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See, the Oscars usually let you compete wherever you want.

Rooney Mara is a supporting actress inCarol?
Sure, go for it.
The Globes, by contrast, love to sort and categorize.
Does this performance belong in Lead or Supporting?
Is this movie a drama or a comedy?
Compounding this is the Globes determination that every film must compete in only one of the Best Feature categories.
The response to the decision has been almost uniformly negative.
Its a story about an immigrant family, IN America, pursuing the American dream.
We really need to change these antiquated rules that characterize American as only English-speaking.
But this doesnt quite ring true.
But the Globes latest misstep feels more correctable.
Who better than the HFPA, a collection of international journalists living in America, to acknowledge thatEnglishandAmericanarent synonyms?