Aramaic survives as a spoken language in small communities in Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran. Aramaic Language. Do not know how dissimiliar it is to Biblical Aramaic (the Aramaic used in the film?).
Vatican City uses Latin to some degree, no? But I wasn't sure if the film used a Classical Latin pronunciation or not--it sounded different, but didn't necessarily sound like Church Latin either.
My guess is the film is predominantly "Aramaic", but it is in fact bilingual. For the academy to discriminate against a polylingual, mostly dead language film, is the height of intolerance.
It didn't meet the criteria. It's not intolerant, it's the rules. Movies don't have to win Oscars to be popular movies, usually the Oscar movies are boring.
....'For the academy to discriminate against a polylingual, mostly dead language film, is the height of intolerance.'....
Why is this the height of intolerance? Polylingual, mostly dead language speakers, are probably one of the smallest groups on earth, and I haven't heard any of them complain.
I think the movie uses Latin Vulgate -- Suona come italiano, esso non?