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This year, the Spanish drama film Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas) is among the lucky few. The film was put on the shortlist last December and in February it received nominations for best actress with Penélope Cruz and best music score.
The film's production company El Deseo must be delighted with these nominations. Most filmmakers would proudly share this achievement with the rest of the world. However, El Deseo inadvertently took steps that run counter to that.
Like many other filmmakers, the Spanish film production company is sending takedown notices to sites and services that link to pirated copies of their films. In most cases, these notices call out pirate sites, but in a request sent to Google, the official Oscars.org website is targeted instead.
The movie company asks Google to remove the official Oscars shortlist announcement, which came out last December. Parallel Mothers is indeed mentioned there, but not in a piracy context of course.
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