The US Academy has announced the shortlisted films in several categories of the upcoming Oscars, including International Feature Film. From all of the films submitted (read the full list here), a total of eight coming from European countries have been selected, as well as three more coming from non-European countries, but with European co-production.

Among the first ones, some of the favourites have made the cut, such as Corsage [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Marie Kreutzer
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intervista: Eden Dambrine
intervista: Lukas Dhont
intervista: Lukas Dhont
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intervista: Ali Abbasi
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intervista: Zar Amir Ebrahimi
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intervista: Alice Diop
intervista: Kayije Kagame
scheda film] by France's Alice Diop, All Quiet on the Western Front [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Edward Berger
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intervista: Colm Bairéad
scheda film] by Ireland's Colm Bairéad, EO [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Poland's Jerzy Skolimowski, and lastly, in a more unexpected move, Boy from Heaven [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Tarik Saleh
scheda film] by Sweden's Tarik Saleh. In a very competitive European selection, filled with festival favourites, the main snubs of the category include the submissions from Spain (Carla Simón's Alcarràs [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Carla Simón
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scheda film]) and Ukraine (Maryna Er Gorbach's Klondike [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maryna Er Gorbach
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Three European co-productions coming from non-European countries have also made the cut: Cambodia's Return to Seoul [+leggi anche:
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Some European talent is featured in the shortlists for the other categories, such as in the Documentary category, where Simon Lereng Wilmont's A House Made of Splinters [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] made the cut, as well as co-productions All That Breathes [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Shaunak Sen
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scheda film] by Alex Pritz.

In the other categories announced, All Quiet on the Western Front has outpaced any European film, with presence in four of the five: Original Score, Makeup and Hairstyling, Visual Effects and Sound. Lastly and as usual, the Short Film categories feature some European talent, including Alice Rohrwacher (for her Disney+ short film Le Pupille).

The ceremony will take place on 12 March, 2023.

Here are the Oscar shortlists:

International Feature Film

Argentina: Argentina, 1985, Santiago Mitre (Argentina/USA)
Austria: Corsage [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Marie Kreutzer
intervista: Marie Kreutzer
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Belgium: Close [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Eden Dambrine
intervista: Lukas Dhont
intervista: Lukas Dhont
scheda film], Lukas Dhont (Belgium/France/Netherlands)
Cambodia: Return to Seoul [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Davy Chou
scheda film], Davy Chou (France/Germany/Belgium/Qatar/Cambodia)
Denmark: Holy Spider [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ali Abbasi
intervista: Ali Abbasi
intervista: Zar Amir Ebrahimi
scheda film], Ali Abbasi (Denmark/Germany/France/Sweden)
France: Saint Omer [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alice Diop
intervista: Kayije Kagame
scheda film], Alice Diop (France)
Germany: All Quiet on the Western Front [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Edward Berger
scheda film], Edward Berger (USA/Germany)
India: Last Film Show, Pan Nalin (India/France/USA)
Ireland: The Quiet Girl [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Colm Bairéad
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Mexico: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico/USA)
Morocco: The Blue Caftan [+leggi anche:
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Pakistan: Joyland, Saim Sadiq (Pakistan)
Poland: EO [+leggi anche:
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South Korea: Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook (South Korea)
Sweden: Boy from Heaven [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Tarik Saleh
scheda film], Tarik Saleh (Sweden/France/Finland/Denmark/Morocco)

Documentary Feature

All That Breathes [+leggi anche:
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - Laura Poitras 
Bad Axe - David Siev
Children of the Mist - Ha Le Diem (Vietnam)
Descendant - Margaret Brown
Fire of Love - Sara Dosa
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song - Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Hidden Letters - Violet Du Feng, Qing Zhao (China)
A House Made of Splinters [+leggi anche:
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The Janes - Tia Lessin
Last Flight Home - Ondi Timoner
Moonage Daydream - Brett Morgen
Navalny - Daniel Roher
Retrograde - Matthew Heineman
The Territory [+leggi anche:
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Live-Action Short Film

All in Favor
Almost Home - Nils Keller (Germany)
An Irish Goodbye - Tom Berkeley, Ross White (Ireland/UK)
Ivalu - Anders Walter (Denmark)
Le Pupille - Alice Rohrwacher (Italy/USA)
The Lone Wolf - Filipe Melo (Portugal)
Nakam - Andreas Kessler (Germany)
Night Ride - Michael Kruger
Plastic Killer - Jose Pozo (Spain/Andorra)
The Red Suitcase - Cyrus Neshvad (Luxembourg)
The Right Words - Adrian Moyse Dullin (France)
Sideral - Carlos Segundo (Brazil/France)
The Treatment
Tula - Beatriz Silva (Spain)
Warsha - Dania Bdeir (Lebanon)

Animated Short Film

Black Slide - Uri Lotan (UK/Israel)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Peter Baynton
The Debutante - Elizabeth Hobbs (UK)
The Flying Sailor - Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby (Canada)
The Garbage Man - Mansour Bani (Canada)
Ice Merchants - João Gonzalez (Portugal/UK/France)
It’s Nice in Here - Robert-Jonathan Koeyers (Netherlands)
More than I Want to Remember - Amy Bench
My Year of Dicks - Sara Gunnarsdóttir (USA/Iceland)
New Moon - Jérémie Balais, Raul Domingo, Jeffig Le Bars (France)
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It - Lachlan Pendragon (Australia)
Passenger - Sean Baran
Save Ralph - Spencer Susser
Sierra - Sander Joon (Estonia)
Steakhouse - Spela Cadez (Slovenia/Germany/France)

Documentary Short Subject

American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton - Andrew Abrahams, Herb Ferrette
Anastasia - Sarah McCarthy (UK)
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison - Cinque Northern
As Far as They Can Run - Tanaz Eshaghian
The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves (India)
The Flagmakers - Sharon Liese, Cynthia Wade
Happiness Is £4 Million - Weixi Chen, Kai Wei (China)
Haulout - Maxim Arbugaev, Evgenia Arbugaeva (UK/Russia)
Holding Moses - Rivkah Beth Medow, Jen Rainin
How Do You Measure a Year? - Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect - Anne Alvergue, Debra McClutchy
Nuisance Bear - Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman (Canada/USA)
Shut Up and Paint - Titus Kaphar, Alex Mallis
Stranger at the Gate - Joshua Seftel
38 at the Garden - Frank Chi

Original Song

“Time”, Amsterdam
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)”, Avatar: The Way of Water
Lift Me Up”, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
This Is A Life”, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ciao Papa”, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Til You’re Home”, A Man Called Otto
Naatu Naatu”, RRR
“My Mind & Me”, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
“Good Afternoon”, Spirited
“Applause”, Tell It like a Woman
“Stand Up”, Till
Hold My Hand”, Top Gun: Maverick
“Dust & Ash”, The Voice of Dust and Ash
“Carolina”, Where the Crawdads Sing
“New Body Rhumba”, White Noise

Original Score

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin [+leggi anche:
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Devotion
Don’t Worry Darling
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Nope
She Said
The Woman King
Women Talking

Makeup and Hairstyling

All Quiet on the Western Front
Amsterdam
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Blonde
Crimes of the Future [+leggi anche:
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Elvis
Emancipation
The Whale

Visual Effects

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Jurassic World Dominion
Nope
Thirteen Lives
Top Gun: Maverick

Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Moonage Daydream
Top Gun: Maverick