Academy as voters, while for the Best Foreign Film category there are only a thousand people voting".
The Oscar went to Jonathan Glazer's Auschwitz drama The Zone of Interest.
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