It's rare enough for a foreigner to earn an Oscar nomination for best actor. But two at once? It's a historical first, marked by Mexico's Demián Bichir and France's Jean Dujardin. Still, this high-profile category has always been dominated by Americans (and the occasional British Empire type), a pattern that probably isn't about to change.

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