 During the awards ceremony, the film eventually was announced by presenter Will Smith as a submission from the Palestinian Territories.Another object of controversy is the Academy's "one-country-one-film" rule, which has been criticized by some filmmakers.Guy Lodge of "The Guardian" wrote in 2015 that the idea of a Best Foreign Language Film category is a "fundamentally flawed premise" and this is the "most critically sneered-at of all Oscar categories."