Image: The Tanna gang, primed for the Oscar ceremony, on their Facebook site. The fact that everyone is wearing shoes is very remarkable.
The Oscars may be a tawdry exercise in fake glamorisation, but it is also an extraordinary high point to people’s working lives. Tania Nehme, who edited Tanna curled up in her corner of a hut on a remote Vanuatu Island, has been carried from small, beautifully crafted productions to storm the high citadel of Hollywood. It is an extraordinary assault, courtesy of Foreign Language Oscar rules, by which governments nominate films and they are not allowed to be mostly in English.
