South Africa chooses Old Righteous Blues for the 2025 Oscar race

South Africa has netted its Oscar contender, choosing Muneera Sallies' music-themed drama The old righteous blues as a contender at the 97th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category. South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) announced the choice, which was chosen by the South African Academy Awards selection committee. Sallies' drama … Read more

Bosnia and Herzegovina chooses My Late Summer as 2025 Oscar contender

Bosnia and Herzegovina selected My end of summerdirected by Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović, as the official nomination for the 2025 Oscar race in the best international feature film category. The comedy-drama, which debuted as the opening film at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival, follows Maja, a feisty 30-year-old (played by Anja Matković), who travels to … Read more

Why India chose Laapataa women not all those we imagine as light for the Oscar

The Film Federation of India (FFI), a non-governmental body of producers, distributors and studio owners founded in 1951, is facing backlash for its choice of Kiran Rao's film Lord Laapataa as India's official submission to the Best International Feature Film category of the Oscars. The selection of Laapataa from a competitive list of 29 films … Read more

Switzerland Picks Peruvian Drama Reinas for Oscar Race

Switzerland has chosen Queensa Peruvian family drama by Swiss-Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke, as a 2025 Oscar nominee in the Best International Feature Film category. The film is set in Lima in 1992, during a summer in which a father tries to reconnect with his two daughters against the backdrop of a country in crisis and … Read more

Argentina Backs Oscar Jockey's Killing

Argentina Backs Luis Ortega's Surreal Equestrian Comedy-Thriller Kill the jockey for the 2025 Oscar race in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film, which premiered in Venice, presents BPM stars Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Remo Manfredini, a troubled jockey who begins to question his changing masculine identity after a serious accident on the track. … Read more

Mexico Picks Sundance Winner Sujo for 2025 Oscar Race

Mexico has chosen the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Juice to represent the country at the 2025 Oscars in the Best International Film category. The drama of Identifying features directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez debuted at Sundance this year, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema. It is currently touring … Read more

Oscar 2025 India Selects Laapataa Ladies for International Feature Film Competition

India has chosen Kiran Rao's comedy of errors Lord Laapataa (Lost Ladies) to represent the country in the 2025 Oscar race in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The Hindi-language film, which premiered at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, beat out Payal Kapadia's Everything we imagine as lightwhich had been considered the favorite for … Read more

Karla Sofia Gascón talks about “Emilia Pérez” Oscar Buzz in San Sebastian

Emilia Perez Star Karla Sofia Gascón has spoken openly about her performance in Jacques Audiard's one-of-a-kind Spanish-language musical, saying that making history with an Oscar nomination was a possibility beyond her control. The actress, a trans woman, has received critical acclaim since the film's debut at Cannes, winning the Best Actress award alongside co-stars Zoe … Read more

Norway Chooses Armand, Starring Renate Reinsve, for 2025 Oscar Race

Norway has entered the 2025 Oscar race, selecting Halfdan Ullmann's school drama Tondel Armando as a candidate for next year's Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Renate Reinsve, the emerging star of Joachim Trier's twice Oscar-nominated film The worst person in the worldplays the lead role in Armandothat is, Elisabeth, a local … Read more

Denmark Picks Needle Girl for International Oscar Race

Denmark has chosen Magnus von Horn's costume drama The girl with the needle as a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2025 Oscars. Set in Copenhagen in 1919, the film stars Vic Carmen Sonne (Vacation, Land of God) as Karoline, a young seamstress who finds herself in dire straits when her wealthy lover … Read more

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