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 ten coming from European countries have been selected, as well as four more coming from non-European countries, but with European co-production – only one in the shortlist has no European producing partner. The awards will be handed out on 10 March.

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The International Feature Film category is thus led by European submissions, notably Tran Anh Hung's The Taste of Things [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Justine Triet
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intervista: İlker Çatak
intervista: Leonie Benesch
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intervista: Elliott Crosset Hove
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intervista: J.A. Bayona
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intervista: Mstyslav Chernov
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scheda film], coming from the UK; as well as Michael Goorjian's Amerikatsi, coming from Armenia. Besides them, four shortlisted films are European co-productions: Bhutan's The Monk and the Gun by Pawo Choyning Dorji, a co-production with France, USA and Taiwan; Mexico's Totem [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lila Avilés
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intervista: Kaouther Ben Hania
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scheda film], Wim Wenders' trip to the country, a co-production with his own company in Germany. The only entry without European participation is Morocco's submission, Asmae El Moudir's The Mother of All Lies.

Both Kaouther Ben Hania's and Mstyslav Chernov's films are also shortlisted in the Documentary Feature category, a section with a particularly strong European presence this year. Besides these two award-winning films, other acclaimed documentaries have made the cut: Lea Glob's Apolonia, Apolonia [+leggi anche:
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In the Short Film categories, the European contingent is wide, as usual. In the Live-Action Short Film category, Pedro Almodóvar's latest work, his queer western Strange Way of Life, leads the pack, which includes works by Misan Harriman, Ary Zara, Tom Stuart, Mark Gerstorfer, Lasse Lyskjær Noer, George Siougas, Iain Softley and Elham Ehsas. Cannes Palme d'Or winner 27 by Flóra Anna Buda leads in the Animated Short Film category, and a film co-directed by Kevin Macdonald (Last Song from Kabul) can be found in the Documentary Short Subject category.

European co-productions are present in all of the other categories, with Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things [+leggi anche:
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Here are the Oscar shortlists:

International Feature Film

Armenia: Amerikatsi - Michael Goorjian (Armenia)
Bhutan: The Monk and the Gun - Pawo Choyning Dorji (Bhutan/France/USA/Taiwan)
Denmark: The Promised Land [+leggi anche:
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Finland: Fallen Leaves [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Aki Kaurismäki (Finland/Germany)
France: The Taste of Things [+leggi anche:
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Germany: The Teachers’ Lounge [+leggi anche:
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intervista: İlker Çatak
intervista: Leonie Benesch
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Iceland: Godland [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Elliott Crosset Hove
intervista: Hlynur Pálmason
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Italy: Me Captain [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Matteo Garrone (Italy/Belgium/France)
Japan: Perfect Days [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Wim Wenders (Japan/Germany)
Mexico: Totem [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lila Avilés
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Morocco: The Mother of All Lies - Asmae El Moudir (Morocco/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Egypt)
Spain: Society of the Snow [+leggi anche:
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intervista: J.A. Bayona
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Tunisia: Four Daughters [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kaouther Ben Hania
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Ukraine: 20 Days in Mariupol [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mstyslav Chernov
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UK: The Zone of Interest [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Jonathan Glazer (UK/USA/Poland)

Documentary Feature

American Symphony - Matthew Heineman
Apolonia, Apolonia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lea Glob
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Beyond Utopia - Madeleine Gavin
Bobi Wine: The People’s President [+leggi anche:
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Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy - Nancy Buirski
The Eternal Memory - Maite Alberdi (Chile)
Four Daughters - Kaouther Ben Hania
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project - Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
In the Rearview [+leggi anche:
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Stamped from the Beginning - Roger Ross Williams
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie - Davis Guggenheim
A Still Small Voice - Luke Lorentzen
32 Sounds - Sam Green
To Kill a Tiger - Nisha Pahuja (Canada)
20 Days in Mariupol - Mstyslav Chernov

Live-Action Short Film

The After - Misan Harriman (UK)
The Anne Frank Gift Shop - Mickey Rapkin
An Avocado Pit - Ary Zara (Portugal)
Bienvenidos a Los Angeles - Lisa Cole
Dead Cat - Danick Audet, Annie-Claude Caron (Canada)
Good Boy - Tom Stuart (UK) 
Invincible - Vincent René-Lortie (Canada)
Invisible Border - Mark Gerstorfer (Austria)
Knight of Fortune - Lasse Lyskjær Noer (Denmark)
The One Note Man - George Siougas (UK)
Red, White and Blue - Nazrin Choudhury
The Shepherd - Iain Softley (USA/UK)
Strange Way of Life - Pedro Almodóvar (Spain/France)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Wes Anderson
Yellow - Elham Ehsas (UK/Afghanistan)

Animated Short Film

Boom - Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier, Charles Di Cicco (France)
Eeva - Lucija Mrzljak, Morten Tsinakov (Estonia/Croatia)
Humo (Smoke) - Rita Basulto (Mexico/USA)
I’m Hip - John Musker
A Kind of Testament - Stephen Vuillemin (France)
Koerkorter (Dog Apartment) - Priit Tender (Estonia)
Letter to a Pig - Tal Kantor (Israel/France)
Ninety-Five Senses - Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess
Once upon a Studio - Dan Abraham, Trent Correy
Our Uniform - Yegane Moghaddam (Iran)
Pachyderme - Stéphanie Clément (France)
Pete - Bret 'Brook' Parker
27 - Flóra Anna Buda (Hungary/France)
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - Dave Mullins
Wild Summon - Karni Arieli, Saul Freed (UK)

Documentary Short Subject

The ABCs of Book Banning - Trish Adlesic, Nazenet Habtezghi, Sheila Nevins
The Barber of Little Rock - John Hoffman, Christine Turner
Bear - Hunter Logan
Between Earth & Sky - Andrew Nadkarni
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games - Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Camp Courage - Max Lowe
Deciding Vote - Robert J Lyons, Jeremy Workman
How We Get Free - Geeta Gandbhir, Samantha M Knowles
If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis - Ramin Bahrani
Island in Between - S Leo Chiang (Taiwan)
The Last Repair Shop - Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot
Last Song from Kabul - Kevin Macdonald, Ruhi Hamid (UK/Germany/Portugal/Qatar/Afghanistan)
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó - Sean Wang
Oasis - Justine Martin (Canada)
Wings of Dust - Giorgio Ghiotto (Peru)

Original Song

“It Never Went Away", American Symphony
“Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)”, Asteroid City
“Dance The Night”, Barbie
“I’m Just Ken”, Barbie
“What Was I Made For?", Barbie
“Keep It Movin’”, The Color Purple
“Superpower (I)”, The Color Purple
“The Fire Inside”, Flamin’ Hot
“High Life”, Flora and Son [+leggi anche:
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“Meet In The Middle”, Flora and Son
“Can’t Catch Me Now”, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)”, Killers of the Flower Moon
“Quiet Eyes”, Past Lives
“Road To Freedom”, Rustin
“Am I Dreaming”, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Original Score

American Fiction
American Symphony
Barbie
The Boy and the Heron
The Color Purple
Elemental
The Holdovers
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (USA/UK)
Poor Things [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Suzy Bemba
Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
scheda film] (Ireland/UK/USA)
Saltburn [+leggi anche:
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Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest

Makeup and Hairstyling

Beau Is Afraid
Ferrari [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Valentina Bellè
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Golda [+leggi anche:
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Killers of the Flower Moon
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Maestro
Napoleon (USA/UK)
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

Visual Effects

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Poor Things
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Sound

Barbie
The Creator
Ferrari
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest