 Since the 2006 (79th) Academy Awards, submitted films no longer have to be in an official language of the submitting country.This requirement had previously prevented countries from submitting films where the majority of the dialogue was spoken in a language that was non-native to the submitting country, and the Academy's executive director explicitly cited as a reason for the rule change the case of the Italian film "Private" (2004), which was disqualified simply because its main spoken languages were Arabic and Hebrew, neither of which are indigenous languages of Italy.This rule change enabled a country like Canada to receive a nomination for a Hindi-language film, "Water".