 This is the only film in the history of the Academy Awards to have  been nominated for an Oscar and then removed from the ballot. The  director Adolfo Aristarain (qv) had intended this to be  Argentinas official entry for Best Foreign Language Film. When he  took it to the Argentinean committee for submission he was told that  Argentina had already decided on another film (Eliseo Subielas The  Dark Side of the Heart). Undaunted he went next door to the  Uruguayan committee and offered it as Uruguays official entry. This  went against the academys rule which states that the film must be  directed, written, produced and cast with people from the country of  the films submission. The board submitted "A Place in the World" as  Uruguays official entry despite the fact that it was directed by an  Argentinean, written by an Argentinean, produced by Argentineans,  cast mostly with Argentineans and told the story of an Argentinean  rancher facing off against an Argentinean hydroelectric plant in  Argentina. Aristarain knew the rules but decided to submit the film  because his wife was a native Uruguayan who had been the films  costume designer and had a hand in co