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| Wim Wenders' Perfect Days has made the 96th Academy Awards Oscar Best International Feature Film shortlist Photo: Anne Katrin Titze |
From Tunisia, Four Daughters (Les Filles d'Olfa), Kaouther Ben Hania director; United Kingdom, The Zone Of Interest, Jonathan Glazer director; Ukraine, 20 Days In Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov director; Italy, Io Capitano, Matteo Garrone director; Japan, Perfect Days, Wim Wenders director; France, The Taste Of Things, Trần Anh Hùng director; Armenia, Amerikatsi, Michael A Goorjian, director; Germany, The Teachers’ Lounge, llker Çatak, director; Finland, Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismäki director; Argentina, The Delinquents, Rodrigo Moreno director; Mexico, Tótem, Lila Avilés, director; Denmark, The Promised Land, Nikolaj Arcel, director; Morocco, The Mother of All Lies, Asmae El Moudir, director; Spain, Society Of The Snow, JA Bayona, director; Iceland, Godland, Hlynur Pálmason; and Bhutan, The Monk And The Gun, Pawo Choyning Dorji director are the 15 films selected for the International Feature Film shortlist.
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| Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters (Les Filles d'Olfa) is also Oscar shortlisted in the Best Documentary Feature Film category Photo: Anne Katrin Titze |
Four Daughters was also shortlisted for Best Documentary. Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Man Who Sold His Skin had received a Best International Film Oscar nomination in 2021 and her intense and unwavering Beauty And The Dogs (Aala Kaf Ifrit) was Tunisia’s Oscar submission in 2018. Wim Wenders has three Best Documentary Feature Film Oscar nominations: In 2000, Buena Vista Social Club (shared with Ulrich Felsberg), in 2012, Pina (shared with Gian-Piero Ringel), and in 2015, The Salt Of The Earth, co-directed with Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
For the 96th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023. A total of 88 countries submitted a film. Namibia submitted a film (Perivi Katjavivi’s Under The Hanging Tree[) for the first time, and Burkina Faso made a submission (Apolline Traoré’s Sira) for the first time since 1989.
In April of 2019, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changed the Best Foreign Language Film category to Best International Feature Film.
Films submitted in the International Feature category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.
The final five nominees are scheduled to be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
