But some fans still held hope that this could be the rare foreign film to crash a technical category like the Hong Kong movie The Grandmaster did two years earlier. The awards prospects of this film from director Park Chan-wook ( Oldboy, Stoker) took a huge hit when South Korea opted to submit The Age of Shadows instead of it for consideration in Best Foreign Language Film.
To the surprise and disappointment of some, The Handmaiden ( Ah-ga-ssi in its native Korean) is not an Academy Award nominee.
